Affinity Photo - Liquify Persona Explained

[@clarification007]

Super! When you explain, your little English accent ( Lol! ) is a big plus for my ear, I’m French and for me is so much easier to understand and very clear in explications. In other word, it is a real pleasure to listen. 👍 You didn’t”t waist our time. 🤗

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Ctrèsbeau. It's actually a german accent ;)

[@alainterieur794]

@@OlivioSarikas I'm French too and indeed, your accent makes it easier to understand.

[@maxmustermann3938]

The Push Left Tool does indeed push left - relative to the direction you move in. Its specified in the same "space" as is the push forward tool, which pushes forward in the direction you move.

[@billrosmus6734]

Push left totally makes sense. It pushes the distortion to the left of the direction of motion of the cursor.

[@RedHedDes]

Wow! That last demonstration of the usage of the mesh blew me away! It's almost like it's it could be used as a 3D texture. Great tutorials!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you Patrick. I'm not sure if it is 3D, but it sure looks like it ;)

[@videogamesare1]

Super helpful, thank you! You do great job of taking your time and breaking down the concepts. Fun tool

[@chantaleaustin4978]

Really enjoyed this tutorial!!! I'm very new to the program and very nervous to experiment but after watching this I feel very confident! Look forward to learning from any other videos you have!!! Thank you!~!!!!!

[@SecondhandKidMusic]

Another tremendous tutorial. You are my current hero- thank you for sharing your wisdom Sir!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Wow, thanks!

[@silenciowatford]

Simply the best, better than all the rest !

[@cjc363636]

This is the best! I'm so lost with liquify, and I know it's powerful, but mostly I just make a mess of things! This is so awesome, Olivio! Bravo! I'm gonna be watching this one a LOT! LOL!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, CJC. Happy i could help :)

[@grahamoxford8713]

Hi Olivio I've been enjoying your tutorials as I've recently migrated from Photoshop to Affinity Photo and I'm trying to work out how to do all the things I did before in PS in AP, so, thank you for doing these videos. I was listening carefully to your description of the various tools and you were puzzled why the "Push Left" tool was named as such but, the way I see it, it does exactly what its name suggests. Whichever direction you move the tool, the pixels to the left of your cursor are pushed. So, if your cursor moves from right to left, the pixels are pushed downward which is left of your cursor movement. Imagine you are driving a little snow plough (your cursor) and as you drive it along, it only has a plough on the left side of the vehicle, so, only snow to the left is pushed away.

[@eneacreativedesign]

Brilliant tutorial, very informative, thanks!

[@jtes1442]

Very informative and helpful. Thank you!

[@mtntopviking]

Excellent tutorial as usual! You help explain and sort out so many things that I need help with. Thank you so much!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Lee :) Happy to help :)

[@jpthrower8451]

Very helpful tutorial. The push to the left tool appears to push the pixels in the direction that is to the left of the stroke. I'm not artistic enough to know how someone would use it, but I could imagine that it would more easily create an effect to push something outward if used when drawing curves and arcs.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, JP. Yes i think that is the main use. Otherwise you would need to push-push-push and that will not give you a consistent move of the pixels to one direction over a longer distance

[@918swimbikerun]

excellent easy to follow demonstration and examples of the tools. Well done sir!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Steven :)

[@Edward190682]

Wonderful tutorial.

[@iselascorner]

You explain so well! Thank you for this!!

[@travelbonne4872]

Your videos are awesome! Thanks

[@HawaiiBine2005]

Sehr schön erklärt. Mit einigen Tools konnte ich gar nichts anfangen. Jetzt weiß ich Bescheid. Dankeschön.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Danke, Sabine. Freut mich das ich dir dieses Tool näher bringen konnte. Man kann echt tolle Sachen damit machen :)

[@simaodovaleafricano147]

Perfect tutorial! Thanks!

[@hadithoftheday3649]

Great tut. Thank you

[@OlivioSarikas]

Glad it was helpful!

[@genelakenetau]

Brilliant. All of your work is so helpful. Thank you for posting.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Starbuck265

[@MrsRijnvis]

'Thank you for the great explanation. It is very helpful

[@danmccarthy2906]

'Don't be mean be fun' haha. Thank you again, I enjoy learning the possibilities of Affinity. (My camera and I are traveling on the train to Vienna now).

[@OlivioSarikas]

Cool. Maybe we can meet for a coffee. You can PM me via Discord or the facebook page message should work too (i think) facebook.com/sarikastutorials/

[@jvaerewyck]

Fantastic explained, a pleasures to listen. Thanks!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Jos Vaerewyck. Happy you enjoy the video :)

[@Matheo780]

Great tutorial! I was used to other photo editing software and I didn't know what is going out with this 'personas'! Thanks a lot dude! All the best in the new year!😉

[@feraudyh]

This is great!

