Volu Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I want to use Affinity like I have used Photoshop Elements in before: Drag pictures directly from Fotos into Affinity - do all changes - and save it back to Fotos. Affinity is not accepting any drag events from Fotos! : :( Another point: I have updated to El Capitan and Affinity 1.3.5. Even with this it is not possible to activate any plugin of Affinity for Fotos. The advertising slide show of El Capitan and Fotos is showing that it should be possible to use Affinity directly from Fotos. There is no way for me to activate this? :o What's wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted October 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi Volu, Welcome to the Forums :) The Photos plugin is currently only available in the Customer Beta Build this is why you aren't able to see it using the Mac App Store version. You can download the Customer Beta Build here. C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi Volu, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently there isn't a roundtrip workflow between Affinity Photo and Apple Photos. Apple hasn't implemented the ability to edit photos using an external editor. However some things are already possible: you can open images managed by Apple's Photos using the Media Browser in Affinity Photo (menu View ▸ Media Browser... or press ⇧ (shift) + ⌘ (cmd) + M); you can use Affinity's extension for Apple's Photos if you install the latest Affinity Photo Customer Beta. Note the extension contains just a subset of Affinity Photo functionality. It will be available for the Mac App Store version in the next update; you can use File ▸ Share ▸ Add to Photos command to send a (flatened) jpg version to Photos (this is not the best solution since jpg compresses the image and you will loose all layers/edits). Alternatively you can export the image in a lossless format and manually add it to Apple Photos library. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volu Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 Okay - thank you for the quick reply! All those workarounds I have already used - but it makes me not happy - I am feeling now like a Windows user: Have to do a lot of ineffective handling which cost me a lot of useless time ... Please talk to Apple that they will get better with Fotos soon! I have used Photoshop together with Aperture - Aperture supports the drag to Affinity and I can store back into the same location. Apple is seeing Fotos as a replacement for Aperture too - so they should be interested to get their users pleased with Fotos. In fact I would say that Mac OS X users are more professional that IOS or Windows users. They should take care. I try to address this in Apple support too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figmatt Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I saw your extension mentioned on the "What's new in El Capitan" website http://help.apple.com/osx-elcapitan/from-yosemite/#/photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Ouw well - that's a little odd *g* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmcintosh Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 What is the subset of Affinity that will be in the Mac Photos plugin? I don't want to buy Affinity to find out because I already have Lightroom. For example, will it support Adjustment Layers and the Selection Tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 27, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hi hmcintosh, Here's the current state of the Affinity Retouching extension. All controls are exposed in the screenshot. There's no support for layers in the extension. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 It´s not like PS that can be called out of Lightroom (if you´ve both) That´ll happen with the Affinity DAM in 2016 (I guess, I hope :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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