Nilla's Photography

@Gnobelix Many thanks! That also looks great - do you guys want to edit all my photos for me, ha, ha? :-) I've built a new website (not live yet) to replace my 7-year old site and have to re-select photos and edit once more - I'll have around 4 to 500 images. The photos I edited whilst travelling in South America and randomly uploading in internet cafes, aren't up to scratch, so have a lot of work. I didn't even know about the Assistant Manager, so reading up on this also now. I'll have a go at reproducing this image again taking into consideration both of your suggestions. Thanks again @Gnobelix and @AffinityFran for your guidance.

Wow! Thank you and I'm amazed you were able to replicate the auto function. I have a lot to learn about PP and AF - like I said, I really do not like playing around in PP. Thank you for your feedback - not bad for handheld, no flash, and loads of movement. :-) Thank you so much again - very much appreciated.

Ok, thanks - shared. DSC_1488.NEF

Yes it is and why I'm posting this question - thanks for your help. Like I've mentioned in another thread, I really don't like PP at all and do the bare minimal only - I've spent hours on this image trying to get the same results and researching why I can't seem to get similar results as Elements. The RAW file is 25.9MB. I've not shared my RAW files before and I'm not on the Cloud (and don't want to be), so what's the best way to share this file?

Hi, My RAW files don't have as good an output to jpg using AP as when I use Adobe PS Elements Editor. I'm sure it's because when I open a RAW file in Adobe, it auto applies adjustments. I've applied many adjustments to try and get the same result but still my flames are burnt out in AP and the whole image doesn't look as good as the Adobe jpg. File DSC_1488b1 is with Adobe File DSC_1488w1 is with AP Any ideas? Many thanks

Not really so I am none the wiser. I haven't done your test yet as I've been working on building my new site so stopped editing photos.

@IanSG - Sorry for the confusion I mentioned 2 different files in this support ticket. The 1.4GB file was not OK as each time I tried to save this it crashed and displayed the "Saved failed..." message. However, after closing my machine down, the following day I was able to open the 1.4GB file, then rename and save this file successfully, but during this process, the file saved as 274.4MB (not the blown out 1.4GB). Thanks for the reset tip. @carl123 - My point exactly as I like to keep the AF source files, especially if I have to go in and resize for a particular print size, which could then result in further minor tweaks. I've done much research online and the consensus is that continually opening and editing within the same jpg reduces the jpgs quality each time. So it's best to go back into a source file and make changes there then re-export as a new jpg. Not all my images are RAW files. After closing my machine down I since opened and re-saved the 560MB file with a different name and it saved again successfully, but reduced to 260.2MB. Maybe AF does hang on to data in the background and I need to close machine completely when issues occur. @Oval Thanks for suggestion and will have to try this test. @R C-R That makes a lot of sense and thank you for the in-depth explanation! Many thanks to everyone that helped - great support!

Thanks all, for your help! This is what happened last night: @Oval- tested with a different name and it saved as exactly the same file size. @IanSG - not sure about this one, maybe @R C-R - So the problem is that as the file didn't save correctly but still is 1.4GB, when I open it from my external drive, it asks to open a recovery file, then doesn't allow me to save or rename then save, etc. But when I try to save the recovery file with a different name, I get the "Save failed as access to the document was lost" message. When I copy the file from external drive to local and open it, although it's still 1.4GB, the image reverts to the original without any changes (as present in the recovery file) - this is bizarre. I would have thought if it was the original file, then it should be a much smaller size? Also, I zoomed in and can't really see a lot of colour variations as you mentioned. This is today's update: I was able to open the recovery document (1.4GB file) from my external drive then rename and save it successfully back to the external drive. The file is now 274.4MB. Perhaps as @IanSG suggested that AF hangs onto disk space somehow and it's not until you close down your machine completely that this is released? Although no longer saved at 1.4GB and has reduced to 274.4MB - still a large file. Other questions/suggestion: I ran First Aid on my laptop and external drive, both are OK. By resetting the app, do you mean uninstalling/reinstalling? Is there a temp file that I can salvage the recovery file from? Is it best just to export the jpg and not save the source Afphoto file? At this rate, I'm going to run out of external drive space. As more and more users work from external drives or devices without a lot of storage, it would be great if AF could adapt the application to users' requirements. It's a pain continually moving files from external drive, to local drive, back to external all the time.

