installing .afdesign, .afpalette files

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

Hello,

I have looked through help, and forum and every tab and window of all three personas but cannot find how or where to install/import .afdesign, .afpalette files. A little help and guidence please?

[Brian_J]

Hey @ravencroftgraphics3d, Welcome to the forum.

To import an Affinity Palette (.afpalette):

1. Open the Swatches panel if it's not already open (Window > Swatches).
2. Click the hamburger menu at the upper-right of the Swatches panel, hover over Import Palette, and select the appropriate option to import as an Application or Document Pallet.

Here's the Affinity Swatches Panel help page for additional information.
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/swatchesPanel.html

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

19 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

Hey @ravencroftgraphics3d, Welcome to the forum.

To import an Affinity Palette (.afpalette):

1. Open the Swatches panel if it's not already open (Window > Swatches).
2. Click the hamburger menu at the upper-right of the Swatches panel, hover over Import Palette, and select the appropriate option to import as an Application or Document Pallet.

Here's the Affinity Swatches Panel help page for additional information.
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/swatchesPanel.html

thank you. what is the difference between system and application palette? the document palette is greyed out and not selectable...

also, where do the .afdesign ones go?

[Brian_J]

2 hours ago, ravencroftgraphics3d said:

what is the difference between system and application palette? the document palette is greyed out and not selectable

Application and System palettes are described on the help page I mentioned in my previous comment. (Side note: System palettes are specific to Mac; they’re not available on Windows.)

Application—these palettes are saved within Affinity Designer. These palettes are available to any Affinity Designer document.

System—these palettes are saved to your operating system. These palettes are available within Affinity Designer and other apps installed on your system.

I’m not sure why Document Palette is disabled… maybe someone more familiar with Macs can provide some insight.

2 hours ago, ravencroftgraphics3d said:

also, where do the .afdesign ones go?

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Can you explain your question a bit more?

.afdesign are Affinity Designer files, whereas the Affinity palette files are .afpalette.

[GarryP]

2 hours ago, ravencroftgraphics3d said:

also, where do the .afdesign ones go?

The .afdesign files are Designer documents, they are the things you would normally create and save.

You don’t install them, you just open them, as you would open a .doc document in Word for example.

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

22 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

Application and System palettes are described on the help page I mentioned in my previous comment. (Side note: System palettes are specific to Mac; they’re not available on Windows.)

Application—these palettes are saved within Affinity Designer. These palettes are available to any Affinity Designer document.

System—these palettes are saved to your operating system. These palettes are available within Affinity Designer and other apps installed on your system.

I’m not sure why Document Palette is disabled… maybe someone more familiar with Macs can provide some insight.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Can you explain your question a bit more?

.afdesign are Affinity Designer files, whereas the Affinity palette files are .afpalette.

i have a ton of .afdesign files i just got with a bunch of add ons i bought, but cannot figure out where they go.

[GarryP]

See posts above your last one.

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

The .afdesign files are Designer documents, they are the things you would normally create and save.

You don’t install them, you just open them, as you would open a .doc document in Word for example.

thank you, i could not find that anywhere and i was stumped as to what to do with them. so they act like psd files then.

[GarryP]

2 minutes ago, ravencroftgraphics3d said:

so they act like psd files then

I’m not sure what you mean by that but, as mentioned above, .afdesign files are just Designer documents.

When you create a new document in Designer you are creating what will be an .afdesign file when you save it.

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

3 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I’m not sure what you mean by that but, as mentioned above, .afdesign files are just Designer documents.

When you create a new document in Designer you are creating what will be an .afdesign file when you save it.

thank you

[GarryP]

You're welcome.

[Komatös]

As a addition to what has already been written: Document color palettes can only be created in an open document. 

[ravencroftgraphics3d]

50 minutes ago, Komatös said:

As a addition to what has already been written: Document color palettes can only be created in an open document. 

thank you, that solves they greyed out issue