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I am new to Affinity and am just learning how to use it on my Mac. I have just watched the video called "Creating a Photo Collage". In that when the presenter adds a second image to the collage there appears a panel with 3 icons on it, Affinity Beta, Question and Finder. He clicks Finder and then drags and drops the image into Affinity. No explanation is given of how he got this panel. For the third image he again goes straight into Finder and drags and drops. Can somebody please explain how this feature is activated?

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Hi ElBeardo,

Welcome to the forums!

Are you referring to the 3 icons that appear at 1:36? If so then I believe this is just the Alt + Tab menu on Mac I think if you just hold tab it will appear.

Thanks

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Thanks for that Callum, on mine not Alt + Tab, but Cmd + Tab. Does what is shown in video and allows drag and drop from Finder. I'm also getting 5 icons, the 2 additional ones being Safari and Sophos (Virus Detection). I'm assuming this is because video was made with older version of Affinity.

Again thanks for help

 

ElBeardo

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Thanks for that MEB. Affinity is new software to me, I've been using Photoshop for 15+ years and only bought Affinity at the beginning of the week at the Photo Show. I've spent several hours watching videos and experimenting to see how I do things in Affinity that I do regularly in Photoshop. First impressions are very positive and if anything I'm achieving better results with Affinity. It is a steep learning curve so I expect I will be scanning videos and the Forum for some time to come.

Thanks again for info

ElBeardo

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Hi @ElBeardo,

FWIW this feature of the Mac OS is called the Application Switcher. As explained in this article, it can do more things than just switching between apps.

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