Hopefully Affinity Photo can be professionally used to do Artwork like Concept Art or Character Designing for AAA Games, Movies, Shows, or Freelancers who just want an powerful software that probably surpasses the likes of Photoshop.
You all prolly dont care but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot my account password. I love any tips you can offer me!
@Adam Bryant i really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and Im in the hacking process atm. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Finished watching. Thank you James. You are "The" Affinity photo resourse guru.... Please keep posting. A respectful voice will always have listeners...
@@pushingpandas6479 I don't get it. Your clients want you to continue using Adobe? I'm sorry but your RUclips channel seems to have 2 subscribers. Are those the clients you speak of?
Affinity is so generous. I recommended it to my photography club members a year ago. Many, far more experienced than I am, have switched from Photoshop.
So that’s how star “photos” get their color....I feel like I’ve been lied to my whole life. James, you are an excellent presenter and always explain things fluently, thanks!
Well done Affinity Team. I am extremely happy using your products and you keep to enhance the products for FREE. This is unbelievable nowadays. Others companies are changing you a leg, but Affinity is standing strong with its user base and keep updates coming!
What a marvelous update showcase. I love seeing the passion in people's work, especially in their voice when talking about their favorite subjects. Thank you James, you're a marvelous product expert. Thank you so much Affinity team
Thank you for your kind comments! We're really proud of having such a small team and keeping everything (including our tutorials, demos, showcases etc) in-house.
I bought Affinity last month. As a new casual, amatuer digital photographer, there was no way I wanted to give Adobe a huge monthly sub. I hope Affinity keeps growing in user numbers.
Love James’ teaching here - and many great new features. Very excited to find out he has created a specific in-depth video tutorial just on astrophotography. Clearly this is one of his passions! I know so little about that topic, other than I did manage to take a few decent night photography images with my Nikon D3300 of the comet that passed by this fall. Will be great to know more about what I can do with this kind of photography.
The astrophotography section at the end was so fascinating it sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea of the post-processing work involved in getting these shots
Hi James. A bit of a time saver. When using the Divide blend mode, instead of drawing the rectangle then hiding it, use the picker to get the colour, and then show the rectangle. Why not use the picker first and then draw the rectangle or use a fill layer. It's only a couple of steps but could be a big time saver if one has lots of work.
I was waiting for the astro persona! Now I have to learn using it. But it seams to be not that complicated. Great Videos and fantastic work on Affinity Photo!!
Oh my! you certainly loved the astrophotography example! Was amazing to see you going while I have no idea of what you are doing! lol Seriously, very happy about this new update. GREAT video James as always! This one is definitely a keeper
Please talk about this topic : Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.). Is it posibble add two mask to a layer and use this blend modes between the mask? Thanks.
Just a small QOL Feature but I wish that Affinity allowed us to reorder our Brush collections and presets instead of them being indefinitely stuck in the order that they were added.
Thanks, some good features with the update, however please give us an update on creating DROP SHADOWS for text where Photoshop is miles ahead of Affinity.
Your tutorials are very clear and informative. I would like to see a sky replacement filter in Affinity Photo. Many other photo editors already have this.
I love AP! I wonder when we will be able to use the Transform tool where you can change the vertices to make a specific perspective (like free transform in PS) then get back to it any time we need without loosing the shape we had achieved. It is extremely useful when you are making mockups.
Nice overview of the hot new features James & Affinity team! There should be better recognition of the different types of layers - pattern, fill, regular, etc. Take a look at how Krita differentiates with the different types of layers. Also, looking forward to pattern overlay layer FX, if it is planned on coming out?
I’m Affinity user since 1.3.x or so (can’t remember exactly) and it’s like birthday and Christmas together, each new features update. Best graphics software suite ever. Also using Designer and Publisher. Waiting urgently for something I can replace Lightroom and/or Capture One. Please link the mentioned astrophotography tutorials in the description.
I have Affinity Photo (AP) for iPad, which I use for stitching panoramas when travelling. An uncertainty for me is to what extent the Windows and iOS instances of AP differ and when viewing a video like this, what platform is in use. I have not adopted AP on my Windows PC, so far, because the thought of two learning curves for AP is off-putting, though I'd quite like to save the expense of my Adobe subscription.
