Open Designer or Photos from Apple Photos App

[Dan C]

17 minutes ago, johnsane said:

iPad 15.4.1 and it’s up to date. No updates necessary for Shortcuts in the App Store.

Thanks for confirming - and if you enable the 'untrusted' option for Shortcuts, are you able to import and use mine?

[Paul Mudditt]

My apologies, things change, the issue to remember, you can do a TAP or a LONG PRESS on an option field to bring up various options, hopefully this new from scratch using OPEN FILE option shows that. 

[johnsane]

1 hour ago, Paul Mudditt said:

My apologies, things change, the issue to remember, you can do a TAP or a LONG PRESS on an option field to bring up various options, hopefully this new from scratch using OPEN FILE option shows that. 

 

When I write “click”, I mean tap, long press, banging my iPad against the table, cursing and yelling. Tried everything. Highly annoying. 

[Paul Mudditt]

32 minutes ago, johnsane said:

When I write “click”, I mean tap, long press, banging my iPad against the table, cursing and yelling. Tried everything. Highly annoying. 

Maybe I’m not being clear, if you think of a mouse you have left click and right click, on these shortcut fields you also have two different actions, a tap or a long press which bring up completely different options.

[johnsane]

1 hour ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Maybe I’m not being clear, if you think of a mouse you have left click and right click, on these shortcut fields you also have two different actions, a tap or a long press which bring up completely different options.

Yes, I know. That was a joke. Sorry it that wasn’t clear. I tried every way of clicking, pressing and tapping and I also tried with my Apple keyboard. I’ll give it another go in a bit, at work now. Thanks. 

[johnsane]

4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Maybe I’m not being clear, if you think of a mouse you have left click and right click, on these shortcut fields you also have two different actions, a tap or a long press which bring up completely different options.

Hi again!
The problem is that it’s not working when I have the exact same settings that you have. When I’m in Apple Photos and have an open image I want to open in Affinity I go to the square and arrow symbol and click on it, then I click on my shortcut and nothing happens. Affinity does not open. Except for some photos. A few will open, most will not. This could be images from the same day, in the same album, taken with the same lens and camera, in the same format, one minute apart. One will open in Affinity, the next one won’t. I’m starting to think this is a bug of some kind, not a setting problem. I’m gonna try to open Dan C’s shortcut now to see if it helps.

[johnsane]

4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Maybe I’m not being clear, if you think of a mouse you have left click and right click, on these shortcut fields you also have two different actions, a tap or a long press which bring up completely different options.

Also, on the rare occasions when it’s working the raw file opens in the Photo persona, not the Develop persona.

[johnsane]

8 hours ago, Dan C said:

Thanks for confirming - and if you enable the 'untrusted' option for Shortcuts, are you able to import and use mine?

Seems like Apple changed the shortcut sharing options since that article was published. In my iPad and on my iPhone the only option I have is to allow or not allow people in my contacts to share shortcuts with me. Even with Private Sharing enabled I can’t open your shortcut since you’re not in my contacts.

[Paul Mudditt]

7 hours ago, johnsane said:

Hi again!
The problem is that it’s not working when I have the exact same settings that you have. When I’m in Apple Photos and have an open image I want to open in Affinity I go to the square and arrow symbol and click on it, then I click on my shortcut and nothing happens. Affinity does not open. Except for some photos. A few will open, most will not. This could be images from the same day, in the same album, taken with the same lens and camera, in the same format, one minute apart. One will open in Affinity, the next one won’t. I’m starting to think this is a bug of some kind, not a setting problem. I’m gonna try to open Dan C’s shortcut now to see if it helps.

You have tried a Forced Restart haven't you ? First thing to try when Apple devices don't behave as predicted. This is not the same a powering off and on as it resets more hardware on the subsequent startup.

[Paul Mudditt]

8 hours ago, johnsane said:

Also, on the rare occasions when it’s working the raw file opens in the Photo persona, not the Develop persona.

Unfortunately that is out of Serif's hands, Apple photos has a habit of sharing JPEG versions of RAW images.

However, try this new work around if you have previously edited in Apple Photos or have a RAW+JPG image which is a common setting on many cameras.

The first time I open this Canon CR2 file the local optimised JPEG is opened in Photo mode.

After I revert to RAW by dropping into Apple Photos edit, then it opens in Develop mode via the share sheet interface.

Note how it downloads the original file to the iPad first from iCloud where the original RAW is safely stored.

[johnsane]

On 4/13/2022 at 8:56 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

You have tried a Forced Restart haven't you ? First thing to try when Apple devices don't behave as predicted. This is not the same a powering off and on as it resets more hardware on the subsequent startup.

Yes, I tried forced restart. Always the first thing I do when things doesn't work. Solves the problem surprisingly often.

[johnsane]

On 4/13/2022 at 9:14 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

Unfortunately that is out of Serif's hands, Apple photos has a habit of sharing JPEG versions of RAW images.

However, try this new work around if you have previously edited in Apple Photos or have a RAW+JPG image which is a common setting on many cameras.

The first time I open this Canon CR2 file the local optimised JPEG is opened in Photo mode.

After I revert to RAW by dropping into Apple Photos edit, then it opens in Develop mode via the share sheet interface.

Note how it downloads the original file to the iPad first from iCloud where the original RAW is safely stored.

 

Do you have to go through this entire procedure every time you open a raw file for the first time if you want it to open in the Develop persona?