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The equivalent of a Smart Object in Photo is an embedded native Affinity file (that is, a .afphoto, .afdesign, or .afpub file).

And no, you can't get that by right-clicking in the Layers panel.

You could (though it is clearly more cumbersome):

  • Select both layers
  • Copy (or Cut)
  • File > New from Clipboard
  • File > Save As a new .afphoto file.
  • Switch back to the original document, and (if you used Copy above) delete the two layers.
  • File > Place the .afphoto file that you saved above.

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24 minutes ago, telemax said:

Initially, each pixel layer in Affinity behaves like a Smart Object in Photoshop. It is not rasterized automatically when re-scaling.

Which may be the ultimate answer to another of @photoshop1.0's posts:

 

-- Walt
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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
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Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5

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On 5/8/2020 at 3:51 PM, telemax said:

Initially, each pixel layer in Affinity behaves like a Smart Object in Photoshop. It is not rasterized automatically when re-scaling.

That's good to know — thanks.

I look forward to experimenting with that capability.

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On 5/8/2020 at 2:19 PM, walt.farrell said:

The equivalent of a Smart Object in Photo is an embedded native Affinity file (that is, a .afphoto, .afdesign, or .afpub file).

And no, you can't get that by right-clicking in the Layers panel.

You could (though it is clearly more cumbersome):

  • Select both layers
  • Copy (or Cut)
  • File > New from Clipboard
  • File > Save As a new .afphoto file.
  • Switch back to the original document, and (if you used Copy above) delete the two layers.
  • File > Place the .afphoto file that you saved above.

That is worth a try — thanks.

I really do hope that Serif will build in a right-click menu option for this capability, though. It only makes sense, given how useful it is in the competitor's app.

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