Things you should know in Affinity Photo | Best Photoshop Alternative

[@ForcePF]

As someone who's just switched from Photoshop to Affinity, your channel is an absolute God-send. Many thanks!

[@bydesignmethod]

I'm so happy to hear that, thanks so much Force! I think you'll really enjoy Affinity, have fun!

[@FredGunn]

"I don't know who said it it might have been me" - that's so refreshingly humble, and stuff like that that makes your videos great!

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much Fred! Truly appreciated!

[@dunkley7776]

Agreed, I subscribed right after you said that 😂. Your humor it superb. Reminds of webflow tutorials. Great info as well! Cheers

[@bydesignmethod]

@@dunkley7776 Thank you very much!

[@duvanr]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a genius.

[@bydesignmethod]

You're too kind, what lovely words!

[@MysTarey]

It's so great more people are switching over from Photoshop, this means we will have more how-to content to learn from. Looking forward to following your channel and learning more!

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching - I'm excited too! Appreciate you!

[@artysanmobile]

All kidding aside, you’re the first to mention the inherent masking inside adjustments. This will be a major step forward for me in my product photos. Thanks so much.

[@bydesignmethod]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful. Built in masks give you so much more control.

[@MR_Records]

I purchased the Affinity full package today. Coming from Adobe to Affinity feels like the best decision ever. Thank you for a well presented and informative video.

[@bydesignmethod]

You're so welcome and thank you so much for watching. I think you're really gonna like Affinity!

[@diamondsoverall4456]

This is literally my 4 day with affinity Designer and affinity photo, and I'm on the brink of insanity thank God I found a creator who makes this clear and concise. Thank uuuuu

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you found my videos and I hope you find them helpful. I really appreciate you taking a moment to leave a comment.

[@ericclancy5666]

Brilliant really great tips, Thank You

[@bydesignmethod]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@martinh4982]

Your video on masks actually *is* the best tutorial on masks I've ever watched! I'd also forgotten some of these tips :)

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you Martin! I always try my best to lay it out nicely.. sometimes it works! Appreciate you watching the videos and of course taking a moment to leave a comment, you rock!

[@benjaminclements3183]

These are great tips! I was expecting really basic ‘this is how you open a document’ ‘this is how you write text’ etc… so this was great thank you!!

[@bydesignmethod]

I'm so glad to hear that Benjamin! I truly appreciate you watching and leaving a comment.

[@CreativeGiftStudio]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a GENIUS! :)

[@bydesignmethod]

oh Sarah you're too kind! 😁 thanks so much for watching!

[@johnpnj]

I switched to Affinity last summer and it's definitely awesome. Your channel is the absolute BEST resource for learning cool Affinity tricks - and your humor keeps me entertained. Looking forward to seeing a lot more from you - cheers! 🍻

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much John, I really appreciate the kind words! I also really appreciate you taking a moment of your own time to leave a comment. Thank you!

[@pocketpromotionsltd]

Really helping me to kickstart my journey with Affinity - Thanks a bunch!!!

[@bydesignmethod]

love to hear it! thank you so much for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave a comment. Much appreciated!

[@PhilAllamong]

It's always good to get a refresher on all that you can do. Thanks!

[@bydesignmethod]

You bet! Thanks for watching Phil!

[@SOC18242]

Agree with all the glowing stuff -- your banter is so cool and catchy! What font are you using for the Noise demo?

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you! The font is that example is called 'Funtastic Youth Sans' one of my favourites!

[@johnchilver536]

Brilliant tips and easy to understand I’ll be looking 👀 at your other Affinity guides

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much John!

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a genius. Okay, now that THAT'S out of the way . . . @4:00 "let's center this" admirable wit noise: loved the retro style with noise and fade transparent background ALWAYS x to swap fg/bg! I always forget that. I use keyboard shortcuts all day long and forget some of the basics.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you! Truly appreciate the comments. Had to check the 4:00 mark to see what I said, lol.

[@pilotdawn1661]

Excellent video- new user after decades of using a competitor to Affinity Photo. Thanks so much.

[@bydesignmethod]

You are so welcome, I hope it helps. Thank you so much for watching!

[@georgepf4435]

The symmetry option was awesome !

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching, I hope it helped!

[@chrisminchin854]

Very good, will check out your other videos.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much!

[@raiidovfx]

Great tips. Love the sense of humor as well!

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching and leaving such a nice comment. Always appreciated!

[@richardlarsen5716]

I didn't know any of this.... So good to have a new video from you, thank you for your time. I always wondered what that 'noise' button was for!

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you Richard, always appreciate you watching my videos and leaving a comment!

