MissQ Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Hi! I like to have a reference image on the UI to work from. In Photoshop you can arrange the windows so that you can see 2 or 3 at the same time. Is there a similar function in Affinity Designer? Or a way to add a reference on to the UI? It seems pretty basic but I'm new to Affinity and maybe just haven't found it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 50 minutes ago, MissQ said: I like to have a reference image on the UI to work from. In Photoshop you can arrange the windows so that you can see 2 or 3 at the same time. Is there a similar function in Affinity Designer? Or a way to add a reference on to the UI? It seems pretty basic but I'm new to Affinity and maybe just haven't found it yet. You have the following choices that I know of: If you do not have an Artboard in your document, disable View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas and you can place your reference image outside your current image. If you do have an Artboard, you do not need to worry about that option; just put the image outside your image and it should be visible. Or, if you're on Windows, you can Float your current image (drag its tab off the tab bar, or use Window > Float), and open the second image in another floating window. Arrange the windows as you want using normal Windows controls. Or, if you're on Mac, enable Separated mode (I'm not sure exactly where that option is, as I'm on Windows). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissQ Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 Thank you. That's just what I needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 36 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Or, if you're on Mac, enable Separated mode (I'm not sure exactly where that option is, as I'm on Windows). Window -> Separated Mode: walt.farrell 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, MissQ said: Thank you. That's just what I needed! You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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