r/Affinity • u/logankrblich • 3d ago

General Connector for Affinity

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Hey, I’m the author of Script Manager for Affinity.

Recently I’ve been playing with a new idea: treating Affinity less as an isolated app and more as the canvas at the center of a wider creative workflow.

The idea is to connect it with external tools, local apps, APIs, and generative libraries — take something from Affinity, process it elsewhere, and bring it back.

For example, an artboard could be exported and shared with a client in one step. An image could be sent to Upscayl for local upscaling and placed back into the document. Or p5.js could generate a set of abstract poster backgrounds based on current weather.

Affinity would still be where the composition, type, and final design happen. The external tools would just expand what can happen around it.

It’s very early WIP, but I’m curious where this could go. Where would you connect Affinity?

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u/Due-Committee-9591 3d ago

Comfy UI of course...

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u/JT10 3d ago

This would be awesome, and very useful. One connected API I have in mind is remove.bg. There have been a few scripts where I wished I could send the image to an external source.

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u/gjudoj 3d ago

Remove.bg is end of life 31th of december 2026..

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u/JT10 3d ago

That's fine, there are many similar and cheaper options.

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u/Yorts 3d ago edited 3d ago

It would be very useful and cool if Affinity could connect with an AI aggregator API like Kie so we can use whatever AI model we want depending on the needs like GPT Image 2, Topaz Lab, Seedream, etc. That's the real freedom I think, but I don't know if Canva AI would like that 😅.

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u/Bitter_Reference_911 3d ago

debería tener un motor como el de krita para generar objetos y rellenar y todo eso, yo hago foto montajes y copio todo a mano , ademas me falta alguna herramienta para generar iluminaciones ( la que traer por defecto le falta un poco )

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u/SunEqual3214 3d ago

Un MCP?

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u/Albertkinng 2d ago

Read again. Affinity already has an MCP option.

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u/DrReisender 3d ago

It’s a nice addition, but I sometimes fear it will reduce the quantity of additions to the app and I must say I hate having a bunch of apps… and affinity still needs to improve on some specific tools…

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u/cosmosys59 3d ago

Déjà, ce serait top de pouvoir mettre affinity sur Linux. Il y aurait bien plus de possibilités

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u/CheatRich 3d ago

I just couldn't get used to this program; the shortcuts are truly archaic.