FotoHawk Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) When editing my images in PS I'd always create a Smart Layer ("Convert to Smart Object") that would allow possible changes at a later date. Kind of like an editable history, but for individual filters like those in the NIK collection. Can I do the same in Affinity Photo? If yes, where can I find a tutorial that would show me how? If no, is there a similar work-around? Edited February 21, 2021 by FotoHawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Affinity Photo cannot create Smart-Objects, that is a feature of Photoshop (PS). In some instances Affinity Photo can edit a PS created Smart-Object but that really depends on what other PS features were used to create it. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinity Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Live filters act in a very similar way to smart objects in ps. You can apply one and then go back some time later to edit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 56 minutes ago, Trinity said: Live filters act in a very similar way to smart objects in ps. You can apply one and then go back some time later to edit it. But you cannot edit what you have done in a plugin. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FotoHawk Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 Bummer, feels like stepping back in time to the days/years we waited for PS to have such a feature. Hopefully Affinity will adopt something similar. If we could save and edit History without affecting other steps in that history would be incredibly valuable. The only way around this would be to save several images after adding a filter in each, like saving my steps along the way. This combined with saving multiple custom filters in NIK may be daunting, but the only way around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VisionExpander Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Has the creation of "smart object" capability been added to Affinity 2.0? Or something similar? Best regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoPold Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago Edit/place works like smart objects in PS. Just make sure your placed image in linked and not embedded in the resource manager, and then use the update button in the resource manager to update external files. It would be nice if AP did the updates automagically though, to skip this last step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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