Poto Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 I use batch processing to convert image formats. Since I have other file managers, I prefer to drag my selected images from the file manager I use (like Total Commander or Adobe Bridge). However, in adding pictures in a batch process, I cannot drag and drop files. I can only use the add picture button and then select the file I want to process in the system explorer. This is too much trouble! It is recommended to let go of this obstacle and allow users to drag and drop pictures instead of letting users only select pictures with win10 file manager. This is too rigid, just like Adobe ’s rigid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poto Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 All I can do is click on add picture and pick the picture from the pop-up system file manager. Why is this limiting my choice? I can't drag and drop or copy CLC and buschbrand 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted January 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 17, 2020 Hi Photo Lucky, I will move this thread to the Feature Requests section as I think it would be better suited to that category, Thanks Callum woefi 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz_H Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 @Poto Lucky It´s also missing in the panorama-module.. Does the MacOS-Version support drag-n-drop? Fritz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woefi Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 I can confirm, the macos version does NOT support drag-n-drop. (batch and pano) Would be cool If they add native drop targets. (Beta 1.8.163) Quote Main machine: iMac 2019 (21,5-inch 4k, 6core), 64GB RAM, 1TB nvme + 2TB ssd, running on Mac OS 13; Display setup: 28" 5k Display (primary) + 21,5" iMac4k-Display for studio panels (secondary); Keyboard layout: german apple extended keyboard (aluminium); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poto Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 There is such a story: The road most people walk in the park is often stepped out, because the road planned by the government is often not the road we really want to take. I always disagree with restricting the user's operating habits. Just like we can drag and drop pictures to Affinity Photo & Designer, the ability for users to drag and drop pictures should be global Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_M Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 Any progress on this? This looks to be a highly requested feature. I do batch jobs quite frequently and it's excruciatingly slow to navigate every single folder by hand in order to collect the images. Right now I'm doing a batch job that requires sourcing 2088 images in 513 folders. This will take me at least an hour when it could be just a simple Windows search and then drag and drop the images in the program. 1 hour vs 1 minute! It's been 2 years or longer since this has been requested by myself and others and still nothing on this front. I can't image it to be THAT hard to implement, is it? telemax 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for Windows ◾ OS: Windows 10 Pro x64 ver. 22H2 ◾ CPU: AMD Ryzen 7950X 16-core ◾ RAM: 64 GB DDR5-6400 ◾ GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X 24GB / driver 526.98 ◾ NVMe SSD Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB ◾ Monitors: 2x Eizo ColorEdge CS2420 24" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 +1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 8/29/2020 at 6:10 PM, Alex_M said: Right now I'm doing a batch job that requires sourcing 2088 images in 513 folders. This will take me at least an hour when it could be just a simple Windows search and then drag and drop the images in the program. 1 hour vs 1 minute! If you used Windows Explorer to gather your source files into a single folder, then you can point your Batch Job to this single folder. It would probably take considerably less than an hour (depending on file size). John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 It works if you run the search from APhoto Start a new Batch Job, click Add Navigate to your top level folder and enter the Search String Select images and click Open 3266 were added to the Sources panel in 14s from 56 folders Then I set a simple rule to resize them to 300px wide into a new folder Processed in 21s John Rostron, Alex_M and telemax 2 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_M Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 On 8/31/2020 at 6:25 PM, John Rostron said: If you used Windows Explorer to gather your source files into a single folder, then you can point your Batch Job to this single folder. It would probably take considerably less than an hour (depending on file size). John Thanks for the suggestion, but this is not really a solution because I want the photos to remain in their original folders. 11 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: It works if you run the search from APhoto Start a new Batch Job, click Add Navigate to your top level folder and enter the Search String Select images and click Open 3266 were added to the Sources panel in 14s from 56 folders Then I set a simple rule to resize them to 300px wide into a new folder Processed in 21s Thanks, I've got to try this out. Still not ideal though IMHO. It needs a proper drag and drop. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for Windows ◾ OS: Windows 10 Pro x64 ver. 22H2 ◾ CPU: AMD Ryzen 7950X 16-core ◾ RAM: 64 GB DDR5-6400 ◾ GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X 24GB / driver 526.98 ◾ NVMe SSD Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB ◾ Monitors: 2x Eizo ColorEdge CS2420 24" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 20 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: It works if you run the search from APhoto Start a new Batch Job, click Add Navigate to your top level folder and enter the Search String Select images and click Open 3266 were added to the Sources panel in 14s from 56 folders Then I set a simple rule to resize them to 300px wide into a new folder Processed in 21s OMG, Nice trick! It works 😂 But unfortunately, you can only choose one type of file extension at a time. Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 25 minutes ago, telemax said: But unfortunately, you can only choose one type of file extension at a time. Try *.jpg OR *.png OR *.tif telemax and Alfred 2 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 13 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said: Try *.jpg OR *.png OR *.tif It works! Thank you! It works simply:png OR jpg OR tiff Alfred 1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, telemax said: It works simply:png OR jpg OR tiff See, you're an expert now. Probably ought to be png OR jpg OR jpeg OR tif OR tiff If you're at a high enough level, say D:\ then you can specify folder names like D:\Bath\*.jpg OR "D:\Brighton Photos\*.jpg" Note if you have spaces in the folder name then it has to be enclosed in quotation marks Search string is limited to 259 characters, hours of fun telemax 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 22 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: It works if you run the search from APhoto Start a new Batch Job, click Add Navigate to your top level folder and enter the Search String Select images and click Open There must be a word to describe someone who can come up with a clever idea like this: combining tricks from both Affinity and Windows. Unfortunately I cannot think of a suitable one. Make up your own! John David in Яuislip 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 22 minutes ago, John Rostron said: There must be a word to describe someone well, I'd like to think it's a combination of talent, diligence, good looks but my Mum would probably say, "Stubborn" so stubborn it is John Rostron and Old Bruce 2 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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