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Yes, I think... however, you can have ALL your images in catalogs with a footprint and reasonable preview size to carry say on your laptop - e.g. I have one (1TB) (of several) external hard drives with more than 100k images at roughly 8GB file with 2048px previews on the long side. I don't know the 'inner workings' and capabilities/ portabilities of Adobe Bridge though... Just an alternative of DAM handling I found and like...

Meanwhile I'm using Neofinder 7, inexpensive, fast, and compact... recommend! :)

Well, selecting View/Media Browser... shows me my images (jpg, NEF, ORF, etc) EXCEPT the native .afphoto images - by design or bug?

After reading your post, I checked and opened 5 images at once and can verify the 'disorder' in the tabs. I agree they should be in the order the user intents them to be...

Hello, retired, photo hobbyist. Lived in the US but now living on my boat in the Caribbean.... B) . Affinity Photo is my first venture into 'pixel editing' software, until now my main editing software is Capture One 9.2 (latest release). Because of my environment I am restricted to the use of my Macbook Pro retina only. So far I am very impressed with my new software and can already see it opening a whole new world of image manipulating possibilities for me. (Taking the Udemy learning courses right now) I am VERY curious to see the promised offering of a DAM solution to complement the current Affinity line of products!

Hey, yes, that is a good question! I just discovered Affinity Photo and purchased it. Until now my workflow is/was, - Ingesting with Photo Mechanic 5 (PM5) or tethered with Capture One pro 9 (COP9) - Raw converter and 'enhancements' with COP9 in session mode - Media pro 1.5 for "DAM" of the various external hard drives (archives). For the current work in progress I rely on memory which session contains what image set I'm not done with - not the best solution but as I'm just a hobbyist it works. If I get lost I have picasa to quickly browse my hard drive and find a picture to work on (I restricted it to only stay current with my pictures folder where all my current images are stored). I too am curious to see what Affinity will be able to come up with in that department and hope they DON'T try to integrate it with AP and or AD - compatible yes but please not in one program...lol. Meanwhile I ran across a software called 'Photo supreme' http://www.idimager.com/WP/?page_id=20-which I'm on a 30 day trial. I like it. However, it is VERY picky and strictly adheres to the xmp protocol for metadata handling giving me some trouble with my existing metadata as other software apparently is - let's say a bit more loose in its implementation. Very flexible and powerful DAM if you are willing to spent the time and effort to learn and commit to it as a sole metadata handler! As with all programs, one has to first let your head wrap around its requirements and than use it as intended - thats my hope at least. So, I'm quite busy in 2 new avenues ( Affinity Photo for pixel editing and Photo Supreme to get a bit more organization into my messy collection of images). Oh, and to answer your question about AP integration into the workflow, for me there are two possible points of integration, a-) after COP9 to modify an image that can't be done with COP9 and b-) parallel to COP9 as raw developer and editor depending what your intentions with certain image are. Cheers, and I hope that helps a bit... Franz

Ok, thank you. So, if I understand this right, resizing a document is like rescaling a photo fit a certain print size on paper, while if I resize the canvas only, I will clip or leave a border like in a crop?

Hello everyone :) Absolute new to 'pixel editing' software like Affinity photo, which I downloaded the 10 day trial. (Have been working with Aperture, Photo Mechanic, Capture One pro, etc. for a while...) I'm trying to wrap my head around the difference between canvas and document (re)-sizing when editing a photo? When I open a photo through right clicking it opens in a new document with a given canvas size... When would you have to change the document size and when a canvas size change is called for? Thanks for any help in what seems to be a basic question!