Olivio Sarikas

5 Reasons why OUR community is important

Dear Friends, 

i LOVE to have you as my Patrons. It's such a joy. One thing I notice though, is that some of you are not using it's full potential. So I want to give you some encouraging thoughts:

1) Sharing is learning

You get sooooo much more out of the tutorials, when you share your creations here in our community. Not just passionate support from other membe...

Red Riding Hood EP 02 - Affinity Photo File

Here is my AF File for you to work with. Looking forward to your creations :)

Affinity Photo - Red Riding Hood EP 02

In this episode it's all about color, contrast and readability. Learn some quick and easy tricks to improve your design and keep your creative juices flowing. 

Readability is very important for many reasons. Among those are the visibility even on screen in sunlight. Or being able to still understand the picture even in a smaller size - like as a thumbnail in Apps. 

Also Color is ...

Red Riding Hood Project EP 01 - AF File

Here is my Affinity Photo File from this first Episode. I had to rasterize the layers, in order to get under the 200 MB file limit on Patreon. I hope that is ok with you. :)

Affinity Photo - Red Riding Hood Project EP 01

In this episode i'm creating a very basic composition concept and talk about how to get ideas, how to work on them and how to stay productive against the odds. 

This is a fun project about a famous tale, that everyone knows, that that is very versatile in the ways it can be created, remixed or redefined. So, this is perfect for experiments and artistic learning processes. Let's get started....

Cyber Demon Tutorial - Affinity Photo File

Here is my File with all the layers. Use it as a starting point, but keep in mind to also work with your own materials to test the knowledge learned and gain more experience :)

Looking forward to your creations :)

Affinity Photo - Cyber Demon Tutorial

Here is my creative project :)
I finished it a lot faster than i thought. I guess i should make something more complex and also drag it out about by speaking about the things i do in more detail. I guess you are also interested in the things that are going on in my mind. 

But for a first creative project of that kind, i think it's pretty nice :) What do you think?

I want...

Multi-Video Project?

Dear Friends,

my next video will come tomorrow, because today i want to ask you if you would be interested in a Multi-Video Project. A creative project, where i don't just show one new trick. Instead a more elaborate project, that takes a bit more time and combines multiple tricks to get a more interesting result. I was aiming for a 3-4 video project.

In addition, as we have summertime and...

Spice Up your Fonts - Affinity Photo File

Here is my File with all the Layers. I did some additional work and also grouped the Elements a bit. 

Have fun and looking forward to what you create. :)

Affinity Photo - Spice Up your Fonts

Today i'm going to show you how to make Fonts look more fancy and give them some Spice. This is a really great way to give Fonts your own touch and make your designs look more unique. 

You can turn Fonts into something completely new and individual. Adjust them to the feeling you want to create and turn heads with their artful look.

Photo used:
2018-07-07 19:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post

How obsessive artists colorize old photos

Hello my friends. Regarding the latest Tutorial about colorizing B&W Photos, here is a little documentary from Vox about the subject. Really interesting and cool what some people can do. Also the amount of research they put into it.

BW Colorization Intro - Affinity Photo File

Here is my File with all the Layers. Have fun and feel free to ask questions :)

Affinity Photo - BW Colorization Intro

[NOTE] This is the first Video that you get 7 days before everyone else :)

Today I will show you how to colorize a Black & White Photo. As an Intro we will learn this by starting out with a color photo and then re-colorize it. This is a great way to learn about color, look and feel.

I will show you some handy tricks, shortcuts and tool setting to get better results and get comfortable ...

Behind the Scenes - Special Episode

Hello my Friends, 

this is the first of my "Behind the Scenes" videos that are a exclusive reward to the 5$ Tier (and above) for my Patrons over on Patreon. It's meant as a preview to show you what they are about. This time it is all about developing your artistic eye and finding your artistic voice. 

I hope this video is helpful and what you expected. Please give me feedback abo...

