Michael Sheaver Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I would like to begin a design project on iPad (Pro 12.9, iOS 11), save it to iCloud Drive, and continue work on it in either Designer or Photo on my Mac (macOS 10.13). My first attempt at this shows this to be finicky, so my guess is that I'm not doing something right. How I finally got my first attempt to work was: In Photo on iPad, save as PSD to iCloud drive Open in Photo on Mac Save as afphoto file Open in Designer on Mac Does anybody have a better workflow that will work better than this? Is it best to create the initial file on iOS as a document or a project? Yes, I am an extreme noob to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted September 29, 2017 Staff Share Posted September 29, 2017 You can install the Customer beta's of Designer and Photo on your mac and then you can save as a .afphoto on your iPad and then open this file in the beta's on your Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave2017 Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 5 hours ago, DWright said: You can install the Customer beta's of Designer and Photo on your mac and then you can save as a .afphoto on your iPad and then open this file in the beta's on your Mac. I don't quite understand why you are recommending beta versions of AD and AP. Doesn't the OP have versions of the latest versions on his machine, or are the required features only in the betas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted September 29, 2017 Staff Share Posted September 29, 2017 The iPad using build 1.6 while the current Mac store version is 1.5 and sometime it is unable to open files saved in 1.6, the customer beta are 1.6 and can open the files directly and this will keep your layers and history for your photos. The Mac store version will be updated to 1.6 later on in the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sheaver Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 I have been using the beta releases of both Designer and Photo on macOS for a couple weeks now, and they are both really stable and usable. The only real "glitches" I have seen is really small stuff, like the thumbnails in the layers panel being slow to update when doing and undoing geometric operations. As a side note, I enabled Metal graphics on both apps, and the response and performance is simply amazing! There is almost no blocky behavior when quickly moving around or zooming in and out. Now back to the topic at hand, so, the key is to save the project as a .afphoto on the iPad. I had assumed that a project is automatically saved as .afphoto, but that is not the case. Thanks for all your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gard Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I believe you can use "Save a Copy" to save to a .afphoto file. Gard jairoebl and Michael Sheaver 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sheaver Posted November 8, 2017 Author Share Posted November 8, 2017 18 hours ago, Gard said: I believe you can use "Save a Copy" to save to a .afphoto file. Gard Great, and many thanks for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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