Hi,
I've been experimenting with Apple Photos + Affinity Photo as an alternative to using Adobe Lightroom, but I've run into a snag.
I can open an image in Affinity Photo that has been imported into Apple Photos (via the Photos media shortcut in the File Chooser window) and edit it. But when I save the (flattened) image back to Apple Photos, the image isn't updated there. The thumbnails never seem to update, but sometimes if I double-click the image, it might show a weird version of the edited image. If, for example, I've cropped (to a square aspect) and toned the image, I'll see the toned changes, but the cropped image will be scaled up to fill the original images aspect ratio, instead of displaying at the correct aspect.
If I export the image from Apple Photos, however, I get the correct version with all of my edits.
Does anyone know if this is an Apple bug, an Affinity bug, or both? Is there a workaround to trigger Apple Photos to update the images?
An alternative workflow I've tried is developing and editing the images in Affinity Photo first, exporting them to JPEG, and then importing them into Apple Photos as a final step. When I do this, however, the photo is filed under the time it was imported, not the time it was shot (if I import the RAW files directly into Apple Photos it is correctly filed under the time it was shot). I'm shooting on a Fuji X-T1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like to get away from Lightroom.
∴ Evan
That seems to work sporadically for me. Some of my edits are now showing up (after opening the images in Edit mode in Apple Photos several hours ago). Some of the images are still not showing my changes, so either that trick doesn't work consistently, or Photos has discarded some of my changes. I thought I was seeing an issue previously where if I edited an image in Photos after making changes in Affinity, Photos would overwrite my changes. Although that may have just been lag that I seem to be experiencing when opening the image in Edit mode in Apple Photos.