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Using Publisher only as a combined Designer/Photo app


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Hi everyone,

quickly right off the bat: Well done! I think Publisher looks like a great app for DTP and I assume it's only going to get better, like Designer and Photo did.

My question however is not about the new features of Publisher but about its Studio Link functionality, integrating the Desginer and Photo personas. I'm often in the situation where I'm working on a screen layout in Designer and I need to quickly retouch an image I just added, So I need to do the "Edit in Photo …" dance, adjust a part of my photo, then "Edit in Designer …". That this kind of workflow exists at all is already a huge help, but it'll open a new app and reload the document and maybe I lose my place or I need to hunt for something I had just selected. It's certainly not as seamless as Studio Link seems to be.

So now since Publisher has the Designer and Photo personas built in, I'm thinking: Could I do all my design work in Publisher, mainly staying in the Designer persona and only switching over to the Photo persona when needed? This would certainly streamline my workflow, as I only need the secondary personas of Designer and Photo rarely, mainly in the very beginning or the very end of my process. Are the personas integrated into Publisher in a fully featured way? Do I get all the things I'm used to from the Designer Persona in Affinity Designer and the Photo Persona from Affinity Photo? Are there any limitations when it comes to Artboards, global colors, symbols, constraints etc.?

Kind reagrds
-- Alina

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I'm not sure about Designer, but certainly in the Photo Persona you don't get the full functionality of using Photo itself.

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I understand that the Photo Persona in Publisher isn't a fully featured copy of Affinity Photo. I'm just asking about the Photo Persona. How far away is Publisher's Photo Persona from Affinity Photo's Photo Persona? (And respectively how far away is Publisher's Designer Persona from Affinity Designer's Designer Persona?)

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4 minutes ago, lastfuture said:

How far away is Publisher's Photo Persona from Affinity Photo's Photo Persona? 

Not far at all.  It should have what you need to justify working in Publisher

I plan on starting my next website design project in Publisher, working mainly in its Photo & Designer personas but utilising such things as Master Pages, Spell Checker & Tables etc found only in Publisher. I'm looking forward to seeing how that workflow works for me.

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1 hour ago, toutou123 said:

what do punctuation, spelling, and grammar have to do with Brexit negotiations?

Any excuse to not bother with correcting mistakes. For example I don't bother with making corrections on any day whose name ends with a 'y'.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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2 hours ago, toutou123 said:

You don't get the liquify, Develop, tone mapping, and export personas from photo and designer.  That's the only drawback that I know of so far.

I believe HDR merge, panorama and the like are missing from the File menu.

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5 minutes ago, fde101 said:

I believe HDR merge, panorama and the like are missing from the File menu.

Yes, and using plugins. But those may come soon.

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