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21 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Apple Photos is the app you have circled on your Dock. Affinity Photo (note that "Photo" in the app name is not pluralized) is the Affinity one.

The two apps will display the file in your screenshot differently, in part because it is not a TIFF file, which you can tell by the "ARW" suffix in the Apple Photos Info window & by the "RAW" label in the upper righthand corner of the main Apple Photos window. ARW is a Sony RAW image file format, which must be 'developed' into a tangible image before it can be displayed.

When you use 'Edit With..." in Apple Photos, it renders the RAW file & sends a tiff version of it to Affinity Photo. Depending on the version of Apple Photos that you have, I think the only way to open the actual RAW ARW file in Affinity Photo is to use File > Export > Unmodified Original in Apple Photos, & then open the exported version in Affinity Photo, which will open into the Develop Persona of Affinity Photo.

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! 🙇‍♀️

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15 minutes ago, R C-R said:

In Apple Photos, open the Info panel window (Windows > Info menu item) & select one of the photos. What are the pixel dimensions shown in that window? Compare that to the size of the photo if you double-click on it to view it by itself in the Photos.app window. If its dimensions are smaller than that window then it will be blown up to fill it, so it will appear blurry.

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.

 

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2 hours ago, R C-R said:

Do you mean the Apple Photos app or the Affinity Photo app? 

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. 

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33 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Open original image in Affinity, 100%, Screenshot.

Export image, open exported image back in Affinity, 100%, Screenshot.

Then compare.

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? 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Wouldn't it be good to provide a sample of the same size? And when displaying 100% (pixel image to pixel monitor).

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

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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.