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Haha. Yeah. I’ve presented a few of these over the years. Maybe I need to remind them again…

Thank you and you’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

I think both work, so it’s more a preference. I would also consider how much desk space you have for it. Sometimes that’s the deciding factor. But I’ve been using the small size for 7 years and it’s perfect for me.

@ thank you x Budget wise the small Pro is affordable or I’d need to buy a cheaper medium graphics pad. Decisions 😫

That’s interesting…🤔 I usually just create an empty pixel layer (add new pixel layer) and just paint my hair strands on that layer.

@brgphotography well, finally I just copied the basic layer and draw hair on it to finish picture. Because just an empty new pixel layer remain empty and I don't understand why. Maybe you have some optional tools?

Hmm. That’s strange. You should be able to just create a new layer, and paint directly on that later. Are you sure the layer is active, meaning it has the blue dot next to it? Or maybe you have a hidden selection? I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t be able to paint directly on a new pixel layer.

@@brgphotography Well, I tried again and still in deep whole. Yes, the new pixel layer is active, the layer below is rasterised. I have added new empty pixel layer, opacity 100%, blend mode Normal. The brush settings are Opacity 100 %, flow 100 % hardness 50%. None of any brushes works on this layer at all, if tool Paint Brush Tool is set. Not yours brushes, nor any other build in. But I discovered one tool works, only it is Colour replacement brush tool. Why? No idea! Only tutorials looks great. Why I can use Capture One easily, and this is such a horror. I have to admit I hate this program, to much effort to learn and with not satisfying result.

@@brgphotography Ok, this Protect alpha - what a **** it is? That's was a problem and I have no ide why it was switched on!

Hi! These are a group of brushes that I made for my retouching work! But I made it available for download here! drive.google.com/file/d/10-FSdeM1jesQMUXhBCuOP5Rw5Kfh3lSH Enjoy!

@@brgphotography Thank you very much, that's really kind of you 😍💖💖💖

That’s interesting. But I’ve also encountered these problems when I’m working on my MacBook. So that rules out the HDMI issue. Might be a Wacom issue though…🤔 I have a 27” BenQ photographers monitor which I love.

@@brgphotography I used to use a Wacom a long time ago and it would always lag. I still have it but it is a legacy item by now so no use trying the same unit again. Going to put it on Market place. I would get another one but the selection process has gotten so much easier over the years I probably can get away with just a mouse pad with a wrist rest. Enjoy your channel!

In the end, it’s best to use what works best for you! Thank you!

Thank you very much! I tried to make it really easy to understand, so I’m happy to hear you say that!

Thank you for the comment! Sometimes I get a little ahead of myself and start speaking too fast. But I’m more aware of it now, and try to speak slower to make things more understandable. Thank you!

@@brgphotography super that you react! I was learning editing in C1 and can share advice about showing how to work. If you can, divide whole video into parts, following parts plaese, but with info what tool you explain in every part. I give you this advice because it was the best tutorial about editing I have ever seen and learnt a lot. And now desperately need to learn AFPH, hair enhancement

Thank you for the kind words! I’ve definitely found that people seem to enjoy when I take things a little slower and explain things in detail. I think (for me) there is this pressure to try to get in as much information as quick as possible. Maybe trying to keep up with other youtubers. But I’m realizing I need to do things at a pace that is most helpful for the viewers. So I appreciate your comment! I also plan to make a video showing my workflow from Capture One to Affinity Photo, so be on the lookout for that.

@@brgphotography cool! Somebody told: be the best version of yourself. Being any other is still just a copy. Tutorial is best when we can learn fast, not only watch fast :-)

Great advice! Thank you!

Haha! I hope not! (^_^) I’m glad you enjoyed the video!

Thank you so much! I’m really appreciative! I hope to keep this series of videos aimed towards beginners going.

Haha! Thank you for the kind worlds brother! Really appreciate it!

You’re welcome! Glad to hear that you found it helpful! I plan to make more videos geared towards beginners.

Thank you very much, and you’re very welcome! I’m glad you found it helpful. I do want to start making more videos aimed at beginners, since it seems a lot of people are finding affinity photo for the first time or moving over from Photoshop. And I appreciate the subscription!

You’re very welcome!

You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, like the one in my in my normal intro videos. It was a cool look.

Thanks for the input! Yeah, I think some of the tracks especially in the beginning have this warp/reverse effect in the song. Makes it sounds backwards. I’ll be a little more careful when choosing background tracks. Appreciate the feedback!

@@brgphotography I appreciate your reply, glad you took that as constructive, as it was meant to be.

@MoD_Master_Of_Disaster_ of course! I’m grateful when people bring this kind of stuff to my attention.

You’re very welcome. I really wanted to make it easy to understand, especially for total beginners.

