Saving images

[stuartaffinity]

Not sure if I have missed something here as I'm new to Affinity.  Is there a way to save edited photo's to iPhoto, or does it just save all work as a document?

[JFisher]

Hi Stuart

Welcome to the forums :)

If you go for the File>Save option, this will give you an Affinity document. I would suggest Exporting (File>Export) the image to a JPEG or PNG for example, save it to a location and then import the edited file into iPhoto afterwards.

J
 

[MEB]

Hi stuartaffinity,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

 

You can automate the process. First you have to set up iPhoto:

1. Go to iPhoto ▸ Preferences, Advanced tab, click on Edit Photos: dropdown and select Affinity Photo from the dialog.

2. Make sure *Use RAW when using external editor* is unchecked, otherwise iPhoto will lose track of the image since Affinity can't save directly the edits from the Develop Persona.

 

Now when you want to edit an image in iPhoto's Library, right-click on the image there and select Edit in External Editor. Affinity Photo will open with the image ready to be edited. Edit your image then do a File ▸ Save. Press the Save Flattened button (you have to save a flattened photo, since iPhoto doesn't support our native format (.afphoto) which is the format selected if you do a Save As). The image will be updated in iPhoto.

[adeolagoodwin]

I have been working long and hard on this photo and for some reason recently when i have been changing the sizes of my photos for printing purposes, they've been disappearing. like the screen will have the toolboxes and layers present with no content. So today i saved my picture when it did that because i had found the perfect size, i assumed i was saving the size and that my photo would appear next time i went to open it, but it doesn't appear. alll my layers appear to be blank but they provided the content of line weights and colors and things. i dont understand. 

[adeolagoodwin]

I have been working long and hard on this photo and for some reason recently when i have been changing the sizes of my photos for printing purposes, they've been disappearing. like the screen will have the toolboxes and layers present with no content. So today i saved my picture when it did that because i had found the perfect size, i assumed i was saving the size and that my photo would appear next time i went to open it, but it doesn't appear. alll my layers appear to be blank but they provided the content of line weights and colors and things. i dont understand.