Foxtrot Posted July 6, 2021 Posted July 6, 2021 Hi I have checked around everywhere to find the answer before posting this but can't find anything. When I import an image from Apple photos into affinity Photo for iPad any changes I have made in Apple photos are ignored - eg Cropping, and it displays in affinity photo as it originally appeared in Photos before cropping. Is this deliberate, a bug or am I doing something wrong? (The iPad Photoshop app imports the cropped image so it is not an apple issue.) I also turned image B&W in Apple Photos and the import to Affinity Photo for iPad then restored the colour!!!! Many thanks for your help Quote
DM1 Posted July 6, 2021 Posted July 6, 2021 Try this. Open Apple photo app and tap on the changed image you want to use Tap the Share icon and select Open in Affinity Photo. Your changes should be retained. There appears to be an issue when opening from the Affinity app that results in Apple photos edits being lost. By design or a bug? Don’t know but it’s been reported ages ago and is still that way. Alfred 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
Foxtrot Posted July 6, 2021 Author Posted July 6, 2021 Thanks for your reply. I did try that but tapping the share icon does not give an option to open in affinity photo. If it is a known issue I will live with it - I was just concerned I was doing something wrong to cause it. Regards Quote
Alfred Posted July 6, 2021 Posted July 6, 2021 If you don’t have an ‘Open in Affinity Photo’ option (which is probably only present if you’ve set up a shortcut via the Shortcuts app) try this instead: 1. Open the file in the Photos app. 2. Tap on the ‘Share’ button. 3. Choose the ‘Copy Photo’ option. 4. Go to the home screen in Affinity Photo. 5. Tap on the ‘+’ icon. 6. Choose the ‘New From Clipboard’ option. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
DM1 Posted July 6, 2021 Posted July 6, 2021 12 hours ago, Foxtrot said: I did try that but tapping the share icon does not give an option to open in affinity photo. Simple enough to make a shortcut using the Shortcut app. Here are the required inputs. dvoth 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
Blitz99 Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 The above open in Affinity Photo does not appear on ipad.. neither does the alternate copy image method work. Paste is greyed out in Affinity Photo, although the image can be pasted elsewhere. Yes it’s a pixel layer. so… unable to import anything into Affinity Photo…. Quote
Alfred Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 1 hour ago, Blitz99 said: Paste is greyed out in Affinity Photo, although the image can be pasted elsewhere. Did you try ‘+ > New From Clipboard’ or did you only try ‘Edit > Paste’? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Blitz99 Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 Ok, i’ve fixed it. In case this helps anyone else: In settings, the paste from other apps was set to ask. However it doesn’t ask, and paste is greyed out. I’ve set it to always and can now paste from Photos to Affinity. It’s pretty clunky, but works. I don’t see the more integrated share UI in the examples in the earlier post. Something seems to have got broken in an update. Quote
Alfred Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 47 minutes ago, Blitz99 said: I can’t see a new from clipboard option? It’s on the Home Screen (under ‘New’ in version 2 or ‘+’ in version 1). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Brian_J Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 I find the iPadOS ‘Open In’ shortcut really convenient, and it works for me on iPadOS 17.4.1. Here are screenshots from iPadOS 17.4.1 in case they’re helpful. If you want to create shortcuts and have trouble doing so, let us know. Quote Windows 10 22H2 | Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 (MSI/EXE)
Blitz99 Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 The new from clipboard doesn’t facilitate paste into an existing document though? It creates a brand new document, at the size and resolution of the image. Quote
Blitz99 Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 That shortcut opens the app, but I still can’t just paste an image into an existing doc? That’s all I’m trying to achieve. Brian_J 1 Quote
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