Hi @IanSG, not in these cases as they are new files I've saved to work in from scratch. These are jpgs I'm working with at the moment not RAW files. So, typically: Import the jpg>'Save as' to an afphoto file>make edits (minimal as above)>Export to new jpg>Close and save afphoto file.

These photos are B&W plus one Sepia toned as I scanned these from photos, not negatives, so not sure how to check this? Just to add to my last comment and on further testing of several afphoto files: When saving with RGB (16 Bit) color format, I have no problems saving the file, it's just a massive file. When I've gone into that same RGB (16 Bit) file that I had no problems saving and changed the color format to RGB (8 Bit) so as to reduce the file size, I am unable to save the file as the "Save failed as access to the document was lost" message displays. I'm using the same laptop and external drive for both files, so it's not the external drive as in another AF forum discussion. Could it be that AF's RGB (8 Bit) option has a bug? Think this is a different issue though.

Size: 7953x10729px No history saved, but layers are still saved, so double-clicking these: Live high pass: Radius 11.3px, Monochrome, Linear Light Contrast: 25% Unsharp Mask: Radius 0 (strange as I usually set this to 1px), Factor 0.624 I have another file that's blown out to 1.4GB (in Finder) but this one keeps crashing and when opened in recovery mode, won't allow a "Save" or "Save As" displaying: "Save failed as access to the document was lost" message displays. I've compared a couple last year's afphoto files to the ones I've been working on the last few days and you are correct, last years are saved in RGB (8 Bit) but this years are saved with RGB (16 BIT). Can this be a reason for the dramatic change of file size?

Color Format is set to RGB (8bit) I've never used the 'Save History With Document' option, just use the 'Save As' option. Opened a couple of afphoto files and there isn't any history, although Layers are there. Is there another setting somewhere that saves the history? Many thanks for your help.

Thanks for the suggestion @gdenby, but at 30% greater of my original jpg file this would only be around 50MB - this aphoto file for the original jpg saved as 561.5MB! Thanks for the explanation @R C-R although I think that something has changed in my settings - perhaps after an upgrade? I don't remember changing anything. Reason I say this is that my afphoto files of April last year were only around 15-20MB for an original jpg of 7-10MB. But now, the files are massive. As I mentioned, I don't do a lot of PP and previous to buying AF, I used PS Elements as this covered everything I needed. I did not have this issue using Elements. Perhaps I shouldn't save the afphoto file as at this rate I'm going to be using up my 2TB external drive in no time at all. Is there anything in my Preferences dialogue box above that could be pushing the file size out? Thanks again for your help.

Hi, Contrast, clarity, High pass, cropping - I don't like post-production so do minimal. It's the afphoto file that's massive, from 38.8MB to 561.5MB, not the exported jpg.

Hi, My original scanned jpg file is 38.7MB and when exported (Bicubic and at 90% Quality) the file reduces to 26MB. However, my Affinity Photo file saves as a massive 561.5MB. How can I reduce this file and still retain my edits in AF? (I'm on a MACBook Air with 2TB Seagate external drive) Many thanks Edit: Just uploaded my Preferences, maybe there's something here that I can set to reduce the afphoto file when saved? I'd like to save my edits but not in such a massive file.

Hi, Thanks for your response. I did select the "Questions" option for this post, but for some reason it hasn't carried through. I will have to ask the print lab as I need one image for several sizes. Lightroom allows to select 300 DPI without creating different document sizes and copying and re-sizing the image into that document as demonstrated in AP video. No, I'm not using SmugMug, I looked into this but decided against this plug-in as I need to use another plug-in that compresses files for website viewing but retains the original file to auto send to the print lab.

I'm building a replacement website for my 7-year-old outdated site and need to edit my photos for this new platform. 1. For a photography site that retains large files for automatically sending to the print lab and as the file can be printed at varying sizes (on paper, canvas, etc.), should I save a file at it's original size but at a 300DPI? As these are photos taken over many years with different types of cameras, some images may be 72DPI, others higher, also many are from film cameras. 2. If all need to be saved as 300DPI for optimal printing, then what is the best way to save the file without resizing the original file? (I'm new to AP.) (My site displays optimised file sizes for website speed, so don't need duplicated files.) Many thanks

I've just started using AP and I'm having the same issues. For example, my RAW file is 29.2MB but editing in AP and saving in .afphoto the file increases to 338.7MB. The exported .jpg file is 8.6MB when saved as Lanczoc3, 100% quality. This can't be the size of a saved .afphoto file, can it?