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Creating your own macros, part 1 - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Creating your own macros, part 1
- [Instructor] In Chapter 9 we looked at how we can create a hard light layer to add shading to an image. Let's see how we can automate the start of that process. To begin you need to open up your macro panel. Go to View, Studio, and select Macro. Our macro panel appears. At the moment it's empty because we haven't started recording anything yet. So let's start recording. Press the record button and let's set the foreground to that 50% black we want for our film. Remember in the previous lesson in this chapter we set up a shortcut to do that, and it's Shift D. We can now load the girl layer as a selection by holding Command or Control and clicking on the thumbnail. Let's make a new fill layer. And we can deselect. We'll turn this fill layer into a regular layer by rasterizing it. And now we'll change the mode from normal to hard light. When we're finished all the steps, just press stop. And their are all the steps that our macro outlined for us. Let's test it. We'll delete that layer…
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