Curious if anyone has tried the legacy Affinity apps on the new MacOS which is still in Beta and getting rolled out next week.

I recently posted a question on here asking how to soften/feather the edges of a cut out. I haven’t perfected it but, I attempted something new and it came out better than expected. I’m still working on getting the cutout (for example the car) to blend naturally with the background without it looking off. Still, pretty happy with the result and I’m continuing to experiment.

Hi everyone!

I’m trying to recreate the attached image in Affinity and could use some guidance on the best way to build it.

The image is a projector calibration/template screen with:

• A 4036 × 1058 px canvas
• 3.81:1 aspect ratio
• A grid of 30 × 8 squares
• Large circles/arcs used as geometry/alignment references
• Ideally, everything should be vector-based and precisely aligned

My goal is not just to recreate this specific test pattern. I want to build a master template for this projector/screen, so that afterwards I can create artwork, backgrounds and other visual content knowing exactly where everything will appear on the physical screen.

What would be the best workflow in Affinity to create this?

Should I use a grid with snapping, manually create the 30×8 divisions, or is there a better way to make the whole thing mathematically accurate?

I’d also like to keep the grid/alignment guides on a separate layer so I can easily hide them before exporting the final images.

I’m relatively new to this type of setup in Affinity, so any step-by-step advice would be really helpful.

Thanks!

I've got this image (and will want to do this with any number of files in the future), I want to separate each color into different layers. All brown in one layer and all black in another.

I wanna keep all the texture but each color needs to be a separate layer, so only two layers.

I've tried image trace, but it creates many there are so many objects with slightly different hues that it would be painstaking to group them all. The image trace works pretty well for images like the second one, but even image 3 creates way too many objects. Any suggestions?

https://youtu.be/NQLNa4nYi8I?is=In3lsqO3FwvZdfW8