Thanks for the opportunity! I’m really enjoying the plug in!

Thank you so much! I’m really happy to hear that!. I’m always kind of worried that my videos are a bit too long, because I take a lot of time to explain things and sometimes go into too much detail. Especially these days, everybody just wants the answers really quickly. So I’m glad that you felt it was very Zen like. I’m trying to embrace taking things slow, and being relaxed with it. Because sometimes it just takes time to learn something new. You can’t learn it in a one minute short. Especially was things that can be kind of complicated to wrap your head around. And like I said in the video, it took me a while to finally understand how masks worked. I appreciate your comment!

@@brgphotography T Would you have any videos on just the raw editing part / development? Thank you once again, much appreciated.

@tiborbogar7739 not yet, but it’s a topic I plan on making a video about in the near future.

@@brgphotography Thank you!

Two more discoveries: the precision of brush selection depends on the brush speed, and, selection can be saved for later use! Uau!

@@antonzvanut9542 Hey there! Yeah, I've definitely had that same frustration! Sometimes it's hard to see the marching ants so you don't realize you had something selected, and you're wondering why nothing is working. Or worse when you have your selection hidden, so you can't even see the marching ants. Yeah, saving selections for later use is really useful, and something I didn't start doing till awhile ago. Now I use it all the time. Really glad you were able to pick up some new tips for Affinity Photo. It can do so many things, it's a never ending learning process. But that makes it fun!

Actually I was worried about that, but unless it’s doing it in the background, I didn’t have to enable Roseta. And even though it’s still beta, I personally haven’t had any issues with it except for a few small bugs which I mention in the video.

I’m really glad to hear that! It’s definitely a specific technique used in specific situations, but can really be a life saver in a pinch. I’m curious what kind of photos you restore.

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! Glad you found it helpful!

Thank you very much! I’m happy to hear you found it helpful! 🙏🏼

Hi there. I’m not sure this will work with any phone. As on the computer it needs to download specific drivers for it to work. I looked at it online, and it seems like this won’t work with a mobile device. At least iOS. Not sure about android. It seems some people may have gotten it to work via some work around, but in general it looks like Wacom doesn’t support mobile devices currently. :(

@brgphotography Thanks, so what about editing any pictures from the gallery from my computer PC or laptop? Would I be able to edit any chosen pictures from them ? Please excuse me. I'm very new to this all

Not a problem. As long as you are able to transfer the photo from your phone to your computer, either via a USB cable, or AirDrop, (depending on what kind of phone and computer you have,) you can use any photo editing software to edit the photo. And honestly, it doesn’t even have to be photo editing software if all you need to do is draw on the photo. You could probably do it in MS paint if you are on Windows, or notepad or Freefeom if you are on Apple iOS /Mac. Basically these tablets operate just like a mouse. So once you have the photo on your computer, you could use your mouse, or a tablet like this to mark up, or draw over the photo as you like.

@brgphotography I think I'll be in love with this soon , thank you much

Definitely! Once you get used to using a tablet to edit Photos in your computer, it’s difficult to go back to using a mouse. It might take a while to get used to, depending on how good your hand eye coordination is, but once you get a feel for it, it makes doing things like drawing, painting, drawing diagrams, etc. so much easier

Thanks for the support! Hmm. That is an interesting problem. I’d have to think about that one. I’ve never tried to use macros for batch processing clone stamping. I did come across this forum post, but I tested it out and couldn’t get it to work. Maybe you might have better luck. It seems it should be possible though. forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125806-inpainting-brush-not-working-in-macros/ Sorry, I can’t help too much. This is an interesting problem though, so I might play around a little and if I get something working I’ll let you know!

Hi there! So, in order for an adjustment layer to only affect one layer you need to take that adjustment layer and drag it onto the layer you want it to affect. So in the layer stack click and drag you HSL adjustment (or any other adjustment layer) and drag in onto the layer you want to affect (your copied parts layer.) Make sure to drag it onto the title/name of the layer, and the whole layer should turn blue. With adjustment layers you can also drag into onto the thumbnail and it will achieve the same affect. But with other types of layer there is a difference between dragging on the thumbnail or title. Now, once you’ve dragged the layer onto the other layer, your HSL should now only affect that layer.

You’re welcome! I’m glad to hear it was easy to understand.

Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m really glad you found it helpful!

Thank you very much! I think it’s an underutilized feature in affinity photo.

Thank you so much! I’m really glad to hear that. It’s interesting that once you understand it, it’s pretty easy, but it sometimes takes awhile for it to “click” or for the “light to turn on” like you said. I know it did for me, which is why I wanted to make this video.

You’re very welcome! It’s not a topic often discussed, but I’ve had to do fixes like this quite a lot, so I thought it might make an interesting video.

