Batch Merge photos

[artokoloro]

Hi,

I would like to batch process 2 photos which have to merge in a layered file, which will be not flattened. The input are 2 photo batches which have to merge.

Would this be possible in Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher?

Thanks in advance for your time,

Michael

[walt.farrell]

Publisher does not have batch processing.

Photo has batch processing (File > New Batch Job) but that takes a set of files and produces one output file for each input file.

What kind of merging do you want to do? And what kind of output format are you planning to use that supports layers?

[artokoloro]

Hi Walt,

Thanks for your post!

Workflow:

Input:
One photo JPG
and
One layered .afphoto file

Output:
One layered .afphoto file

We do manual correction
We flatten the file
Export as PDF

 

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for the additional info.

I don't think there's any way to automate that in Affinity.

Manual steps would be:

1. Open the .afphoto file.
2. Place the JPG.
3. Save.
4. Do manual adjustments (Edit: which may include Rasterizing the JPG (Image) layer)
5. Export PDF

[artokoloro]

Place the JPG.  How?

[walt.farrell]

File > Place

Or drag/drop from File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac).