I'm beginning to use these tools in my bird photography processing. This is the clearest explanation I've found yet on what they do and how to use them well.
Thank you so much! Yeah, I could definitely see it being useful with bird photography. Especially for removing distracting elements like leaves, small branches, or bugs, etc…
Another great video! I recently used the patch tool for the first time in a portrait retouch while using frequency separation. After everything was done I felt like there were a few spots that were "muddled", if that makes sense... using it on the high frequency layer to borrow texture from other parts of the skin remedied the situation well. Thanks for all the info you provide!
Thank you! Yeah. The patch tool is a definitely a powerful tool, and after making this video I could see myself using it more. Yeah. That’s always the danger when you start doing too much clone/healing is things can start to look blurry/muddy like you said. That why I usually just close stamp with a relatively hard edge brush, then fix brightness and color issues later with dodge and burn or HSL. But the texture only on the patch tool is really handy.
Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it useful! You’re the first person who commented about the crown removal. Thanks for watching till that part of the video! It does take a little time, but just using some of the basic tools, you can pretty much remove anything.
Thank you very much! I’m really glad to hear that! Yeah, I mainly use affinity photo for portrait retouching, and photo editing, so it does everything I need to do, and more! I also do use it for doing some graphic design, and I’ll actually have a fun video about that coming out soon, and even for that, it works amazingly. Looks like adobe finally has a worthy competitor!
Excellent tutorial! Subscribed! I'm new to AP which I acquired for one particullar reason: the need to automate a dust spot removal on a bunch of 1000+ images taken for a Time Lapse compilation. Now I gradualy discover more and more about AP, but still have not resolved the "root" dust spot problem: I created a macro by editing one image (by Inpainting brush) and then run the batch. Both functions work great but the result is not what I expected. Instead of the ugly dark spot on the sky (on the moving clouds) I now have a flickering bubble on the resulting video. Obviously, the dust spot removal is not ideal on (all?) images like it is on the one that served for macro creation. Could you please advice me how to improve the editing process/preocedure?
Thanks for the support! Hmm. That is an interesting problem. I’d have to think about that one. I’ve never tried to use macros for batch processing clone stamping. I did come across this forum post, but I tested it out and couldn’t get it to work. Maybe you might have better luck. It seems it should be possible though. forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125806-inpainting-brush-not-working-in-macros/ Sorry, I can’t help too much. This is an interesting problem though, so I might play around a little and if I get something working I’ll let you know!
Thank you very much! If you are referring to my custom macros, I do! You can check them in this video where I have a link to download them! Try out my Affinity Photo retouching macros ua-cam.com/video/FCNWu8FIhfE/v-deo.html Also, if you want to see how I make the macros you can check out this video. ua-cam.com/video/uoft3mMH-LU/v-deo.htmlsi=EkbCuNP8s5fMiPSI
A very welldone demonstration, thank you! I have a question not directly related to the topic: I often have a problem seeing the cursor (with most tools). When you use the cursor, there seems to be a nice circle around the actual cursor. I would dearly love to have that. I use Windows 10 on a PC, and I get the impression that you also use Windows. How is it done?
Hi there! I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Well, the circle you might be seeing only shows up when I’m recording my screen to make videos. (I think it’s there to make the cursor easy to see when doing screen recording,) but it’s not actually there when I’m usually working. But if you want the curser to be bigger in Windows 10 (across your whole system including Affinity) you can go the settings app (in windows 10) then select Ease of Access, then Cursor and Pointer. There you should be able to adjust the size and color of your cursor to make it easier to see! I hope this helps!
How did you do the keyboard rotate at about 11.44. I've used the rotation function but by trial and error inputting angles, and it's not at all practical. Rotating while placing is just what I need.
Ive been editing video and making short films for several years. Ive used photoshop for years using masks and adjustment layers. Affinity has a very :"Un-Intuitive" "restraint" on brushes, one being you have to have a layer selected and the others are: "Who Knows" but you cant paint. On the second hour on the 4th or 5th video by some other guy, this is explained for 2 seconds. You click on a lil checkmark and you can paint. Which checkmark? IDK i gotta watch 6 hours of some Englishman go on and on about Tea and Crumpet's. But I dont think I will. I think Im done until you make a checkmark that says "Click here to paint on this layer". I got things to do, photos to edit, films to produce. Im sure alot of people are unable to use your software. PLEASE TELL PEOPLE HOW TO USE THEIR BRUSHES!!!!!!!!