[@kuchela]

As always...easy to follow and I learn something every time!

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching! always truly appreciated. I'm glad it helped.

[@YESS3X]

thank I'm comparing the PS and AP for which one is best good for me and i like your video, currently in the black Friday sale and i bought Affinity V2 universal in just 35$. thanks for tutorials. U got a sub bro 👍

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much! Honestly you got a steal at $35 - you'll own them and keep getting updates for free. Have fun, thanks so much for watching and the sub! appreciate you.

[@elizabethrussell4858]

A great video as usual, always something new to learn. thanks.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thanks so much for watching Elizabeth!

[@Behind_The_iPhone_Lens]

Thank you! I am one of those out there that is on the PS jump ship bubble. I use a lot of luminosity and color range masks in PS. Am I able to do the same with AP? I would love to isolate different tonal ranges in the image for specific adjustments. I also wish AP would allow the use of 3rd party panels to make this process easier. Anyway, new subscriber and thank you for the video!

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey Dwight! Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. If you're on a PC try right clicking on your mask button at the bottom of the layers panel (if you're on a MAC Option Click) You should see Compound mask and luminosity range masks in there. Let me know if that helps!

[@vladimirkarphotography]

There are no such panels for LMasks in Affinity.

[@Behind_The_iPhone_Lens]

@@vladimirkarphotographyThis would be a game changer for me.

[@vladimirkarphotography]

@@Behind_The_iPhone_Lens LR and these kind of features are why i do stay with Adobe

[@Mr.-J-2024]

Nice, fast and informative. Thanks.

[@bydesignmethod]

I hope it helped, thanks so much for watching J! Truly appreciated!

[@TechDuke]

Please keep them coming good sir! I just recently switched to Affinity from Adobe and I'm having a bit of a hard time figuring some thing out. Thank you! 🤘🏻

[@bydesignmethod]

More coming up! thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. Welcome to Affinity!

[@LaurieEtchison]

Thanks for sharing. I only knew some of this, LOL. I always appreciate your good tips and reminders.😊📚

[@bydesignmethod]

Some? I'll take it! and I appreciate your support Laurie!

[@moshigan38]

I just switched from PS to Affinity and found this channel. Thanks man! How about Affinity with drawing tablet?

[@bydesignmethod]

Thanks so much for watching! I've honestly never tried it with a drawing tablet but something I need to look into!

[@spidergian]

This is so educational! Thank you 😊

[@bydesignmethod]

You're so welcome, thank you so much for watching and taking a moment of our own time to leave me a comment. I really appreciate that Gian!

[@adejones2340]

Glad I subscribed as your tutorials are clear and concise, Just got AP today and already liking it, it is very much like PS in some ways, maybe in a few months or so I'll be saying goodbye to PS for good, but I do like their new tools such as 'Remove' tool and the Generative Fill and AI engine so may just keep both. We'll see. Hope you are feeling better as I heard from your other video you had a cold.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I'm feeling normal again, that cold or whatever it was lasted a long time. Thank you again!

[@owaisahmed966]

After watching this every photoshop user will be ready to switch to affinity. Thank you so much for sharing brother, i really appreciate it.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you again, I really do appreciate it.

[@koinegreekbible]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a genius. Really! 😀

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you for those wonderful kind words! 😂

[@ravindrasinghsisodia2104]

WOW! I didn't know any of this You are a genius (Pink heart)

[@bydesignmethod]

You're too kind! what lovely words!

[@JoseSanchez360]

Nice video! Bring more Affinity content!!! Healing Tools please explained and examples. All tools really.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you Jose! I really appreciate you watching and taking a moment of time to leave a comment. Thank you. More content on the way!

[@sharonco6379]

fun and informative .. din't know about the hidden noise option

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you! I truly appreciate your time!

[@keithwoolford]

Some really useful tips - many thanks

[@bydesignmethod]

You're so welcome Keith, thank you so much for watching.

[@manueldouglas3435]

Good to this explosion of new affinity suite tutorials

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you for watching this one! much appreciated!

[@ignaciovalenzuela4892]

man you have no idea what it means to me to find such a good tutorial channel, i'm a begginer photo dude and i really need to learn how to do this things on affinity and here you are explaining like i'm 5 so i can understand haha thank you so much for this and hopefully keep uploading tutorials. i'd like to learn about filter presets i think here they are called LUTs, if you don't have already a tutorial i'd like very much if you do one. Now i just need to watch everything you have on here to learn. thanks again.

