Scanning Within Affinity Designer

[photoadele]

There is no way to Aquire the scanner into Design. You can do this in Affinity Photo, but it would be great to save this additional step by allowing Design to access the scanners.

Thanks!

[watercolorwowow]

Agreed.

[John Rostron]

Scanners will generate bitmaps. What would you want to do with a bitmap imported into Designer?

John

[Tau Myx]

42 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

Scanners will generate bitmaps. What would you want to do with a bitmap imported into Designer?

John

As far as I have seen, most designer art originates as pencil drawings.  So you scan in and trace.

Edited July 11, 2019 by Tau Myx

[John Rostron]

2 hours ago, Tau Myx said:

As far as I have seen, most designer art originates as pencil drawings.  So you scan in and trace.

Shows that I am not a designer.

John

[John Rostron]

What I do with scanning into Photo on Windows is this (I'm sure there is an equivalent for Mac):

1. I have Affinity Photo as the default program to open tiff files.
2. I use VueScan to scan my images and then save to a convenient location (often a Temp folder).
3. When the file is saved by VueScan, it will then open automatically in Affinity Photo.

This process is only marginally slower than scanning directly from Photo. If you set Designer as the default program to open tiffs, then it would open in Designer. I'm sure it would also work with any other scanner software.

John