Michail

There is a similar report:

If I had a wish, I would not wish for an on/off switch, but for the preview to be displayed more quickly . The usual formats take between less than 1 second (JPEG) and 6 seconds (PDF) for a 13 MP image. But GIF takes the cake. The preview lasts a whopping 42 seconds.

Your file also causes crashes for me. This has not happened with my own files so far. How was the graphic created? I have the impression that a pixel graphic was vectorised. Possibly the many small artefacts confuse the App.

I would suggest making a post in the Feedback & Suggestions forum: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions/

As far as I know, that is not possible. Just out of curiosity: why do you want to hide the export preview? Perhaps the export via the Export Persona is an alternative for you.

@sb101: Can you be a bit more specific about what you are doing and what exactly is not working?

Have you perhaps changed the size during export and switched off proportionality in the process ?

Only critical problems caused by operating system updates are eliminated:

I was just reacting to your concerns. I would provide all three options. A raster warning (see @Corgi) is already given in Affinity Photo on other occasions.

Perhaps that is an explanation. But then Serif could simply omit the pixel variant when changing again. Then there would only be the choice between linked and embedded.

That makes Serif's decision all the more incomprehensible!

No one would be forced to do it! The possibility of non-destructive editing of JPEG or TIFF images would only become apparent when one explicitly switches to the Develop Persona. But that would only work if this output choice were available after switching to the Develop Persona (see point 1. in my OP). But it sounds like Serif doesn't intend to do that.

See my last post:

I have appreciated in certain cases that it is possible in Photoshop (or other converters) to also develop JPEGs or TIFFs. They may not have the colour depth of RAWs. But you can fall back on the concentrated RAW setting when editing. All the editing elements are in one place. Outside the converter, the functions are scattered all over the interface or not there at all.

It is not about RAW files! It is currently not possible to edit non-RAW files non-destructively.

Yes, PSD levels are actually interpreted. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that was always the case. For me, this is a good realisation

So then my guess was right. But it is interesting what you write about Photoshop. If the layer implementation is PSD files, then Affinity Photo should be able to display layers in Photoshop files, because Photo can interpret PSD. As far as I know, however, Photo cannot display layers of files created with Photoshop.

If this were the case, you would not be able to open such a TIFF file with any other image editing apps. Unless layers are completely ignored by all other apps.

I am not sure if these are discovered bugs or feature requests: The choice of the output method for RAW files (embedded or linked) is only possible when opening the file for the first time. After that, you can get back to the Develop Persona by double-clicking on the RAW layer or by clicking on the "Develop Persona" button in the toolbar. However, the output selection options are then missing. Is this intentional? Due to point "1." it is not possible to non-destructively edit non-RAW files in the Develop Persona. RAW layers are not visually marked as such. Only "RAW" appears when you move the mouse over the icon area. But a RAW layer should be clearly and permanently highlighted. I would suggest a marker instead of a symbol - for example, a colored corner or something similar. This is also necessary because double-clicking on the thumbnail of a normal layer, triggers a zoom action.

A little more level, please! You're not on Twitter here!

It's a bit more complicated in Windows: Press [Shift]+[Alt] and draw a line at any angle. However, I am not sure if this is how the developers intended it.

@smazou: The author apparently created the video on a Mac. In Windows, the Ctrl key does not seem to work. It looks like it's a bug. Are you on Windows?

It seems to work in Windows:

@Chris B: Possibly the cause for the delayed opening of RAW files are the new output options in the Develop persona. Even if the output is set as pixel layer, the implementation of this function alone could be the cause of this delay. But this is only a guess.

@Pšenda: You're trying to be funny, aren't you?!