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Would be fine if the APhoto OSX QuickLook-addon would also show the associated Exif info for .afphoto files in the finder.

EXIF data is lost when sharing images to Apple Photos from Affinity Photo 1.6.6 using File > Share > Add to Photos, please retain this data.

Experimenting with the use of Affinity Photo 1.6.6 for developing raw files, I discovered the camera/lens metadata seems to be missing from the saved .afphoto files. Is this the intended behavior? When I export a JPG, the exif data is present. I'm reading this in my DAM, Photo Supreme, which seems to be one of the few mac applications capable of creating a thumbnail image from the native .afphoto file. Thanks in advance for your answer Bob

I noticed that embedded metadata of an exported jpg image are modified by the Affinity Photo trial version (Windows). Obviously MakerNotes are stripped. That worries me in particular with my sweep panorama pictures of my Sony digicam. I assume that Sony MakerNotes must be evaluated to display a sweep panorama correctly. Unfortunately my trial version expired and I could not check this :-(. My question: is this sweep panorama function affected by AP ? Any experience with AP 1.6. exports of Sony sweep panoramas? TIA

Using the trial version of Affinity Photo I recognized that AP 1.6 is modifying the embedded metadata on export of a jpeg image. Mainly the MakerNotes have been deleted. This worries me because perhaps I can not show anymore sweep panoramas on my Sony TV. I assume that the slide show function of the TV evaluates certain MakerNotes of an image. However I could not verify that because my trial period was too short and has expired meanwhile :-( Who of you AP experts have experience with sweep panoramas and can (or cannot) confirm that AP does not affect this function at all? TIA

Hello, great tool. I've got AP trial (version 1.6.0.89). The EFIF-Tab shows "n/a" at all entries after opening any file. So with jpegs and raws of different cameras (canon & panasonic). Starting the app as admin doesn't help. Exeption rule on the anti virus tool doesn't help. Installing program in a different folder on d:\ doesn't help. I know inbetween that it concerns the tool exiftool.exe in the resources folder. Couldn't find more help or topics. Addidtional: I work with photoshop (elements for private use and CC in job). May I add a wish for the developers to copy a helpful workflow from photoshop: Increase / decrease brush size by moving mouse left/right while pressing ALT and right mousebutton. Also increase / decrease brush hardness by moving mouse up/down while pressing ALT and right mousebutton. Meaning all types of brushes such as clone brush, paint brush, dodge brush and so on. Certainly a huge wish, but would be definitively an immense help. Collegues always applause, when I show them this trick on photoshop. (Should I create a separate content for this?) Sorry about my english. It's not my first language. Greetings... Juergen.

Hello, I am testing the trial version of Affinity (v 1.6.0.89) to develop RAW files from my Fujifilm X10 camera (.RAF files). When I open the file, the EXIF data is not loaded (all fields are set to "n/d" on EXIF panel). With other software the exif is correctly displayed. Is there a support for Exif data for this specific camera in Affinity ? Regards,

Am I missing something? Im trying a simple workflow: 1. Open a photo from Photos 2. Edit 3. Save back to Photos (export - share) However I try the resultant file loses all EXIF data. This is rendering Affinity almost useless for my as its breaking The way my library is organised. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? any help appreciated

Hey folks, actually I am very upset at the moment cause I have to repair manually lot of the data from my photos made from my trip in Scotland. Actually I use the raw development from my Panasonic data and this kills and messes up everything in the EXIF. E.g. the GPS data that is recorded well in the jpeg and the .rw2 file from the cam. I open the rw2 and develop with affinity photo and long story short... after the export to jpeg again the GPS data is "modified" means that the longitude is changed from west to east ??? WHY!? Finally all of my pics have been shot in the middle of the north sea now... great! Another thing is the time stamp in the file.. After editing, developing, editing and exporting to Jpeg I place the photos to the Macintosh app Photos to use as library After the import of the files the mess begins... all photos are mixed up and not anymore in the right order. I hit CMD+I for the information ... the timestamp seems to be correct. I dabble click the time to check the timezone ... and it is f***** up.. no time zone and a time which has nothing to do with the original and neither with the editing Maybe someone have an idea how to fix it for the future... now I have edited all timestamps and gps data manually which took me some days what I want to avoid in future...

Installed the app recently and I'm impressed what's possible on the iPad Pro. I have selected to preserve the metadata but when I export a photo all is visible except for ISO value. Any idea as to how I can fix this?

