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- Affinity Photo offers more features for 360 photo editing than Photoshop, and it’s now available at a 50% discount. Here is a tutorial for using Affinity for 360 photos. Tags 360 photo 360 photo editing affinity.
I use Affinity a bit (WIn10 64) . Mostly Designer/Publisher for newsletters, posters.... but I do find Affinity Photo very good at the price.
It misses some things that are in its 'future' list but is quite powerful.
( I use A-Photo for panorama creation from multiple photos as well as simple layering/painting of items in posters/cards etc)
I am retired now and cannot keep paying the Adobe prices!
I bought Filter Forge a couple of weeks ago to try what effects can be achieved.
I created two filters that would be useful to me and found that the interface to Affinity has some issues.
Lessons so far......
1. The item that you give to FF has to be rasterised - you cannot keep it 'editable' although its layer effects like embossing can be kept.
2. Many filters (most?) in FF just return a rectangle to *replace* the item you give it.
If you make two copies of the item, you can give the copy to FF and drag the result inside the original (Paste Inside as other software would call it)
You can change the blend method, opacity etc at that point. You can rasterize again to reduce the size of the file.
3. I took a copy of the FF Chocolate Factory filter and modified it to take the alpha channel from the image and blend it into the Result.
This crops the effect to the outline of the item (text in my case) - but can leave some rubbish that just needs to be erased (because of not being integer shape )
For a filter like Chocolate Factory, which depends on 'depth' , I use a black object with lighter details to give texture.
4. I modified my Workshop5 filter to have a 'use transparency' option (not released yet as I am still testing)
This means I can use the effect in both ways....
a) create a pixel layer, run the filter and drag the result into the item - resizing it if required to change the scaling of the pattern.
then altering the blend mode. This method may be useful if you have an item that is already coloured? Not sure - still testing.
b) turn on the transparency option of the filter and let FF clip the effect to the provided item - changing the scaling in FF.
This works for me - hope that helps - I do not know if my transparency option would work cleanly in Photoshop - I think it might.
It misses some things that are in its 'future' list but is quite powerful.
( I use A-Photo for panorama creation from multiple photos as well as simple layering/painting of items in posters/cards etc)
I am retired now and cannot keep paying the Adobe prices!
I bought Filter Forge a couple of weeks ago to try what effects can be achieved.
I created two filters that would be useful to me and found that the interface to Affinity has some issues.
Lessons so far......
1. The item that you give to FF has to be rasterised - you cannot keep it 'editable' although its layer effects like embossing can be kept.
2. Many filters (most?) in FF just return a rectangle to *replace* the item you give it.
If you make two copies of the item, you can give the copy to FF and drag the result inside the original (Paste Inside as other software would call it)
You can change the blend method, opacity etc at that point. You can rasterize again to reduce the size of the file.
3. I took a copy of the FF Chocolate Factory filter and modified it to take the alpha channel from the image and blend it into the Result.
This crops the effect to the outline of the item (text in my case) - but can leave some rubbish that just needs to be erased (because of not being integer shape )
For a filter like Chocolate Factory, which depends on 'depth' , I use a black object with lighter details to give texture.
4. I modified my Workshop5 filter to have a 'use transparency' option (not released yet as I am still testing)
This means I can use the effect in both ways....
a) create a pixel layer, run the filter and drag the result into the item - resizing it if required to change the scaling of the pattern.
then altering the blend mode. This method may be useful if you have an item that is already coloured? Not sure - still testing.
b) turn on the transparency option of the filter and let FF clip the effect to the provided item - changing the scaling in FF.
This works for me - hope that helps - I do not know if my transparency option would work cleanly in Photoshop - I think it might.
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I use Affinity a bit (WIn10 64) . Mostly Designer/Publisher for newsletters, posters.... but I do find Affinity Photo very good at the price.
It misses some things that are in its 'future' list but is quite powerful.
( I use A-Photo for panorama creation from multiple photos as well as simple layering/painting of items in posters/cards etc)
I am retired now and cannot keep paying the Adobe prices!
I bought Filter Forge a couple of weeks ago to try what effects can be achieved.
I created two filters that would be useful to me and found that the interface to Affinity has some issues.
Lessons so far......
1. The item that you give to FF has to be rasterised - you cannot keep it 'editable' although its layer effects like embossing can be kept.
2. Many filters (most?) in FF just return a rectangle to *replace* the item you give it.
If you make two copies of the item, you can give the copy to FF and drag the result inside the original (Paste Inside as other software would call it)
You can change the blend method, opacity etc at that point. You can rasterize again to reduce the size of the file.
3. I took a copy of the FF Chocolate Factory filter and modified it to take the alpha channel from the image and blend it into the Result.
This crops the effect to the outline of the item (text in my case) - but can leave some rubbish that just needs to be erased (because of not being integer shape )
For a filter like Chocolate Factory, which depends on 'depth' , I use a black object with lighter details to give texture.
4. I modified my Workshop5 filter to have a 'use transparency' option (not released yet as I am still testing)
This means I can use the effect in both ways....
a) create a pixel layer, run the filter and drag the result into the item - resizing it if required to change the scaling of the pattern.
then altering the blend mode. This method may be useful if you have an item that is already coloured? Not sure - still testing.
b) turn on the transparency option of the filter and let FF clip the effect to the provided item - changing the scaling in FF.
This works for me - hope that helps - I do not know if my transparency option would work cleanly in Photoshop - I think it might.
It misses some things that are in its 'future' list but is quite powerful.
( I use A-Photo for panorama creation from multiple photos as well as simple layering/painting of items in posters/cards etc)
I am retired now and cannot keep paying the Adobe prices!
I bought Filter Forge a couple of weeks ago to try what effects can be achieved.
I created two filters that would be useful to me and found that the interface to Affinity has some issues.
Lessons so far......
1. The item that you give to FF has to be rasterised - you cannot keep it 'editable' although its layer effects like embossing can be kept.
2. Many filters (most?) in FF just return a rectangle to *replace* the item you give it.
If you make two copies of the item, you can give the copy to FF and drag the result inside the original (Paste Inside as other software would call it)
You can change the blend method, opacity etc at that point. You can rasterize again to reduce the size of the file.
3. I took a copy of the FF Chocolate Factory filter and modified it to take the alpha channel from the image and blend it into the Result.
This crops the effect to the outline of the item (text in my case) - but can leave some rubbish that just needs to be erased (because of not being integer shape )
For a filter like Chocolate Factory, which depends on 'depth' , I use a black object with lighter details to give texture.
4. I modified my Workshop5 filter to have a 'use transparency' option (not released yet as I am still testing)
This means I can use the effect in both ways....
a) create a pixel layer, run the filter and drag the result into the item - resizing it if required to change the scaling of the pattern.
then altering the blend mode. This method may be useful if you have an item that is already coloured? Not sure - still testing.
b) turn on the transparency option of the filter and let FF clip the effect to the provided item - changing the scaling in FF.
This works for me - hope that helps - I do not know if my transparency option would work cleanly in Photoshop - I think it might.