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[bbtdm]

When you create a project where is the gallery located that it's supposed to be saved in? I've already created my folders in the assets section but I don't know how to get my projects saved in there.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

I'm not sure what you mean by "projects" given that you then start talking about Assets. Projects are usually saved as files (.afphoto, .afdesign, or .afpub) in your file system, outside of the application. Or you can save Templates to use in future projects, again in your file system.

If you're talking about saving Assets, you create categories in the Assets panel, and subcategories within the categories, then you can add assets to the subcategories. The Help has more information about doing that: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/assetsPanel.html

But it would be good to have confirmation and more details about what you mean, to get you started down the right path

[bbtdm]

I am pretty new to using Affinity and a youtube video talked about the gallery in affinity designer which is where you could see all the projects you have and can duplicate. About the assets, I have a color palette template that I created and was wondering if it could be stored there.

[Old Bruce]

40 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

When you create a project where is the gallery located that it's supposed to be saved in? I've already created my folders in the assets section but I don't know how to get my projects saved in there.

Note: my use of the ™ symbol in the following is facetious.

Assets™ was a very poor word to choose for this feature. Conjures up a scenario like what you are talking about. They are not individually saved and individually invoked/placed/opened/imported  files. You make Assets™ from within the various applications. They are stored en masse in the application's memory. So if you have a 100 MBs of Assets™ then that much memory is required each time you start the application. If you have 10 GBs of Assets™ then 10 GBs of memory is required each time you start the application. 

The folders you have created should probably be removed, they may cause problems. Anything you place in those folders will not be visible or available as an Asset™ as the Affinity applications use.

 

[Old Bruce]

3 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

I have a color palette template that I created and was wondering if it could be stored there.

Swatches Palettes can be stored in Documents as Document Palettes, or as Application or System  Palettes. I think Mac OS has the System Palettes and Windows doesn't.

[bbtdm]

Ok, understand about the assets issue but what about the gallery issue? From my understanding of the youtube videos, it's when you create a project and where you can see all the projects you have and can duplicate them.

[walt.farrell]

20 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

and a youtube video talked about the gallery in affinity designer

It sounds like you may have been watching a video about the application on the iPad, but you've asked in the forum section about the application on macOS or Windows.

What OS and device are you using? Can you provide a pointer to that YouTube video?

And what release of Designer are you using?

[bbtdm]

I don't see the option to add my color palette as shown in your image.

[bbtdm]

16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It sounds like you may have been watching a video about the application on the iPad, but you've asked in the forum section about the application on macOS or Windows.

What OS and device are you using? Can you provide a pointer to that YouTube video?

And what release of Designer are you using?

I have Windows

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

I have Windows

Thanks. In that case, I doubt you have a "gallery" like the YouTube video was talking about, but unless you can provide a pointer to the video I can't say for sure.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

I don't see the option to add my color palette as shown in your image.

Did you click on the panel settings icon?

[bbtdm]

39 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It sounds like you may have been watching a video about the application on the iPad, but you've asked in the forum section about the application on macOS or Windows.

What OS and device are you using? Can you provide a pointer to that YouTube video?

And what release of Designer are you using?

The person was using an Ipad and they showed us the gallery in v1 and v2 of Affinity Designer. I have V2

[bbtdm]

14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Did you click on the panel settings icon?

Ahhhh now I see it. Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

The person was using an Ipad and they showed us the gallery in v1 and v2 of Affinity Designer. I have V2

The iPad and Desktop programs'  user interfaces are very different. You will probably confuse yourself if you try to use iPad tutorials with your desktop, and I think that is what has happened here.

[R C-R]

5 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

The person was using an Ipad and they showed us the gallery in v1 and v2 of Affinity Designer. I have V2

The interface for the iPad versions is quite different from that of the desktop ones so you should not expect to see the same things in iPad articles as in your Windows version. That said, I think the YT video was talking about the Live Docs item on the iPad versions that shows small thumbnails of all the open documents. In the Windows version you don't have that.

[bbtdm]

12 minutes ago, bbtdm said:

Ahhhh now I see it. Thanks.

I have my color palette setup, thanks 4 that.