Opening Two Images In One Window

[retired photographer 1957]

Hello!  Today is the first day of my Affinity Photo Trial, and the only source I have to guide me through Affinity Photo is my experience with Photoshop.  A lot of my work involves before and after comparisons.  As I am 64 years old, and somewhat medically indisposed right now, a lot of my time involves going back and re-editing old images.  It is essential that I be able to compare two different edits of the same image in the same window, side by side.    As I said previously, my only reference is my experience with Photoshop, with which I can do this easily.  Can I do this with Affinity Photo? When formulating your response, please keep in mind that my only point of reference is Photoshop, which I have used for the last ten years.  Thanks.

Edited September 26, 2021 by retired photographer 1957
to clarify a point.

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, retired photographer 1957 said:

the only source I have to guide me through Affinity Photo

Please read/search the Help and watch the Tutorial videos, too. Many things are different from Photoshop.

[walt.farrell]

Are you using a Mac or a PC? 

[Hangman]

Affinity Photo doesn't currently have a multi-document layout option like Photoshop. If you happen to be working on a Mac then the closest you can get to that is to work in Separated Mode (Window / Separated Mode)...

Other than that you'd likely need to look at alternative apps, Capture One is a good example and runs on both Mac and PC, and whilst fundamentally a RAW editor it does allow you to create multiple Clone Variants of any image and view as many of those variants side by side for comparison purposes. They offer a Free 30 day trial and also camera specific versions (if that is relevant for you)? I'm sure others will have alternative suggestions as well, but this is just based on what I use.

[retired photographer 1957]

Thank you for your suggestions.  I do have one more question- the screen shots that you included in your reply of the dog, one in black and white and one in color, can you open two copies of the same image, or does there have to be a variation of the original image?  Thanks again for your help.

[retired photographer 1957]

My computer is a Mac...

[Hangman]

Sadly you'd have to use a copy of the original image in Affinity software. This is where programs such as Capture One are so much better for this kind of thing (at this moment in time, hopefully Serif will improve features like this moving forward) because you can create an infinite number of variants of the same image and edit each accordingly which means you only ever have one source image rather than needing to make a physical copy of it.