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Affinity Photo: How to save custom shapes?


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If by shape library, you mean the shape tools with the blue icons from the tools palette on the left-hand side – no, you can't add a shape to these directly. That's what the Assets panel is for. If you go to View > Studio > Assets, you can add almost any kind of object or layer to your Assets library and keep them organised in different categories. They can then be reused at any time in any document by just dragging them out of the panel.

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7 minutes ago, PNTX said:

Exactly what I looked for. Thanks.

Where does Affinity Photo save its assets? 

That depends on OS (Mac, Windows) and on the store where you purchased the application. In any case it's a persistent file somewhere in your file system.

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31 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

Or view>assets

At least for me, that wouldn't work because I don't have an "Assets" menu item in the View menu. As I already wrote in my first reply to this thread, at least in the macOS version it's usually View > Studio > Assets. I don't know whether it's different on Windows.

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11 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

it's usually View > Studio > Assets. I don't know whether it's different on Windows.

It will be the same on windows.

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The main issue is you can only gain access to the asset'd shapes via Affinity Designer, you can't access those assets by going to a folder and seeing asset1, asset2 etc. they are bundled in a proprietary file and there is no independent viewer for a .propcol file.

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34 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

At least for me, that wouldn't work because I don't have an "Assets" menu item in the View menu. As I already wrote in my first reply to this thread, at least in the macOS version it's usually View > Studio > Assets. I don't know whether it's different on Windows.

Yes it's the same on windows, i missed the studio part.:(

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4 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

Yes it's the same on windows, i missed the studio part.:(

Obviously a rare off day ;)

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