Stroke studio missing!

[Tammy B.]

Hello, I purchased affinity photo for iPad a few weeks ago.  I’m very new to design software so I’ve been watching a lot of videos.  I watched This one a few days ago:

I’m Desperately trying to figure out how to make lines that come to points like he does ~2:30, but there’s no pencil tool in my Affinity photo.  He suggested I use the pen tool, selection persona, and stroke studio, but I can’t find the stroke studio either!  Please help!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Tammy B..

You're watching a tutorial for Affinity Designer, but using Affinity Photo, a different application with different capabilities and functions.

Some functions are common to both, but some are different.

[Tammy B.]

OMG!  THANK YOU!  I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I was missing.  The video was under “affinity photo for iPad” and I didn’t even notice it was the wrong program.  Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

I assume if I add designer to my programs, I can somehow combine documents in each program?  For example, if I create a vector in affinity designer, I can transfer it into affinity photo for a project I’m working on there?

Edited July 24, 2022 by Tammy B.
Added question

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

48 minutes ago, Tammy B. said:

I assume if I add designer to my programs, I can somehow combine documents in each program?  For example, if I create a vector in affinity designer, I can transfer it into affinity photo for a project I’m working on there?

Yes, the programs are fully compatible, and you can create a file in one, Save it, and Open it in the other.