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Have to agree with HaDAk. This is something I do ALL THE TIME in Photoshop, define a size in pixels and then cut out a recatngle with that size from a bunch of photos. Or sometimes define a ratio (H:W) rather than exact size. My employer have recently forced me to switch to Affinity because of Adobe's prices, but I would very much appreciate to be able to predefine the marquee size as with Adobe programs.

Hi MEB, Thanks for clarifying. I get that, and I always used Bridge + Camera RAW + Photoshop before I had LR. The difference is that when I have gone through that process with Camera RAW I still have the same RAW file (which I can open in any other program) + a puny xmp file of a few kb that allows me to go back and tweak the developing at any time, continuing right where I left off. I just assumed that Affinity worked along the same principle and was very surprised to find that in order to save my edits in a form that allows me to go back and continue to work on the photo where I left off, I have to save in a format that is an order of magnitude larger than the original RAW. Seems like a very odd solution to me, and I'm afraid it will disqualify an otherwise very nice program as my first choice.

Thank you Lee for these suggestions, but I don't think it would solve my problem. Saving as 8-bit I would throw out most of the information and miss the advantage of working with RAW. The file can only be opened with Affinity, so to retain the flexibility to be able to work on the images in other programs I would still have to save the original RAW file. This significantly increases the amount of storage space and also complicates the organization, having to keep track of two (or three if I want a final JPEG as well) versions of each photo. I may still use Affinity occasionally – it seems to have a number of nice features – but can't see how I could use it for my everyday workflow.

Just started to check out Affinity as a possible replacement to Lightroom and have a very basic question. I'm used to save all my RAW files, import them into LR, make adjustments and then export selected photos as JPEGs. My RAWs stays untouched if I want to go back and make new adjustments. Whatever I do in LR is stored separately in a tiny file, so that I don't need to duplicate the actual photo. Thus I have the original RAW and the modified image when I look at the RAW in LR and it takes very little extra space compared to saving just the RAWs. When I have tried Affinity and want to save what I have done it creates a monstrous .afphoto file (a 113 MB file from a 15 MB RAW original). This won't work as a standard way to save my photos. If I work on the RAW and export as JPEG when I'm done I could save the original RAW and the JPEG, but that would mean that I would have to do all developing and adjustments over again if I want to make a slight modification of the photo. I must be missing something here. What is a normal work flow when shooting RAW and building a photo library gradually over time?