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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

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

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

Hi, I notice that ASPHOTO files cannot have IPTC info attached to them. This is an incredibly big problem for me and seems like a weird omission. Will that be corrected soon? Thanks! Phil

Hello, I have very annoying issue for me to be honest it is biggest problem with affinity. When I do stack or HDR and I will export files to EXR (I use SNS-HDR for compression) Affinity always delete all metadata. Can I preserve metadata from first files? it is commonly used system in all apps that I used till today.

Is it possible to export for the web (without metadata) from Affinity Photo for Mac ? Thanks.

I wonder when we'll see the feature in AP I really wish to open photoshop less frequently

I'm curious. How does Affinity Photo handle Adobe Lightroom edits?

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?

I'm finding the transition from PS/LR to Photo fairly painless and am quite happy overall with the tools & features within the program. There are 2 tools that currently are holding me back from cutting the cord to Adobe: Macros. While you've done a remarkable job packing features into the Macros panel and they are operating surprisingly fast, there are a few improvements I'm hoping are in the not too distant future: A) the ability to record clipping a layer to another layer; B) the ability to move steps around in a macro; C) the ability to delete a step in a macro. Keep up the good work on this important tool! Metadata. The ability to edit metadata is VERY important. While I can do so in another program, the ability to put in things like Title, Description, & keywords from within Photo would simplify my workflow tremendously. I'm hoping to see something of these requests before another year goes by doling out dough to Adobe.

Incorporation copyright information, image title and information, would be extremely useful. Capture One Pro 9 is very good on that

First off thank-you for such a wonderful product :D Any chance to open embedded ruler guide images like the one attached. I think Photoshop can embed them in .jpg, .tiff, .png etc.. almost any flat image format. Thanks

Most modern software such image viewer apps now use the 'Date Taken' field from the metadata as the primary field, particularly when automatically organising user photos. Although they will fall back to the Date File Created, Date File Modified and Date File Accessed fields, those fields have always been an unreliable mess. In Affinity Photo, if an image came from a camera for example, the 'Date Taken' field in the metadata is already populated from the original file. However, if you create a new file in Affinity Photo and save it, Affinity Photo doesn't populate the 'Date Taken' field. Therefore, this request is for Affinity products to populate the 'Date Taken' (and 'Program Name') fields in the metadata when new files are saved for the first time. Image attached.

My apologies if this has already been discussed. Is there a way to retain metadata when round tripping from Lightroom? If not, that would be helpful. Lightroom does have the capability to copy metadata from one image to another so it is possible to recover the metadata. Other than that, the LR round trip works very well. My compliments to the affinity crew - affinity photo is very impressive.

Hi, is there any chance to add support for meta tags (like <title/>) in SVG file in Export options? It would be nice if <title/> equals file name. I think it would be helpful for front-end developers in some scenarios ;-) What do you think?

When exporting a PNG about 3000x3000 or higher, at the end of the export it fails giving an error about not embedding metadata. The resulting file is not saved sometimes, and if it is, it is unusable.

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.

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?

Currently, there seems to be no support for metadata for any image type and, more worryingly, any existing metadata is stripped out of a raw file completely on export. If this is to be a serious contender to existing applications, metadata support needs to be added, imho.

I simply want to add and change metadata in pdf-export in designer. At the moment the pathToFile is the pdf-title, some designer-data which is ok, the most other metadata-fields are empty. I would like to change the fields, that I don't have to use Adobe Acrobat after each export only to tweak metadata in exactly the same way. This could be done in export.

First of all, love Affinity Photo, great start! One thing I think is missing is the ability to wipe all metadata on export, usually all I need is the ICC profile, the other data is pointless. I know there's an EXIF overview, but you can't edit in that unless I'm mistaken?

Hi, New to Photo. Just downloaded it, actually. Could you tell me how or if editing with Affinity's Photo editor does anything to the metadata with a RAW photo file? My plan is to try your software out with a copy of a Lightroom image, once I check out your tutorials some more. zBefore using my images I need to know if and how the editor tracks image modifications to RAW images and other types of images so I can figure out how to best manage my files. I did not find any information about media management on your tutorials. I assume that is because there is nothing being done in that regard. Thanks. Henry

Hi, I don't see a place to add metadata to an image. This would be an important feature especially to me as a professional photographer, thanks. Also, export to lightroom would also be a good feature to add.

I have problem while export tiff to jpeg, metadata loss.