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey! Thanks so much for the comment. I hope you find my stuff helpful! That is actually a great idea LUTS (look up tables) are like filters you put over photos to give them a certain feel/look. I've never done anything on those before. That is something I will certainly look into now! Appreciate you taking a moment to comment and subscribing - thank you!

[@jacobmougharbel3092]

Hey! Instant Sub! Btw i have a question im not sure if you have a way to work around it, but is there an alternative to the smooth pencil tool in affinity designer? I switched to affinity and love it ! but this is the only thing im missing.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching and subbing, truly appreciated! As for the smooth pencil you could try the Stabilizer option in Designer. It should show up as an option in your toolbar when the pencil is selected. Let me know, I know it has helped some people doing the transition.

[@FelicitySymington]

Thanks I loved it

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@hfranke07]

Great video, thanks

[@bydesignmethod]

You're so welcome, thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment. I do appreciate it!

[@jarellejohnson8327]

Haha funny and great info...appreciate it, as per usual.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much, appreciate you!

[@zocuad6710]

Great video. Hidden features are always good to know. By the way, I'm a little surprised you haven't made a video about the whole Adobe fiasco.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thanks for watching! Yes i've considered it, quite a few channels have covered it already but I wouldn't mind releasing my point of view!

[@RobinTFH]

Very useful: I really did not know most of that!

[@bydesignmethod]

I'm glad it helped, thanks so much for watching and taking a moment of your time to leave a comment Robin. Much appreciated.

[@friedricey]

That FX tip is useful af.

[@bydesignmethod]

love to hear that! thank you for watching and leaving that comment!

[@dkickelbick]

Thank you!

[@bydesignmethod]

You're very welcome, thank you for watching!

[@yauxu]

very nice

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you so much!

[@Hi-HK]

WOW! I didn't know 2/9 of this! You're a 2/9 genius.

[@bydesignmethod]

I'll take it! by the way you're supposed to lie 😇

[@Pakiratigri]

Good stuff genius.

[@bydesignmethod]

Why thank you!

[@danielboaglio]

¡Muy bueno, muchas gracias!

[@bydesignmethod]

¡de nada! ¡Gracias por ver!

[@frankbelt633]

I knew some of the things. But you are still a genius.

[@bydesignmethod]

LOL thank you Frank, I really do appreciate the watch and the comment!

[@cosmicfxx]

Silly question maybe ... if we have Non-destructive "live filters" ... why should any ever bother with desructive tools, why even have them in an app like this, what any advantage to destructive tools over live filter options?

[@bydesignmethod]

Honestly.. I have no idea why you would even bother including both. Not a silly question at all. I'm sure there is some technical reason which as it why it's available..but I never use them! Thanks for watching and asking a great question!

[@cosmicfxx]

@@bydesignmethod thanks

[@paulianhodgson]

Find it’s Chi 😅 … that symmetry tool is very cool, never knew that.

[@bydesignmethod]

I'm glad it helped, thank you so much for watching!

[@tommynatorymme]

WOW! I didn't know any of this You are a genius... (apart from the masking part ;-)

[@bydesignmethod]

I'll take it! Appreciate the watch!

[@bananaman-zd4lq]

I followed the steps but the noise is never visible for some reason. It shows in the slider bar and down in the bottom left corner where the 2 little color options are but the noise never appears in the fill layer

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey, Just confirming you can see the opacity slider and when you click on the button the noise option appears but when you drag the slider nothing happens on the fill layer? just want to confirm you also have the fill layer selected in the layers panel when you try to add the noise. Let me know so I can help you out!

[@bananaman-zd4lq]

@@bydesignmethod Oh I figured it out, I thought the noise option would work on any layer of any kind, also I didn't know there was a difference between a "fill" layer and pixel layer that has been filled with a color using the flood fill tool. When I created a proper fill layer it worked. Thank you!

[@bydesignmethod]

@@bananaman-zd4lq I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks again for watching, have fun!

[@matthewalexander8752]

My only concern is my dwindling eyesight and the huge array of menu icons almost all around - Does Affinity cater for those of us who needs icons a bit larger….?

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey Matthew, Although you can't change icon size in Affinity, you have a few options: For your tools you can remove what you might not need by going to 'view > customise tools' and dragging them off You can do the same for the top toolbar by going to 'view > customise toolbar' Many users have found changing the icons to black and white helps - this can be done by going to 'settings > user interface' and checking off 'Monochromatic Icongraphy' Under these settings you can also make your font bigger and change the background style from light to dark (i like dark personally) Affinity Photo allows you to close panels and only bring them back when needed as well. This can free up some room. The icons COULD be made larger by changing the settings on your computer (overall change) as well. Let me know if I can help in any other way!

[@UNKNOWN4444..]

