CleverGirl

YES!! Thank you so much! That was the information I was missing to understand why my photos were coming up differently in between apps. I kept trying to send photos to people from the Photos app, which left me with the lower quality. Disappointing, but *most* photos were fine with that quality. I found that, in Affinity, I can click SAVE with the option save the layers and that will send my edited photo over to the Photos app, but if I EXPORT the photo from Affinity AS a .TIFF file and save in a separate place(like a desktop folder), I can upload .TIFF files to GooglePhotos and it preserves the quality(no soft, blurry faces!). Thank you everyone for your help! I'm still learning how to edit properly, so I don't do a lot the "easy way" with editing. Knowing that my unnecessarily challenging edits aren't also being wasted by a low quality save job is keeping me from a lot of tears. I really do appreciate it! 🙇‍♀️

I think I'm not sure what you mean by Apple Photos vs Photos. This is the photos application I have that I use. When I click right click from Photos, I can edit in Affinity, and it shows up at a .tiff file. When I click "save" in Affinity photos, it saves it as a .tiff file to this application. It is the only app I have to view photos, outside of Preview and Affinity.

Hi there! Photos are lower quality/blurry on the Photos app on an Apple laptop, even if I do not export or convert the photo.

I'm honestly not sure if I did it exactly the way you described, but here's both photos, open in Affinity. Edited: Just figured out what you said. When they're both open in affinity, at 100%, the quality is the same. It's just when I'm zoomed out that it doesn't look good. 2nd edit: A secondary(maybe the same?) issue I'm having is that when I edit and save a photo as a .tiff file, when I view it in photos, the quality is low like a jpeg. Is there a viewer I should be using instead so I'm able to send photos to people at the higher quality that they have in Affinity? Or do I just have to deal with photos looking great in Affinity and just lower quality no matter what when saved? Like

Yes. How do I do that? Like, what should the information look like when posting a reference like this?

Hello! Was there ever a solution for this particular problem? I'm having the same one. I'll upload an example photo for reference on the issue.