piticfericit

I recently purchased Affinity Photo and I love it, but there's a small feature that could make it so much more useful to me. Specifically, it would be great if it could replace other software like Aperture (already defunct), Lightroom, CaptureOne, etc. When I shoot I usually develop my pictures with one of the above, but the nice thing of those is that they keep a reference to the image and when you save the changes it only saves the layer info (project info) without saving the image pixel data, that way there isn't any duplicate content. As far as I understand, Affinity Photo does have all the non destructive layers, yet it saves the image in the project file, even when using "place" it seemed like the project file was fairly large. I'd love to be able to keep my original images untouched while I save the files with edits as if they were "versions" of these images. Is that possible? Should I make it a feature request? Thanks in advance, piticfericit

Hi Alex, Thank you for the detailed response (including screen shots). Your solution might actually work, I'll give it a try! Thanks a lot, piticfericit

I'm currently working on a project where one of the deliverables consists of a "filmstrip" of the same UI element (a dial) rotated by some degrees and shifted down by a fixed number of pixels. At first I thought it would be a simple task: 1) Duplicate 2) Rotate + Shift, and then just duplicate as many times as needed, where AD would "learn" the rotation and shifting amounts and do it again. The problem? For some reason on each copy it also moves a little to the left, almost as if I had moved it slightly to the left too, not only down. At first I thought it was because the object center isn't at the actual center, so I set the center where it should, but on further copies it didn't do the right thing. Then I tried making a "temp" square that would be centered, just in case there was a bug where the center position doesn't get copied, but same thing happened. The only way I got to do this was to manually rotate and shift each copy and there are close to a hundred copies per dial, which is very tedious, specially if I need to make a change to one of them. The question is: Is there any way to automate, script... or something else that makes such task simpler? Any help is appreciated. Cheers!

Thanks for the welcome, and it's great news what you say, already looking forward to using it. Cheers!

File linking seems to be a common request as it fits several design workflows, so I +1 that, yet, even more helpful would be to be able to "reference" shapes, paths, colors, groups, etc. In other words, have a group that is used several times in the document, but when changing one all others change. This features would be very helpful, for example, for UI design, where it is common to have the same control used in several places, or where changing colors or fonts of several parts of they UI is common to be able to see things in context. Another example is a style, say I assign a style to several shapes, and then I want all the shapes that use that style to get updated when I update the style, stuff like that. In summary, it's just like file linking, but for internal parameters... aliases? proxies? placeholders? j