A recent change to the way Affinity Photo handles Apple Photos albums is tying me in knots (they don’t reveal the structure of “My Albums” so it’s a jumbled pile of unsorted albums), but I’ve chatted with them and they assure me they’re working on it. You can import from all kinds of cloud services, and you can import directly from Apple Photos. I Can Import from Photos, Why Can’t I Export to Photos?Īffinity Photo has a set of import options. There’s a lot more goodness in this Commands menu, but if you don’t know to flip back to the Photos Persona from Selection, you’ll never be able to find all that goodness. One of them is called Pasteboard, and inside there you’ll find cut, copy and paste. Now you’ll see a completely different set of commands. Tap over to the Photos Persona and tap on the Commands menu again. Those are all swell commands, but what if you want to copy this selection and paste it somewhere else? The only menu at your disposal is the Commands menu and copy and paste aren’t in there. There are also commands for selecting tonal range, hue range, transparency range, and selection as layer. If you’re in the Selection Persona, after you make a selection, the Commands menu will show you select all, deselect, reselect, or invert selection. In each Persona, there’s a Commands menu, designated by 3 dots inside a circle. While a great way to go, there is a little bit of a trick to using them. In order to avoid wee tiny targets for the tools, they moved all of the selection tools into a separate Persona from the rest of the standard Photo Persona tools. Serif Labs designed Affinity Photo for iPad to accommodate our fat fingers. Selection Tools Don’t Let Me Copy and Paste This is a very weird way to make an interface, but I hope this tip will get you moving and clear up confusion. As soon as you start adjusting the controls, the switch will turn on automatically. This will not turn on the switch but it will bring up the controls on the bottom of the screen. After you open the Layer Effects Studio, don’t tap the switch, just tap the name. There is a way to accomplish this in one tap, but I came across it by accident. You still won’t see a shadow because the radius and offset default to zero but as soon as you change them by dragging your finger on the control or tapping and entering a value, you’ll see the effect. Now the controls will pop up on the bottom of the screen with some default settings. The only way you can tell that something has happened is by tapping on the Layers studio and now that layer will have fx written next to it.Īfter turning on the switch for an effect, tap a second time on the name of the effect. No default shadow is applied and there are no controls to change the shadow. If you tap on the switch next to an effect, for example Outer Shadow, absolutely nothing happens. With the correct layer selected, tapping on fx in the Studios panel on the right brings up the Layer FX studio. From Guassian blurs to glows to shadows and more. The Layer Effects Studio includes 10 different effects you can apply to a layer. While I was teaching it, I realized I’d figured out a few tricks to how to effectively use the tool. Last weekend I presented at SMOG (Southern California Macintosh Owners | Users Group). I’ve done my two part series on it, I’ve created a 45 minute screencast for ScreenCasts Online (not out yet) and I’ve started doing the user group circuit to demonstrate its awesomeness. Affinity Photo for iPad is a glorious app.
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