kat Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Anyway to import Affinity Designer gradients into Affinity Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 If you've added them to a Swatch palette, @kat, you can export the palette as a .afpalette file, then import it in Photo. Or if you have them assigned to an object, you can open that document in Photo. You could perhaps also create a Style from them, and export a .afstyles file and import that into Photo. Or create objects using them, save them as Assets, export a .afassets file from the Assets panel, and import that into Photo. kat 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 Worked perfectly, Walt. I had my gradients as an AD, so couldn't import into AP. I imported as an Application palette rather than system or document – best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, kat said: I imported as an Application palette rather than system or document – best? "Best" depends on what you want to do. System would give you one palette with consistency so that both appliccations would see any changes, I think, as well as other applications on the system. kat 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: "Best" depends on what you want to do. System would give you one palette with consistency so that both appliccations would see any changes, I think, as well as other applications on the system. Sounds like importing Gradients as System would give me access in AD & AP. Excellent, thanks @walt.farrell walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 15 minutes ago, kat said: Sounds like importing Gradients as System would give me access in AD & AP. Excellent, thanks @walt.farrell Importing Gradients as System didn't work. See screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 19 minutes ago, kat said: Importing Gradients as System didn't work. See screenshot. Possibly Mac System Palettes don't support gradients? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Add More Gradients To Affinity Photo (import / export and create new) A little bit confusing etc. to understand that speaker's voice, but maybe it helps (?). Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Possibly Mac System Palettes don't support gradients? From what I can tell experimentally, neither System nor Application palettes support gradients. In Windows, can you create an Application palette that includes gradients? If so, how? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If you've added them to a Swatch palette, @kat, you can export the palette as a .afpalette file, then import it in Photo. Or if you have them assigned to an object, you can open that document in Photo. You could perhaps also create a Style from them, and export a .afstyles file and import that into Photo. Or create objects using them, save them as Assets, export a .afassets file from the Assets panel, and import that into Photo. 2 minutes ago, R C-R said: From what I can tell experimentally, neither System nor Application palettes support gradients. In Windows, can you create an Application palette that includes gradients? If so, how? Possibly the same as @walt.farrellanswer above? R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Yes it works in Windows AP, AD (1.10.4) 1. Affinity Designer > Swatches > Add Application Palette. 2. Add the desired gradients, Export Palette. 3. Affinity Photo > Swatches > Import As Application Palette. Here is the palette file created in version AD 1.10.4 in Windows: test palette.afpalette This is how imported palettes look in AP in Windows: Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share Posted May 26, 2022 Wish you could help me with my AP Paint Mixer Brush not working, @walt.farrell. I use clean & load, no autoload. Nothing happens. There must be setting that locks pixels, or something like that. Any suggestions would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 On 5/25/2022 at 9:24 PM, kat said: Wish you could help me with my AP Paint Mixer Brush not working Just to follow up, for anyone else who finds this discussion: kat figured out that the problem is with using a Strength of 100% for the Paint Mixer Brush Tool, which is a known bug. thomaso 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 48 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Just to follow up, for anyone else who finds this discussion: kat figured out that the problem is with using a Strength of 100% for the Paint Mixer Brush Tool, which is a known bug. Could you explain more about how this bug manifests itself? Is it that the brush doesn't do anything when set to 100% strength or something else? I ask because on my Mac it seems to do something as long as the strength is greater than zero, but to be honest I have never been sure what that brush is supposed to do. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 39 minutes ago, R C-R said: Is it that the brush doesn't do anything when set to 100% strength Exactly. Try a forum search for paint mixer 100% and you should get some relevant hits. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 1 hour ago, R C-R said: but to be honest I have never been sure what that brush is supposed to do. I'm sure there are other tutorials, but this one (that I think kat pointed to somewhere) provides some information that may help you: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 1 hour ago, R C-R said: Could you explain more about how this bug manifests itself? Is it that the brush doesn't do anything when set to 100% strength or something else? I ask because on my Mac it seems to do something as long as the strength is greater than zero, but to be honest I have never been sure what that brush is supposed to do. I think strength % is the level that the brush mixes, smudges, the color pixels below the brush. I'm on a mac, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Exactly. Try a forum search for paint mixer 100% and you should get some relevant hits. I did not do the search but even when I set the strength to 100% on my Mac, I do get an effect. I'm just not sure it is the right one or not. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 1 hour ago, R C-R said: but even when I set the strength to 100% on my Mac, I do get an effect. I'm just not sure it is the right one or not. It will also depend on the Context Toolbar settings, such as whether you've Cleaned the brush and whether you have it set to Auto-Load. Kat had cleaned it, and had Auto-Load off, and Strength 100%. And then it will further depend on the colors in the pixel layer you operate on. With those settings, if it works, I would call it a kind of a smudge brush. I don't know exactly the exact characteristics of the bug (afp-3049). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It will also depend on the Context Toolbar settings, such as whether you've Cleaned the brush and whether you have it set to Auto-Load. Thanks for the extra info. From what I can tell, it stops working at 100% strength if I click "Clean Brush" (or use the keyboard shortcut for that) whether or not I have auto-load on or off, although togging auto-load from off to on or on to off makes it work again. Very weird bug! walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Related: Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Related Goes to the same topic as the link to afp-3049 @walt.farrell posted above. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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