We can either have it as a separate layer that's attached to our pixel layer. So, a very, very powerful way of using filters.
#Affinity photo for mac no artistic text tool full
We'll increase the intensity and where in Photoshop you have to make a selection first, in Affinity Photo, you can pick it up and move it over the image, you can change the radius and even when it's very small, you can still see the effect it's having there, and we can increase the intensity to go for a full round. Let's take a look at the Spherical filter. And you can see that these all appear as filters but they can all be edited later. Let's go to the Layer menu and choose a Live Filter layer. For one thing, the filters can behave more like adjustment layers.
Many of the filters behave in different ways. So unlike Photoshop, this behaves exactly like a regular layer except we can scale it to any size we want without ever losing that quality.
Indeed, we can pick up the Smudge tool and we can smear this layer. Now, you could say Photoshop does the same thing with Smart Objects, but this is not a Smart Object. Better than that, the Transform panel shows the size of it and it shows the angle by which it's been rotated and that means we can pick it up and rotate it back to its original angle with ease and it'll always remember the angle it's been rotated to. If I click on it, I can make it bigger again and you can see it still has all the original quality in there. Unlike Photoshop, when you scale a layer, you don't lose image quality. For example, here's a standard layer and we can scale it, rotate it, make it any size we want. A number of things actually work better in Affinity Photo. So let's take a look at what's better and what's worse than Photoshop. A number of users of Affinity Photo will be coming to it from Photoshop.