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Here are various resources that are made available for Affinity Photo, plus relevant discussions about them.

Macros:

• Dave's Colour Models: Create separate layers for different (and new!) colour models.
• Dave's Super-HSL: Different interface to focus on H, S or L separately.
• Dave's Saturation Map: Saturation Map plus adding to spare channel (optional).
• Dave's Monochrome Isolation: Creates masks or layers with just monochrome (or near monochrome) pixels).
• Dave's Vignettes: Fast and flexible set of vignettes.
• Dave's Partial TST (Tint, Shade and Tone): Selection/adjustment of tints, shades and tones.
• Dave's Burn Checker Plus: Exploring near-max or min colours and using these for masks.
• Dave's Shifters: Moving the histogram and colours around for creative effect.
• Dave's Zone System: Selecting and masking zones.
• Dave's Luminosity Selection: Luminosity masking, selecting areas based on light/dark.
• Dave's Colour Boosters: Simple ways to boost colours.
• Dave's Soft Shapes: Subtly change light and colour in target areas.
• Dave's Saturation Selection: Select by saturation value.
• Dave's Hue Selection: Select by hue value.
• Dave's Selection-Masker: Converting alpha selections.
• Dave's HSL Colour Grading: 50 different colour grading macros.
• Dave's Instagram Curves: Emulation of Instagram filters using Curves.
• Dave's Alpha Control: Controlling transparency (alpha).
• Dave's SC Grading Tones: Add colour to whites, blacks and neutrals/greys.
• Dave's SC Grading Monadic: Emphasizing one of 12 primary, secondary or tertiary colours, each in one of two ways.
• Dave's SC Grading Dyadic: Emphasizing pairs of colours, complementary and asymmetric.
• Dave's SC Grading Triadic: Emphasizing triangles of colour around the colour wheel, with equilateral, isosceles, and right-angled triangles.
• Dave's SC Grading Tetradic: Emphasizing rectangles of colour around the colour wheel, with square, rectangular and narrow rectangular shapes.
• Dave's SC Grading Analogous: Emphasizing adjacent hues on the colour wheel.
• Dave's SC Tonal Dyadic: Adding colour to whites and blacks.
• Dave's Mono Maps: A range of ways to convert the visible image to monochrome.
• Dave's Colour Selection: A number of different ways to select an area by colour.
• Dave's HSL Variants: Different approaches to the general HSL idea.
• Dave's Saturation Masks (Procedural Texture only): Saturation Selection through single PT filter.

Swatches:

• Dave's Neutral Density (ND) Filters: A set of mono gradients that simulate photo filters.

Files:

• Dave's Stage Zone Overlays: Three overlays to match zones in 5, 7 and 11-zone systems.
• Dave's Test Cards: A set of files in .afphoto format used to check colours, blends, etc (used in various videos).

Beginners' Course:

• InAffinity Absolute Beginners' Course Series 1 Practice Files: All files to work along with, from all 30 episodes of the Absolute Beginner's Course, Series 1.
• InAffinity Absolute Beginners' Course Series 2 Practice Files: All files to work along with, from all 30 episodes of the Absolute Beginner's Course, Series 2.

See also

Affinity Photo Tutorials on Downloads