Add Assets Panel From Designer to Photo

[jcalsos]

 

I'm doing some Digital speed painting in Photo and I developed a workaround for the lack of a custom shapes tool like the one in Photoshop. I Lay out my rough sketch and colors in Photo, then I go to File > Edit in Designer, where I have set up some categories in the Assets Panel for my custom shapes. I have to place a few of my textures and shapes into the canvas and then I have to go back to File > Edit in Photo. Once I'm back in Photo I can use the Mesh Warp Tool to warp the textures how I want them.

My request is to have the Assets panel in Photo also so I don't have to jump back and forth. That way I can add and warp all in the same program. Sometimes once I start to warp the textures I notice that I forgot something and I have to jump back over to Designer just to grab a single texture, then back to Photo to warp. For speed painting, it's a pretty big step to add to the workflow.

If the Assets Panel is added to Photo, I don't think that there will be a need for a Custom Shapes Tool.

[Move Along People]

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[jcalsos]

Thanks, those sound like good options too. Though, I don't know if they would be much if at all faster. Either way, it kinda takes me out of my flow. The workflow I mentioned works for now. It's actually very quick to bounce between the two programs as long as they're both open. I just thought I would make a suggestion that I think a lot of people would like.

I'm also looking forward to a vector Mesh warp for Designer and non-destructive perspective feature in Photo that would allow embedded documents to remain embedded instead of rasterizing them. Those would be neat to have.

[supermundane]

Bumping this.

I would ideally like to see Affinity Photo implement a similar workflow to Photoshop for the creation and use of Custom Shapes. It provides a very accelerated workflow for illustrators and concept artists.

 

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, supermundane said:

Bumping this.

If by "this" you mean adding the Assets panel to Photo, it's there already in 1.7.3.

[jcalsos]

5 hours ago, supermundane said:

Bumping this.

I would ideally like to see Affinity Photo implement a similar workflow to Photoshop for the creation and use of Custom Shapes. It provides a very accelerated workflow for illustrators and concept artists.

 

When I posted this originally there was no asset panel in Photo but thay have since added it. I use it exactly the way I used to use the custom shapes from Photoshop. Try it I like it way better than custom shapes because it can be multi-colored or flat monochrome. You can even save raster objects if you want. The next thing we need is a way to trace raster shapes and make them vector. 

Right now I just trace objects in Inkscape and bring them into Affinity then save them to the asset panel.

[jcalsos]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

If by "this" you mean adding the Assets panel to Photo, it's there already in 1.7.3.

I think supermundane means a way to make the custom shapes. Currently, there's no way to make a raster object into a vector shape without manually tracing it.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, jcalsos said:

Currently, there's no way to make a raster object into a vector shape without manually tracing it.

True, but one can easily make custom shapes using the vector tools in Photo. And save them in the Assets panel, as you've noted

(I really wasn't sure what supermundane meant by "this" since the topic started out asking about the Assets panel but also took some side tracks after that.)