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Is there a way to see the file name of the image I am working on in Affinity Photo?

I have looked on line and in the help but can't find anything.

Its very confusing when a number of different images are open and not being able to know which image I'm seeing.

The camera Name, lens used pixel dimentionsand file size are prominently shown at the top of the just above the ruler, but no file name!

 

thanks for any help

 

 

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I see the filename at the top of each image tab, can you provide a similar screenshot of what you're seeing?

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Window title i Windows?
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Or Toolbar in Mac?
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Edited by Pšenda

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Posted

There is an exception to that. If you have one image open in the develop persona. Here is what I see with a Canon Raw file, no idea of what the name of the file is.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted

Damnit Bruce, wait until you finish.

We can add the 'Status' button to the top Toolbar which will show the file name, it is not a default.

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Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted
2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

There is an exception to that. If you have one image open in the develop persona.

Not only in the develop persona. On mac the tabs with file names occur only if more than 1 file is opened, (in all 3 apps, I appreciate this). But regardless of UI settings while in APub the file name gets shown in the "Fields" panel I would expect it in APhoto in the panel Metadata > File but it isn't.

827377218_filenamefieldsapub.jpg.7ef035f6857e22acd75c209cd2d64817.jpg . 1361384550_filenamemetadataaph.jpg.7b7ef13eda083a2dc68add2ced92d24d.jpg

Actually I even would expect to be able to change the file name in the Metadata panel. (not to mention a larger Keywords field size) – How come, apparently 'by design' – but indeed in purpose?

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3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

We can add the 'Status' button to the top Toolbar which will show the file name, it is not a default.

FWIW, the "Status" menu bar item (it isn't really a button since clicking on it has no effect) is what @thomaso shows above in the screenshot in this post (like "paprika mit schnur.jpg"). I assume the same thing is available in the Windows versions.

28 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Actually I even would expect to be able to change the file name in the Metadata panel.

Would you expect that to result in an immediate save or only if/when the file was intentionally saved by the user?

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Posted
30 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Would you expect that to result in an immediate save or only if/when the file was intentionally saved by the user?

I would expect it as an immediate change of the file name but without doing any to the file contents (objects, pixels). So quite like an operation executed on Finder/Explorer level, just as "by the way" from within Affinity.

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Posted
33 minutes ago, thomaso said:

I would expect it as an immediate change of the file name but without doing any to the file contents (objects, pixels).

So you are saying it would immediately resave the file with the new name? I'm not sure I would want that to happen.

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Posted
Just now, R C-R said:

So you are saying it would immediately resave the file with the new name? I'm not sure I would want that to happen.

No resave as using the "Save" or "Save as" command, just altering the name of the file on disk (and of course accordingly in all currently displaying instances, as e.g. window tab or toolbar).

Never mind, I don't really miss it. (I just was surprised not to see the file name in the Metadata panel which reminded me to this file name change option in the metadata panel of other apps (and without resaving the file). In mac's preview.app you may even alter the name with a click on a documents the title bar, also without resaving the file.)

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