Affinity Photo macOS - open bulk edit job directly from Finder and save presets??

[markus985]

Hi there,

I try to like Affinity Photos (no difference with v2) but my workflow is just not fast with it. Is there a way around it. 

I want to bulk edit photos. That can be 5 photos now, 10 photos in an hour, 4 photos later, etc. - so I need to be able to start this process fast.

Right now

1. Open Affinity Photos
2. Go to File → New Batch Job
3. Add Photos and navigate forever till you find the right folder (there is no drag and drop from Finder possible here, which is the first big disadvantage)
4. Do the entire bulk edit configuration (it is not possible to access some kind of presets e.g. preset-web-optimized; this is in particulare annoying when I am working with max-pixel width/height settings, which I need to even look up all the time in the forum here)

Huge improvements would be

• Allow drag and drop photos from Finder
• Even better would be to just select the photos and right click and select something like "Edit in bulk in Affinity Photos"
• Offer presets for the bulk edit settings (that would be a huge timesaver)

Am I missing some features here and don't know how to use the software? Or is Affinity missing a lot on usability in this case?

 

 

[R C-R]

AFAIK, you are not missing anything -- at least in both the V1 & V2 Mac AP apps, drag & drop into the batch job window is not supported.

Might make a good feature request if there is not already one in the requests forum.

[markus985]

Thanks ... I am working with so many apps and am in contact with so many developers, companies, communities but Affinity is not one of them as I just don't need the applications often enough. No idea about the feature request process here 

Good to know at least that I am not missing anything, it seems.

I just don't get it .. why would you make it so complicated.

Installed the free XnResize app now, does the job better - but I would love of course to use not so many different apps for different situations