Additional import options

[okulo]

I just purchased Affinity Photo and ran into problems straight away.

Firstly, I wanted to open one of my own photos in my Photo library taken a few years ago, so finding it with the current import options was very time consuming, I had to scroll through literally thousands of photos to find it. There does not seem to be an option to go to a particular year or album as one can in Photos.

Secondly, I wanted to use a photo from a Google image search but I could not find a way to download the image to my iPad in such a way that I could open it in Affinity Photo. Could the option to import from URL or Files (as in the iPad app) be added, please?

Thank you.

[ronnyb]

1. Tap and hold on image in browser, then select copy

2. In Affinity Photo choose New from Clipboard

[okulo]

Thank you for your reply.

I had actually tried that a few times and got this message:

Cannot Create Document
The current contents of the clipboard
cannot be used to create a new
document.

However, I tried a few more times and it has worked but it seems to depend on the page that the image is on or the way that the image has been embedded in the page.

[RobLW]

I just made a similar post about the poor interfacing with Apple apps. 
im also not sure if the above suggestion would work with raw files, I think it would only copy the jpg preview that photos makes?

personally I have hundreds of albums because when I import images I like to keep the same folder structure as my external drive. But affinity photo doesn’t respect folders in Apple photos albums.