Opening multiple images as layers

[Lawrence Urdiales]

I have been using photoshop to open multiple images as layers. I work on each layer individually, then combine them at the end. I do this specifically for light painting at night. 
mid it possible to do this in Affinity photo?

[Pšenda]

Menu Layer, New Layer (or Add Layer in Layer Panel), menu File, Place, .......

https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/GetStarted/placeImages.html

Or Copy, Paste. 

[harrym]

38 minutes ago, Lawrence Urdiales said:

I have been using photoshop to open multiple images as layers. I work on each layer individually, then combine them at the end. I do this specifically for light painting at night. 
mid it possible to do this in Affinity photo?

You could try

File - New Stack

Add images

Untick Automatically Aliign Images (although you may want to play with that setting)

Untick Live Alignment

In the layers panel ungroup the live stack group

 

[tml605]

Just got to this topic accidentally through the search. 

I would strongly suggest to untick Automatically Align Images as @harrym recommends above. I'm shooting from a tripod and all my images are aligned. But sometimes Affinity Photos decides to move some of them for a few pixels for some reason. So I never use Automatically Align Images and Live Alignment. It might be reasonable only when you should hand held. 

[Jane kennett]

My stack is auto aligned even when I have unticked the box. I want to do the alignment myself! Any ideas as to what I have done wrong?

[NotMyFault]

Can you provide a screen recording or list of steps?
There are 2 check boxes, one for alignment, and a second for live alignment. The first needs to be deactivated.

[spinhead]

And for anyone who stumbles upon this looking for the solution I hoped for, just a way to open files as layers without copy/pasting one at a time:

1. File | New Stack
2. Selected all the images
3. Move them outside the layer stack
4. Delete the layer stack

Place image requires one step per image which isn't much of an advancement over simply opening all 32 images and copy/pasting.

[walt.farrell]

On 9/6/2024 at 7:10 PM, spinhead said:

• Move them outside the layer stack
• Delete the layer stack

You can simplify that. Just right-click on the Live Stack Group in the Layers panel, and choose Ungroup.

[spinhead]

Ah, I hadn't thought of it as a group. If only the word 'group' was in the name or something obvious like that . . .

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, spinhead said:

Ah, I hadn't thought of it as a group. If only the word 'group' was in the name or something obvious like that . . .

It's not in the Menu, nor in the Help (from a quick look, though it probably should be), but it says Group in the Layers panel, and in the Tooltip for the layer icon.

[spinhead]

I forgot to turn on the sarcasm font . . . yes, it's clear and obvious it's a group, as it says right in the name. Thanks for not assuming, or worse, calling me mean names, @walt.farrell