How Can I Replace multiple images at once?

[phtotgeek]

I desperately need a feature to replace multiple images at once. As soon as I click on more than 1 image ther "replace image" button disappears. Please Help

[carl123]

What app are you using?

and are you trying to replace the multiple images with the same replacement image?  

[phtotgeek]

primarily designer but i also have publisher and photo if they make this any easier

 

[thomaso]

In Publisher you can replace multiple images (if they already are all the same) via the Resource Manager. There you need to select their folder entry and replace every instance of the image. If you select only some of the images then the Replace button gets grayed out.

 

[OdFori]

On 9/26/2020 at 10:11 AM, thomaso said:

In Publisher you can replace multiple...

 

In my case: That still replaces all the image instances of that file.

You can't replace only of a selection of these. This is one big serious disadvantage of this software not being node-based. (like Fusion, ToonBoom Harmony, or Houdini)

Let's say I have an artboard with 15 instances of one linked image. 
If if copy that artboard to make a variant of that artboard, or possible new version of that artboard, where that image should be replaced with a differerent image.

How can you do it, without also replacing it on the original artboard?

It doesn't seem possible. Frustrating, frankly.

[prophet]

7 minutes ago, OdFori said:

Let's say I have an artboard with 15 instances of one linked image. 
If if copy that artboard to make a variant of that artboard, or possible new version of that artboard, where that image should be replaced with a differerent image.

How can you do it, without also replacing it on the original artboard?

It doesn't seem possible. Frustrating, frankly.

I share the frustration of not being able to do selective batch image replacements.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, OdFori said:

If if copy that artboard to make a variant of that artboard, or possible new version of that artboard, where that image should be replaced with a differerent image.

How can you do it, without also replacing it on the original artboard?

Delete the image, and Place a new one.

[OdFori]

Walt, you are (always) the practical guy. A kind of caption obvious.

I understand that. but I post this to bash the company tho and try to force them to make this better, roughly speaking.

It takes thirty clicks in my stated example. Let's say I have 500 instances of the image.
The only option then is to separate it into different files, and not use artboards, etc.

Maybe I should go and do it that way as my primary workflow. But I like having different artboards. And all in one file, etc.

 

I am still thankful tho for Affinity. Beats the hell out of Adobe. 

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, OdFori said:

But I like having different artboards. And all in one file, etc.

So why not start with a "master" artboard that doesn't have the image on it. Duplicate that, and then add the image.

Yes, theoretically you shouldn't have to change your workflow. But pragmatically, you can adapt to the software or you can switch to different software. You're unlikely to get a change to the software to support your current workflow in the near term.

[OdFori]

Yeah,

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=146571

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, OdFori said:

Yeah,

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=146571

I just get a message that the topic doesn't exist.

[Wosven]

1 hour ago, OdFori said:

I post this to bash the company tho and try to force them to make this better, roughly speaking

And it's a nice idea. I used to monthly generate a booklet-revue of 120 pages, with an index made of a table generated by scripts with icons. They were all the same, but I had to cut the table in 3 parts, use specific table styles and modify the icons according to those different parts.

Being able to sub-select some images and only replace those, ordering them by pages, was very usefull.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I just get a message that the topic doesn't exist.

As do I.

[thomaso]

6 hours ago, OdFori said:

On 9/26/2020 at 10:11 AM, thomaso said:

In Publisher you can replace multiple...

In my case: That still replaces all the image instances of that file.

You can't replace only of a selection of these.

That's why I mentioned above the grayed-out button as soon more than 1 image is selected. Feels like a weird bug.

Workaround: There are limited situations where replacement of a selection of more than 1  is allowed. Though it requires APub it might help you since you talk about a copied artboard and hundreds of replacements: If the images are placed in Picture Frames then the Replace button in the context bar may be used also for selectively selected items (but not the according button in Resource Manager for any odd reason). If it would work from the Resource Manager we could also replace selected sources of different pages. – I definitely wonder why Apub is coded to require additional objects (Picture Frames) to allow this kind of replacement of these object's contents (= frame's images).

[StainX]

@thomaso Thank you so much! That workaround saves ma lot of time!

Oh and there is still a bug with BoundingBox detection on some linked .afpub files, which messes up placement (my workaround is to use .pdf instead of .afpub).

[spidermurph]

Am I right in saying that this is still not a feature?

We have to make 20-30 artboards for TV programs so we can supply the slates in all the different sizes that the streaming services require.

Being able to replace the images in one click would save hours of work for us.

[carl123]

19 minutes ago, spidermurph said:

Am I right in saying that this is still not a feature?

Which feature do you want?

The ability to replace all of the same image with another image or
the ability to replace only some of the same image with another image or something else?

[spidermurph]

12 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Which feature do you want?

The ability to replace all of the same image with another image or
the ability to replace only some of the same image with another image or something else?

The ability to replace all of the same image with another image please.

[carl123]

See the 4th post from the start of this thread from the user called thomaso

In resource manager select the top level "folder" that contains that image then use the replace button

If your resource manage does not look like that, please upload a screenshot of your resource manager

[spidermurph]

Hi Carl

I am in Designer and my resource manager only lets me select one at a time.

Was the example above for Publisher?

[spidermurph]

We use Designer for the excellent export persona which allows us to export 30 files in different formats with naming conventions.

 

[carl123]

1 minute ago, spidermurph said:

Was the example above for Publisher?

It works the same in both

Please show us your resource manager (full size) or upload the Affinity document if that's easier for you

[spidermurph]

[carl123]

Select all those images (as above) then click the Make Linked button

Then see if you get the top level "folder", which you can click on and then click the Replace button

[spidermurph]

Amazing! it worked. Thank you so much Carl.