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Free PDF – (somewhat) Helpful Hints for Affinity Designer
A collection of short and 'somewhat Helpful Hints' for Affinity Designer is online now After a lot of editing [and I am sure there are a whole bunch of things that could/ should be fixed - let me know, please] I finally uploaded the "(Somewhat) Helpful Hints" to [...]
Inkscape – interview with Tim Jones
The island 1.2 won the Inkscape About Screen contest and is now the 'face' of the new version. The Inkscape team decided to have an 'interview with the artist' and put it up on their site a few days ago. Congratulations to Chris Hildenbrand, the winner [...]
Mini video tutorials added to my youtube channel
New - Mini Video Tutorials on the Youtube Channel I have been looking into the dark corners of my hard drives and found a whole bunch of videos. Initially, I recorded them as replies to questions on social media. They are usually very short and very specific but [...]
Affinity Spotlight – 16 Follow-worthy YouTube channels for Affinity tutorials, tips and tricks
Mention on Affinity Spotlight - as one of 16 follow-worthy Youtube channels It's been a while... and I have to catch up on a bit of news and some overdue posts on video tutorials. The reason is the same as usual [and I know I sound like a broken [...]
Inkscape – About Screen 1.2 contest – entries
My entries for the 'Inkscape - About Screen 1.2 contest' I have been playing around with Inkscape in time for the 'About Screen v1.2' contest. It was good fun and I got a little carried away. The first design is close to 'my style' cute and colourful. I draw [...]
Long time no posts…
Long time no posts... It's been a while but I am still around I wrote the last post a few months back and have been slack on the blog post. My apologies! I have a bunch of videos that need a mention, a couple of projects to show, [...]
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Very quickly reviewing the pixel art tool PixelOver
Turning art into pixel art with Pixelover PixelOver - a very quick review In this video, I am very quickly reviewing the pixel art tool named 'PixelOver' - (by Deakcor). I stumbled across it and it caught my eye. Having done a lot of pixel art back in the [...]
Playing around with brush patterns in Affinity Designer
I have been playing around with Affinity Designer's vector brushes for a bit. In reality, they are not real vectors but bitmap images [PNGs] aligned along a vector path. The images get either stretched or repeated along the vector line. After starting out with some 'standard' grass and [...]
File formats are (a lot) like languages
File formats are a lot like languages A "quick attempt" at explaining file formats using languages as a metaphor or why won't my cool, sparkly, brilliant design export to SVG? Let's pick a tool. Affinity Designer is one of the vector design tools I enjoy using. It's modern [...]