How to apply a single edit flow to multiple images in Affinity Photo

[HerrBill]

Although, I no longer use Photoshop for editing but when I did, I do remember that it was possible to apply a single edit flow to multiple images.

If I could apply this to Affinity Photo, it would save me considerable time.

Does anybody know whether this is possible and if what the routine is?

[Old Bruce]

There are some things like Adjustment Layers and Filters which can be recorded in a Macro then applied all at once to files. 

[NotMyFault]

While possible with many caveats in theory, this does not work well in Photo.

While using Develop Persona:

you can save presets for many of the sliders, but you must save several of them (no grouping possible), and Affinity often does not apply a preset even if it is shows as selected in UI (old bug).

While in Photo Persona:

You can save presets for many adjustment layers

You can reord macros of edit steps.

But this is far behind Adobe from the functionality and hampered by too many unfixed bugs.

If you need to mass-edit Photos, look elsewhere.

[walt.farrell]

20 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

While using Develop Persona:

For Raw images processed with the Develop Persona, you can also set it to Develop to a Raw layer (not a Pixel layer), then immediately click Develop without making any changes. Then you can start recording a macro, and within the macro you can go back into the Develop Persona, make your changes, and click Develop again. Then, back in the Photo Persona, you can stop recording the macro, and save the macro into the Library.

You can then apply that macro to other Raw images, either manually or via File > New Batch Job.

But I agree that for mass editing, this is cumbersome.

[HerrBill]

Thanks Walt, but as you know I already have a macro recording of my edit flow which works fine. Unfortunately, when I run it in batch processing the final image is a merged one and does not save the individual layer steps to the final image which means I am unable to quickly apply fine tuning to the final image when necessary. This can be a bit of drag.

I Presume there is no chance of Serif rectifying this?

[walt.farrell]

40 minutes ago, HerrBill said:

Thanks Walt, but as you know I already have a macro recording of my edit flow which works fine. Unfortunately, when I run it in batch processing the final image is a merged one and does not save the individual layer steps to the final image which means I am unable to quickly apply fine tuning to the final image when necessary. This can be a bit of drag.

I Presume there is no chance of Serif rectifying this?

I have no idea how you created your macro, but the workflow I suggested won't have that problem. This assumes that you have the batch job output a .afphoto file, of course. If you output a a JPG, etc. The changes will be locked in.