Hello all, I have another announcement this weekend—I've just released version 3 of my Filter Gallery macros. There are 24 new effects, making a total of 63 effects now available, with 60 of them being completely non-destructive.

You can download them for free here: https://jamesritson.gumroad.com/l/jr_filtergallery (just put 0 into the box above "I want this" to get them for free).

These macros began life as a request from architecture companies, who were primarily doing architectural visualisation scenes, floor plans and interior renderings. A common question was whether Affinity Photo had an equivalent 'filter gallery' that other image editing software has—the answer was no, but many effects can be recreated using Photo's native functionality such as live filter layers, group structures with blend modes, and procedural texture equations.

I set about incorporating various effects into a macro pack for ease of use, which became the Filter Gallery macros, and so here we are! The benefit of having them in Affinity Photo is that the majority of effects can be implemented non-destructively, and they just sit as groups or single layers in the layer stack—no flattening or layer merging required to apply them.

I love a good challenge, so if you have a particular filter effect that you feel would be really useful to see recreated in Affinity Photo, please do let me know.

Here are the new effects for v3:

Line Sketch Effect
Rough Sketch Effect
Soft Sketch Effect
Rough Pastel Effect
Crosshatch Effect
Toon Effect (Fast)
Smooth Charcoal Effect
Rough Charcoal Effect
Stained Glass Effect
Spatter Effect
Paper Texture
Vertical Shutter
Coloured Posterisation
Dual-Tone Threshold
Blurry Grain
Soften Structure
5x5 Smoothing Kernel
Moody Matte Look
Muted Highlights
Binary Luminosity Map
Greyscale Solarise
Yellow/Red Light Leak
Blue/Purple Light Leak
Green/Red Light Leak

Hope you find them useful! Don't forget that I have other free macros and resources both on my website (https://jamesritson.co.uk/resources) and Gumroad (https://jamesritson.gumroad.com).

As always, if you have any questions please feel free to email me: james@jamesritson.co.uk

All the best,
James

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