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. It should be that once you have the layer selected, and you don’t have any current selections, you should be able to paint on the layer no problem. 🤔
Those are really kind words! Thanks you. I think because it takes me time to learn certain concepts, I try to teach with really easy to understand examples, and at a pace that’s easy to follow. Comments like yours motivate to continue making more videos! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@brgphotography Many help videos are done in a perfunctory manner with the thinking we want the briefest possible explanation. I appreciate brevity, but complex software needs a bit more of a real-time ‘let’s do this together’ approach, in your style. I have written technical manuals for many years, getting feedback along the way and seeing where I fail the reader. There’s a high probability of presumption when writing for print and I’ve come to appreciate the few who standout when it comes to communicating. It seems intuitive to you so, follow your instincts for future work.
@artysanmobile thank you very much! That really makes me feel a lot better! I’m sure a lot of the bigger channels, who use money from UA-cam as a main source of income, are probably trying to finesse the algorithm the best they can, and just put out as much content, as quickly as possible. Usually resulting in quickly explain, or oversimplified methods for concepts that should be explained more thoroughly. So I tried to adopt a more opposite approach. Because you’re right. Some of these things just take time to work through. It’s not something that can be explained really quickly. Honestly, I always go in trying to make my explanations as concise, and quick as possible, but they always end up being 20 or30 minutes long. Lol So reading a comment like yours reminds me I don’t have to try to speed through everything just to make a more clickable video. I’m happy to take my time and work through it with the viewer. It can just be a little bit harder these days, with everybody’s attention span being so short.
I'm beginning to use these tools in my bird photography processing. This is the clearest explanation I've found yet on what they do and how to use them well.
Thank you so much!
Yeah, I could definitely see it being useful with bird photography. Especially for removing distracting elements like leaves, small branches, or bugs, etc…
Another great video! I recently used the patch tool for the first time in a portrait retouch while using frequency separation. After everything was done I felt like there were a few spots that were "muddled", if that makes sense... using it on the high frequency layer to borrow texture from other parts of the skin remedied the situation well. Thanks for all the info you provide!
Thank you! Yeah. The patch tool is a definitely a powerful tool, and after making this video I could see myself using it more.
Yeah. That’s always the danger when you start doing too much clone/healing is things can start to look blurry/muddy like you said. That why I usually just close stamp with a relatively hard edge brush, then fix brightness and color issues later with dodge and burn or HSL.
But the texture only on the patch tool is really handy.
Wow. Very helpful. Thx for the tutorial BRG 🙌🙌
You’re very welcome.
Thanks! Very clear explanation of the differences among some very sophisticated & powerful tools & how to use them. Great job removing the crown.
Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it useful!
You’re the first person who commented about the crown removal. Thanks for watching till that part of the video! It does take a little time, but just using some of the basic tools, you can pretty much remove anything.
@@brgphotography Maybe other people just like crowns?
@jktolford8272 haha! Maybe! 😂
Wow!! for the work that I do, this app so far, replaces Photoshop 100% and more, this video is a gem, Thanks!!
Thank you very much! I’m really glad to hear that!
Yeah, I mainly use affinity photo for portrait retouching, and photo editing, so it does everything I need to do, and more! I also do use it for doing some graphic design, and I’ll actually have a fun video about that coming out soon, and even for that, it works amazingly.
Looks like adobe finally has a worthy competitor!
@@brgphotography I agree, looking forward for that!
love the inpainting tool it so effective I find. Great video.
Same! It’s definitely the tool I use the most!
Excellent tutorial! Subscribed! I'm new to AP which I acquired for one particullar reason: the need to automate a dust spot removal on a bunch of 1000+ images taken for a Time Lapse compilation. Now I gradualy discover more and more about AP, but still have not resolved the "root" dust spot problem: I created a macro by editing one image (by Inpainting brush) and then run the batch. Both functions work great but the result is not what I expected. Instead of the ugly dark spot on the sky (on the moving clouds) I now have a flickering bubble on the resulting video. Obviously, the dust spot removal is not ideal on (all?) images like it is on the one that served for macro creation. Could you please advice me how to improve the editing process/preocedure?
Thanks for the support!
Hmm. That is an interesting problem. I’d have to think about that one. I’ve never tried to use macros for batch processing clone stamping.
I did come across this forum post, but I tested it out and couldn’t get it to work. Maybe you might have better luck. It seems it should be possible though.
forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125806-inpainting-brush-not-working-in-macros/
Sorry, I can’t help too much. This is an interesting problem though, so I might play around a little and if I get something working I’ll let you know!