Well with your voice and your ambitous presentation, This Programm gets even better.. I would realy like to know how many times trials you need for a usual tutorial.. also, you are realy good in breaking down the essence of a feature to the easiest basis, so that everyone understands this.. thumbs up..
I really would love to start using affinity photo, what holds me back is the fact that I couldn’t find an equivalent of the photoshop smart object and a camera raw filter. So I can use the camera raw filter and work in a non destructive way. Is there anything I can do to work around this? Thanks
Hi, there. I have just purchased Affinity Publisher and was excited about the new Pattern Layer feature - but it is not an option on my Windows program. Could you tell me how I can access this feature? Thanks!
Jeez... it hadn’t occurred to me to this date, no matter the software, to put panels to the LEFT and RIGHT of the canvas. Even if others like procreate, Pixaki, etc on tablets do it by default I have just realized that I don’t do it and find myself clicking through tabs. Besides of all the amazing features shown, wanted to bring that even if studio presets might be ‘obvious’, seeing it in action with a personal use case has quite unexpected reach in my opinion. EDIT: what a great episode and rundown of the features. Gotta ask, that astrophotography related remove background, can that be used or is it going to be perhaps extended to remove backgrounds of any image in general? Sounds like it could work for one click removal of matte screens and all
Thanks a million James. I'm finally learning new software and actually enjoying the results. The hardware acceleration feature is exciting. I need the May 2020 update.Will do some further research as I'm not a techie.
The rectagular draw mask does not work and Ive seen all the videos tried all the settings the others work but not rectangle so do I need to reinstall the first time I used it it worked but never again so what happened any ideas
Loving the new update. at the start it was crashing a bit but seems to have stabilized now. it was crashing when i was trying to install brush packs and dial.exe would hang.
Hi James, great update - I am particularly excited about the pattern layers, these will make my life so much easier! Quick question, what's the easiest way to use images as part of the pattern? Importing as a new layer, then merging down onto the pattern layer, then repositioning?
Oly jumpin! I was just getting a nice toehold on the features I use most often/need when bam, 1.9 rolls out a bunch more. Will I ever catch up? So good!
Used Adobe everyday for almost 10 years but with every update the stablity got worse and worse, so switched my entire company to Affinity, so far I'm glad I did.
Wow ! Affinity Photo 1.9 is amazing . I just need some step by step tutorials ( or a course ? ) in order to learn to make the best use of its' features. Do you know of any James ?
James one quick question Is Windows 10 Pro not supported? When I turn on the hardware acceleration it says requires Windows 10.0.19042 and it says I am running Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19042. Great Video and thanks to you and Affinity for such an awesome product! Keep educating me please!
Brilliant explanation, thank you. Is it right to assume the ability to 'Collect' in the 'Resource Manager' simply copies said files into a new location, rather than move them?
I trialled 1.9 , and found a merge down bug , which left horizontal dark pixel lines randomly over the merged image. Sadly although I found it easy to use, the output images are unacceptable.
I have a question about the suite. Do you have any plans to add a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) any time soon? Or offer integration to third party DAM products? When you have literally thousands of images, both digital original and scanned slides and negatives (often both as taken/scanned and edited versions) over a period of decades (back to the 1980s in my case) the metadata and cataloguing features of a DAM can be vital.
A free update for an already very complete graphics suite, feels like Christmas again ! Thanks Affinity team !
yes, and still I think Affinity is underrated by so many people. Those people should take an L.
i was just going to write this
Hopefully Affinity Photo can be professionally used to do Artwork like Concept Art or Character Designing for AAA Games, Movies, Shows, or Freelancers who just want an powerful software that probably surpasses the likes of Photoshop.
Yes just crop to selection, that's the only thing missing (after 4 years)!
Have you thought about putting chapter markers in the description for videos like these? Something like:
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Divide Blend Mode
2:48 - Linked Layers
7:44 - Live Liquify
9:31 - Batch Importing LUTs
10:57 - Text on a Path
12:40 - Studio Presets
15:04 - Channel Panel Improvements
16:58 - External File Linking
19:56 - Pattern Layers
22:51 - Custom Brushes from Layer Selections
27:54 - Astrophotography Stacking
32:36 - Windows Hardware Acceleration
35:12 - Conclusion
Great ... Thanks ....
