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I am still around. It’s been a longer break than I had anticipated (for many reasons). My health is the main one. I continue to struggle with the progressive side of my neural disease. It’s the constant losses [of usually little things] and the new challenges that are getting harder to ignore. My...
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C64 Pixel Art caught up with me Sometimes odd emails make it into our inbox. Emails that somehow made it through the spam filters, but the sender doesn’t ring a bell. This one had the subject “64er Grafik: Hildebrandt”. I put it down to another misspelled name or the wrong recipient. (Google seems...
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Happy New Year and All the Best for 2026! I wish everyone a wonderful year filled with success, love, and joy. May it be a good one for all of you! 2025 was a mixed bag and a wild roller coaster ride. It had a lot of great moments, brought some major changes [the biggest one will be a move next...
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Boolean Basics (Geometry Tools) in v3 Affinity Designer Video Tutorial In this video, I explain the Basics of Boolean operations. They are a key element of vector graphics – the “glue and scissors” for vector shapes. This video shows the basic functionality of Add, Subtract, Intersect, Xor, and...
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Using Global Colours and Symbols in v3 Affinity Designer Video Tutorial This video is based on the Affinity Designer – hands-on Facebook group beginner’s challenge ‘Autumn Colours’. The challenge requires a limit of 5 colours. This is easy to achieve with global colours [as they allow alteration...
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Creating Puzzle Pieces Affinity Designer Video Tutorials Creating simple puzzle pieces using Boolean operations In this mini tutorial, I explain two simple approaches to creating puzzle pieces using – Snapping, – Boolean operations [Add and Subtract], and – Compound groups for a more complex and...
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Creating and Applying Watermarks Affinity Designer Video Tutorial In this mini tutorial, I show you how to create and apply watermarks in different ways: as embedded files [you could also use linked files] as assets as bitmap fills using the gradient tool Adjust the watermarks to suit the image/...
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Minimal Landscapes using Gradients Affinity Designer Video Tutorial This video is based on the Affinity Designer – hands-on Facebook group beginner’s challenge. I will show you how to quickly create minimal landscapes using gradient fills, silhouettes, strokes, and Gaussian blurs. It doesn’t take...
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Turning Filled Shapes into Editable Lineart Inkscape Mini Video Tutorial In this mini tutorial, I show three different approaches on how to turn filled vector shapes into editable lineart. Once an illustration is converted from strokes to path [or purchased as filled shapes rather than lines with...
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Colouring in Bitmap and SVG Affinity Designer Mini Video Tutorial In this mini tutorial, I show you how to colour bitmap images and vector images in various ways. When purchasing stock images, they often come in various formats. Working out which one to use for what task and which one is the right...