Turn media folder into clipart library?

[joost]

Why not allow clipart/drawing parts be dragged-dropped into the media folder straight from the drawing. E.g., select a drawing or parts of drawing and drop into media folder so that it becomes available for selection and drop into other drawings later on.  Allows for simple and quick building of ones own library of common shapes and parts.

[MEB]

Hello joost,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

The Media Browser will be improved later to allow you to save your own objects.

Just give devs some time. There's a long list of features to be implemented already ;).

Check our roadmap for more info.

[Archangel]

On 4/11/2015 at 4:47 AM, joost said:

Why not allow clipart/drawing parts be dragged-dropped into the media folder straight from the drawing. E.g., select a drawing or parts of drawing and drop into media folder so that it becomes available for selection and drop into other drawings later on.  Allows for simple and quick building of ones own library of common shapes and parts.

Sounds good. It would be good to be able to import clip art collections we have acquired over the years to be automatically converted to assets for use in Publisher, Designer and Photo. It can of course be done manually but if we have a lot of images then it becomes extremely laborious.

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, Michael S Harvey said:

Sounds good. It would be good to be able to import clip art collections we have acquired over the years to be automatically converted to assets for use in Publisher, Designer and Photo. It can of course be done manually but if we have a lot of images then it becomes extremely laborious.

Note that in the intervening 6 years since the prior comment, the Media Browser is completely gone.

If you really want a collection of items as assets, you could:

1. In Photo, File > New Stack. Turn off the alignment options.
2. Click Add and select a bunch of items. Click OK. Now you have a document with each item as its own layer.
3. Click a layer in the Layers panel, then in the Assets panel select the right sub-category. Click on the Panel Preferences icon (hamburger icon) and choose Add from Selection. Repeat for other layers.

When you're done you'll need to export your Assets category, and import it into the other applications.

[Archangel]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Note that in the intervening 6 years since the prior comment, the Media Browser is completely gone.

If you really want a collection of items as assets, you could:

1. In Photo, File > New Stack. Turn off the alignment options.
2. Click Add and select a bunch of items. Click OK. Now you have a document with each item as its own layer.
3. Click a layer in the Layers panel, then in the Assets panel select the right sub-category. Click on the Panel Preferences icon (hamburger icon) and choose Add from Selection. Repeat for other layers.

When you're done you'll need to export your Assets category, and import it into the other applications.

Nice idea. Unfortunately it won't work with vector images.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Michael S Harvey said:

Nice idea. Unfortunately it won't work with vector images.

Drat. Sorry.