Linking custom content across apps

Custom content you have created in Affinity or imported from an add-on file is normally available in one app.

With a couple of taps, you can link custom content to all Affinity V2 (or later) apps on the same device.

You can manually link individual content categories containing assets, brushes, look-up tables or styles and individual application palettes, or choose for newly created or imported content categories or application palettes to be automatically linked.

Linked content statuses

Categories and application palettes that are linked or were installed via your Account display one of the following icons next to their name in the relevant panel's category/palette list:

Editing linked content

When a linked category or palette is edited in one Affinity app, the changes are automatically reflected in your other Affinity apps on the same device, avoiding the concern that it might be outdated in some of them.

Duplicating linked content

When a linked category or palette is duplicated, the new copy is unlinked, i.e. it is unaffected by editing the original category or palette. You might use this, for example, to create a further customized version of an assets category for use only in one app.

Deleting linked content

When a linked category or palette is deleted in an Affinity app, it is deleted only from that app. It remains linked in other Affinity apps until it is deleted from all but one of them.

For example, you might want a palette that is optimized for a CMYK workflow to be linked in Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, but not in Affinity Photo 2 if you use it exclusively for RGB documents. In Affinity Photo 2, you might duplicate the linked CMYK palette to create an unlinked copy of it, delete the unwanted CMYK palette, and then optimize the unlinked copy for your RGB workflow.

To link/duplicate/delete a category or palette

Content type To link, duplicate or delete
Assets

On the Assets panel:

  1. Select a category.
  2. Select Link Category, Duplicate Category or Delete Category from the Panel Preferences menu as required.
Brushes

On the Brushes panel:

  1. Select a category.
  2. Select Link Category, Duplicate Category or Remove Category from the Panel Preferences menu as required.
LUTs (Look-up tables)

On the Adjustments panel:

  1. Select LUT from the Categories pop-up menu.
  2. From a LUT category's Options menu, select Link Category, Duplicate Category or Delete Category as required.
Styles

On the Layer FX panel:

  1. Tap Styles.
  2. Select a category.
  3. Select Link Category, Duplicate Category or Delete Category from the Panel Preferences menu as required.
Swatches palettes

On the Color panel:

  1. Tap Swatches.
  2. Select an application palette.
  3. Select Link Palette, Duplicate Palette or Remove Palette from the Panel Preferences menu as required.

Document templates

Document templates are made available in multiple Affinity 2 iPad apps by adding their containing folder to the New Document dialog of each one separately.

Fonts

Fonts installed into one Affinity 2 iPad app are automatically available in all Affinity 2 iPad apps on the same device.

Macros

Macros are available only in Affinity Photo 2 and so macro categories cannot be linked to other Affinity apps.

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