Sir affinity PSD's text is not editable after importing in Photoshop, help me please

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey you can try exporting the file as an .EPS file for text. This is something I believe Affinity is working on.

[@UNKNOWN4444..]

@@bydesignmethod hope you are right brother, i got disturb after giving 2 hours on editing and text were smart objects😩

[@adiquest]

What is the biggest difference between Photoshop and Affinity Photo? I just keep hearing this back n forth, but what is the biggest difference or differences?

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey, First of all it's price - photoshop you 'rent' monthly via subscription and Affinity Photo is a one-time purchase. -Photoshop has more AI tools (generative fill, etc to create things for you) -I believe Affinity Photo is smoother and faster I went with Affinity Photo as my main tool (I used photoshop in school for graphic design, still picked Affinity)

[@Jafri_Jahan]

How to rotate Canvas with touch screen in windows?

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey I don't use a touchscreen so I'm not totally sure. Normally the canvas is set by the type of file you create (portrait or landscape)

[@rodeodownunder]

Wow I didn’t know any of this …. You are a genius!!!!

[@bydesignmethod]

What kind words! thank you so much !

[@rodeodownunder]

I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge

[@bydesignmethod]

@@rodeodownunder Thank you so much for watching. I do truly appreciate it.

[@USS_Daedalus]

Just bought the Universal Lizenz for my Business, just able to do something. 90€ for everything and no Subscription is Wild ❤

[@bydesignmethod]

Amazing right? you're gonna love it! thanks so much for watching!

[@owaisahmed966]

My brother consider turning these tips and tricks into shorts. Each short can give you a lot of views and I'm pretty sure that shorts will grow your account faster. Consider it brother.

[@bydesignmethod]

Thank you my friend, appreciate you watching some of my other videos. This is a great idea, thank you for noting this!

[@owaisahmed966]

​@@bydesignmethodAlso consider putting photoshop icon in your thumbnail as many people don't know what affinity is and that it is actually better than photoshop, this way you can enter the group of viewers who just watch photoshop content and tell them that they are missing out on something great or photoshop is done etc. Your content can literally introduce them to affinity photo. Try it and see the results brother.

[@cakie_0933]

Your self-promotion on masking is the best 😂😂😂

[@bydesignmethod]

someone had to say it!

[@cakie_0933]

@@bydesignmethod Gotta get the word out some way! 😂 I found this video helpful so thanks 🤗

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Affinity? Pixelmator Pro? Krita? I’d be happy if I were able to paste an image into a selection. I could do that in photoshop 2

[@bydesignmethod]

Interesting I've never actually tried/thought of doing a paste image to selection but it sounds very helpful. Are you still with Adobe? truthfully curious

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

@@bydesignmethod Oh good God no! I left Adobe years ago. I use affinity and Pixelmator Pro. As an example of what I want to do? Imagine I have two pictures. The first is a scene of a countryside during the day and I select the sky. Then I have a second picture of another countryside at night and I select and copy that sky (moon and stars). All I wish to do is to copy the night sky and paste it into the sky of the first picture. Unbelievably I cannot do it whereupon as I said, I could do that in Photoshop 2. It is the simplest cut and paste job of all and yet affinity and Pixelmator Pro still can't do this and I have no understanding as to why it's not been done. There are plenty of paste options in affinity (paste, paste inside, paste style, paste FX, paste without format) and not one of them will do what I want to do. Try it for yourself.

[@bydesignmethod]

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester I definitely tried it, you're right. I could see missing that function for sure! seems fairly straight forward.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Am I "glowing" - though you can't see me? Ridiculous nonsense - Try to manage your smartness. It's not serving the purpose.

[@bydesignmethod]

Hey, Let me know when you get a sense of humour. You still have time.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

@@bydesignmethod That's your problem, you are not funny.

[@bydesignmethod]

@@Eigil_Skovgaard why that's just Ridiculous nonsense Mr. Eagle.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

@@bydesignmethod The logic you also can't get is this: On a boring concept-reader like you all the humor in the world is wasted. At least try to stay with your concept and explain the system. If you want to do anything about the synthetic speed reading, take a course in - how to speak as if you cared about the content.

[@bydesignmethod]

@@Eigil_Skovgaard Mr. Eagle Eyes who hurt you? do tell me the story. This is how villains are made.

[@JasonAllen-g5e]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a genius.

[@bydesignmethod]

What a wonderful thing to say, you're too kind Jason! Appreciate the watch!

[@MarkBolles]

WOW! I didn't know ANY of this! You're a GENIUS! :)

[@bydesignmethod]

You're too kind Mark! LOL