- S - Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Affinity Photo is automatically writing the filename directly into the 'Title' field in the file metadata – which is a PITA. To reproduce:1) Scan an image to a *.tif file2) Open with Affinity Photo3) Save as an Affinity Photo file4) Export to TIF and JPG The filename of the original scan is added to the 'Title' field in the file metadata for all three files (AFPHOTO, TIFF, JPEG). A filename is a filename, not a title – the 'Title' field should be for the user to choose to fill in. Affinity Photo automatically adding the filename to the title metadata field means that the original filename is now stuck as the title in the metadata, even if the file is later renamed. It also makes little sense for most users: if the title is the same as the filename, then it's just duplicate information; if it's different due to the file having being renamed afterwards, then it's old information. If some people want the title field in the metadata to be automatically populated with the filename, this should be an option – not forced on everyone. The same can also be observed with Affinity Photo template files; the Affinity Photo template filename is added as the title field in the file metadata. That means unless a user consciously removes the title from the template file, there's going to be a load of images all with the same title – the name of the template file. So now, not only do I have to fight Affinity Photo and use PowerShell to change hundreds of file extensions at a time from .tiff to .tif, I also have to use ExifTool to remove the title metadata field for hundreds of files at a time as well. It's tiring having to keep fighting the software due to odd design decisions that have no settings to change the default behaviour. Jowday, KLE-France and lepr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwig Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 +1 If there is any real use for the current behavior then there should be an opt-in preference to enable it. Default out-of-the-box behavior should be to leave these two fields blank. lepr and KLE-France 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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