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Hi I just bought the iPad version. On importing photos from my camera roll / Apple default photo app, I see no exif info in the metadata section. Is there a bug or there is some settings to do? I have tried a few photos including one that is shot directly from the iPad to no avail (see attached).
 
I just realised, after a few trials, that the only way exif will show up, is when we import from iCloud etc, but not directly from Apple Photo apps. 
 
Maybe this is the limitation of Apple iOS environment, but this, and the fact that we cannot export from Affinity Photo directly into Apple Photo in iOS, might not be convenient for some (me included). Looks like we need to use an external storage as the bridging medium.
 
I hope Affinity will find a way to improve this.

I too have tried and would really like to find a way to open photos from either Apple Photos or iCloud Photos, edit them, then place them back with metadata intact. I have tried on both the Mac version and iPad in AP with no success. Thanks for your help, love the programs.

Actually, it is too bad that Serif did not do the Help file as a .pdf from the beginning so hopefully they will be thankful that such a task has been done by a faithful user of the product so that other users can have a file that they can use and read from other mediums. Now if you were selling this as it is in its current state, then likely there would be an issue. Personally, I am thankful for all the tutorials, the .pdf and the help from other users of Affinity Photo and as soon as I am more comfortable with the product I will be able to better use it for my limited needs.

The work you have done for all of us is phenomenal. I have a quick suggestion, if and when you update the pdf file. Put a Cover Page on the pdf, so that it is easily identifiable in the Mac Finder (with a thumbnail preview); on an iPad (where, in Grid View, the thumbnail is visible but not the title); and, I presume, in Windows Explorer as well (although I do not routinely use Windows).
 
This is a wonderful piece of work. A graphic-based Cover Page would enhance it ever so much. Thanks in advance!

I have produced a pdf version of the Affinity Photo manual that you can read without starting the program. It can be interesting to put it on your phone or tablet to read when you have some time to spare. Since the file is too big to upload here, I have put it on Dropbox for you to download. It is current for the last version of Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed. Here is the link:
 
https://dropbox.com/s/d3uxmmypdx9ruzw/Affinity%20Photo%20Manual.pdf?dl=0
 
 

Yes thanks for that. You are quite right. It's not necessarily printed material I want so much as 'static' material that doesn't need scanning back and forth and stopping and starting. I am very happy indeed with a PDF onscreen for example.

Affinity's Help files are far better than most. I find them invaluable. But, as you point out they need to be searched, and that's a question of reader and writer using parallel terms. As a user, trying to discover something you don't know, you may be unsure of the correct term you are looking for. Often I draw a blank in the Search box and just open the index and look for where I hope what I need might be found and take it from there. 

Just my 2¢ on this but both Affinity apps are still evolving at a rapid rate, adding features & changing (usually just a bit) how a few of the existing ones work. So any physical, printed manual will likely not be comprehensive for long, if at all. Another thing to consider about printed manuals is they rarely cover all the languages an app supports, so if English is not your native or preferred language, you may not get as much out of it as you might hope for.
 
Electronic manuals can eliminate or at least minimize these drawbacks, as well as including interactive features & videos. In this respect, the built-in help system is better than many users think, but the biggest problem with that is finding what you are looking for often isn't easy. Apparently, that is at least partially due to how Apple indexes help topics in OS X, but it would be great if the Affinity folks could improve the search results ... somehow.

Perhaps I am spoiled. I've used every version of Photoshop up to CS6 since before v1.0 (I was a beta user back in 1989). And once Affinity Photo supports macros and batch processing I likely will stop using Photoshop altogether. Having used image editing programs for as long as I have it is clear to me that the engineers for AP and AD "get it". For most things I can just intuit where the feature I want is and sure enough it ends up easy to discover. Again, easy for me. Likely not easy for a beginner. So yes, documentation is needed. Yet the free videos supplied by Serif are a superb resource. As much as I have a ton of experience with image editing, I have watched every single Serif support video multiple times. Each time receiving a little bit more insight. So my take is that the more you invest the more you will be rewarded. The fact is, there is no "hurry" here -- if you can't produce quality images with Photoshop you won't be able to produce quality images in Affinity Photo -- and vice versa. I'm a big fan of rewarding those who stick their necks out. In this case, Serif has done just that and I feel they deserve the kudos due them.
 
YMMV
 
Michael

Affinity Photo Staff question - from a timeline perspective, is this Workbook scheduled for 1.5 or 1.6? Thanks.