Location of Downloaded Assets

[bbrocks214]

I just downloaded several sets of overlay assets for Affinity Photo on my iMac running BigSur. I see the grayed out overlays in my assets panel but when I go to install them I cannot find them on my drive. They all downloaded successfully. I have tried to search various folders/drives but they are not there. Can anyone tell me where they would be stored? 

Thanks, Ben

[Ron P.]

Hi @bbrocks214,

I'm not familiar with Mac's file/route system, but on Windows they're located in a proprietary propcol file, called assets.propcol. C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user\assets.propcol.

Unless you downloaded them directly from your account at Serif's website. They would be where you wanted them downloaded to. Since you see them in your assets panel I'm guessing you used the My Account feature in Affinity Photo.

Do you have a document/file open? You need to in order to access them. Then it's a matter of drag-n-dropping one from the assets panel onto your document/file.

[Alfred]

The folder paths for assets.propcol and other Affinity user data files are listed here:

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, bbrocks214 said:

I see the grayed out overlays in my assets panel but when I go to install them

If you can see them in your Assets panel they are already installed.

Don't worry that they are gray. Just use them.

[bbrocks214]

Thank you both for the info. I found the file folder via Finder but when I go into Affinity Photo i canon get to it for some reason. Guess I'm not very adept at the working of the OS. Anyway when I'm in Photo I have the Asset Panel open and I see the overlays but they are grayed out and I'm not sure what to do from that point. I have other assets that display just fine but these were in stalled in previous versions of Affinty. I''m running 1.9.  If you look at the screen shot I've included you can see what I mean.  What do I do from this point to get the overlays to show up so I can use them?

 

 

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, bbrocks214 said:

I see the overlays but they are grayed out

 

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Don't worry that they are gray. Just use them.

They’re fog overlays, so they’re meant to be grey/gray.

[bbrocks214]

Thanks Walt! That worked, I was trying to click on it and nothing happened but I took Ron's suggestion to drag and drop and it works.

Thanks again to you all, I can't tell you how much time I wasted trying to figure this out on my own.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, bbrocks214 said:

I was trying to click on it and nothing happened

You can either drag an asset, or double-click and then Place it like you would with File > Place.