EXCITING CHANGES

Hello my Friends,

most of you have reacted very positive to my mail about the upcoming changes. Thank you very much for your support. Especially to the Patrons who raised their contribution ahead of coming changes. I'm as nervous and excited about this as you are. Also because this will show if my channel actually works. There is so much I want to write about this, but at the same time I don't w...

How to save a bad Shooting - Affinity Photo File

Here is my file with all the layers. Use it to experiment and learn. Looking forward to what you come up with :)

Affinity Photo - How to save a bad Shooting

Every creative knows that moment, where the pressure is high, there is no time left, but you need to create something creative on the fly. 

Today I will show you a dirty little Trick how to make a bad shot look artful and creative. At the same time this is a really nice way to spark your creativity and get some fresh ideas into your work process. Have fun :)

Support me on PATREON and ...

Flame Soccer - Affinity Photo File

Here is my file for you to work with. Looking forward to your creative results :)

Affinity Photo - Flame Soccer Tutorial

It's the World Cup, so let's create a crazy burning, fiery, scifi Soccer Ball. Or Football, or what ever you call it in your country. The thing is: We want to do something cool and colorful.

This tutorial is super easy to follow and you can use it on any kind of ball you want. So go wild with your sports pics and put some color to your imagination. :)  

Support me on PATREON and get m...

Affinity Photo - Design your own Brushes

Let's design our own brushes. Today i show you how to create a Intensity Brush and a Image Brush. You can do really cool things with this knowledge and create very fancy Art Brushes for any occasion.

This easy and hands on Tutorial will guide you through all the necessary steps and also tells you what to avoid.

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers...

Effects bigger than 100px on iPad PRO

Thank you to our very own Marco, who is one of the Patrons of my channel, this solution was found:

Marco worte:

Hello Olivio and everyone! 

Regarding the current limitation of Affinity Photo for iPad Pro, the problem with the "radius" of the effects and Blu that can't be bigger than 100px, "Dan C" (a user of the Affinity's forum) some minutes ago has given me an excellent workar...

Affinity Photo - Brushes Explained

Ever wondered what the difference is between Flow and Opacity? Or what the Dynamic Settings of a Brush are? How can you create you own naturally looking Brushes? What does the Stabilization Setting do?

All this will be explained in a easy to understand way in this video. 

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers as a Thank You:
2018-06-21 16:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Make a Planet - Affinity Photo File

Here is my File with all the Layers. Looking forward to your Planet creations :)

Affinity Photo - Make a Planet

Let's create our own planet! I love sci-fi and maybe you do to. In any case this is really fun and there are a lot of things to learn from this. 

You can create Planets from all kinds of grunge Textures. Rust and moss are great, but experiment with other textures too. The Canvas is your universe - literally :)

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers as a T...

Portrait Design - Affinity Photo File

Here is my File with all the Layers :)

Affinity Photo - Portrait Design

Create amazing design and stunning Portraits with this easy technique. It's really fun, artistc and fast to create. 

Give your photography a new dimension of expression and artistic style with this fun tutorial.

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers as a Thank You:
https://www.patreon...

Affinity Photo - Remove any Logo

Today I will show you how to remove any Logo from a photo. This is very helpful in many cases. For example most Stock Pages do not allow Logos in Photos for Copyright reasons. But you might also want to remove them because your customer or yourself don't want them in your image. 

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers as a Thank You:
2018-06-09 17:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Angle Wings Tutorial - Affinity Photo

Here is my file with all the Layers. Enojy :)

Looking forward to see what you are creating

Affinity Photo - Angle Wings Tutorial

Today I show you how to put some realistic Angle Wings into a Photo. You can use this tutorial to put any sort of object into your picture and blend it with the background.

Support me on PATREON and get my Affinity Photo File with all layers as a Thank You:
https://www.patreon.com/sarikas

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NEON Portrait Look - Affinity Photo Files

Here are my layered Files. Looking forward to see what you created with it :)