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I want to export the photos in my file as separate photos. I've googled and everything says export as slices and or you have to jump through hoops to maintain the layers integrity??? In photoshop I have an option to export layers to slices OR export layers to files. I can not for my life figure out why I would want to export my photos from affinity photo 2 as web design assets which IS what slices are. can anyone tell me how to batch export, retain each layers attributes, filters etc as applied to said layer as either a flat PNG or a separate layered file. starting to look like I will have to save my big file as 24 separate files then go in and manually delete when I do not want in the individual file.

In photoshop I had myriad ways to blend the top photo over another. Blend modes such as multiply, screen and overlay. I cant find these in either affinity photo or design.. Im sure it has to be there I just dont remember how to find them. I suspect maybe they are called something else? or under some panel I am unaware of?

4 years later and still waiting on plugins. I know for a fact mr retro is interested in porting his to affinity but where is the stumbling block? Maybe its time to start courting those third party creatives to the table. and not just for photoshop but for designer as well.

for the second time on upgrading my affinity products the upgrade has introduced a scrolling bug. last time I had to reset SMC to get it to stop but last time it just affected affinity. this time right after upgrading last night ANYTHING that scrolls has gone wacko. leaving me to believe affinity has introduced a bug or a virus to my computer. I hope this is not the case but I do find it strange that this is happening only when affinity apps get updated on my imac.

to the best of my knowledge no filters work with affinity. Because how could we load them unless the software allows you to load them? gotta admit I have found affinity learning curve a little daunting because they frequently use odd terminology as compared to what Im used to. Or, I just do not know how to find it. defo would like to see an official list FROM affinity showing filters they support. Best of my knowledge no one making filters for them.

I was just asking Mr Retro if he would make filters for your software and they said that they would like to, and did in the past with your older software, but they have got no response from affinity for the current suite. come on guys! We loved your software but we missing our filters for so many things!

Hi, I don't remember what the exact fix was. I think it was something to do with the mouse settings.

Il start the ball rolling by saying: Mr Retro has made great filters for photoshop which Im sad to say cant be used in Affinity. PLEASE go to his page and ask him to make his filters for affinity! https://www.facebook.com/mrretrosoftware/ If there are any other filter makers that you all have loved in the old pshop please ask them to make filters for affinity. Please post their facebook page, or other contact method here, and Ill be happy to make requests as well. I miss all my goodies but never going back to the rob-you-blind-subscription model that adobe demands. If there are any filters out there for affinity please let me know!

Hi RC-R thanks for the tip. My zoom menu looks different. maybe because Ive got mojave? Ive resolved the issue with apple support. I didnt realize any control over the mouse might be found elsewhere. So ill defintiy go through these items under accessibility if the problem recurs. Thank you so much for taking the time to try to help. I appreciate it.

Okay did that but its still doing the same thing. But I think Ive just realized this is something going wrong in the imac probably related to mojave. saying this because, on a hunch, I opened a new document in corel painter and something similar but not exactly the same is happening. its like the image scrolls all by itself. with corel its zooming in all by itself. If any of your mac users have encountered this hope they have ideas. and if I figure out what is going on and if there is a solution Ill post back here. the weird thing is that it does not do it in photoshop CS4 or CS5. Ill contact apple support as well. Though thats not promising as Ive seen there is a scrolling problem out related to logitech mice that they have not responded to. I dont even have a logitech mouse. and its weird that I have the same mice I had the last time I used both corel and affinity. but thank you for trying to help.

UPDATING WITH SOLUTION: remove any third party USB hubs. reset SMC on your imac. That fixes the problem. Original problem: Seems to be my day for not remembering how to do things. for some reason I can not grab the text I just typed. Cant adjust it in anyway. This makes me think I must have turned something off and forgot how to turn it back on? Cant see any border boxes on anything. and cant select anything no matter what tool I click on in the panel. Im stumped. maybe this is related to the problem Im having with affinity Photo? in that software I cant grab anything and the photo is floating across the screen. has got to be some user error on my part but the last time I used these two applications (october of 2018) everything was fine.

