[Affinity Photo] Huge file sizes!?
A rather unexpected bad surprise for me on this! I was dismayed (after the facts) to see the huge file produced by Affinity Photo. I performed a search, didn't get an answer... Has no one raised questions about this so far?
I did nothing weird or special that I am aware of, processed a Fujifilm X-Pro1 raw file to the best of my liking as I usually do with ACR. If nothing more than that, I stop there and just keep the raw and the XMP sidecar, about 26MB (for the example given). If I n
I kinda wish Affinity would consider a save mode that would jettison not crucial file content when saving a file for archiving. It could be as simple as "save as". "Save as" would save a lean barebones file, and simple "save" would keep the caches and watchamacallits for performance. That is, when you open "save as" file, AP would start building mipmaps etc from zero and it would take some time to get up to speed.
Then I do not know how much disk space saving this would give, would it be of