artokoloro Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 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? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artokoloro Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Thanks for the additional info. I don't think there's any way to automate that in Affinity. Manual steps would be: Open the .afphoto file. Place the JPG. Save. Do manual adjustments (Edit: which may include Rasterizing the JPG (Image) layer) Export PDF Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artokoloro Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 Place the JPG. How? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 File > Place Or drag/drop from File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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