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Hi, 

i didn’t find anything in help how to create a compound in Photo. 
I worked around by using Designer (long press in Layer>Geometry>Add) and saved this file. Copy/Paste again didn’t work between Apps.

Are Compounds (creating them) supported in Photo?

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On 9/26/2021 at 4:37 AM, NotMyFault said:

Are Compounds (creating them) supported in Photo?

Not currently though whether by design or a bug, who knows. The fact that it’s been omitted in Help suggests it been left out by design.

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Posted
2 hours ago, DM1 said:

Not currently though whether by design or a bug, who knows. The fact that it’s been omitted in Help suggests it been left out by design.

Hopefully more an oversight, as documents containing compounds work well, and it is supported on Designer, and even in Photo on Windows/ Mac. 
Designer on Win( and possibly Mac) shows the only good menu implementation, having a dedicated menu item. The Alt Key / Long press workaround as modifier for “geometry add” from other versions / platforms is horrible UI - practically impossible to spot and weakly documented.

Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 

Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080

LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K

iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589

Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps.

I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.

 

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Yes you can use compound objects in Photo on iPad:-

Method 1: Just create an Asset pack with a Compound Object in it in Designer. You can then use it in Photo on iPad to create further compound objects.

 

Method 2: Use my Create Compound Object macro in my latests Mud's Macros Library.

 

Mud’s Macros V9

SelectionFromLayer - convert a layer into a pixel selection
SelectAllLayers - select all layers quickly
DeSelectAllLayers - de select all layers quickly
PencilPortrait - Convert Photo to pencil sketch (Credit: Alpha Sierra, YouTube)
InpaintCrop2 - fix edges after a straighten crop (Credit: Jim Welsh)
Inpaint - the inpaint option from the desktop.
Sketch Effect by R C-R - Converts to a sketch effect
Dave’s 6-Layer High Pass Sharpening - Uses 6 layers of sharpening
ExpandStroke - Expand Stroke from Designer 
Create Artboard - Create an Artboard from Designer
TextOnCurve - Text on Curve from Designer
Pre-Process - Add a curve and a sharpening layer
FSStack by InAffinity
Wraparound V1.8 by John Rostron
Create Compound Object - Create Compound from Designer

These macros will work on PC, Mac and iPad versions. It is a “.afmacros”  library file so in desktop use view->studio->library and import into the library pane not the macro panel which is only for single “.afmacro” files.

Mud's Macros V9.afmacros

 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.6 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.4

Recommended Fan based Affinity Support Groups on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

The hardest link to find https://affinity.help

Mud’s Macros Library:-
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/

 

Posted
5 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Yes you can use compound objects in Photo on iPad:-

Method 1: Just create an Asset pack with a Compound Object in it in Designer. You can then use it in Photo on iPad to create further compound objects.

Hi Paul, thanks for the Macros file👍. Another example where the capability exists under the hood, just no ui access provided. I wonder who decides what features get switched on in UI for each of the iPad apps. I guess they need to maintain some points of difference between the apps. 🤔

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/ 

 

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