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WesternNights

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  1. Spent a little bit more time with this. The culprit is an (inactive) displacement live filter used in the document. After removing it file size is down to <8MB when saving with V2. If I had to debug this I'd first look for some bug/behavior change related to storing displacement maps introduced sometime between 2017 and now. But being a coder myself: might of course also be something more complex/convoluted. Definitely doesn't look right though.
  2. Just checked this with the last v1 version I had available here (1.10.5). This version already showed the same behavior as v2, so the change that triggers bigger file sizes must have occured earlier than that. The original (smaller) file has been saved in 2017 with a then current v1 version, but I can't tell anymore which version that might have been. I uploaded the file to the Dropbox for further inspection together with a brief issue description. Would be great if going forward there was an option to get the old behavior back at least optionally - provided that doesn't break anything. With larger, more complex images than the example an almost 50% reduction in file size would be quite helpful.
  3. Saving under a different name or in a different folder makes no difference. Could still be some unintended leftover data, of course. Although that would be so amateurish (I happen to be a programmer myself) that I'd consider it quite unlikely. Guess I'll have to take a closer look at the file structure if there is no explanation. Not that it matters too much with today's disk sizes, but on the other hand an almost 66% increase in file size still looks like unnecessary bloat. Photoshop can (at least in the last version I know) save files that keep compatibility with older PS versios at the cost of file size, so something like that was my first guess here. But since there is no related option in the settings menu, that's also not overly likely.
  4. I just noticed that a v1 .afphoto file with a bunch of effects and layers has a much larger file size after saving with v2 (v1: 8.7 MB, v2: 14.3 MB). No changes were made, the file was just opened and saved immediately afterwards. Is this normal behavior? Maybe some 'maintain compatibility' option simular to Photoshop? Couldn't find anything like that in the settings though. Edit: OS is Windows in case that matters somehow.
  5. @ fd101: I have no idea what your profession is. What I know however is that I would not presume to be able to lecture you about it, it's usually better to only talk about things one really has profound knowledge of. Have a nice day and stay safe.
  6. Only if you consider literally every game developer on this planet 'very specialized'.
  7. Just adding my voice here. Bought Affinity Photo two years ago and still never use it except for some occasional checking for no other reason than the missing DDS export. Come on, guys, that can't be so hard. All you need is available as open source without any commercial restrictions. Alternatively, as Marcel Offermans suggests, let us help, e.g. by providing an export plugin interface. We (and you) would have a DDS exporter in no time.
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