Cannot find pixel persona in Affinity Designer

[owaaan]

Hello, 

I can't find how to use the marquee selection tool in affinity designer. I read a forum that said to switch to the pixel person, but I cannot see this option in the persona drop down menu. According to the forum post, the option to switch should be here or in the file drop down menu. 

How do I access this feature? 

 

 

[Joachim_L]

Your screenshot is from APublisher not ADesigner. In APublisher there is no Pixel Persona, but a Photo Persona. If you have also APhoto installed you can get to the Photo Persona by clicking the third button from top left.

[owaaan]

Thanks for the reply. 

Ok. I have both Apublisher and ADesigner, couldn't see the marquee tool or pixel persona in either. 

Do I need to purchase APhoto to have access to pixel editing tools? 

[Old Bruce]

15 minutes ago, owaaan said:

Thanks for the reply. 

Ok. I have both Apublisher and ADesigner, couldn't see the marquee tool or pixel persona in either. 

Do I need to purchase APhoto to have access to pixel editing tools? 

No, just open Designer and click on the upper right area of the toolbar. You may have to show the toolbar, View > Show Toolbar, it is a toggle so it has to have a check next to it. All the available tools will change as you change from Designer Persona to Pixel Persona.

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[owaaan]

Ah I see. I was hoping they would be available from the publisher. It's strange that you can access Designer from publisher but you can't access the pixel tools once you enter Designer from publisher. 

It works when I launch the program from Designer, but can't seem to access the pixel tools when I enter designer from Publisher. 

If I got APhoto, would I be able to access the pixel tools from publisher? 

[walt.farrell]

23 hours ago, owaaan said:

It works when I launch the program from Designer, but can't seem to access the pixel tools when I enter designer from Publisher. 

If I got APhoto, would I be able to access the pixel tools from publisher? 

StudioLink in Publisher gives you access to the Designer Persona from Designer, and the Photo Persona from Photo, assuming you own one or both of those applications. It does not give you access to the other Personas of either application. And it does not give you all the functions of Photo's Photo Persona (no macros, stacks, or batch jobs). 

But if you want to do pixel operations in Publisher you can do those in the Photo Persona if you own Photo.

Edited November 8, 2019 by walt.farrell
Sorry; macros are available.

[R C-R]

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

StudioLink in Publisher {...} does not give you all the functions of Photo's Photo Persona (no macros, stacks, or batch jobs). 

I don't know if it has been like this since the beginning or was added in a 1.7.x update or what, but at least in the current Mac 1.7.3 version of Affinity Publisher the Library & Macros panels are available & fully (?) functional in its Photo Persona vie StudioLink.

In the Mac 1.7.3 Affinity Publisher Photo Persona it is also possible to display a Batch studio panel, but it is a bug & it is non-functional.

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, R C-R said:

I don't know if it has been like this since the beginning or was added in a 1.7.x update or what, but at least in the current Mac 1.7.3 version of Affinity Publisher the Library & Macros panels are available & fully (?) functional in its Photo Persona vie StudioLink.

In the Mac 1.7.3 Affinity Publisher Photo Persona it is also possible to display a Batch studio panel, but it is a bug & it is non-functional.

Interesting. Maybe I misremembered. Or maybe there was a change. Thanks!