Trying to figure out workflow

[Tgrabarc]

Hello,

I am excited to begin using Affinity to process my RAW images; as I am pretty sure the performance will be much better on this iPad Pro than my old windows laptop!

But I am struggling with how to figure out a workflow that would work to accomplish that within Affinity while syncing to the cloud so that all of my RAW files don’t need to be stored on the iPad.

Right now I have my original photo files saved to Onedrive, but I am running into the following challenges:

1) Say I have 3 shots of the same scene, I cannot find a good way to compare the 3 originals to see which one is best (on my laptop i would flip between them in filmstrip mode in On1 then develop the best one)? 

In affinity for iPad, I can open them separately from the cloud and try to remember which is best. Would it be best to use some other program to do this initial screening?

2) When I select one to edit via “open from cloud”, then press “develop”, it adds it to my workspace; and I also notice that the file-size of Affinty app increases. Is it still saving it to my local file system even though I am opening it from the cloud?, is there then any advantage to opening from the cloud rather than importing from cloud?

 

Thank you so much! as I think the actual editing will be more efficient with this app, but the processes before that do seem more clunky.

[Callum]

Hi Tgrabarc,

Welcome to the forums

In regards to your first question I would do this process in another app such as Photos. In regards to your second question any documents opened and subsequently found on the apps welcome screen are stored within the app which will increase its size on your iPad. Saving and then closing the file from this menu should reduce the size of the app.

Thanks

C

[Tgrabarc]

Thank you! That is a good idea. If I save and close the file from within the App, will the edits still be maintained in the original file on the cloud?

[DM1]

1 hour ago, Tgrabarc said:

If I save and close the file from within the App, will the edits still be maintained in the original file on the cloud?

As long as you continue to use Open from Cloud and not Import from Cloud the original file will be updated. The second method creates a new copy to work on, which will then need to be Saved to get it out of apps sandbox.