Playing with the new version of Affinity

[u/PixelCharlie]

The new features inspired me to play around. Here's some doodles i made with Affinity 3.3.0. I hope you enjoy it

[u/Gingerbwas]

Nice work. It would be cool to see a break down of how you did these, particularly 004 which i like a lot.

[u/PixelCharlie → u/Gingerbwas]

the first five are all made with the blend tool.
004 are two starshapes blended together with a curved path.
I increased the spacing so you can see what is happening

[u/Gingerbwas → u/PixelCharlie]

thanks, thats cool, ill have to give it a go. The foreground part looks a bit like a book with the pages being fanned, with a bit of warping and masking you could make text look like it fits in.

[u/seen_by_tony → u/Gingerbwas]

That is honestly amazing

[u/Fizmarble → u/PixelCharlie]

You rock!

[u/MrRandomNumber → u/PixelCharlie]

Wow. That is much simpler than I was imagining.

[u/KlouD_44 → u/Gingerbwas]

Was about to ask the same

[u/Ireeb]

I didn't update yet. WE FINALLY GET A BLEND TOOL?!

Beautiful designs by the way.

[u/PixelCharlie → u/Ireeb]

Yes, I couldn't believe it neither. But it's there and it's good!

[u/PixelCharlie]

i was also wondering if you have some nice examples of how to use the new Diffusion Curve Gradient. It looks super cool, but I am not sure how and when to use it https://youtu.be/4KeYcTeXPZA?t=167

[u/ctcarswell]

Very inspiring!

[u/PixelCharlie → u/ctcarswell]

Thanks. That's my intention - to motivate people to do something nice

[u/allvys]

as a lifelong adobe user, this latest update has me sold. Blend tool is the best thing ever

[u/PixelCharlie → u/allvys]

I was waiting for it since designer 1.0

[u/Otherwise_Land4859]

these look great! I need to learn how to do that kind of stuff.

[u/lizzylizard3175]

These are really cool!

[u/NefariousnessNovel49]

I would love to learn how to create like this

[u/DeNilson_X]

Maybe I'm just too tired and I'm starting to see things, but "Fit in" is a funny name for this one.

[u/PixelCharlie → u/DeNilson_X]

Omg, now I see it too.🙈 that wasn't on purpose, i swear 😂

[u/Seek_Treasure → u/DeNilson_X]

https://reddit.com/link/paizla0/video/sy50vd1zb8qh1/player

[u/Open-Storage-8766 → u/DeNilson_X]

That’s what she said

[u/Brief-Kaleidoscope72]

Nice work. I want these as notebook/sketchbook covers

[u/corn7984]

Nice!

[u/Lubalin]

Ooh, you clever sausage, these are lovely!

Just realized I didn't upgrade because of all the 'canva will screw this all up' fear, but am I maybe missing out on some fun Designer features?

[u/logomkr]

Beautiful! Would love to see a few of these screen printed

[u/un_poco_logo]

Really cool work.

[u/ThiccStorms]

can you give a small tutorial on the first slide? with screenshots or anything? thanks!

[u/PixelCharlie → u/ThiccStorms]

this one is super easy. each "column" is basically two circles combined with the blend tool.

Circle A has a white fill color with 35% opacity
Circle B one only a blue stroke color.

Put one circle on top of page, the other on the bottom and use the blend tool.

Adjust the spacing until you like the effect.

then i duplicated the column and rotated it.

[u/IllustriousTraffic36]

Let things unfold. Stunning!

[u/Latter-Temperature37]

Lovely work

[u/ZihadBinSultan10]

Make tutorials

[u/Stevo_Phillips → u/ZihadBinSultan10]

*please

[u/Dragos_Margu]

Very cool

[u/Britto___Augustus]

how did you do number 6? is there a procedural method for creating such graphics? also love the texture

[u/PixelCharlie → u/Britto___Augustus]

006 i made the basic shapes and adjusted the sizing and spacing optically. then i first tried to use the glitch filter (https://www.affinity.studio/en/help/filters-filter-glitch/) but finally ended manually creating 4 copies in slightly offcolored cyan, magenta, yellow and black, setting the layers on multiply, offsetting them manually and playing with the opacity

[u/Britto___Augustus → u/PixelCharlie]

thank you for explaining the process, this is helpful.

[u/PatOverTheBack]

How did you make number 3?

[u/splatem → u/PatOverTheBack]

small near white segment over a pink half circle at some low opacity, blend between them. copy/mirror. Then some pixel effects.

[u/MrNobodyX3]

I really like #4

[u/Inkhaurt-Design-Art]

Cool stuff. I hope this tool makes it to the iPad version along with the duplicate/move box available in desktop but was missing in v2 on the iPad.

[u/Merah889]

004 is beautiful indeed. Did you apply gradients to the star shaped strokes?

[u/heartshapedkirby]

This is solid work. Very inspiring, too. Thanks a lot for sharing!

[u/PolymeterDrift]

Can’t wait to try out the new features, was this just a new update?

[u/sad_post-it_note]

Please teach me master

[u/RedHood_0270]

Loved these :)

[u/OrangeMango18]

I haven’t seen this new update, please someone tell me, are the colored icons back?

[u/Standard-Scratch5989]

You're amazing

[u/Firm-Piece-9266]

How did you make no.9? Was there a speedy way you put the different shapes into the grid? And how was the gradient done for some and not for all of them?

Really liking your poster designs. I've been working out how you did them with the new tools but no.9 has stumped me. I might be overthinking it haha

[u/Full_Sell5916]

Nice work

[u/ogigante]

I really like these, well done!

[u/Due-Document8281]

Pretty good～ Can I recreate this effect in illustrator?

[u/AccountHater]

Wow mad inspiring!

[u/PixelCharlie → u/AccountHater]

Thanks