File Import through scanner into Affinity Photo

[Eleni Hatzidaki]

Hello,

we are using Affinity Photo Version 1.6.5.135. Is there any way to import scanned Images to Affinity Photo?

Thanks in advance für your answer.

Best Regards,

Eleni

[DWright]

Affinity Photo does not have a built in scanner option but if you are using the Mac version you can use Mac OS scanner tool which is added to the File menu to scan in a photo, on Windows you will need to use the scanners own software to scan you image into a standard image format then open this in Affinity Photo

[PaulEC]

or, if you don't have/like the scanners software you can use Irfanview (free).

[emmrecs01]

@Eleni Hatzidaki

1 hour ago, Eleni Hatzidaki said:

we are using Affinity Photo Version 1.6.5.135.

Are you aware the latest version is 1.7.3.481?  There have been quite a number of updates since your version was released.

HT

[John Rostron]

2 hours ago, Eleni Hatzidaki said:

Hello,

we are using Affinity Photo Version 1.6.5.135. Is there any way to import scanned Images to Affinity Photo?

Thanks in advance für your answer.

Best Regards,

Eleni

If:

1. You set your scanner software (from the scanner vendor, VueScan or IrfanView) to save the image as .tiff, and
2. You set Affinity Photo as the default program to open .tiff files (in the OS),

Then when you have scanned and saved, your scanned image will automatically open in Photo.

Jihn

[Eleni Hatzidaki]

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for your answers and the suggested Workarounds! However I would like to know, if it is possible to import scanned Images to Affinity Photo with the latest Version (1.7.3.481) of the tool?

Is there any reason why this functionality is available on the Mac-Version and not on the Windows-Version?

 

Best regards,

Eleni

[v_kyr]

Gia sou Eleni,

of course you can import and open scanned images with Affinity Photo 1.7.3.481 too, every higher build version usually is superior here and offers possible bug fixes and also more features/functionality than previous versions.

6 minutes ago, Eleni Hatzidaki said:

Is there any reason why this functionality is available on the Mac-Version and not on the Windows-Version?

I assume you mean here a direct routing to operating system based scanner access, well that's a service the operating system offers and has build-in. Thus a software can hook on that and reuse that capability.

However, on Windows just use your scanners supplied driver and software to scan, then save the result into a JPG or PNG, TIFF etc. file which you then can import or open in Affinity Photo.