TimmSL Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Hello I create regularily a photobook with > 300 Pictures in Affinity Publisher. I arrange these photos -- sometimes up to 10 pictures per page -- on the pages of that photobook. Whenever I paste these images from another tool (Luminar -- unfortunately still waiting for a Lightroom competitor / killer from Serif) the pictures will be added to my page in different scales based on their resolution, oftenly they are much to big to fit into the page. Is there any way to automatically with in the drop process scale them down to a size that fits into the page directly without touching every picture separately. In my workflow I drag them over, mark all of them and scale them down manually. Afterwards I bring them into frames to be able to adapt the image focus, scale and fit into my arrangement, the grid, etc... Many thanks for any ideas, hints etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Are you using Picture Frames? 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...
TimmSL Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Hello Walt, thanks for your response! Yes, after the paste of the images I convert those images into picture Frames: "Layer -> convert to picture frame". To fasten up this step I use an individual short-cut to do it via keyboard. But also those picture frames need to be sized. My Problem is, these images / frames might be much bigger than my page and hide the probably given content of the page too much, too. My intention is to find a way (script, command) to convert these images / frames automatically (in one stroke, best with the picture frame convertion). To be honest, I'm not sure if Publisher does have such scription / recording functionality. Thx Timm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 10 minutes ago, TimmSL said: Yes, after the paste of the images I convert those images into picture Frames: "Layer -> convert to picture frame". You should try making your Picture Frames first, and adding the images into them. 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...
TimmSL Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Well, yes, that's the intention, but my photobook does not have any predefined frames, layout pages, etc.., I want to be flexible and do a mass-load of pictures I selected and then start arranging the pictures. Having the frames first seems to be too much effort, because I have to drag every single image exclusively into the application / document. It would be fine to mark all dragged images at once and then start a command / execute a command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 If you're doing a mass-load of unframed pictures, you have no way to control their size. That's part of what Picture Frames are intended to do. You can (in V2): Prepare a document page with several Picture Frames on it, then Click the Place Tool and select a set of Photos, then In the Place panel, select all the images that were loaded, then Click once on an empty Picture Frame. At that point, Publisher will fill all the empty Picture Frames on that page, then create additional duplicate pages as needed until all the images have been placed into frames. Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/placeImagesAutoflow.html 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...
carl123 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 4 hours ago, TimmSL said: Is there any way to automatically with in the drop process scale them down to a size that fits into the page directly without touching every picture separately You can use File > Place to select all the images at once then on the canvas Click & drag each image to place them on the canvas At this stage you only need to click & drag each image to, say, a thumbnail size just to get them on the page, you can resize them later when you do your layout Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmSL Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Yes, this is the new functionality, works fine and sounds great for a manageable number of images . But you need to know where the dedicated images are located / how named (I have the original cam naming) and stored in a pre-seleted way -- with 300 images it is not working in an appropriate way (just tried): a.) It loads very long into the cache b.) You have the placement tab with the pictures -- but once you leave it (select another tool), it gets lost again and you have to start over... c.) The images are sorted somehow (can't say) -- but I prefer a date sorted approach. Therefore I fear I need to stay with my Luminar workflow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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