ElBeardo Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted March 23, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 23, 2019 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 C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElBeardo Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 23, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 23, 2019 Hi ElBeardo, Welcome to Affinity Forums ⌘ (cmd) + ⇥ (tab) switches between open applications on your Mac, so the icons (and amount) varies depending on what you have currently open/running on your Mac. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElBeardo Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 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...
ElBeardo Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 Thanks for that R C-R, I have to admit I've never come across it before and have been using Macs for 8-9 years, but am pleased that article says it is not well known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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