Are Publisher Edited Items stored in Apple Photos

[2Lloyd]

I have not purchased Publisher or any Affinity product yet and am a Photoshop Elements (PE) user. Much of what I do with the PE editor looks like simple desktop publishing (see attached). Using this Adobe Product (PE) has become problematic because it is becoming very slow and because the Time Machine backup causes files to become disconnected .

 

My questions are:

1. Will Apple Photos be useable as the database or organizer for documents created in Affinity Publisher?
2. The uploaded image is an Adobe PSD file with layers. Can I select it in Apple Photos and then select Publisher as the App to continue editing it?
3. Or do I export this PSD file and import into Publisher?

[stokerg]

Hi 2Lloyd and Welcome to the Forums,

17 hours ago, 2Lloyd said:

Will Apple Photos be useable as the database or organizer for documents created in Affinity Publisher?

No the native .afpub file as Apple doesn't support those.  If you exported something out as an image or PDF format you'd be able to add those to Apple Photos.

17 hours ago, 2Lloyd said:

The uploaded image is an Adobe PSD file with layers. Can I select it in Apple Photos and then select Publisher as the App to continue editing it?

If you right click the PSD file in Apple Photos and select Edit With>Other and you can add Affinity Publisher to the list and then select Edit With>Affinity Publisher and the file will be opened in Publisher.

I'd suggest checking out the trial of Publisher from here: https://affinity.serif.com/publisher/trial

[2Lloyd]

I have bought Affinity Photo and see that I can share an edited image to Apple Photo but it is stored as a jpeg. Apple Photo does then act, sort of, as a database (at least I know what I have created and can look for the afphoto version with Affinity Photo); but if I need to need to find an afphoto format files later (and I am guessing it is similar in publisher) with Affinity Photo apparently I depend on looking for descriptive names in the Pictures folder?

Does the Affinity suite support finding afphoto files in ways we normally search such as key words or a date sort?

I do simple "publishing" sort of work (see attached). Maybe I will find greater happiness with your Publisher and will explore this.

 

 

 

[R C-R]

16 hours ago, 2Lloyd said:

Does the Affinity suite support finding afphoto files in ways we normally search such as key words or a date sort?

Only to the extent that Spotlight-based searches would (via the search box in the Open File window). Affinity cannot add IPTC, XPM, etc. keywords but if they are included from other sources, the appropriate Spotlight search will find them. Affinity on Macs does support adding MacOS Tags, but not automatically, so if you add them manually the search box can be used for that as well.

So for example, you could create "smart folders" (actually saved searches) to find files that meet any combination of a huge number of search attributes the Spotlight search engine indexes. To do this, you have to start a search in Finder (not Affinity) & use the + button to open the list of available attributes. (Most attributes are accessed through the "Other" option.) Once you set up the attributes you want, use the Save button to create the smart folder. It can then be added to the open file sidebar so it is accessible from within Affinity.

Of course, it may be a lot simpler to use something like XnViewMP as sort of a 'front end' search engine & metadata editor.