Apple Photo Library

[Nico Surace]

I've a problem on my MacBook Air M1: when I try opening a picture on my Apple Photo Library, the icon isn't active. If I open a picture from Library in Affinity I Haven't problem, but if I would open a picture from Affinity I can't, because I can't click on the icon, is gray,

[DWright]

Hi @Nico Surace,

Welcome to the forum

If your are using bit defender can you please check if it is blocking access to Affinity Photo, if you are not using bit defender can you please check if Affinity Photo has full access to the Photo location.

[R C-R]

You should avoid trying to directly open anything in the Photos Library.photoslibrary container in any app besides the Apple Photo app. This is because the Apple Photo app maintains a database of where everything in it is located, a set of original unedited versions, what changes have been made to the originals, caches, etc. If you make any changes to any of these things outside of the Apple app, things can become corrupted or lost, with no way to recover tghem.

(This is why it is greyed out in the Affinity open window.)

Refer to the warning at the end of this Apple help topic. It only refers to Finder but it applies to the open dialog in any app.