Unable to place photos

[Debs*]

I am unable to place photos in all apps on my MacBook Pro. I click Place and the box opens to enable me to select where I want to open from but my photo icon is greyed out and so I’m unable to open it. This happens on all 3 apps. I don’t have the same problem on my iPad photos opens fine there just on my Mac. I’ve had the same problem with other apps so know it’s not an affinity problem. 
 

can you directly open the photos app from within Affinity apps/ if so how to I give access to affinity to this. or do I have to store the photos  I want to use on my desktop first, (the only way I’ve been able so far)

 

any suggestions 

thanks 

Debs 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums.
What do you mean by “my photo icon is greyed out”?
You should be able to select the file, press “Open”, and then put the image into the document with a click or a drag.
Can you give us a full-screen screen grab of what you get please?

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Debs* said:

can you directly open the photos app from within Affinity apps...

If you mean Apple's Photos app then no. However, the Mac Affinity Photo app comes with a number of Photo Editing extensions that can be enabled in System Preferences > Extensions so you can use them from within Apple Photos.

Note that the "Edit in Affinity Photo" extension is not working correctly for some users. Searching the forum using "Edit in Photos" as the search term will show you several topics with the details.

[Debs*]

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums.
What do you mean by “my photo icon is greyed out”?
You should be able to select the file, press “Open”, and then put the image into the document with a click or a drag.
Can you give us a full-screen screen grab of what you get please?

Welcome to the forums.
What do you mean by “my photo icon is greyed out”?
You should be able to select the file, press “Open”, and then put the image into the document with a click or a drag.
Can you give us a full-screen screen grab of what you get please?

 

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

If you mean Apple's Photos app then no. However, the Mac Affinity Photo app comes with a number of Photo Editing extensions that can be enabled in System Preferences > Extensions so you can use them from within Apple Photos.

Note that the "Edit in Affinity Photo" extension is not working correctly for some users. Searching the forum using "Edit in Photos" as the search term will show you several topics with the details.

so Garry P  as I said I click "place" which opens up the box shown in screenshot I click pictures and the icon is greyed out so I cannot click it and choose the image I want to add to my document. this happens in all 3 apps.

I think RC-R suggests that it cannot not open picture app from within the apps?

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Debs* said:

I think RC-R suggests that it cannot not open picture app from within the apps?

Using the correct terminology will make the following easier to understand. There is no "picture app" but on Macs there is a Photos app.

While it is true that you cannot open the Photos app from within the Affinity Photo app, there is a way to access images stored in the Photos app's System Library from within Affinity Photo.

To do this, in the File > Open or File > Place window, find the "Media" item on the sidebar. (It is usually one of the last items, below iCloud & so on so you may have to scroll the sidebar down to see it.) If it does not show an item indented under it named "Photos" with a camera icon, hover the pointer over the "Media" item until the word "Show" appears & click on that.

After a delay, on the right side of the window you should see a "Photos" item with the Apple Photos logo with a disclosure triangle & indented below that the various Photos categories, each with their own disclosure triangle you can open to see the library items in them.

 

At the bottom right of the window, thumbnail views of the images should be shown, so you can select one of them & open the corresponding library image in Affinity Photo.

[Debs*]

I did use the correct terminology in my first question. In my reply with the screen shot, I was showing where the app was showing greyed out, i.e,  pictures! Sorry if that confused you. 
thank you for the solution 😊

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Debs* said:

In my reply with the screen shot, I was showing where the app was showing greyed out, i.e,  pictures!

In that screenshot, "Pictures" is a folder, not an app.