Hi there, are you considering to really support a mobile professional workflow? Coming from a job (e.g. wedding), I have thousands of raw images which I have to go through and select the best ones to be edited. Back home, I would like to store them on my NAS and synchronize a specific folder with my iPad. I could then do the culling on the roads, e.g. sitting in a train (offline). Back home, the ratings should again be synchronized to my NAS so I can start editing the best ones on my iMac. Edited photos should then be synchronized via NAS to my iPad, so I can show them to customers... I definitely want to sync via NAS, because I easily end up with more than 100GB of images after a wedding. There must not be any cloud storage involved because this slows down the entire process! Additionally, for travel photography it would be great to back up to my iPad first while traveling. I could then start rating the images with star ratings and synchronize the result as soon as I am back home. This means I neither have to carry a laptop to choose the best images, nor do I have to wait with the rating and selection of my images until I am at home... For my personal images it would be great if all edited photos could be synced to my photos roll on iMac, iPhone and iPad via NAS (with the time when my images were taken, not when they were edited...) looking forward to hearing from you chris

How do I edit IPTC, EXIF, GPS and XMP data in Affinity Photo? Sorry if this has been asked before. I just bought it and try to process some of my files. All my files (NEF, PSD, TIFF, DNG and JPG formats) have clean and proper embedded metadata (legacy IPTC (IIM), EXIF, GPS and XMP either embedded or in sidecar files). How does AP deal with that? Where can I edit or at least view this data? Can AP edit XMP and other metadata?

I am a full-time professional photographer and I'm very impressed with Affinity Photo for iPad. I believe it could allow myself and other photojournalists, who are often traveling with a lot of gear and transmitting images from the field, to lighten our loads and simplify our editing workflow. However, I need to be able to edit/append photo metadata without having to send the photos back over to my laptop. Specifically, I need to include caption/description, copyright status, location data, and creator/contact info with the files I submit. Currently, there is only one iPad app I know that can do this (Photogene) but it is set to become obsolete as soon as iOS11 is released. I'd love to help develop this app for photojournalists, I think it would be a great tool for many of us. Thanks so much!

After importing Nikon D7000 NEF files into Affinity, several EXIF data are lost, most important (for me) are the GPS data. Almost all IPTC Content data are lost (Title, Headline, Description, Keywords.) If the same files are converted to JPEG before imported, all data are kept.

I have a Nikon D500 with infinity for windows , the exif of my photos ".nef" are empty! Why ? How to get this info?

Hi, why is shown with a RAW file the correct pixel value but in the EXIF another much smaller value shown. See image. Is it a bug? If Jpg-load and persona develop is both to same. Greeting Dieter

The develop persona is using a different size for my RAW photos, that what is recorded in the EXIF. I attach a screenshot. Now, why is that? It makes me lose my confidence for the RAW converter. Having paid €3500 for a camera body, I am after the highest possible quality for the RAW conversion. BTW, if you are trying to reverse engineer proprietary RAW formats that the hardware vendors seem to have disclosed to other software makers, perhaps it would make sense to coordinate and try to push Sony, Canon etc to the right direction. Our photos belong to us.

Hi, when in AP Photo Persona and doing "New Stack...">Add several Nikon NEF files>OK>Export as TIFF (or any other format) It seems like all EXIF data included in the original NEF files is lost (shot with Nikon D5300). I would have expected AP to keep common EXIF fields at least. Thanks! Xav'

When I open a NIKON NEF raw picture in Affinity photo the color space and the dimensions are wrong. Affinity shows sRGB instead of RGB / 3900x2613px instead of 3872x2592px / see attached screenshots

I do not see Exif information when editing a jpg from my camera Sony A6000.

I'm a long time Photoshop user. One of the default things I do before posting photos to the web is add a title, description, copyright info, and keywords to my files. I really, really, really want to be able to do that in Affinity Photo! I've tried using a standalone EXIF editor on my iMac, but only part of the data added is retained when output for the web (after editing in Affinity Photo -- i.e. all keywords/tags are missing).

Just checked Beta 4 and there is no change from Beta 3 in the metadata handling (as far as I can see) although "- Fixed failure to write metadata." appears in the list of Improvements & Fixes. Maybe it didn't make it into this version or this refers to a different fix?

