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I just joined the community forum about 15 minutes ago. My question has probably already been asked and answered, however, I still need to know. Will it ever be possible to import multiple photos into Affinity Photo at the same time and then work on them one at a time for editing? I normally take anywhere from 50 to 500 photos at a time and it is so time consuming and frustrating to have to keep importing them into the program one at a time.

Thanks, 

Donna Mc

Posted

Hi Donna,

Welcome to the forums :)

When using File>Open you can select as many files as you wish to open at once, each file will load as it's own document that you can edit/save/close independently. I hope this helps!

Posted
14 hours ago, Donna McMullen said:

I normally take anywhere from 50 to 500 photos at a time and it is so time consuming and frustrating to have to keep importing them into the program one at a time.

 

3 hours ago, Dan C said:

When using File>Open you can select as many files as you wish to open at once, each file will load as it's own document that you can edit/save/close independently. I hope this helps!

There is an important caveat about the opening of as many photos as you wish. If they are RAW files your system may slow down to the point of being effectively stopped. I find that four of my Canon raw files will work be fine but more than that and the slowing begins.

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Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted
7 hours ago, Donna McMullen said:

Dan,

Thanks for the reply. I still wish i could import more pictures, but I guess I will have to work with  the limits of the program. 

Donna

???

What is the problem?

Posted
2 hours ago, mac_heibu said:

What is the problem?

Based on her mention of taking 50-500 photos at a time, it sounds like Donna would like to see all her files at once, in a kind of page layout, and select the ones to work on. That is, she's looking for a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) function, not really a Photo editor function.

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Posted

Thanks, Walt and Mac.

Thank you for understanding and putting into the correct terms what I was trying to say. 

I am by no means bad mouthing any of the Affinity/Serif programs. Like everyone else who uses any software, we all have our preferences in what we would like to be able to do when we are using them. I have always loved to take pictures and am finally finding time to pursue classes in photography. 😉

I too, was sad when the Page Plus, etc., line of programs came to an end. But I looked forward as well for the Affinity programs to be released. I guess I was just looking for the best of both worlds since Serif's software has always been so rich with features and so user friendly. 

Thanks to anyone else who wanted to help.

Donna

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Posted

Hi @Brendan MacNeill,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums :)

I can confirm that Affinity Photo is not designed as a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) app for importing hundreds of images at once for review, like Lightroom etc.

Affinity Photo is much more similar to Photoshop in this regard, where the app is designed for editing a singular image/document at a time.

You can of course open multiple documents/images at once as mentioned above, but there is no 'Library' style function for reviewing, storing or cataloguing your images.

If you haven't already, you can try a free trial of the Affinity V2 apps here, to see if they suit your workflow -
https://store.serif.com/get/universal-licence-2/trial/

I hope this clears things up!

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Posted

Is there ever going to be such a feature/function for Photo 2?  I just canceled my Adobe subscription due to their new ToS and am looking for a similar platform.  Having to review outside of the program and then open each individually seems... annoying/breaking workflow.

Not being able to import a slew of photos in Affinity 2 and go through them seems a serious drawback.

Posted
10 hours ago, CybrSlydr said:

Is there ever going to be such a feature/function for Photo 2?

I am part of the technical support team and therefore I cannot directly speak for our developers - equally we don't tend to confirm features before they are implemented into a public beta of the apps - however I would imagine that any implementation of a 'Lightroom style' Library import and bulk sorting/flagging functionality would be offered in a separate Affinity DAM application and likely not within Photo 2 directly.

As above we consider this more of a 'single image' editor similar to Photoshop, rather than a 'Library' editor like Lightroom and I would assume it to be unlikely we'd change that core principle of Affinity Photo 2, rather than offering a separate application like Adobe do currently.

This is speculation on my part, but is based on our teams previous decisions with the Affinity suite so hopefully is as accurate as possible :) 

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