Hi Stokerg,
Thank you so much for the quick reply. After this occurring repeatedly it has suddenly stopped! I'm baffled. I tried to replicate my problem, trying two different ways to get photos from Apple Photo into Affinity by: dragging and dropping from Apple Photo to Affinity and by exporting. I exported both RAW and regular. All is well and I have no clue why that was happening. It feels weird to be using something other than Photoshop after over 20 years but the subscription service is no way to treat long time users. Cheers to Affinity. And my thanks to you Stokerg! I'm pretty sure I'll be back with more questions.