jmantn

@Tick and others in this thread
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.
I can see that this is disappointing that we have not managed to integrate with the Colorchecker Passport. X-Rite have chosen to bundle us with their hardware, knowing this to be the case, but I would hope that the programmers will address this thread soon, or make a clear suggestion how best to proceed.
@James Ritson can you shed any light on this thread?

My apologies for not being specific. 
 
For example with Photoshop which I’m trying to get away from I have over the years created actions/macros to do some basic touch ups on portraits such as a macro that enhances eyes that prompts me to select the eyes and will then continue through processing additional actions.  This could also apply to teeth or skin retouching as well. 
 
Another example is compositing.  I may have a portrait taken where the background isn’t ideal with a blur lens which makes it easy to replace the background so I have a few preset backgrounds and effects I apply such as lighting to help blend and would like to be prompted for a selection. 
 
As as it is now I make a macro to do these things but have to go back and re-mask if u will.  
 
I completely understand these are a little random but there are marketplaces on other platforms that do just these things and I’m a day one supporter of affinity photo on macOS and iOS but literally just now with macros (overlooked macro support was there in Nov) I’m just now jumping in and trying to make some home grown options that I can run on my iPad. 
 
I think even even with what it can and can’t do it’s really amazing and can’t wait until we can do more advanced things as a lot of friends and family have iPads and I could make macros and get them engaged in doing more with photography and this app as well. 
 
Hopefully this explains a few things a little better. 
 
 

Thank you for this!  I could have sworn I tried this and didn’t work before but now it is so it’s exactly how I’d want it to work just some how overlooked it. 
 
Im going to be doing a lot of trial and error with macros from desktop to iOS and aside from not yet being able to create them on the iPad this was the only other barrier I came across. 
 
Ive noticed some effects like lighting and especially with Perlin noise appear differently on desktop than on iPad.  For example Perlin with lighting can transform a clean background into what looks like a backdrop on iOS however using the same settings with Perlin and lighting on iPad it looks terrible (mainly Perlin is what’s most dramatic between the two platforms). 
 
So being able to do some trial and error is really great and helps out a lot!
 
I really would like to figure out how to have it prompt for selection for a macro so I’ll ask in main forum regarding that. 
 
Thanks for the the suggestion on looking at the example as well as I’ve been diving in on tutorials and everything else I can find. 

In response to the second question... Tap the Macro studio symbol.  Press and hold on the desired macro and a menu will appear. This menu offers the option to delete or rename the macro.
if the imported macro file contains more than one macro you can simply delete the category removing all macros in that category in one go.
The menu for this action is identified by the square containing 3 bars , next to the pin at the top right of screen.
 
The first question.... many of the macros developed on the Mac version run just as well on the iPad. However not all of them do. Ones that pause to allow manual intervention such as selections haven't seemed to work on the iPad. I don't have the desktop version so can’t determine which will and which won't, or what steps the macro is attempting to run. However, some functions/features not listed on the iPad actually work when called on by macros written on the desktop. Muds macros has one titled  inpaintCrop2 which is useful after straightening an image. It rasterises the image selects blank areas and infills them perfectly. Doing this with the inpainting brush is often hit and miss, but the macro works every time. 
 
Will there be a way to create macros in the iPad version.... we all hope so!!