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  How to make amazing effects using tiles that are live vector layers in Affinity Photo as well as using the symbol features of Affinity Designer. All kinds of variations of cell designs can be created using this approach and it is live and can be changed in countless ways with live effects as well as gradients and styles and more in Photo

 https://youtu.be/CXP_IhZ4h9g  Added a new tutorial on how to use the liquify persona in Affinity Photo with the powerful pattern layers and it works amazingly well to create all kinds of weird and wonderful designs - it should be checked out if you want to create the most amazing Affinity Photo effects. 

How to create a colorful square block pattern design in Photoshop using a basic gray design as a start point and then brick fill

A wavy line colorful effect for Photoshop CC 2021 2020 2019 etc using the single pixel row tool in Photoshop, a super useful but tucked away feature. 

A playlist of videos on the linked layers theme with a shape > pixel layer and then linked layers in  Affinity Photo. 1000s of unique designs can be created using the linked layers approach based on a single design and they are all live and infintely editable. #AffinityPhoto

Playlist of weird and surreal and odd animations created in Photoshop, Flame Painter, After Effects, Scopeworks and many others. All are short videos, under a minute... perhaps ones for YouTube shorts ... something else to work on perhaps !

Photoshop has no grid tool, you can quickly create a grid vector shape design using a combination of rectangle shapes and using combine shapes and unite and subtract and then define the design as a custom shape. In Photoshop CC 2021 2020 2019 etc

A massive selection of video tutorials about the super powerful procedural texture filter in Affinity Photo. Use it to create all kinds of amazing effects in seconds using the equations, channels, custom inputs, presets and more. Can be used with layers, used with channels, used with shapes, used with type and more in Affinity Photo

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Type can be warped in all kinds of ways, in this video tutorial I show you how to warp it when it is combined with a layer and that layer is then turned into a smart object and warped via the Photoshop 2020 edit menu and transform and warp and the design is folded and distorted in all kinds of ways. The artwork is then selected and edit menu and define pattern or it is saved as a pattern preset via the pattern panel. You can then use it via the edit menu and fill command with the random fill script to create all kinds of amazing patterns / textures for use in fills and brush textures etc

The new warp updates make it super easy in Photoshop 2020 to create all kinds of amazing new pattern tiles which can then be used in tools such as the fill command (random fill script) to create 1000s of unique and abstract pattern tiles. You can use any design as a smart object and then apply the warp transform to that and then use the split warp to distort the design in countless ways and use that tile as a source for a pattern definition in Photoshop. The video uses features only in Photoshop 2020 and upwards (though you can create similar in earlier versions such as 2019 etc as well)

There is no grid tool in Affinity Photo but grids exist, they can't be printed though. You can add a workaround by using the grids via the view menu and then using the pen tool to add a curve or two to match the grid lines and these can then be merged with entire document and then printed. The vector grid can also be saved to the assets panel or symbols (merge the curves via the geometry / layer commands). The grid is 3 x 3 because that was a request from a viewer but you can always just create the grid, document width / 3 or height / 3 etc or 10 or 20 etc

The warp transform has no repeat feature but you can get around this by using actions. An action can be created with a warp transform in Photoshop CC 2020 (2021 2022 etc) and then applied to multiple layers. You can then also use smart objects along with the warp transform and re-edit the transformation. You can then combine them all into a smart object and then apply a warp or the same warp (via the edit menu or via the actions panel respectively) to the artwork. You can then combine it with effects such as oil paint

How to use the new split warp features in Photoshop CC 2020 to create all kinds of amazing warped designs of layers, type, shapes etc. Also shows the removal of the warp lines, addition of the grid and more

Convert a smart object to layers in Photoshop CC 2020 (and probably CC 2021 2022 etc) via the layer menu and via the properties panel. This is a new feature to convert a smart object into layers (which in turn could be smart objects and they can also then be broken down) to create a layer structure of all the component parts of a smart object. Sadly, you can select multiple smart objects and one click, convert all the entire smart objects into a single set of component layers (such as shapes, text etc) - would be handy for some situations, I guess. Anyway, you could always access the components but this was spread over multiple PSB files. You can then re-build the smart objects from those paths etc

How to use the new pattern presets in Photoshop CC 2020 + (probably going to be much the same as Photoshop CC 2021 and CC 2022). How to drag patterns to the document, how to group them, how to create new presets, how to import PAT files, how to export the selected presets, how to combine them and much more. The patterns panel has been massively updated to give a lot more flexibility in using the presets

With Photoshop CC 2020, the shapes panel has been updated to include many new features. The shapes can now be dragged to the document via the new shapes panel. You can re-order the shapes, you can add them into groups, you can move the groups etc. You can also quickly import custom shapes files (CSH) into Photoshop CC 2020 as well as export the selected custom shapes to a new file. You can also add new shapes quickly to the shapes panel for use in new projects

 A guide to all the new features in Photoshop CC 2020 related to the gradients, how to use them, how to group, how to remove items, how to use them as gradient layers, how to explore all the settings and much more. The features are similar to the brushes panel. The gradients can now be imported and exported very quickly into the panel.

How to apply adjustments to layers, how to order the adjustments, how to apply the adjustment to one layer or to all the layers or just some layers, how to re-display the properties for the adjustment in Affinity Designer and how to mask the adjustment so part of the adjustment is shown and part of the original layer is displayed (via pixel persona in Affinity Designer). A quick guide to a number of the features of using the adjustments (though not about a particular adjustment and how to use that such as curves etc)