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I read that 3 times and still can't figure out what you want to do and hence why you asked the question

Can you be more specific as to what you want to do?

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 The use of assets as a storage medium allows repeat usage of said assets, storing them in an Affinity Photo file for later use will give you less flexibility.

You could always compare the file size of the assets.propcol file before and after saving an asset and then compare the size of the Affinity Photo .afphoto file.

 

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11 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The use of assets as a storage medium allows repeat usage of said assets, storing them in an Affinity Photo file for later use will give you less flexibility.

You can use File > Place to put a .afphoto file into another file, or you can pull in a version of it from the Assets panel. Both give approximately the same results, though:

  • The "file" you want may be slightly quicker to find in the Assets panel, unless you have your file system well organized.
  • Using Assets you can only get an embedded document in your new file, but using File > Place you can get a linked document. This affects the size of the new file, and has the usual other aspects of linking vs embedding.
  • Using Assets for this can give a very large (and fragile) assets.propcol file, and can impact the performance of the application to an unknown extent.

Edit: You can't actually put a .afphoto file in the Assets panel, as I have just discovered. You could Open the .afphoto file, Group all its layers, and put the Group into the Assets panel, though.

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On 5/29/2021 at 9:48 AM, jfw222 said:

Is there a size difference in storing a layered file as an Asset vs. an aphoto file?

I think there is more data that must be included in stand-alone native format files like *.afphoto ones than needs to be saved in the assets.propcol file when an asset is added to it, but obviously how big the difference is will depend on what is saved in the stand-alone file. For example, it could be much, much larger if snapshots or history is saved with it.

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