Adding Notes to an image

[Tripack Droned]

Good Evening to all! I'm trying to transfer away from Adobe and solely use Affinity. I do a lot of restoration and always include notes found on the back of the image and other relevant history, is that possible on Affinity Photo?

Thanks for any replies in advance!

Tripack

[R C-R]

You could add a frame text layer, add the notes to that & hide the layer, or in Affinity Photo you could add the notes to the Description field of the EXIF studio panel, but this is something better handled with a different app with DAM capabilities.

[hifred]

Adobe uses it's pdf-Notes in Photoshop (which also appear in pdfs exported from Photoshop). I utilize that feature a lot, e.g. with E-commerce images I process (to collect preliminary product data along with the stack of images). It would be very helpful if Serif hooked up a similar feature + there's a variety of 3rd party pdf editors which read and write such comments.

[Tripack Droned]

Thankyou hi Fred, very welcome.

 

[WillBellJr]

I'm here today looking for a similar "Notation" field.

I'm currently using Designer to create icons for my Loupedeck Live.

A couple of months back I had to perform a backup restore due to a browser plugin borking my system, I lost the first configuration I created (didn't know how to export the config at the time),  and I didn't save the individual images - I would just load them into LD as I created them.

 

This time around I've created a nicely organized Designer document, and I'm saving out all the individual PNG images!

The majority of the icons reference websites, or folder / file links on my computer - being able to save a snippet of text on a non-rendering "(sticky) Note" layer would have been perfect for saving the hyperlink associated with each icon.

Yes, I will use a hidden text layer to accomplish similar, but I'd request - please consider;  having say a small colored square icon at the end of a layer (similar to say the Lock symbol), could denote that some informative text is included for that layer - clicking it would pop up a panel revealing the text which can be selected and copied from, or edited.

This way I'm keeping all my icon information in one spot.

What prompted this was I noticed the LoupeDeck was missing an icon on the display this morning (I was doing some export testing and apparently I overwrote a newer version) - I have the icon, but now I have to find the link to that forum post again - having that sticky Note text, would have saved me here!

I'm adding this hyperlink information to my icons now...

 

Thanks for your consideration.

 

-Will

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, WillBellJr said:

I'm currently using Designer

If you're using Designer, and Artboards, you can put notes in a text frame anywhere outside an Artboard, if that helps:

[MJP123]

The text frames aren't as handy as a proper note function. 

I would like to leave notes about where I'm up to / what to do next - so I can remember when I come back to a design. Plus it would be good for jotting ideas down etc 

It could be something very simple 

And maybe something with bullets / check boxes / bold etc. 

[IanGreig]

I would like a notes option in studio (or however) -- to record colour references, client preferences, revisions etc. There are workarounds that have been helpfully shared, but I think Affinity apps should provide for this common need.

[ziplock9000]

I currently have a use for notes too (text frames are not a good solution)

[GarryP]

13 minutes ago, ziplock9000 said:

I currently have a use for notes too (text frames are not a good solution)

This thread is an archived thread for a Question about the V1 software.

The developers don’t, as far as I know, look here for suggestions about new features as V1 is ‘complete’ and won’t be getting new features.

Therefore, adding a new post saying that you want a new feature in this section of the forums is a waste of your time as it will probably be ignored.

If you want to ‘add your voice of support’ for such a feature in V2 then you need to find a relevant thread in the Feedback & Suggestions section of the forums, and ‘add your voice’ to that instead.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

If you want to ‘add your voice of support’ for such a feature in V2 then you need to find a relevant thread in the Feedback & Suggestions section of the forums, and ‘add your voice’ to that instead.

A direct link to that forum is https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions/

It might be a good idea to bookmark it if you intend to add more suggestions in the future.