Affinity Photo - How to save/export adjustment presets for another system?

[SKT7]

Hi 

Does anyone know how to save or export Affinity Photo's adjustment presets for another system?

[walt.farrell]

They are all in the adjustments.propcol file.

Copying that file should get them for you, but technically it is not a supported operation (just so you known  ). Finding the file will depend on your OS, and where you installed the program from, and (for Windows) the kind of installer that you used.

[SKT7]

On 3/9/2023 at 5:31 PM, walt.farrell said:

They are all in the adjustments.propcol file.

Copying that file should get them for you, but technically it is not a supported operation (just so you known  ). Finding the file will depend on your OS, and where you installed the program from, and (for Windows) the kind of installer that you used.

Thanks! I can find the adjustments.propcol files. The V1 files are easy to isolate but the V2 files are tricky as they are not in a V2 folder and they are not updating even if I add new presets in the Affinity photo folder.The one that's updating is located here C:\Users\(Username)\.affinity\Common\2.0\user
(I'm on Windows)
 

8 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

Saving as asset will work too.

Thanks for your reply. Could you pls elaborate how?

[walt.farrell]

21 minutes ago, SKT7 said:

The one that's updating is located here C:\Users\(Username)\.affinity\Common\2.0\user

Yes, that's the one you would need. Note that for V2, one file is used for all 3 applications, so if you happen to have different adjustment presets saved in Photo, in Designer, and in Publisher there's no convenient way to merge them. You just have to pick one, and use it for all 3 applications.

Here's another idea for you:

1. In one of the V1 applications, create a new document.
2. Pick an image, and Place it into the document in a small format.
3. Duplicate that image and shift the copies, so you end up with something like this:
   
4. Move through the Adjustments panel, and wherever you have an Adjustment preset that you saved, apply it to one of the image copies.
5. When you've finished applying adjustment presets to the images (one each), Save the document.
6. Open the document in a V2 application.
7. Click each Adjustment thumbnail to open the Adjustment dialog, and click Add Preset. You'll need to provide the appropriate name.

I think that @N.P.M.'s idea of using Assets is this: Once you have an Adjustment preset applied to a layer in your document, you can click its thumbnail, and then in the Assets panel you can click Add Asset from Selection. So, you would create a new Asset category for Adjustments, and set it to Show as List, and then you could add each of your personal Adjustment presets to a document, and then add each to the Assets panel. You could then Export that Asset category, and add it into one of the V2 applications. Then you could apply each of them to a document by dragging it from the Assets panel, and then click its thumbnail to open the Adjustment dialog, and Add Preset. As with my approach, you'll need to Name each one. This is similar to my approach just above, but the transfer mechanism would be different.

Or maybe N.P.M. had something different in mind, and will explain it for us.