[@Being_Joe]

I really wish they had face aware liquify tools like Photoshop does. That is one of those tools that I really like from PS.

[@DevinAdint]

Is there a way to stretch a subject over the background? I tried masking the background but it became a block preventing me from stretching the head and ears over the brick in the back. Or do I have to copy the subject out of the background to do this. Trying to recreate those amusement park airbrush carictures.

[@javierrivero7]

El único tutorial que me explicó realmente cómo funciona la herramienta, gracias.

[@PatMcDonald41]

This is an excellent tutorial.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Patrick. Always happy to help :)

[@svensify]

"Push left" fits in as much as it always pushes the left side of your stroke/ line. So in fact, the name exactly describes, what it really does. You just have to imagine, your mouse indicator is a car, you are sitting in and goes in the intended direction. The effect of your cars tire prints always happens on the left side of you. 😉

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Hans, that car explanation is really good. Like one of those snow trucks :) Thank you!

[@elcasa6587]

LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS!!! I want to use Liquify but I cannot find those 4 persona icons (next to the purple logo) that are in the top left? Is there a toggle to turn them on / off?

[@r.ericsonera1987]

This is so funny! I'm going to make my own "emojis" using my face. That would freak my kids out. Haha! Great job, @Olivio.

[@OlivioSarikas]

LOL, that sounds like an awesome idea, Eric. :)

[@maxmustermann3938]

BREAKING: Doting father traumatizes his kids with horrific emojis ;)

[@philipzwick]

Outstanding tutorial that makes clear the power of Affinity Liquefy. But now Photoshop has upped the game by letting one make changes easier. Any chance Affinity will catch up? Same with Select Subject and Sky Replacement, where Affinity is behind the times, it seems.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Affinity Photo can do a lot of amazing things, but at the same time they are a small company. So it might take some time till they can develop these new things on their own ;)

[@Enrique-the-photographer]

Wow !!! you're better very good. Thank you for sharing.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome, Enrique

[@orphydiancg7759]

Does affinity photo has something similar to Ps Face aware liquify?

[@funnyg460]

Thank you so much love your videos. Love this one, never knew I could do that:)))

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Diane. Enjoy creating funny faces :)

[@clarabrunetivila5071]

Olivio, you are the best!!!!

[@60secmusic96]

the "push left" tool is always pushing it to the left of the direction, you are moving! ;)

[@OlivioSarikas]

good point :)

[@MrJohnblaine]

Thank you Olivio

[@OlivioSarikas]

My pleasure :)

[@privatejetlag]

thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

You're welcome!

[@AB-fy3ed]

Thx !

[@femz6438]

Please, is there a way to do this in Affinity designer?

[@OlivioSarikas]

not that i know of. but that's actually a great idea. write it to serif so they can think about it

[@audirealan6496]

There's no need, simply move the AFDesign file over to AFPhoto, do the mesh edit and then move it back to Designer.

[@seecraig]

I suspect a "practical" use of liquify tools is when shooting models and one might want to change certain parts of the body to make them appear skinny like waist or legs or maybe the opposite with some other parts like make lips appear more full.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi seecraig, yes that is how it's often used. though Affinity Photo does, to my knowledge, not have content aware stretching. So things are a bit more oldschool. It still works for that purpose though :)

[@s.hoffmann5616]

"push left" because it's always pushing left in the direction of the curser movement ;)

[@OlivioSarikas]

:D

[@thodorissiorikis8791]

Perfect!!!!!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Thodoris

[@sirlefuppe]

he did not explain the thaw tool, did he?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Ups, so thaw-ry. Thank you for the feedback 🙂👍

[@PhilZwick]

Nice video but it seems that Affinity is way behind Photoshop's Liquify filter when it comes to adjusting face parts easily with sliders.

[@ck1425]

May i have your permission to make ebook material from your youtube videos? I‘m an English teacher in Germany. Of course, I‘ll reference you as the creator of the content.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi CK1, i'm not sure what you mean. You certainly can't use screenshots of my videos to create photo editing ebooks from them. They are my creative property and i sped a lot of time creating them. You can however use the techniques shown in the videos to create your own creative content. Feel free to reference me as a source of inspiration. So to be clear: Can you copy or screenshot my content: NO Can you create your own creative artworks based on the techniques shown in my videos: YES

[@rowdywallbanger4080]

That poor kid😂

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

The stupidity of having to change a picture into a Pixel layer stopped me using this program for a very long time. Very bad design

[@yauxu]

thanks !