Deep Boel

Ps: I usually put (like in photoshop) all my adjustment on layers. This way it's easy to continue working or completely change things without having to start all over again even if i want to do something different one year from now. In the few days I own Affinity on my new computer (no PS on this system) I really enjoy the program. I don't like it i always have to export my images instead of saving if i want to keep my adjustment layers intact and use LR at the same time. But the program is new. I' m sure the developers will find a solution for this ;-) Deep

mystrawberrymonkey My way of working for the moment: I always work from LR. In LR i choose "edit with Affinity". The image opens in Affinity. When i DO NOT ADD layers: I choose save and the image will be returned to LR. When i DO ADD layers: I can either choose for save image/ flatten image or if i want to keep my layers: I choose export. I choose the PSD option. The image is saved as a layered psd image. In LR i choose Library/ synchronise folder (you have to select the right folder first). The image is now visible in LR. When you choose edit in Affinity again, choose the option "edit a copy" or "edit original" and NOT "edit a copy with lightroom adjustment" and the image opens again with layers intact. I hope this helps, Deep

Advanced member, If you save from photoshop a layered image in psd format you can see this image in LR. If you edit this image again from LR into photoshop it will be a layered image again if you choose "edit a copy" or "edit original". This way you can work on your layered image the day after if you want. And the images you work on are available in your LR catalog. Unfortunately this option is not readily available in Affinity. At the moment you can work around this by not saving the image from Affinity but instead export it as a layered tiff. You can import this image again in LR. Lr sees the image and now you can open it from LR to Affinity and it opens like a layered tiff again (as long as you don't choose "edit a copy with lightroom adjustments"). This way you don't have to flatten it and you can work again the day after at your image. The ugly thing with export is that Affinity doesn't remember the location the original image came from. It takes unnecessary time to find the right folder again. A future request would be to have the option to do this from the save menu instead of the export menu only. Or it could be nice if you could choose the original folder in the export option. I hope i make myself clear and if somebody has a better idea? Deep Boel Ps I think Affinity is a very good photo editor!

Hello Peter, I have the same problem. At the moment I export my finished work as a layered tiff. If i choose the same name as the tiff file which was send by Lightroom to Affinity, Lightroom will show the altered file. If it's not the same name you have to synchronise the lightroom folder. It would be nice if we could see the affinity files in lightroom, with a plugin maybe? Or else it would be great if we could choose for saving as a tiff instead. Without the necessity of having to go to the export panel. Anyone with better ideas?