A couple of questions

[Renee_G]

Brand new to Affinity Photo. I'm very used to photoshop and of course, there is a learning curve with Affinity. 

Here are my questions from just an afternoon working with Affinity Photo:

1. Where can I see the size of the file as I continue to add layers? Photoshop creates huge files and I can always see the size. I'm not sure where to look to find this information.

2. When working with two images and taking parts of each to a new creation how do I take one of the images out of the main screen so it off to the side alone?

3. I imported a photoshop document that had a pattern overlay. The overlay did not show up and I'm not finding pattern overlays. Are there pattern overlays?

4. When I save a document several things. I'm not getting an option to save it as a jpeg, tiff, png, pdf with layers. How do I do this?  Also when I save the file I title the file and when it saves I do not see a thumbnail of what I've worked on. On my desktop, everything is showing with the affinity logo. It is so much easier to see what I've worked on by the image instead of the affinity logo. Is this how everything saves?

5. Color picker. I must be doing something wrong. I have not figured out how to pick a color of one part of my photo to add to something else, be that text or a shape or anything.  How do I use the color picker and can I pick a color from one window to the one I'm working on if I have two things open at once for example.

 

Thanks for the help. I've tried searching on the forums for these questions and I'm not really finding what I'm looking for.

Renee

[R C-R]

Please let us know if you are using a Mac or Windows PC because the answers to some of your questions will be different, depending on that. That said:

1. There is no file size until the document is saved. How large it will be depends on several factors that vary from save to save. So there is no way to see how large it will be until it is saved. To see that, check the file size in Finder or Explorer.

2. Drag the image layers to wherever you want with the Move Tool. However, if you move one off the canvas, it will not be visible. If you are trying to do something else, please describe it more fully.

3. There are no Photoshop type pattern overlays in Affinity Photo. You may be able to simulate them using the Gradient Tool to fill a vector shape with a bitmap fill.

4. Use File > Export or the Export Persona to export your work to different file formats. Whether you see thumbnails in Finder or Explorer windows depends on the view settings of Mac OS or Windows.

5. To use the eyedropper color picker that appears in the Color panel & elsewhere, drag it over the color you want to pick & release the mouse button. This can be anywhere on the screen. The picked color appears in the small round color sample next to the eyedropper. Click that small sample to set the current primary or secondary, or fill or stroke color, depending on the context. For more about the Color Panel, refer to its help topic.

[John Rostron]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

1. There is no file size until the document is saved. ...To see that, check the file size in Finder or Explorer.

@Renee_G

If you are using File > Export, then the dialog box will tell you the estimated file size. As you change the jpeg quality, the filesize will change.

John

[Renee_G]

Thank you. I'm using a mac. I'll keep practicing as I know there is a learning curve the above ones while simple had me confused.  For my question #2 I'll figure out a better way to explain what I like.

 

Thanks again!

Renee

[walt.farrell]

For your #2 question, since you're on a Mac perhaps you need to be working in Separated Mode, so the image windows are free-floating and you can have parts of multiple images visible at the same time.

[Renee_G]

I was thinking that might help. I hit separated mode and it took everything apart instead of just the one I was wanting to move. I'll just continue to work with things and it will help.

Thanks again,

Renee