Affinity Publisher: Unknown image resource!

[Pyanepsion]

Hello to all,

I opened an image directly in Affinity Publisher.

It is considered a background image and does not appear in the image resources.

baleinier-mortel.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @Pyanepsion,

29 minutes ago, Pyanepsion said:

I opened an image directly in Affinity Publisher.

It is considered a background image and does not appear in the image resources.

That's because it is an Embedded Pixel Layer rather than an Image Layer...

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[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Hangman said:

Hi @Pyanepsion,

That's because it is an Embedded Pixel Layer rather than an Image Layer...

No, it is simply a normal Pixel layer, because it was Opened, not Placed. 

One can use the method suggested by @Return, or (for Publisher) the more usual File > New, followed by File > Place if one wants to see the image in the Resource Manager.

[Pyanepsion]

Thank you, @Return and @Hangman. It switches from pixel to image and effectively, and logically, becomes an integrated resource.

However, in my humble opinion, it is still abnormal for an initial image to have to be converted into a resource when it should be a resource by its very nature.

[Hangman]

Hi @Pyanepsion,

Opening the image directly in Publisher without a document open is the equivalent of opening it in Affinity Photo; you're not embedding or linking the image anywhere because you don't have a document open to embed or link it to if that makes sense...

[Pyanepsion]

Thank you very much for that explanation. It makes things much clearer.

I now understand that when an image is opened directly in Affinity Publisher without a pre-existing document, it is automatically considered to be the document background. As it's an image, it appears as a Pixel layer. With no layout or structure to integrate it, Publisher considers it as the main content, ready for direct pixel-level modifications, a bit like Affinity Photo where the image is the starting point of the file. This is superb.