m-b Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Simply great an empty Artboard in AD and open it in AP. It fully works. You can now drag elements outside the document as in AD, this is great for composing something or make more pages side by side. You can even copy the artboards oder change the size. I didn't know about this feature and thought it's only for AD. Maybe it helps some of you. I like to work with this! For all who don't have AD, here's an empty Artboard document: ArtBoard.afphoto Nat Riddle, Tok', DelN and 2 others 3 2 Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 23, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 23, 2016 Hi m-b, Affinity native file format(s) are compatible between all Affinity apps. There's no need to create a document in Designer and open it in Photo. You can simply work in Designer as usual and if you need to move everything to Photo (History included) go to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo... The inverse is also true. Energeiai, Chris_EFC, ctutt and 2 others 5 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctutt Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Nice tip! Will we ever discover the limit of possibility with Affinity? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Hi m-b, Affinity native file format(s) are compatible between all Affinity apps. There's no need to create a document in Designer and open it in Photo. You can simply work in Designer as usual and if you need to move everything to Photo (History included) go to menu File ▸ Edit in Photo... The inverse is also true. Thanks for the tip! But it would be better to have this 'artboard funktion' in AP, not everybody has AD. Artboard is really nice to work! By the way, when I switch from AD to AP via [Edith Photo in...] and make some Layer Effects on a Jpegs (e.g. a Blur) and go back to AD I get many display errors. Don't no why but it did not really work for me. Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 I added an empty ArtBoard-Document to my post, for all who do not have AffinityDesigner. ArtBoard.afphoto Roger C 1 Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kartr Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 It worked, until AD updated...now I want an artboard in AP but can't. Hope AP gets it's own artboard feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 It worked, until AD updated...now I want an artboard in AP but can't. Hope AP gets it's own artboard feature. …simply open my file and you have an empty artboard, you don't need AD. Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 Are there any reasons why 1.6 still didn't get its own Artboard function? Artboards are really useful, even if you work with photos only. It should be possible to create own Artboards without AD. SLMc and Brian M 2 Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 19 hours ago, m-b said: Are there any reasons why 1.6 still didn't get its own Artboard function? Artboards are really useful, even if you work with photos only. It should be possible to create own Artboards without AD. I agree, it would differentiate it from the competition, no? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 1 hour ago, retrograde said: I agree, it would differentiate it from the competition, no? Sure, but I do not know if Adobe has not already implemented this feature? But the fact is, Artboards are very useful for working! Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger C Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 @m-b This is just the functionality I was after, even though I didn't know it was possible. Suddenly the screen space is five times bigger... Like an enormous virtual desk opening up before my eyes. Perfect. It is so useful to have this in AffinityPhoto. Thank you so much for posting the Artboard file. Quote Affinity Designer & Photo : Win 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-b Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 13 minutes ago, Roger C said: @m-b This is just the functionality I was after, even though I didn't know it was possible. Suddenly the screen space is five times bigger... Like an enormous virtual desk opening up before my eyes. Perfect. It is so useful to have this in AffinityPhoto. Thank you so much for posting the Artboard file. I'm happy if this helps other users who don't have AD. : ) Quote lll3◑ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uffe Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 How do one resize a canvas Affinity Photo when you have two artboards? Rezise Canvas is then greymarked. harkejuice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerous Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 On 5/10/2019 at 5:58 PM, Uffe said: How do one resize a canvas Affinity Photo when you have two artboards? Rezise Canvas is then greymarked. I don't know if you found the answer yet (but probably have). Just copy & resize the artboard as artboards effectively sit on/become the 'canvas'. Also for those without AD you can create artboards in AP by opening a PDF with 2 or more pages. Each page will be an artboard and all you need to do is delete the content (not the artboards), export as a template and you can create new docs with artboards at any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 On 7/24/2022 at 2:20 PM, Dangerous said: I don't know if you found the answer yet (but probably have). Just copy & resize the artboard as artboards effectively sit on/become the 'canvas'. Also for those without AD you can create artboards in AP by opening a PDF with 2 or more pages. Each page will be an artboard and all you need to do is delete the content (not the artboards), export as a template and you can create new docs with artboards at any time. You can add artboards to Affinity Photo at any time using my Mud’s Macro.afmacros library, function “Create Artboard” Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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