looking back, I think the red areas are the strongest point, rest is kind of whack. Kind of lose perspective when sitting there zoomed in at 300% lol

Aside from that, there's a major downscaling issue I'm noticing with affinity photo, resizing smaller looks terrible even when keeping the same ratio and I wish there was an apply image button but I've only found merge all layers so far and it looks kills the quality

e: just found a work around to apply image and it seems to solve one of my issues with quality

This post was edited by Lothric on Apr 25 2021 06:12pm

Ive had issues with the image quality deteriorating too but only when the image I want to resize was low quality to begin with. But when that happens I'm boned as I have no idea how to fix it.
The apply image button works differently in Affinity Photo so what I do is export as png and then Place that same png into the image again. It should work the same as if youd apply image in PS but its rather tedious when you need like 4-5 apply image layers for sharpening blurring etc
Overall Im happy with the program but obviously its not photoshop. If you have more questions just write them here, maybe I can help you since Ive used affinity photo for quite a while

I believe grouping the layers and selecting rasterize is a slightly quicker way to achieve the apply image function but haven’t used it yet. I was doing the same method of exporting and opening that item but it’s slow when you need to do it a bunch. It also seemed like it was helping with preserving quality at smaller sizes

Aside from that, when I hold control to resize an image with the original scale the quality afterwards sometimes looks so shit and I don’t remember that being a thing in photoshop. You pretty much have to sharpen immediately, I’ve only not noticed it as much on very large files and the smudge feels a bit different to me but idk what’s off about it but it felt sloppier than ps

Overall though the program is a fantastic deal, I picked it up half off at 25$ and it’s pretty much got everything ps has although haven’t found all the exact features yet, I’m sure they’re in there. I just found out live filters and unsharp mask is the sharpen tool of ps, previously I was using a high pass filter

E: have you used clipping masks at all, I think that’s something I haven’t found out how to do yet, or applying a filter to only 1 layer. Sometimes grouping works but it seems like sometimes it doesn’t or I was just doing something wrong

This post was edited by Lothric on Apr 26 2021 12:50am

I'm not at my PC so I dont know for sure but I think if you resize a layer by dragging the corner of the image you dont need to press ctrl for it to keep the aspect ratio, only when you drag at the top/bottom/left/right side.
Clipping mask is when you move one layer under the layer you want to clip it to I think (right side in the layer selection)
For the filters I have no idea since I only use them after I "applied image"

trying out some new textures I downloaded today..

attempted a request

slightly lighter, contrast seemed a bit too strong

like some of the smudge/textures, render is a bit avg and right side really doesnt do anything for me tho, feel like a continuation of the left onto the right woulda been nice

new tags when