[Affinity Photo Workbook]

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

No, we have not done this and we do not list all the links anywhere, to stop the downloads being abused. Some are licensed and we try to encourage them to be downloaded only by those who have bought the book and have it in front of them, sorry.

Thanks for your reply. I can well-understand this, so I'll plough through the sections and download each. I bought the book because I'm not especially fond of videos or e-books, and I like to be able to flip easily back and forth to refer to specific topics or parts of topics, which I mark in the book with book darts. I'll organise my samples storage on this PC to mimic the chapters, and that should do it.

On reflection, having a mass of examples to sort out into folders is probably going to be more arduous than doing it one-by-one.

 

[Affinity Photo Workbook]

On 12/1/2017 at 3:08 PM, Patrick Connor said:

 Clive.p96

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Do not try to access http://affin.co directly. (We use that to add new shortcuts, hence the login). You should use the full URL as they appear in the book  https://affin.co/SomeWordHere

So, in your browser URL bar (not into google or any other search engine) type in the link exactly as they appear on pages 8, 86, 140, 156, 174, 188, 200, 226, 248, etc, you will get a zip file to download, one for each hyperlink on each of those pages and the others later in the book.

So for example the one on page 86 says https://affin.co/photocoreskills (or in the German book https://affin.co/photocoreskillsde) which should download photo_core_skills.zip into your downloads location. Inside that zip file you will find all the files mentioned in that chapter in the purple boxes on pages 87, 90, 94, 98, 104,  114, 120, 130 & 134, and referred to in the text again in purple. Extract the zip file and follow the tutorials using them.

 

I bought the Photo workbook when it came out, and use it for reference often. However, I haven't as yet stepped through the tutorials, using the example files.

It's about time I did so, and now have more disk storage and a faster PC to work on. I'd therefore like to mass-download all the example files (which I think are mostly zips) so that I have them all to hand.

My question, therefore, is this: is there any central point to see a full list of example files which I can then select and download with my browser's Bulk Downloader extension? This is rather than doing this chapter by chapter.

[Improve The Batch Processing (It's Dangerous)]

I too would like a Rename option in Batch Processing.

 

I download RAW and JPEG files from camera to a dated folder. I can then process the RAW files, open them, work on them and then save them as .afphoto files. Then, when I come to batch-process them to JPEGs, they will by default be processed into the same folder and thus overwrite my original camera JPEGs. I do not want this to happen, nor do I want to create yet another subfolder into which to process the .afphotos.

 

A facility to specify a renaming mask for the JPEGs, either as an Affinity option, or as part of the Batch Process, is very desirable.

[Please create an undo and redo button]

I would also like the option to have Undo/Redo buttons on the toolbar.

 

As a Windows user, I have a number of other applications (word processing, to name but one) which need me to review changes to a document/file/spreadsheet/whatever. I may then need to reverse (Undo) an edit, and a toolbar button allows me to do this quickly and easily with one mouse action (rather than combinations of keyboard keys or pulldown menu options).

[Close All?]

I have found this desirable feature lacking, and have been recommended to post in the Feature Requests section of the Forum, from my original post here:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/32106-saving-multiple-edited-files-as-afphotos/.

[Saving multiple edited files as .afphotos]

Hi FoxTalbot,

 

Affinity Photo doesn't have an option to batch save multiple open files, you would need to save them individually. You can batch convert JPG into .afphoto files using File > New Batch Job.

 

It may be worth posting the suggestion of having an option in our Feature Requests section, it may be something our developers can include in a future update.

Thanks for the information. I thought that might be the case. It's no great problem unless I've opened a series of photos for edit, when I find that I'm losing track of which I've saved and which I haven't. Of course, the overwrite message alerts me immediately if I'm re-saving, but what would help a lot is if the current or focussed tab colour or tone were very  different to the other tabs, rather than a slightly paler grey.

[Saving multiple edited files as .afphotos]

I'm a complete novice with Affinity Photo, but I've not been able to see an obvious answer to my question, which is this.

 

I've opened 6 or so .jpg files and edited them. They are listed as tabs above the working window.

 

I now want to save them all as .afphoto files (a sort of "Save All As" action). This is a batch job, and I have looked at the use of the New Batch Job command.

 

However, when I use this, and look at the Sources/Add window, this opens to a folder on disk, which does contain the photos I already have open and have edited, but also some others.

 

How do I save all the files I currently have up on screen and which I've edited, as a single action rather than saving them one by one? In effect, how can I batch my edited files from the screen, into a batch process and then to disk, without looking at folders on disk.