Joergen Geerds

Callum, Maybe this cen be put into the feature request list for the next release? honor/use the same tif compression as the original? or turn it off completely, since IMO tif compression was something useful in the last century, but not in 2023 anymore...

I have the following workflow, and it worked OK-ish in v1.9.2, but I am stumbling with v2.1 and need help 1. drag tif (flat, no transparency) into affinity photo 2.1, or use the open with command 2. layer/live projection/equirect -> 3. do edits 4. remove projection 5. documents/flatten 6. control-s (should save as tif) problems: 1. along the way of this workflow, affinity creates a layer from the (flat) background. control-s (save) claims the doc contains non-pixel data and wants to save layers (despite the flatten command). layered tif or affinity doc are my only options, neither is what i need/want. (the layered tif is twice the size of the original, and opening it in photoshop shows no additional layers or channels) (lock background on import is off in the preferences) 2. export is cumbersome, and exports the file as name.tiff (the original is name.tif) (the idea is to overwrite the original name.tif without additional interactions. having a name.tiff next to the original name.tif is bad (see below for reasons)) question 1: what steps do I need to take to flatten the layers down to a flat background so control-s (save) overwrites my original file? question 2: how can i disable zip/lzw tif compression for this workflow? (I know in export i can select no compression, but where do i set this option for the regular save tif?) why am I asking? I have to deal with 10s, or 100s of tif files that need small fixes, where I spend less than 1-2 minutes in each file to edit them, save, and move on to the next. any additional dialog box, or something that isn't a simple keyboard shortcut is a great distraction to the workflow. advice is greatly appreciated

clean plates for (360) video... "destructive editing" is the name of the game... since i've been doing photoshop work since 1992, i kinda know what i am doing, and not afraid to commit to changing pixels for those tasks right now. it is the kind of work where you need to be fast and efficient to get of things quickly in the file

between 10sec and 5min per file... mostly in batches of 20 files at a time

I am sorry, but going through the export menu is utterly impractical if you are working with 100s of tiffs for clean plates. why is it so hard to simply save the file with the same settings it was opened?

how to reproduce: 1. open uncompressed tiff in affinity photo 2. do some work (no layers, just flat background 3. hit control-s 4. wait for the file to finish saving. can take a while. 5. check the tiff compression in photoshop: confirmed that the file is now saved with zip compression extra bonus bug: don't try to close the file while it is saving. affinity has no knowledge that it is saving the file right now, and will ask you if you want to close or save the file, despite that it is busy saving it. I can not imagine how much wasted time this creates when trying so save larger files as tiffs

small update: affinity saves tiff files with zip compression, without giving the user a choice to turn off compression. tiff zip compression is incredible slow and basically inefficient, and i rather worked in uncompressed tiffs. any way to change this default behaviour?

1.10.4 (win10) instantly crashes when engaging layer->equirect on a 8k/16bit tiff. I had to go back to 1.9.2 (again) to continue working. any word from the dev team if this is something being look into? (affinity just closes without any error message)

same thing here, i had to revert to 1.9.x 1.10.x was crashing constantly and instantly (win10, i7-8700k, 64GB, 1080TI+1080)

I just counted it: it takes 3 (three) times pressing ctrl-s to get the [modified] tag in the file name header in the window bar removed. even if the [modified] tag is gone, closing the file still prompts the "the file is modified, are you sure you want to close it" dialog box. it would be nice if the devs could look at this and fix it.

Yes, still starting with flat tif files. no dialog box about flattening the file, since there are no layers etc in the file. same problem when I do File > Save, as mentioned.

There is definitely a bug in the 1.9x (win10) version: I can use ctrl-s, then ctrl-w, and it would still prompt me that the doc isn't saved. i can go to the menu, select "save", then select "close doc" and it would prompt me that the doc is unsaved. i can hit ctrl-s several times, and eventually it will recognize that it is saved and allow me to close it. (the files are only 6x3k 16bit and tiny)

use case: I often have to use layer->live projection->equirectangular Feature requests: 1. hold down shift snaps the view port to 30 or 45deg values while picking a view 2. tab goes from heading to pitch to FOV (entering values and jumping to the next input field by pressing tab) currently: tab doesn't go to FOV

Dear Walt, thanks for the clarification. It seems like only the "save as" doesn't allow any other format. it would be great to see this workflow option a bit better laid out in the user experience

use case: I am editing 16 bit tiff files. open, edit, export as tif, close i do not need, nor do i have the intention for those to ever save the affinity file as a user, i need to go to export, select tif, click and select to overwrite the orig source tif, confirm overwrite, close the window, and confirm again that i don't want to save the affinity file. these are a lot of extra steps if you are working with 10s or 100s of tif that need to be worked on. in comparison, i can open a tif in photoshop, edit, save and close, with far less clicks and interactions with the app. feature request: abandon the save/save as for only affinity files, and bring parts of the export functionality into the save/save as UX