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Rant about Affinity Photo -adding an image as new layer
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My apologies, sir
-Mr. Affinity P.
Because you’re placing an image into your project. Makes sense to me.
@tja yeah, that "Place" thing is "Photoshop Speak" (in German, they call it "platzieren" I think). Totally baffling to me as well. I guess "import" sounds too technical to the average errr, artist 😉
With all respect to you @tja - but, have you ever heard the phrase RTFM?
Both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer has enough intuition for normally users (earlier experiences from photo apps)...
Beginners should not start with Affinity... Better start with MS Paint-like apps... ;-)
In the pro DTP world, ‘place’ is usually what is used (as it is the most meaningful) to denote placing the text onto the art board. The text is/may have been already imported, but hasn’t been placed anywhere yet. Placing the text in a column (or to create a column) will flow the text to the limit, then an overflow action will occur (either sprout new columns or load the cursor with ‘text’ ready to place it further).
Ian – (several decades of QuarkXpress for monthly magazines, and in the latter years of my print stint, FrameMaker for several years, then InDesign too)
@tja: Last time I remember talking to the graphics intern, I was almost screaming at her why her adorable Photoshop (which was very expensive!) didn't have a friggin' IMPORT feature, when she came back to me a few hours later "I found out what you mean, is it PLATZIEREN???", so I guess I'm right
Well Photoshop and Illustrator use place, so I guess it’s a standard for professional users.
I feel your pain, belieeeeeeeve me. “Place” is fairly common in Adobe land, often referring to placing a document or file within another document/canvas/artboard. I’m not mad at it, but It’s also been a part of my day to day for many years. There’s another one, too. A spin-off; “Paste in PLACE.” That one is a real doozy out of the gate.
Wish I coulda saved you the frustration ahead of time with this info but it’s never too late....? The easiest route I’ve found to P L A C E
an image is to envoke slide over with your photos/files/safari/etc app and Affinity, then just drag and drop that image right into the canvas and be done with it. Dragon drop! Try that and it might help ease any residual pain from before!
See, that's why I use stuff for graphics and layout work that's 5 times cheaper than Adobe products, the download is 20 times smaller, the software is 10 times faster, has 3 times less bugs, and uses unprofessional terminology, such as "import"
(Xara Designer Pro 
)
Sorry to be a pest!
I recently picked up Affinity Photo and I have to agree with @tja . I do appreciate that Serif have made a more “fully featured” app modeled after PS but I think that’s where they’ve gone wrong.. I’ve been using Photoshop professionally for years and although it’s plenty powerful and a staple amongst designers, artists and photographers, I wouldn’t say that Adobe make very intuitive software. Affinity Photo also has taken a desktop-like GUI and put it on a touchscreen, while not taking advantage of the device itself. Pixelmator is leagues ahead in terms of UI.. it actually works intuitively and well on the iPad, it’s just missing some deeper editing abilities sadly (hopefully that will change).
Don’t get me wrong, Affinity Photo is great and I have no regrets buying it, but the menu-diving sucks and they could certainly trim some fat off of the app.
And yes “import” is the only option that makes sense.
Is it weird that I’ve never “placed” anything in Photoshop...
No worries! I’m an old-timer as well. I always start with copy / paste....that didn’t work?....drag and drop....then if that doesn’t work....menu diving. Open, insert, import, those are all logical terms for certain.
I could be wrong, but it seems like Photo compositing software didn't always use that "Place" term. Maybe it used to be "import" or something like that.
I think that the term "place" kind of migrated over from publishing software like Pagemaker, Quark, InDesign, etc. where you were "placing" an image into a document.
So, if someone hasn't used later versions of Photo compositing software, I can see how the "place" term could be unfamiliar.
@tja congrats on ProCamera, trust me, I've tried ALL "professional" camera apps and that one is by far the best for manual settings, usable UI and those lovely Lux+ modes are just stunning. I've got countless noise-free and crisp deep-night shots from that. Amazing.
Other than that, I don't do a lot of design on the iPad, most is done on the desktop using aforementioned Xara software. They got much worse since they've been bought by Magix, but it's still bearable.
This should be the mantra for the age:
My rant was also based on the whole series of disappointments
Photoshop is such an industry standard, and I believe the idea behind Affinity was that it's a Photoshop alternative. It was ported to iOS. Most PS users, myself included, appreciate the similarities, making it quicker to get up to speed. Before buying and getting into a complex program, it's wise to learn some basics about it. See where it comes from and who it's primarily designed for. For someone with no Photoshop experience, there's going to be a learning curve.
But yeah, it seems @tja is celebrating "Rant Day" today anyway. "My Cubasis 2 second too long mixdown was also based on a whole series of mixdowns and downmixes"