How To Make Better Thumbnails in Affinity Photo

[@poppingken]

You're a great teacher!! I hope this channel will blow up! This is a helpful channel for the community of Affinity and Davinci Resolve Users. Please make more tutorials on both programs and don't stop!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you so much! No plans to stop :) more Affinity stuff to come.

[@RoryBrickz]

@@RyanOsborneUK ur cool

[@alexpolyanskiy]

Please do another one of these! With more Affinity Photo techniques! Greate Video!

[@Runeansfelt]

Hi Ryan, I loved this vid. Seen many others, but you have a very calm and collected aura. Cheers from Denmark!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you Rune 😊

[@uniworkhorse]

I'm on an Osborne binge; as another commenter said you are a great teacher. Love that you not only explain the what, but also the why! Definitely going to use more of those refine tools, didn't ever really get to get deep into affinity so this was much needed!

[@TheBearEssentials]

Thanks buddy! This was very helpful!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad it could help! 🙂

[@LeonardoFtz]

At first, I though you were saying: "A funny photo". Turned on the captions, "Affinity photo". xD This was super helpful Ryan thank you. Super well edited too, I loved the soft animations in it. Thanks!

[@Weird_Quests]

I'm swapping from Adobe to a mix of DaVinci Resolve + the Affinity Suite - so looking forward to your future tutorials. :D

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Amazing Danyal! Welcome, my friend 🙏

[@BoBMaSt0r]

Most of the things you do here, can be easily done in the color page on resolve and fusion for the text, then just export the image. For more advanced things thought, Affinity is a good Photoshop alternative.

[@PatrickStirling]

Great start to the channel, man, smart topics covered well 🤘

[@RyanOsborneUK]

This has made my day! I’ve learned so much from your channel over the years 😂 thanks Patrick. Really appreciate it 🙂

[@PatrickStirling]

@@RyanOsborneUK you're absolutely starting off on a stronger foot than I did haha. All the cool kids make resolve videos. 👊

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@PatrickStirling you’re a charmer! Thanks again 🙂

[@thetruthinwonderland]

Good timing on the video! I was just starting to try to figure this out

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Happy it could help Kyle 😃

[@BringItBack5]

Awesome videos so far! Would love to know about affinity. Haven’t heard about it until now and looks good!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you! They’re great replacements for photoshop, illustrator and indesign 🙂 keep an eye out! I have more videos coming soon about them

[@jeffstreck]

Well, you're definitely underrated. 👏

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you 🙏

[@olivierparlephoto]

Good workflow to make a thumbnail. I also work on a HD resolution image even if the thumbnail is smaller when you export it. Ryan, you might want to improve some quality of the image by having a larger resolution image than the canvas if you think you want to stretched it out. That way you won't strechted the pixel, which will result of a "blur". Good point of rasterizing the imported image.This is a specific feature of Affinity, imported photos are only references, and any changes outside Affinity will be also pushed to Affinity. Rasterizing it "makes" a copy of the image inside the project. For exposure, you don't need to go to Develop Persona, add an Exposure Layer instead. Develop Persona is only for RAW images, and is destructive. Exposure Layer is a dynamic filter and you can change the value any time. It is non destructive. Except for Camera Lenses, all tools from Develop Persona can be added as layers in photo persona and are dynamic, and non destructive! For the gradient you can use a rectangle too, with a black-white gradient and soft light fusion layer. Still non destructive. You don't need to add an extra mask in the background.. the mask is already the small thumbnail left to the layer! This is specific to Affinity, each layer has its own mask. To make you gradient just click on that thumbnails and draw. Thanks !

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Some amazing tips here Olivier! Thank you so much for taking the time to share all of this. If you’re coming from photoshop, a lot of this will be helpful to you too.

[@olivierparlephoto]

Hey @@RyanOsborneUK ! I'm learning Resolve, Affinity and Darktable (making my own video tutorial too). I couldn't resist giving you some tips I also learned :) I'm coming more from Lightroom that Photoshop, but I know it a bit. I'm always interested to see how other creators deals with their problem, even if it's on other applications. It gives me ideas to try myself.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@olivierparlephoto I was going to check out darktable as an alternative! How do you find it? I’ve been using luminar but it’s fairly basic (fine for my needs though)

[@olivierparlephoto]

@@RyanOsborneUK I'm discovering / using Darktable for now a year (I shot plenty of videos but in french ;) ). For beginners, Darktable is tough as the interface and wording are quite different. The approach is way more granular and scientific, the goal is to expose all possible button and sliders, giving you full control. No automation be default, no introduction in the program. What you can do in Luminar with one slider, woud require a lot of work in Darktable. If you can master that, it's a great tool to dive in. You can have a try, it's free! If you feel lost or overwhelmed, let me know.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@olivierparlephoto Really appreciate that! Yes the ease of use with Luminar is what really keeps me with it. Though it probably doesn’t have some of the finer controls that darktable does

[@TaeglicheNarzisst]

I like your energy!!! Thanks!

[@ReasonRaider]

Dude I can’t even begin to state how simple affinity photo looks compared to photoshop. As a long time user of photopea I think I have finally found enough reasons to upgrade to an “official” piece of software.

[@twtrist]

I don't have it yet but I'm considering switching, I just wanna know what im getting into before i get it This is a cool tutorial

[@frankherrgott]

Great advises. I wish you to have more subscribers soon

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Appreciate that Frank ❤️

[@RoryBrickz]

cool vid, thanks for telling people this. It might make my mum money cause she works there

[@skrumb]

Let's get it bois

[@RyanOsborneUK]

😉😉😉

[@Resolve4u]

Good video. Did you buy affinity photo? Nowadays I am on six months trial? Should I buy it for thumbnail making?

[@ToriksLV]

This vs Da vinci resolve, which one is better for thumbnails creation workflow if anyone has used both.

[@sasislm]

Need more affinity + resolve workflow videos

[@RyanOsborneUK]

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[@sasislm]

@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks 🙌 waiting for new video

[@yuddhveersingh710]

i have never used affinity before is it better than photoshop or easy

[@RyanOsborneUK]

In my experience, just as powerful as Photoshop is! And so much more affordable V2 was just released recently and it’s amazing 🙂

[@yuddhveersingh710]

@@RyanOsborneUKthanks for your time and information

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@yuddhveersingh710 any time my friend