Actions in Photo?

[Dimwhit 1]

Does Photo offer anything like Photoshop's Actions for repetitive tasks? Or can those be imported from PS? How about Automator actions or workflows?

[MEB 7,750]

Hi Dimwhit,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

There will be a Macro Persona for recording/playing actions (Affinity Photo actions, not Photoshop).

[Dimwhit 1]

Great! I'll look for that. It's the primary feature that has kept me from moving away from Photoshop.

[silvergelatin 11]

Holy crap, I can't believe I didn't notice that was missing! This is definitely one of my use-everyday PS features. I do all of my resizing for the web at different resolutions in PS using actions so I can control sharpening, color conversions, bit depth mode, etc.

 

Yeah, this is a big one.

[Bearwood 1]

Will Panels be available to be made for the Macro's as well. I am thinking of Tony Kypers Luminosity Mask panel...

[Mark Muse 3]

I would like to add my voice requesting Actions. I have created several suites of actions for my use in Ps. I use them for everything and have become quite dependent upon them. I am afraid they are a must for me to switch for real work. Until then I will spend some time becoming acquainted with Affinity.

 

I must congratulate you for your accomplishments so far. Impressive! I look forward to working with it.

[juliantz 0]

 Hello MEB, do you know when the actions or macros will be ready in Affinity Photo? I would purchase it when that happens.

[MEB 7,750]

Hi juliantz,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :) 

I don't know, sorry. There's already several features to fix/improve in Photo 1.3.

It will depend on how development goes. 

[Petar Petrenko 437]

It would be very nice if you make an effort to allow PS actions to be imported, just for those ones who already own hundreds of them.

[kwaku 0]

Is there any update on when the photoshop action feature will be released? That will definitely be the deal breaker!

[MEB 7,750]

Hi kwaku,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

No, not yet. It's not something trivial to implement. We are a small team here and there's already quite a few things being worked on, so it may take a little.

[Pauline.Putt 0]

keeping tab on this thread. it will be great if i can import / download  all my PS/ PSE actions as well and use it with Affinity Photo. 

loving Affinity Photo so far!  :wub:

[LoBu 28]

What's about actions in AP? When they are available? Version 1.5?

[dhayton 50]

While actions would be nice, I appreciate that they might not be easy to implement. What about a scripting dictionary, so I could write AppleScripts to accomplish a variety of common but time-consuming tasks?

[DavidMac 113]

I have posted this before but not in this forum so I am adding to this thread.

 

I am well aware that macros are a work in progress so I shall presume that these remarks may be premature …. but ……

 

It would be hard to make this palette less legible if you tried. It is almost impossible to see when the buttons are pressed or not and other text and icons are on the extreme edge of legibility as well. This really needs looking at. Coloured buttons following the well established universal code of Red/Record, Green/Play, Grey Stop/Pause perhaps?

 

As you make the recorders abilities more sophisticated so will the complexity of the macros grow. A single step replay to help debug problems would be very helpful.

 

And, on the subject of macros, can you please make them assignable to keyboard shortcuts?