The Inpainting brush is frankly, magic.
Haha! Sometimes it really is. But there are definitely times where it gets confused, so it’s good to know how to work around those situations.
Thank you for this!
You’re super welcome!
Brilliant video!
Thank you! I hope you found it helpful!
Fantastic video! I’m very interested in the library tab you have on the left of your screen. Do you have a video on that? Definitely subscribed!
Thank you very much!
If you are referring to my custom macros, I do! You can check them in this video where I have a link to download them!
Try out my Affinity Photo retouching macros
ua-cam.com/video/FCNWu8FIhfE/v-deo.html
Also, if you want to see how I make the macros you can check out this video.
ua-cam.com/video/uoft3mMH-LU/v-deo.htmlsi=EkbCuNP8s5fMiPSI
@@brgphotography awesome, thank you! I’ll definitely check it out
Great video
Thank you very much!!
A very welldone demonstration, thank you! I have a question not directly related to the topic: I often have a problem seeing the cursor (with most tools). When you use the cursor, there seems to be a nice circle around the actual cursor. I would dearly love to have that. I use Windows 10 on a PC, and I get the impression that you also use Windows. How is it done?
Hi there! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Well, the circle you might be seeing only shows up when I’m recording my screen to make videos. (I think it’s there to make the cursor easy to see when doing screen recording,) but it’s not actually there when I’m usually working.
But if you want the curser to be bigger in Windows 10 (across your whole system including Affinity) you can go the settings app (in windows 10) then select Ease of Access, then Cursor and Pointer. There you should be able to adjust the size and color of your cursor to make it easier to see!
I hope this helps!
@@brgphotography Thank you for the reply! How nice it would have been if it were in the program.
Yeah. I’ve actually made my cursor bigger in my Mac system settings because it can be hard to see for me sometimes as well.
How did you do the keyboard rotate at about 11.44.
I've used the rotation function but by trial and error inputting angles, and it's not at all practical. Rotating while placing is just what I need.
Hey there. It should be the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. Very useful.
@brgphotography yup, that works! Awesome.
There's always something new to learn in AP. 👍
@AllenReinecke you’re welcome!
Ive been editing video and making short films for several years. Ive used photoshop for years using masks and adjustment layers. Affinity has a very :"Un-Intuitive" "restraint" on brushes, one being you have to have a layer selected and the others are: "Who Knows" but you cant paint. On the second hour on the 4th or 5th video by some other guy, this is explained for 2 seconds. You click on a lil checkmark and you can paint. Which checkmark? IDK i gotta watch 6 hours of some Englishman go on and on about Tea and Crumpet's. But I dont think I will. I think Im done until you make a checkmark that says "Click here to paint on this layer". I got things to do, photos to edit, films to produce. Im sure alot of people are unable to use your software. PLEASE TELL PEOPLE HOW TO USE THEIR BRUSHES!!!!!!!!
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. It should be that once you have the layer selected, and you don’t have any current selections, you should be able to paint on the layer no problem. 🤔
Your Affinity videos are pretty close to coming over and sitting down with a user personally. Affinity should be looking closely at you.
Those are really kind words! Thanks you. I think because it takes me time to learn certain concepts, I try to teach with really easy to understand examples, and at a pace that’s easy to follow.
Comments like yours motivate to continue making more videos! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@brgphotography Many help videos are done in a perfunctory manner with the thinking we want the briefest possible explanation. I appreciate brevity, but complex software needs a bit more of a real-time ‘let’s do this together’ approach, in your style. I have written technical manuals for many years, getting feedback along the way and seeing where I fail the reader. There’s a high probability of presumption when writing for print and I’ve come to appreciate the few who standout when it comes to communicating. It seems intuitive to you so, follow your instincts for future work.
@artysanmobile thank you very much! That really makes me feel a lot better!
I’m sure a lot of the bigger channels, who use money from UA-cam as a main source of income, are probably trying to finesse the algorithm the best they can, and just put out as much content, as quickly as possible. Usually resulting in quickly explain, or oversimplified methods for concepts that should be explained more thoroughly.
So I tried to adopt a more opposite approach. Because you’re right. Some of these things just take time to work through. It’s not something that can be explained really quickly. Honestly, I always go in trying to make my explanations as concise, and quick as possible, but they always end up being 20 or30 minutes long. Lol
So reading a comment like yours reminds me I don’t have to try to speed through everything just to make a more clickable video. I’m happy to take my time and work through it with the viewer.
It can just be a little bit harder these days, with everybody’s attention span being so short.