Affinity Designer: Saving adjustments

[rich709]

I have been a very casual user of designer for years, and absolutely love its handling of vectors.  I've recently changed my graphics focus, and now need to rely on Adjustment layers (levels, brightness/contrast primarily), and can't figure out how to save a style with adjustments built in, or indeed, save adjustments on their own.  From the little I can find, it seems this is not a function that is available in Affinity products, and if that's the case, it just absolutely floors me that a product like this would become this mature without that functionality.  Can someone please tell me I'm nuts, and of course it has that capability.  Oh, and tell me how to do it.  :D

Thanks,

 

 

Rich

[carl123]

Affinity Photo allows you to save adjustments as presets. Affinity Designer (surprisingly) does not

You can though save Adjustments in the assets panel and drag them for use on other images/objects as required. A group of Adjustments can also be saved as an asset if you group them first

In the Assets panel ensure you have "Show as List" ticked as there are no icons associated with Adjustment Layers so you won't see anything without that option selected

 

PS A better understanding of exactly what you are doing may yield a better/easier solution

[Ray S.]

If you are using Photo you can export a LUT which contains one or more adjustments and then apply the LUT to any other image. 

[rich709]

6 hours ago, carl123 said:

PS A better understanding of exactly what you are doing may yield a better/easier solution

I'm designing watch faces for Wear OS, and they often have recurring surface appearances (such as chrome).  It's just amazing that you can't save adjustments with styles.  While there are multiple ways of doing things, and thus, its not absolutely essential to use Adjustments, it does make for a much easier/quicker workflow, especially curves adjustments that help accentuate reflective qualities. I guess for now, I can use a template with hidden layers containing commonly used surface finishes.  Seems really clunky though for an otherwise beautiful piece of software.  Aside from this, and textures which are also a bit of a jaw dropping omission, I feel that Affinity Designer is everything Macromedia Fireworks should have been.  I'll head over to feature requests. 

btw- snowing and 84 degrees F does not reflect the current weather conditions. 

Edited March 10, 2021 by rich709

[rich709]

Hmmm... I missed the reference in the first reply to Assets.  Looks like that would be a better way for me to go.

Edited March 10, 2021 by rich709

[rich709]

 

7 hours ago, carl123 said:

Affinity Photo allows you to save adjustments as presets. Affinity Designer (surprisingly) does not

You can though save Adjustments in the assets panel and drag them for use on other images/objects as required. A group of Adjustments can also be saved as an asset if you group them first

In the Assets panel ensure you have "Show as List" ticked as there are no icons associated with Adjustment Layers so you won't see anything without that option selected

 

PS A better understanding of exactly what you are doing may yield a better/easier solution

Yes, so I've just started setting up my assets panel.  This is definitely the way to go!  Wonderful, and thanks for pointing me in that direction.