You all prolly dont care but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account??
I was stupid forgot my account password. I love any tips you can offer me!
@Zayd Layton instablaster =)
@Adam Bryant i really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
they should thank you!
This is the best "Training Voice" for any online video lessons I've ever come across. Perfect for the job, well done.
Timestamps
0:01 Intro
0:38 Divide blend mode
2:49 Linked layers
7:45 Live liquify
9:32 Batch importing LUTs
10:58 Text on a path
12:41 Studio presets
15:05 Channels Panels improvments
16:59 External file linking
19:57 Pattern layers
22:51 Custom brushes from layer selections
27:55 Astrophotography stacking
32:36 Windows hardware acceleration
Thank you!
Finished watching. Thank you James. You are "The" Affinity photo resourse guru.... Please keep posting. A respectful voice will always have listeners...
I'm so glad I purchased Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher and stopped using Adobe.
Ditto 🙏🏼
Me too.. That serie is a game changer..
Me too, it makes a perfect pixel editing complement to Capture One
But I`m missing Camera Raw :)
@@pushingpandas6479 I don't get it. Your clients want you to continue using Adobe? I'm sorry but your RUclips channel seems to have 2 subscribers. Are those the clients you speak of?
Affinity is so generous. I recommended it to my photography club members a year ago. Many, far more experienced than I am, have switched from Photoshop.
Affinity is amazing, don't hesitate to get these software packages, you won't be dissapointed!
Mr. Riston, your enthusiasm is both refreshing and contagious. Thank you.
I wish you guys made a video editor application. Maybe someday 🙏🏾
I use Davinci Resolve its free unless you pay 299
Agreed.
So that’s how star “photos” get their color....I feel like I’ve been lied to my whole life. James, you are an excellent presenter and always explain things fluently, thanks!
I enjoyed watching that! The astro-photography section was awesome!!
Well done Affinity Team. I am extremely happy using your products and you keep to enhance the products for FREE. This is unbelievable nowadays. Others companies are changing you a leg, but Affinity is standing strong with its user base and keep updates coming!
What a brilliant video, performance and English pronounciation! A pearl in the YT universe.
Love the ease of navigation and versatility of this program. Thanks for the update too
For the next updates please add HSL or other colour sliders for RAW development :)
Thanks for your incredible work!
What a marvelous update showcase. I love seeing the passion in people's work, especially in their voice when talking about their favorite subjects.
Thank you James, you're a marvelous product expert. Thank you so much Affinity team
Thank you for your kind comments! We're really proud of having such a small team and keeping everything (including our tutorials, demos, showcases etc) in-house.
I love learning from you James. You’re the best.
I bought Affinity last month.
As a new casual, amatuer digital photographer, there was no way I wanted to give Adobe a huge monthly sub.
I hope Affinity keeps growing in user numbers.
I know this is recent, yet I’m excited for version 2.0
Love James’ teaching here - and many great new features. Very excited to find out he has created a specific in-depth video tutorial just on astrophotography. Clearly this is one of his passions! I know so little about that topic, other than I did manage to take a few decent night photography images with my Nikon D3300 of the comet that passed by this fall. Will be great to know more about what I can do with this kind of photography.
😍 Thanks for all those new features! 🙏🙏🙏 10:00, please make a tutorial how to create these LUTs, we all appreciate!
The astrophotography section at the end was so fascinating it sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea of the post-processing work involved in getting these shots
This was great. Looking forward to more on astrophotography processing.
Had Affinity Photo since first released December 2016... Best purchase I ever made...
5 Years with Affinity! I love!
the smart objects (perspective) when opening a PSD mockup seems to be broken... is there a work around for this...
Maybe a smart object equivalent feature for the next update?
Hi James. A bit of a time saver. When using the Divide blend mode, instead of drawing the rectangle then hiding it, use the picker to get the colour, and then show the rectangle. Why not use the picker first and then draw the rectangle or use a fill layer. It's only a couple of steps but could be a big time saver if one has lots of work.
This guy is really good! I really like the mix of new features and thorough professional practical examples
I was waiting for the astro persona! Now I have to learn using it. But it seams to be not that complicated. Great Videos and fantastic work on Affinity Photo!!
