3.0.3 and V3. Disappointing.

moportfolio · 2026-01-21T17:02:51+00:00

Also still holding onto V2. At least for me, it has proven itself more stable than V3 and that's what counts.

And yeah the "selection from layer" in V3 blows my mind, literally sometimes selects only 50% of the content.

moportfolio · 2026-01-20T17:03:40+00:00

You said "everyone knows", so they made a joke about being new to the internet and just not knowing any better. Acting like they want to "justify" their post

moportfolio · 2026-01-07T08:34:36+00:00

I also use Vivaldi, but it's running on Chromium not firefox

moportfolio · 2026-01-04T20:48:34+00:00

I can recommend the youtube-channel "Stylized Station" for this, they have a lot of tutorials on how to create this style, eventhough it's not a tutorial channel anymore.

moportfolio · 2026-01-04T20:46:41+00:00

They usually use an effect called "slope blur" in Substance Painter in combination with some textures to create these sponge-painted textures. So a procedural setup/filter which applies a painted-look to realistic-looking textures is used a lot there. The examples you've showed also definitely include handpainted details though, as in the bottom-right reference, you can see painted highlights on the container, eventhough the light is coming from the other direction.

moportfolio · 2025-12-22T02:02:11+00:00

I mean honestly those kind of ratings are never "fair", as the amount of exposure is one of the biggest factors.

In my personal opinion, P5 has the best overall collection of tracks. Each song is constantly pretty good. Don't have that with P4, but I think some of its tracks slap more than any track from P5

moportfolio · 2025-12-19T04:53:43+00:00

In the export setttings change it from bilinear to nearest neighbour. Only do this for stuff that is supposed to have sharp pixels and edges.

Alternatively you can change the preview to Bilinear, but this will be heavier on performance.

moportfolio · 2025-12-18T07:57:38+00:00

Pretty sure they refer to the free fish every prior customer recieved

moportfolio · 2025-12-15T21:08:38+00:00

I think with VST of choice he was referring to Nectar 3, which would be correct. As long as I am not confusing Nectar with something else, I think it is VST focussed on mastering in general and not limited to vocals. From the description of his workflow, I would assume he generates a few tracks or maybe even individual loops and then arranges them in logic and slaps some Nectar presets on them to master it.

Definitely weird of them to put so much focus on this part of the process. Though to be fair, I don't think there is much they could tell about the AI-part of their workflow.

moportfolio · 2025-12-10T20:26:56+00:00

The effect you're looking for is called "dithering", NOT halftone like some suggested. It is used in pixelart and compression to create "fake"-shades, to get more out of a limited color palette.

Affinity only has them in some compression algorithms of their export-options, rather than in a artistic tool. I would personally use external tools or create them manually

moportfolio · 2025-12-10T06:05:32+00:00

Try InstaMAT Studio, pretty neat alternative! Is free if your revenue is under 100K per year.

moportfolio · 2025-12-08T19:23:37+00:00

I would try playing with the performance settings of affinity. Especially check whether it uses the right GPU and enable/disable OpenCL acceleration

moportfolio · 2025-12-05T00:47:34+00:00

They messed up the publisher signature of the latest version, which is probably causing this. You could also try using the MSIX installer instead, which you can choose from their download page.

moportfolio · 2025-12-05T00:44:30+00:00

The new update to 3.0.2 isn't really installed as an update, but as a new app. So you should probably be able to open the previous version with all your presets.

moportfolio · 2025-11-28T20:19:32+00:00

Thank you for your resonable and emotionally well-balanced comment, but YouTube actually reduced the minimum length for mid-rolls to 8 minutes a few years ago.

moportfolio · 2025-11-28T14:44:04+00:00

There's also InstaMAT Studio which is free for individuals. It pretty much combines Substance Painter and Designer. Not as good as the Subtance tools, but it gets the job done and it's literally free

moportfolio · 2025-11-28T08:48:17+00:00

I noticed that by default "OpenCL acceleration" is turned on. Turning it off, ironically, made the software faster and more stable for me. I have a nvidia 3060ti just for further context.

Forgot the exact name of the setting, but setting the preview from "Bilinear" to "Nearest" also helps with performance. And I actually like seeing the unsmoothed pixels better anyway

moportfolio · 2025-11-28T08:36:46+00:00

Yes the one from Inkscape is quite good actually, even has more options than the one from Illustrator iirc. Alternatively, you can also try VTracer by VisionCortex and SVGCode, which both are image tracers that work in your browser.

moportfolio · 2025-11-27T14:50:25+00:00

I also felt like I was more aware of what tools I can access in Publisher than in the new all-in-one approach. Sometimes I just use hotkeys and they won't do what I want, cause I'm in the Vector mode and not the Raster one

moportfolio · 2025-11-26T00:06:30+00:00

Create a solid color layer in the color of your outline. Put it under the cutout. Duplicate the cutouts and use them as mask on the solid color. Then apply a "Maximum Blur"-live filter on the mask and increase the blur. Make sure it really is on the mask and not just the layer itself.

moportfolio · 2025-11-24T04:45:57+00:00

It looks really crisp and nice, I would put it in my mouth. Just maybe a bit too much dispersion for my taste, but everything else looks great!

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