bpfoto Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I know this feature has been requested before (macros/actions), but it's not quite there yet for my needs. With the 1.5 update, Affinity Photo does have a basic macro recording function now, but it still does not eliminate the need for Photoshop from my workflow until I can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to the macros for rapid playback! I've been very impressed with Affinity Photo so far, and I really want to see it become a "Photoshop Killer"! I work in entertainment press photography, and we typically edit around 100-200 photos a night from an average movie premiere/event, or up to 1000 photos from a major awards show. We work at a rapid pace and on very tight deadlines, so speed is critical. My typical workflow in Photoshop ... - I need to be able to eyeball every single photo in a set and make rapid corrections with a series of keyboard shortcuts. Batch processing might work for some jobs, but looking at every single photo to make adjustments quickly is also frequently needed. - I usually open 200 photos in Photoshop at a time (Photoshop's limit) in a cascading stack, then do corrections to levels, sharpness, and maybe slight color correction if needed. - Save/close the file as JPEG 8, 300dpi at 3000x2000 px (Saved while closing the file with COMMAND-W on Mac) - Repeat until I'm done with all 200, and then work on an addition 200 files if needed - Then caption all the photos with the name of the person/people using Photo Mechanic What I would love to see in Affinity Photo is the same rapid editing ability that Photoshop has. For example, I would love to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to macros/actions that do something like the following: CTRL-SHIFT-F1 - Auto Brightness/Contrast CTRL-SHIFT-F2 - Brighten 10% CTRL-SHIFT-F3 - Brighten 20% CTRL-SHIFT-F4 - Auto Color Temp CTRL-SHIFT-F5 - De-Orange CTRL-SHIFT-F6 - De-Blue CTRL-SHIFT-F7 - Auto Sharpen CTRL-SHIFT-F8 - Sharpen 10% CTRL-SHIFT-F9 - Sharpen 20% CTRL-ALT-L - Last Used Level Adjustment CTRL-ALT-C - Last Used Color Correction CTRL-ALT-U - Last Used Sharpness Adjustment I think you get the idea :-) Another feature I would love to see is IPTC data creation/editing (or even basic awareness, passthrough). It's not an absolute must for me, since I use Photo Mechanic, which does an amazing job. However, I would not like to have a situation pop up where maybe I need to go back and do a quick edit to a file that has already been captioned in Photo Mechanic, but Affinity Photo doesn't save the existing IPTC data that's already in the file (ie. strips that info out). That would be "no bueno"! Thanks for listening! cadobir 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkClown Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I have to agree. Assigning keyboard shortcuts to a dedicated macro would be really helpful!Cheers, Timo Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
userexperience Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 I can't agree with you more.I believe with I will have a better user experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizring Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I cast my vote for this. Would love to assign keyboard shortcuts to macros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Miller Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 I agree. Without being able to assign function keys to Macros, Affinity is near worthless to me. My Photoshop Actions are thus: F2: Brightness +5% F3: Contrast +5% F4: Shadows up +5% F5: Less Yellow F6: More Yellow F7: Sepia F8: Saturation up +5% F9: Shrink for Social Media F10: Save When you have 600 wedding photos to touch up, toggling through menus and sliders takes way too much out of my mouse hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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