Lawrence Urdiales Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 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. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrym Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 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 Intuos5 and loukash 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tml605 Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane kennett Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 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. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 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: File | New Stack Selected all the images Move them outside the layer stack 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 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. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Ah, I hadn't thought of it as a group. If only the word 'group' was in the name or something obvious like that . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 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. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 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 walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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