Oh my! you certainly loved the astrophotography example! Was amazing to see you going while I have no idea of what you are doing! lol Seriously, very happy about this new update. GREAT video James as always! This one is definitely a keeper
A wish by my side would be hsl adjustments in the develop persona!
Please talk about this topic : Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.). Is it posibble add two mask to a layer and use this blend modes between the mask? Thanks.
12:30, 🤗🤗🤗 yessss 👍👍👍. Now the only thing we need is a Live Perspective Filter, according to the Live Liquify 😃
Great tutorials James! Well to understand also for non native speakers.
It was very informative & Thanks a lot :)
LOVE THE PROGRAME, HAD IT FOR YRS. Never been able to get the book in Australia. Would love to see Affinity release a pdf version.
27:56 Astroimage stacking is a great feature, thank you very much.
What an update and what a great image editor. Thank you so much for this fantastic and affordable program!
Nice that Affinity Photo has caught up with Paint Shop Pro V7 from 2001. Text on a line/circle etc. easy.
Great new features, great presentation!
This software is sheer genius,from the lads in Nottingham [ that’s in England). If you are serious about photography you MUST buy a copy.
Well, that's an amazing update! Affinity is going better and better!
32:35, amazing 🤩. Can you please put a link to these tutorials into the video description, can’t you? Really appreciate.
Just a small QOL Feature but I wish that Affinity allowed us to reorder our Brush collections and presets instead of them being indefinitely stuck in the order that they were added.
Please do a video on how to do cutouts in 1.9 for ipad. The RUclips videos of older versions are misleading and I am not getting anywhere.
Excellent demonstration!
Thanks, some good features with the update, however please give us an update on creating DROP SHADOWS for text where Photoshop is miles ahead of Affinity.
Love Affinity and the serif team for what you all do and I enjoy Your Videos so informative. Thank you from KG
The collor cast thing in the beginning is awesome
That was glorious!! Can you tell me what tablet and stylus you are using to interface with Affinity?
Nice set of products. Bravo
The applications are crashing after the update. especially when using LUTs
Your tutorials are very clear and informative. I would like to see a sky replacement filter in Affinity Photo. Many other photo editors already have this.
Pretty sure there is a macro pack for that in the store
Very pleasant to hear such English!
Top quality document. I learned for 40 mins. Thank you for your time and work.
Thanks, what a nice powerful functions added by your team. Great stuff. My main suite for design, photo and publish.
I love AP! I wonder when we will be able to use the Transform tool where you can change the vertices to make a specific perspective (like free transform in PS) then get back to it any time we need without loosing the shape we had achieved. It is extremely useful when you are making mockups.
Nice overview of the hot new features James & Affinity team! There should be better recognition of the different types of layers - pattern, fill, regular, etc. Take a look at how Krita differentiates with the different types of layers. Also, looking forward to pattern overlay layer FX, if it is planned on coming out?
I’m Affinity user since 1.3.x or so (can’t remember exactly) and it’s like birthday and Christmas together, each new features update. Best graphics software suite ever. Also using Designer and Publisher. Waiting urgently for something I can replace Lightroom and/or Capture One. Please link the mentioned astrophotography tutorials in the description.
I have Affinity Photo (AP) for iPad, which I use for stitching panoramas when travelling. An uncertainty for me is to what extent the Windows and iOS instances of AP differ and when viewing a video like this, what platform is in use. I have not adopted AP on my Windows PC, so far, because the thought of two learning curves for AP is off-putting, though I'd quite like to save the expense of my Adobe subscription.
Color drop would be cool in the next update.
Version 1.9 is a buggy. When I use "Inpainting Brush Tool" program in 40% freeze. I must restart program. Whis happend 3 times.
I love it. Affinity and the less is more idea is working for me! There is such a thing as too many options. I'm loving their streamlined approach.
Well with your voice and your ambitous presentation, This Programm gets even better.. I would realy like to know how many times trials you need for a usual tutorial.. also, you are realy good in breaking down the essence of a feature to the easiest basis, so that everyone understands this.. thumbs up..
I really would love to start using affinity photo, what holds me back is the fact that I couldn’t find an equivalent of the photoshop smart object and a camera raw filter. So I can use the camera raw filter and work in a non destructive way.
