Placing content allows you to include images and Affinity (Designer, Photo, etc.), Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand or PDF documents into your current document without the need to open each file in turn. You can add as a new layer directly from cloud storage (iCloud, Dropbox, etc.), local storage (On My iPad), Apple's Photos app, or even from email messages.
About placing content
Once you've opened your image/document, you can place additional content.
Some useful tips when placing content include:
For images, the placed image is added as an image layer rather than a pixel layer. This allows the original image data (e.g., the native resolution, colour space and colour profile) to be kept. Some brush operations (e.g., retouching) will automatically rasterise image layers to the document resolution; inpainting or selection manipulation on an image layer will require manual rasterisation via the Commands menu. You can control automatic rasterisation behaviour using the Assistant. On export to PDF, the image data is re-embedded into the PDF file.
For an Affinity document, PDF or PSD file, it will be listed in the Layers panel as an 'Embedded document'.
The added content can be rasterised at any time via the Layers Studio.
The file's embedded colour profile will always be converted to the document's current working space.
For unprofiled placed images, the colour space is assumed to be RGB.
Some brush operations will automatically rasterise image layers to the document resolution.
To place content:
On the Photo Persona, open the Commands Menu and tap Place.
On the pop-up menu, tap Place from Photos or Place from Cloud. Use the latter to access local storage via the On My iPad location.
Navigate to, select, then tap your image file.
Do one of the following:
Tap to place the content at its native size.
Drag on the page to set the size and position of the content.
To place content: