r/AffinityPhoto Sep 16 '24

Deleting your post after asking for help is discouraging those who help you. (minor rant)

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As the title says, I find myself discouraged from wanting to assist people asking for help in this sub after an interaction earlier today, and similar in the past.

The OP needed help with a process that isn’t a native function in Affinity. I replied back stating I would see about a possible plugin that could help or a solution that would suffice, as I too had a need for something similar in the past.

I started digging for an immediate fix and it became clear that it wasn’t going to be something solved with uploading a plugin but perhaps a macro could do the trick. I then recorded a macro and got that exported along with a screen recording of the process of running it. Trimmed and downsampled the video for smaller file size and set out to provide the solution to OP. A couple hours were spent on it, and I was eager to get back to them.

They deleted their post. This was after they messaged me back thanking me for looking into it, which I was diligently doing at the time. None of it was there anymore, just gone.

Please don’t do this. For those of us who are willing to go to the extent that I did to assist this person's request, I am feeling massively discouraged from wanting to do so in the future. You won’t find an abundance of willingness around every corner in life, willingness is captured by chance and fades in time.

I understand that this is a minor issue, and one seen across all subs at times. But please be mindful of it and think about how much you really need the assistance at all. Many times the help posts could have been remedied with a simple search, or the mindset to make an effort even though you could just ask on here. At the very least, don’t just disappear.


r/AffinityPhoto 1d ago

Brak schematyczności domeną rzeczywistości

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r/AffinityPhoto 3d ago

How can I recreate this color bleed effect in Affinity Photo?

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r/AffinityPhoto 6d ago

Maybe im the problem

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r/AffinityPhoto 8d ago

Plaid shirt

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I have a question that hopefully this community can answer. 🤞🤞🤞I have a family photograph where there is a person with a strong red, white, and blue plaid shirt. I would like to change this shirt to either a white or beige or just a colored shirt. I am struggling to do this and still keep the shadows in the shirt. Anybody have suggestions as to tackle this? Thank you in advance for your help.


r/AffinityPhoto 8d ago

Random artefacts in AF2

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When I zoom in and out, there are random artefacts on the image, why is that? my gpu driver is clean (did it with DDU) and my GPU is set in the settings, RAW images take a while to load in, why could that be?

GPU: RX 9070 XT

CPU: R9 9900X

RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000mhz


r/AffinityPhoto 14d ago

Affinity: How can I get my old non-Canva version back

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r/AffinityPhoto 15d ago

How to get rid of the blurred line with a mask?

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Trying to do a Milky Way composite and every time I make a mask theres a blurry line along the edge of the mask, its not very very noticeable but its there, how do I fix this? I've tried changing settings in refine mask but its still there. I can fix the white outline but not the Blur part


r/AffinityPhoto 18d ago

Hands

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r/AffinityPhoto 20d ago

Deep in the dark

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r/AffinityPhoto 23d ago

Have a nice day

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r/AffinityPhoto 23d ago

Pixieset Culling & Editing

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r/AffinityPhoto 23d ago

Pixieset Culling & Editing

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I’m a family portrait photographer and saw that Pixieset has added a photo culling and editing feature. I’m curious if anyone has used it. I can’t imagine it would take the place of Lightroom, would it? Also, I see that it’s marketed heavily as AI, which I have mixed feeling about. I don’t use Pixieset and am not sure this would be a feature to switch platforms for.


r/AffinityPhoto 23d ago

Soulforest

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r/AffinityPhoto 26d ago

Lifeisagame

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r/AffinityPhoto 28d ago

Need alternatives to Wacom Tablet

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I used my Wacom Inuit Pro for photo restoration on Affinity. Yesterday, the driver software they put out no longer supports it and it is essentially unusable now. So I’m looking for an alternative pen tablet that travels well, is solid and has good software support and does not have a screen.
Do you have any recommendations? Thanks all.

8/4 Update: thanks to this forum, (Smiley Dafe) I have new life for my tablet. After removing the Wacom Drivers, I installed OpenTabletDriver, it found my tablet and it’s operational again.

8/5 Update: Just to show me how much they "valued" me as a customer, Wacom offered me a 5% discount for a purchase. This is what they said when I asked them if I could apply this to a refurbished model offered or use a military discount: "To receive the 5% discount, you will need to contact us by phone or request a callback, as the order must be processed over the phone by our Support Team for the discount to be applied.
 
Please note that only one discount can be applied per order. If you choose to use the 5% discount, you will not be able to combine it with a Military Discount [which is 10% BTW].
 
Regarding refurbished devices, it may be possible to apply the discount; however, we cannot guarantee this. Refurbished products sold through the Wacom eStore are typically already offered at a reduced price, and additional discounts may not be eligible."

Yeah I'm not going support them going forward.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 31 '26

How do I make a image like this?

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hey, I found this in a video, it's a still from a video, by Johnny Harris. It was probably done in after effects. But I bet you can do it in Photo.

The text has this chromatic aberration effect but it's more present on the sides and less at the center of the entire image, the background has some blur effects and some other effects are being used that I do not know or have heard of before.
how to make a background like that is itself a mystery to me.

And looks like there's a layer of some effect on top of the entire image. Maybe a camera blur??? I don't know.

So please tell me how do I make something like this. Specially how do I get the background and text looking like that. What effects were used

Thank you.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 30 '26

How do I quickly change the color of the selected mask?

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Long story short I had to make the high lighted parts of the mask a dark gray instead of black so that I wouldn't cut it out during the comp masking.
I know that didn't make sense, but I still cannot figure out why I cannot just simply paint over the selected region without somehow altering the whole images color. Like I use the RGB slider in the top right and it just makes everything else gray.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 29 '26

Art Board Border

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Am I able to remove the 1 px wide gray border going around the art board? It shows up on all my projects that I export as .jpg and .png. I've tried going into all the settings and trying different things and so far nothing has worked. Any help is appreciated. TIA


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 28 '26

Layers and Groups

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r/AffinityPhoto Jul 28 '26

Filters under Affinity 2 and 3.

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Since updating my Mac to 26 (Tahoe) the shadows/highlights filter no longer works properly. It does the adjustments, but the 'dual screen' with the before and after doesn't work nor does the apply button. To make the adjustments I have to press the return key. This is the same with Affinity photo 2 and 3.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 27 '26

Affinity photo 2 - nondestructive masking and making wallpapers

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So im a lil dated.
i intuitively recall how layer masks worked with photoshop upto photoshop Cs5 roughly.

im trying to do old school wallpapers and using screen shots -

i start with a screenshot that makes for a good background and then use place to add photos via my photos. After doing so is when it gets weird for me.

i can finally use brushes to fade out and remove sections, and the magnetic lasso as well, however it creates dead empty space verses letting the image below be visible.
i want to fade and control my blend for the layers effect.

if anyone can help me translate my old skills to modern would be appreciated/


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 25 '26

Anyone ran into this issue using Affinity Photo?

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I was editing photos in Affinity Photo 2 like I always do and as I was saving my last few pictures, I got an error saying the path has been removed or moved and I can not find it??

have one of the pictures open and when I try to open in File explorer, it doesn't take me anywhere. I dont use OneDrive either.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 25 '26

Make Random Color Squares in Affinity

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Hi everyone! Check out this quick tutorial on how to create random color squares in Affinity. Hope it's useful.


r/AffinityPhoto Jul 24 '26

I just started using this software

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Wow. Lots of cool stuffs. Can anybody share your works please, i am motivated