Teenage Boy Tyler Posted October 7, 2020 Posted October 7, 2020 Hey! I am new to Affinity (currently working on Adobe) but I would like to switch. I have a basic question regarding the workflow - something that I don't fully understand. There is Affinity Designer (Illustrator and Pixel Painting), there is Affinity Photo (Photo Editing) and there is Publisher (Indesign). As far as I understand the Studio Link (Icons) is/are only in Publisher?! Why? I mean, should I start every document no matter what I am planning to do (Vector, Pixel, Photo Editing, Layouts) in Publisher. Do I need the other two Programs, except owning them for the Studio Link, when I can do everything in Publisher? Why are the link icons only in Publisher? Thanks a lot! Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 7, 2020 Posted October 7, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Teenage Boy Tyler. StudioLink in Publisher provides access to only the two main Personas in Designer and Photo: the Designer Persona from Designer, and the Photo Persona from Photo. You do not have access to, for example, the Export Persona (Designer, Photo) nor to Photo's Develop Persona, Tone Mapping Persona, or the Liquify Persona. To get access to those from Publisher you would need to use File > Edit in Designer or File > Edit in Photo. Additionally, some of the functions of the Photo Persona are also not available in Publisher, specifically these from the File menu: So, while in general you can use a workflow that starts in Publisher and uses the Designer and Photo Personas, there are functions that you'll still need to perform in the full applications, if they are relevant to you. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases 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 iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Teenage Boy Tyler Posted October 14, 2020 Author Posted October 14, 2020 Thank you for your explanation! I think you could optimize the User Interface regarding the "Studio Link" though :D. Quote
stefano.cecere Posted November 13, 2020 Posted November 13, 2020 On 10/7/2020 at 4:10 PM, walt.farrell said: StudioLink in Publisher provides access to only the two main Personas in Designer and Photo: the Designer Persona from Designer, and the Photo Persona from Photo. You do not have access to, for example, the Export Persona (Designer, Photo) nor to Photo's Develop Persona, Tone Mapping Persona, or the Liquify Persona. To get access to those from Publisher you would need to use File > Edit in Designer or File so, Designer and Photo Persona are embedded into Publisher, right? and activated only if it finds the application installed, right? Quote PLAY WELL DIE HAPPY! Game Based Learning, Music, Parenting, Trascendence and 2042 Humanist Revolution - stefanocecere.com
Staff MEB Posted November 13, 2020 Staff Posted November 13, 2020 Hi stefano.cecere, Yes, you need to have Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer installed to be able to use their correspondent personas in Publisher. Make sure you run the (Photo and Designer) at least once before enabling them in Publisher through StudioLink. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
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