Imac mojave and affinity Photo

UPDATING WITH SOLUTION: remove any third party USB hubs. reset SMC on your imac. That fixes the problem. RE: affinity Photo (original problem) I just opened affinity after having used it maybe a month or two ago and cant edit an image because its floating across the open window. The floating away from the cursor begins the moment I place the curser over the image. If I try to use the crop tool and want to grab one of the handles to adjust the image instead it flips the image. Its never done this before. Its made the software unusable. I dont know what to do.

Though I have both affinity apps on my mac I decided to get them for my ipad because I like the feel of a pen and pencil in hand. Of course I have a fnacy wacom which just has so many cords as to be a torture when trying to freehand anything. Im old school I miss paper and pen. And thus I saw the affinity apps for ipad and I thought oooooooooooooo No wires in the way! So popped them on the ipad and hopped over to apple hoping to find a nice stylus but alas no. Just an extremely expensive pencil, which Id drool over, except that it does not work with my 3yr old ipad 2. enter me eagerly looking for any reccomends for a stylus to use with my ipad and affinity. Ive seen some very cheap ones on amazon but I dont fancy a tip with a disk on the end of it. I rather like to see the point of my pen or pencil but Im not sure which would be good for me and not bad for my ipad screen. any suggestions appreciated! Thank you!

I get what you are saying. but most design is not done for print. I would expect affinity publisher to behave like word or quark. I would expect a design tool to behave like a multimedia (not print) design tool. Im used to doing things fast and changing the size of the artboard, page or what-have-you quickly is a plus. why would I use a photo adjustment tool to create vector art?

The crop tool seems not to work properly. In any other program I have I can select the crop tool and select the area of the canvas I want to crop to the image. This is extremely important and efficient way of cropping an image just the way I want it. Done in 5 seconds. In other tools I can also preset the size of the crop tool then move it around the canvas before deciding where I want the final image and canvas to be cut. In affinity whenever I grab the crop tool and attempt to drag across the canvas the image moves. why would I want the image to move across the canvas with a cropping tool????? It seems I have to guess what size I want the document to be, resize the doc and hope it didnt cut the image where I wanted to keep it. If it didnt resize where I wanted I have to undo, move the image and try again. this is terrible. I saw some video that suggests the cropping tool isn't really for cropping but instead its a non-destructively way of popping an image into a bounding box. we call that masking in other applications not cropping. An alternate way of putting an image into a preset box is to copy image and paste into the box. Said image can then still be moved around. Again, not called cropping. Cropping is selecting and cutting. I hope fixing this crop tool and having it actually do what it should do is on the map. As it is I have to do twice the work to get the same result I can get in 5 seconds in any other program. Its actually so much of a pain that I have to keep going back to other programs when my goal has been to port my work to affinity. So far, keep running into stumbling blocks like this. Love you affinity. But should not be this hard to do such simple things. A great application makes your job easier. Not harder.

Is there a tutorial for creating bump maps and normal maps with affinity? Photoshop has easy menu items but I dont see the equivalent in affinity, or its called something I do not understand, or Im a blind bat, looked right at it and did not see how to do it. Or, all of the above.