Thank you very much! Yeah, there are so many options, even with some of the “simpler” tools, I’m sure I’m not even using them to their full potential.

Thank you very much for the kind words! Yeah, when I started the channel, there weren’t a lot of tutorials aimed toward advanced users, or advanced techniques. So I started the channel with that in mind. But over the course of making videos, I realized there were still a lot of people who didn’t have a strong foundation of some of the basics which are required to do some of the more advanced techniques. So I started a few videos going over some of the basics, like this one, and it seems to have really gained an audience. So I definitely want to keep making videos with some more advanced techniques, but also make videos geared toward new users, so they can start to have a better understanding of more advanced things you can do in affinity photo. And comments like this keep me motivated, so thank you very much!

Thank you very much for the support! I was the same way! I didn’t fully understand how masks worked, so I was always hesitant to use them. But now I use them all the time! I’m glad I could help you understand! And thanks for the subscription!

@@brgphotography absolutely! You won’t get rid of me now lol

@authorericar.stinson4849 😂😂

Hmm. Do you mean a cross shape? I believe if you go to settings-> User interface, there is a setting called “always show brush crosshair” and you can check it on or off. If it’s on it will always show a little + sign with your brush tools. I turn my off. Does this help?

Thank you very much! I really glad to hear that. I’ve got a few more videos I. My beginner series, and a lot of stuff of retouching techniques, so enjoy! And thanks for your support!

You’re welcome brother! Happy you enjoyed it!

¡Muchos gracias! I’m happy to hear you could understand!

Thank you very much! This video actually came about when I was teaching my mom how to use affinity, and realized it’s important to sometimes take the approach that not everyone has previous experience with photo editing. I’m really glad to hear you found it helpful.

Yeah, it’s definitely more than a little bit more expensive. That’s actually one of the main reasons why I used the original for so long. And not everyone needs the small upgrades the pro offers over the original. So I think the Intuos will be more than enough for most users.

Thank you! You’re very welcome!

Thank you! I’m glad to hear that! Yeah. I guess now you can just use AI or something, but I personally like doing it myself.

​@@brgphotography Does affinity have built-in generated ai features like photoshops? I am a newbie affinity photo user.

@user-gn7ed1pl9m currently it doesn’t.

@@brgphotography I actually searched for it myself, just in case I might miss anything. Thank you for the reply.

Awesome! Glad I was able to help!

Already got in contact. Thank you!

Yes and no. Remember, the mask is applied to the gradient layer only (the top most layer.) So the black part of the mask is hiding the gradient layer. It’s hiding the gradient layer because the mask is applied to that gradient layer ONLY. And white is revealing. Meaning it’s showing the gradient layer where the mask is white. And because the gradient layer is being hidden, it is showing us the layer that is below. So don’t think of black as revealing. Think of black as hiding the layer it’s attached to. And, IF you have something below that layer you’re going to be able to see it. You can test this out in affinity photo. Open up a new document, and create a new fill layer. Under layer-> new fill layer. You can fill the layer with any color. Now add a mask. The mask will be white by default. Now, with the mask selected, take a black paint brush and start painting black in the mask. You will see that the black is now hiding your fill layer where you painted. And since it’s hiding that fill layer, you can see what is below. If you have nothing below, it will just be white. Or it will be that white and gray checkerboard if you had transparent background selected when you made the new file. So, in a sense you are correct. By painting black, you are hiding the layer the mask is attached to. Thus, by consequence, revealing the layer that’s below.

So in a sense you are correct. But it’s more about how you think about it. Yes, by painting black in the mask, you are hiding the layer, but you are “revealing“ the layer that happens to be below. But I think you’re going to confuse yourself if you think about it like that. You need to think about it as black is hiding the layer that the mask is attached to. And, by consequence of the layer being hidden, it becomes transparent. So, if you have some thing below the layer that the mask is attached to, you will be able to see it. If you don’t have anything under there, it will just be blank. Trust me, I know it can be really confusing. And it took me a while for it to click in my head. I guess one way you could think about it is, “black reveals what’s on the layer below, because you are hiding what’s on the layer with the mask.“ Not sure if that helps, or makes things more confusing 😅

@@brgphotography Many many thks for the reply. Yep it's a bit paradoxical but I guess when you use it enough times it just becomes the norm, but getting into it initially is rather confusing but time heals and I guess it just becomes the norm. Thks again.

@joeking5211 no problem! I know that because it was confusing for me in the beginning, I wanted to make sure you understood it. Because I know it took me time to wrap my head around it. But like you said, the more you do it, it will become second nature, and it will start to make more sense. Glad I could help!

Now THAT is something to think about! 🤔

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. It should be that once you have the layer selected, and you don’t have any current selections, you should be able to paint on the layer no problem. 🤔