I am continuing a discussion of problems creating a pencil sketch (either from scratch or by recording a macro) in Affinity in this post https://oscraps.com/community/threads/affinity-scrapper-anyone.34399/post-736429 Turns out that macro creation in Affinity has significant limitations...

This was relatively easy to "logic" out without a tutorial except for one thing - knowing that you need to rasterize both the main layer and the effects layer (but you would have quickly figured that when things didn't work as expected). However, I like the tutorial because it's also a good...

This post is more about AI, but the beginning explains how I "colored" my base AI images with digiscrapping paper (pretty straightforward) https://oscraps.com/community/threads/google-gemini-ai-images-from-verbal-prompts.41477/

And here are the process notes for an Affinity LO I did in December (the LO itself is linked in the process notes)

Ona suggested having a central thread for Affinity hints, so I'm posting process notes for this LO I still have the same complaints I did in 2021 about Affinity and I am sticking to v1 because the v2 GUI was even worse for me given my low vision issues. But I'm more willing to scrap with it and...

I posted this LO in the gallery - and thought I'd share more details about how I made the frogs. First off, be sure to read the section under "photo credit," which tells a little more about Google Gemini that I'm not repeating in this post. What I especially liked about Google Gemini is that...

I just read a disturbing article that was several months old. It said that some big outfit discovered a security flaw in Flickr and was able to scrape images including those set to private for the purposes of training AI for facial recognition. Flickr has since patched the vulnerability. I am...

This isn't a big deal at the moment, but I accidentally posted a LO to "Oscraps Designers" instead of to a particular designer. I mostly fixed the problem by adding the specific designer as an additional category, but if I make a bigger mistake in future, is there a way to change the main...

Hi all, Is there a way to replace an image without having to also replace the description? I figured out how to replace the image, but I had to retype all the credits.

I had a laptop hard drive failure and had to upgrade to a Mac that does not support legacy Photoshop, so I thought I'd try out Affinity Photo - and I've been using it for several weeks, mostly to make very simple photo montages for origami diagrams which I export to pdf and edit in Mac Preview...

I just noticed that the "my gallery" in my signature links back to the old rather than the new gallery. Is there anything I can do to fix that, or is that something the site administrator has to fix?

Anna Aspnes has a tutorial on her blog that's meant to show use of a selective color adjustment layer to change the color of something black, like a messy stitch, with less opaque black holes and shadows. The goal is to recolor the black stitch without coloring the holes or shadows. Following...

I just found out that my bank is offering free customized debit cards - mine was about to expire and they invited me to choose or upload my own image. So I used part of a recent LO to make a customized card. One of our other banks offered me a Darth Vader card, so it could be worth checking to...

I was so bummed (really, really annoyed actually) when Pinterest changed its API so that titles and descriptions don't show on my individual boards. I have tons of process notes, graphics instructions and origami diagrams that I uploaded from my own computer with custom notes and needless to...

Fascinating read from the New York Times "What is Glitter" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html not hot-linked version of link: nytimes-dot-com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory-dot-html BTW polyethylene terephthalate is Dacron, per Wikipedia. And one of my printmaking...

I see stuff like this on Pinterest all the time - a blank square with some relevant text and the name of the website Example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d8/c3/5b/d8c35be9cc57c9d96c7a07d3b522f4fc--civil-wars-lesson-plans.jpg It looks like there must be an extension to help you generate the...

In making a recent LO, I wanted to have an image clipped to a black photo mask with edges tinted blue (bottom right). It took some fiddling to get what I wanted. This is what I learned...

Stampington sent me a cryptic email saying that I had an account credit which would automatically be applied to my next purchase from them. It turns out that they have discontinued Somerset Digital Studios, to which I had a subscription :( They meant to send out more of an explanation, but...

I figured out how to get emojis into a word cloud at wordclouds.com - details in the gallery. I used the sample word cloud, which was a png with a transparent BG, in a LO for another site. https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=392556&title=how-to-put-emojis-in-word-clouds&cat=500

I figured out how to get a reasonably high resolution Google Map for digital scrapbooking purposes. It won't take up an entire 3600x3600 px page, but it takes up a pretty good chunk of a page and looks pretty good (even better if you don't need a huge map on your page). 1. Open a public map or...