So what Ive been doing is exporting my fireworks vectors to illustrator files. opening in illustrator, exporting as SVG. then opening the SVG in affinity and saving as an affinity file. Most of the time my vectors are preserved with this process. But sometimes something goes wonky and Ill end up with crazy bitmaps. Thank you all for your tips. Some of these things I had already tried among others. Exporting to PSD does not always result in editable vectors remaining editable. In the same file two identical vector objects might exist, one will have remained editable the other not. Lots of trial and error. everything must be ungrouped. You never know when an applied filter will cause a problem. This is I think a problem with the legacy fireworks application. But Im not certain. I was not aware that tiffs maintained layers. I thought this would result in a flat file. But will admit Ive rarely used tif as a file format. Ill explore. thank you! I was not familiar with the term vector tracing. Ill google that. thank you! However, if anyone knows of a program that works on an imac that would be helpful. Not sure what pixel persona is as so many things in affinity are not defined or located in ways Im used to finding things. But Ill defo check that out. Thank you! Exporting to EPS from fireworks and opening in Affinity was an epic fail. Ditto for PDF. did not end up with editable anything. theoretically should have worked. But I believe the failure is in fireworks. I had considered renting adobe fireworks CS6 for this process but they do not allow it anymore. In fact refused to allow anyone to purchase it even when it was available. All a part of Adobes master plan for forcing people into subscriptions where you cant even rent just what you need. You have to pay for everything. Loved adobe for 17 years. Cant even tell you how much I hate adobe now. Seriously hope affinity never becomes like that. f only Id kept a machine running an older OSX this whole process would be easier. Alas we got no warning that our software would no longer work if we upgraded. Anyway...loving Affinity designer and photo today! Using my FW to SVG process I salvaged a lot yesterday. Took me 9 hours to save all the "pages" from just 2 fireworks files. Thank fully did not lose any of the layers. Some filters will need to be applied. Gradients need to be redone. but editability was there for the most part. Thank heavens for SVG! If only fireworks CS4 could go right to SVG! Would totally love to skip the whole illustrator step.

I am desperately trying to save my work which is being lost due to fireworks being abandoned by photoshop. There are no adobe programs to open the work in and save. So Im bitterly trying to save what I can and redo whatever cant be ported over intact to affinity. As expected, when I bring any formerly editable vectors into affinity from fireworks the vectors open as bitmaps. So I need to recreate. I get that. Im trying to recreate without reinventing the entire wheel point by point. But I can't find a simple process in affinity that adobe has. Possible it does not exist. OR, my hope is that its just me not understanding the vastly different ways affinity seems to do anything. so here is what I want to do and how I used to do it in adobe: In adobe applications you can use the magic wand to select an area around an object, invert selected (so now the selection wraps the object instead of the space around the object), and next I would then convert selected outline of the object to an editable path. I cant find any equivalent of a magic wand in affinity. and I cant find anything that takes a selection and converts it to a path. If there is a way please help. If not let me know and I will go beg for a feature.

I Just purchased Sketch a few months ago myself. Pages are too essential to the way I work. That it can also do artboards and layers is AMAZING. I have not mastered it yet so it seems to me it does not have all the glossy stuff I love in affinity photo and designer but the race is on! Its anyones game.

Im glad that the ability to create a preset for grids is coming. I cant wait! Do we have a timeframe for 1.7?

Hi Aammppaa, thats not what I was looking to do, but WOW thats crazy cool and definitely something I might use at some point. Thanks for sharing!

OMG! THANK YOU. In adobe you add points for color in the popup gradient control menu. It never occurred to me to click to add in the image! Now if I can just figure out how to get the gradient popup to stay open. I tried to tear off the panel to let it float and stay open but it wont budge. Ill go google. but WOOOOOOHOOOO> Thank you. I had a DOH moment when I realized the reason I did not see the transparency was because my canvas was white. Some days I wonder how many neurons Im losing a day. TY TY TY!

I would delete the post but I cant. so removing the body of the content. found the answer to the transparency issue for gradients. phew.

If there is one thing that keeps driving me back to my older adobe software its that in affinity I can look at the open file and see the dimensions of the image and the file size along the bottom with adobe software but have to jump through hoops to see these basic bits of info with both affinity design and photo. I have to go to menu, select change document size just to see dimensions. and as far as I can tell there is NO WAY to see the file size until AFTER I save it. When fine tuning an image I NEED to see the file size with each adjustment. And I defo need to see the image dimensions at all times. Especially when Im working with more than one file at a time. If there is another pop up info box that lets me see these things at a glance please tell me. Because working in affinity is like doing twice as much to get the same result. And I really want to believe its just operator error on my part.