Category: Layer blend modes
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Habitat lamp light
I have a lovely old lamp from Habitat back in the 1990s that emits a wonderful orange light. I decided to have a go at reproducing the feel of it at night when only lamps are lighting the room. Panel door The door was constructed from a single rectangle and trapezia straight on; a perspective…
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Analysis of soap bubble images
The more I learn, the more I realise success is about getting the analysis right. What I mean is, the wrong approach will fail because it rapidly becomes too hard to do, whereas the right approach can succeed only through structure and a disciplined deployment of the right tools. As a beginner, one does not…
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Kaleidoscope like 1973!
We recently had a challenge to use symbols to make something using rotational symmetry. This is how I simulated the view inside a kaleidoscope like we used to have as kids in the 1970s. Overview More detail on each step is provided below. Clipping mask We want the resulting image to be a hexagon made…
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Learning is tricky
It’s around 10 months that I have been trying to learn about digital design using Affinity Designer. I’ve not used any other softwares for design, so I cannot comment on whether AD is better or worse, but it has been fun. I’ve benefitted a lot from being a member of certain Facebook groups and the…
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Backgrounds in minutes
I’ve been making lots of Animal illustrations recently and noticed that I spend a lot of time on the animals themselves and yet manage to enhance the final image considerably by throwing together some background components in literally a few minutes. My approach is to make sure that the background components are less detailed than…
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Divide and conquer
This was inspired by the Edinburgh Book Festival 2022 programme which uses this idea on their cover and for a lot of their social media. I really like the way that the circles sort change the appearance of things below them, but in a controlled way so that the image remains coherant and the text…
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