caracinous Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Hi all, I recently moved on from PS to Affinity Photo and I really like this program. But, I am still a newbie. I use AP mainly to create graphics which I can add to my videos, such as e.g. titles. It works all very well for me except that I can't figure out whether there is a way to add guiding safe markers to the desktop/canvas so I can place my graphics within the video safe area? PS has this little but very helpful extra. Can AP do that, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 9, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 9, 2018 Hi caracinous, Welcome to the forums! Under View>Guides Manager you can create custom guide lines for your document for you to work within. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caracinous Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 Hi Dan, thank you very much. Is there a trick/way to safe the guide line settings, so they automatically appear with every new project I start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 11, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 11, 2018 No problem at all, unfortunately this isn't a current feature but it has been requested previously by a few users here and we hope to implement this in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 What you could do as a workaround is to create empty document templates with the appropriate pixel dimensions & safe area guides for the video format(s) you use, & duplicate that for each new project. Depending on your OS, you could set the file system attributes of these template files to locked or stationary to prevent accidentally overwriting one with project file content. Dan C 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caracinous Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) Hi Dan C and R C-R. Thank you for your feedback. @ R C-R: I am not sure if this (see below) is what you meant but last night I found something out by accident. A very lucky accident, though. I still had an empty, transparent TIFF picture with UHD dimensions I once generated in Photoshop with video safe markers on my HDD. I clicked it with the right mouse button (Windows System) and opened it in Affinity Photo just to see what would happen. It opened as a transparent canvas/graphic with the original PS markers included. Awesome!!! They are really just guiding lines - I was a bit worried the lines would become part of the picture when I export it from Affinity but this didn't happen. When I export it as a .TIFF file with alpha channel, the guidelines disappear. PERFECT!!! This works for me. I simply just always open the old TIFF once generated in PS and go from there. I added the original PS .TIFF and hope this discovery is of some help for other Affinity users. 4K_transparent_template_with_guidelines.tif Edited July 13, 2018 by caracinous Added file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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