2021 new 50% discount Affinity Photo Software as host of Filter Forge

Merci pour l'info. Je crois que je vais l'acheter. Ca ressemble a ceux que j'ai déja comme In Pixio et Luminar AI qui sonr fameux.

I use Affinity a bit (WIn10 64) . Mostly Designer/Publisher for newsletters, posters.... but I do find Affinity Photo very good at the price.
It misses some things that are in its 'future' list but is quite powerful.
( I use A-Photo for panorama creation from multiple photos as well as simple layering/painting of items in posters/cards etc)
I am retired now and cannot keep paying the Adobe prices!

I bought Filter Forge a couple of weeks ago to try what effects can be achieved.
I created two filters that would be useful to me and found that the interface to Affinity has some issues.
Lessons so far......
1. The item that you give to FF has to be rasterised - you cannot keep it 'editable' although its layer effects like embossing can be kept.
2. Many filters (most?) in FF just return a rectangle to *replace* the item you give it.
If you make two copies of the item, you can give the copy to FF and drag the result inside the original (Paste Inside as other software would call it)
You can change the blend method, opacity etc at that point. You can rasterize again to reduce the size of the file.
3. I took a copy of the FF Chocolate Factory filter and modified it to take the alpha channel from the image and blend it into the Result.
This crops the effect to the outline of the item (text in my case) - but can leave some rubbish that just needs to be erased (because of not being integer shape )
For a filter like Chocolate Factory, which depends on 'depth' , I use a black object with lighter details to give texture.
4. I modified my Workshop5 filter to have a 'use transparency' option (not released yet as I am still testing)
This means I can use the effect in both ways....
a) create a pixel layer, run the filter and drag the result into the item - resizing it if required to change the scaling of the pattern.
then altering the blend mode. This method may be useful if you have an item that is already coloured? Not sure - still testing.
b) turn on the transparency option of the filter and let FF clip the effect to the provided item - changing the scaling in FF.

This works for me - hope that helps - I do not know if my transparency option would work cleanly in Photoshop - I think it might.

I have bought this with the discount and have used it just a little, but what is really awesome and amazing is the way that is able to make a panoramic stitching from multiple images that gives an excellent result, from the tests I have done, and is better than the one in photoshop that is limited and not comparable to the one in Affinity Photo.

Here is an example of the chocolate factory. I modified a copy of the filter and changed it from using an image for the height to a simple perlin noise with a distortion component. Once I had the filter rendered as a pattern I clipped it into my text and added the 3d effect. The really nice thing is the text is still fully editable!

And the pattern asset will import to Designer ..... I am a very happy bunny .....

A small extra I found useful -- putting the prepared patterns in a holder like an circle or square so that when you bring them into a document they don't immediately fill the page .... they act just like an artist's palette.
These are page 1 of my Workshop5 patterns, for instance - which is never ending source of random fun

Hi Zayar -- I'm not an apple user so I cannot help much .... but I'll comment with some suggestions as not so many people will be reading this message.
Looking at the error message, it suggests that the FilterForge workspace is pointed at an area that needs you to have access privilege.

Is there an option to tell FF where to put its workpace, and you could put that within your user area?
Or perhaps the log file already exists and is read only (or owned by a different user) so you cannot write to it ?
Or the actual ???/tmp folder ( /tmp is a link on the Mac ?) needs a chmod to make it writeable for you?

The 50% is still available but do not know when it will end because it seems that is related to the Covid-19 support help

The 50% discount is ALSO available for all the other store products available in the Affinity photo and not only the software, the only things that are not included are the books

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Angelize

thanks very much for explaining step by step the topic of turning Filter forge textures into pattern layers and save them as assets, I did not know about this. Will have to see how it works.

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westdale,

nice pattern applied to the text, well done