Is there anything I can do to work around this?
Thanks
Tutorial on turning day to night for real estate specifically. Front exterior
Hi, there. I have just purchased Affinity Publisher and was excited about the new Pattern Layer feature - but it is not an option on my Windows program. Could you tell me how I can access this feature? Thanks!
Jeez... it hadn’t occurred to me to this date, no matter the software, to put panels to the LEFT and RIGHT of the canvas. Even if others like procreate, Pixaki, etc on tablets do it by default I have just realized that I don’t do it and find myself clicking through tabs. Besides of all the amazing features shown, wanted to bring that even if studio presets might be ‘obvious’, seeing it in action with a personal use case has quite unexpected reach in my opinion.
EDIT: what a great episode and rundown of the features. Gotta ask, that astrophotography related remove background, can that be used or is it going to be perhaps extended to remove backgrounds of any image in general? Sounds like it could work for one click removal of matte screens and all
small company big impact on Adobe, Affinity is raising star
12 Photoshop users (down voters) realized that for lots of work affinity is much ahead and now they need to buy Affinity, too :)
Thank you @Affinity!
Thanks a million James. I'm finally learning new software and actually enjoying the results. The hardware acceleration feature is exciting. I need the May 2020 update.Will do some further research as I'm not a techie.
The rectagular draw mask does not work and Ive seen all the videos tried all the settings the others work but not rectangle so do I need to reinstall the first time I used it it worked but never again so what happened any ideas
Merci beaucoup pour ces explications
Timestamp 19:57 Pattern Layers
excellent presentation, thanks
Loving the new update. at the start it was crashing a bit but seems to have stabilized now. it was crashing when i was trying to install brush packs and dial.exe would hang.
Top application, and top presentation! Thank you keep on the good work!
Hi James, great update - I am particularly excited about the pattern layers, these will make my life so much easier!
Quick question, what's the easiest way to use images as part of the pattern? Importing as a new layer, then merging down onto the pattern layer, then repositioning?
Oly jumpin! I was just getting a nice toehold on the features I use most often/need when bam, 1.9 rolls out a bunch more. Will I ever catch up? So good!
Finally i purchased the entire suite. It's amazing!
Used Adobe everyday for almost 10 years but with every update the stablity got worse and worse, so switched my entire company to Affinity, so far I'm glad I did.
Awesome, Affinity just keeps getting better 🔥🔥
Hope you guys prosperous in the future !
Hi James, Affinity already put a button to manage pen opacity with the Wacom tablet or should we wait for version 2.0?
Really cool - in the next release maybe some Astro stacking features like Sequator. The Deep sky functions are really cool.
Thank you James, some nice additions to the tool.
The linked layers will be great for people who want to make mirrored designs such as for mandalas and the like. Great update.
So many great tips! Thanks so much! :)
I'm still waiting for a brush size/hardness panel on right-click. Would make it so comfortable ...
Wow ! Affinity Photo 1.9 is amazing . I just need some step by step tutorials ( or a course ? ) in order to learn to make the best use of its' features. Do you know of any James ?
James one quick question Is Windows 10 Pro not supported? When I turn on the hardware acceleration it says requires Windows 10.0.19042 and it says I am running Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19042. Great Video and thanks to you and Affinity for such an awesome product! Keep educating me please!
Thank you affinity team for brings great features I hope that the Affinity team work hard to make affinity better than other.
Brilliant explanation, thank you. Is it right to assume the ability to 'Collect' in the 'Resource Manager' simply copies said files into a new location, rather than move them?
It would be great if you guys can do an application for animation, like the alternative version of adobe animate
I trialled 1.9 , and found a merge down bug , which left horizontal dark pixel lines randomly over the merged image. Sadly although I found it easy to use, the output images are unacceptable.
Absolutely brilliant. Now all I need is you folk to replace Lightroom !!!
Great work! Thank a lot
I have a question about the suite. Do you have any plans to add a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) any time soon? Or offer integration to third party DAM products? When you have literally thousands of images, both digital original and scanned slides and negatives (often both as taken/scanned and edited versions) over a period of decades (back to the 1980s in my case) the metadata and cataloguing features of a DAM can be vital.