I have been looking at the EXIF/metadata handling in 1.5 Beta 3 and found a few issues. I know it is still early days in the beta cycle and I hope these will be rectified before release. I used a .ORF raw file from an Olympus Stylus 1 as my starting point and simply imported the file and exported it as a highest-grade .JPG file. Here are my findings so far 1 Display .ORF - Some items are missing in the Summary display although they are present in the file “Copyright” “Description” “Author” is also missing but this is present in the raw file under the “Creator” and "Artist" tags so I can understand it being absent. .JPG - Same comments as for the .ORF file above. In addition other items are now missing: “Date shot” “Exp. prog” “Metering” Furthermore, some items have been changed “Aperture” was 2.8 in the .ORF now shows 2/1 for the .JPG “Exp. bias” in the .ORF was 0 now shows 0/1 for the .JPG 2 Metadata Some metadata items seem to have been stripped when converting from raw to .JPG. These include: “Artist“ “By-line“ “Caption-Abstract“ “CircleOfConfusion“ “CodedCharacterSet“ “Compression“ “Contrast“ “Copyright“ “CopyrightNotice“ “CreateDate“ “Creator“ “DateTimeOriginal” “Description“ “DigitalZoomRatio“ “ExifVersion“ “ExposureProgram“ “Flash“ “FocalLengthIn35mmFormat” “GainControl“ “GPSAltitude“ “GPSAltitudeRef“ “GPSImgDirection“ “GPSImgDirectionRef“ “GPSMapDatum“ “GPSSpeed“ “GPSSpeedRef“ “GPSTrack“ “GPSTrackRef“ “GPSVersionID“ “Keywords“ “LightSource“ “MaxApertureValue” “ModifyDate“ “Orientation“ “PrintIMVersion” “Rights“ “Sharpness“ “Subject“ “WhiteBalance“ In addition, some items seem to have been altered: “Aperture” was 2.8 in .ORF is now 2 in .JPG “FNumber” was 2.8 in .ORF is now 2 in .JPG “FocalLength” was 9.8 mm in .ORF is now 9.0 mm in .JPG “FocalLength35efl” was 9.8 mm (35 mm equivalent: 46.0 mm) in .ORF is now 9.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 42.1 mm) in .JPG “HyperfocalDistance” was 5.36 m in .ORF is now 6.31 m .JPG “LightValue” was 10.6 in .ORF is now 9.6 in .JPG Some of these are probably the result of the algorithm Affinity Photo uses to convert to JPG but I would not have expected items such as "Aperture" to change and in fact Lightroom does not change them when exporting the same file to JPG. I guess that metadata handling is not a high priority at this point in the beta cycle and some of the missing items might not seem to be that important. On the other hand, it should not be difficult to just pass values through from the raw to the processed file. When items such as creation time/date are missing it causes havoc when trying to organize the images in a DAM.

Hi, As you are no doubt beavering away at making Affinity products even better (and I can't wait to hear of any update on any DAM and DTP products, hint ;) ;) ), maybe it's time to throw this into the mix: meta data handling. Especially those that work commercially need to make sure their meta data is set correctly as that often influences how the work is archived, retrieved, distributed and sold. This means different things in different formats (in PNG and JPG it would be stored in PCT/EXIF tags, but PDF has quite a few fields too), but there are some common themes: artist/author, copyright holder and maybe distribution. Where possible a freeform field would be good where the meta format allows, because you could use that for library markings (which could help with a DAM retrieval mode, for instance). To use this, you'd need facilities to set and edit these fields, and a way to template an optional default. At present there's nothing for that in the AD/AP export facilities so you end up having to reprint/edit PDFs and run the venerable exiftool over images to add the data. Cheers! PS: I'll be in London next week - if any of you guys venture into town I'll buy you a beer :P

Hi. I am sorry if this has been asked before but I have searched the forum and cannot find an answer for this. I have been happily using AP for several months and learning lots, and have now got to a stage where I am finalising several bits of work. When I work in Photoshop before going further I would go to File Info and then add the image info such as title, description, relevant searchable keywords, and then add all my copyright info and my url, so once it goes out my image has relevant metadata attached to it to help protect it and identify it should people need to contact me. I cannot find out how I do this ANYWHERE in AP and it is a basic but really critical element to the process. Please can someone advise me where and how I access the file info section for images so I can add this information. I have even converted AP images into jpegs etc and searched that way in case this option only becomes visible with more recognised file types but with no luck. I cannot believe a programme as smart as Affinity has not built this in, as in this day and age it is really important to protect your copyright and also allow your image to become searchable with key words. Thanks in advance for your help