alecspra Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 What happens when you finish working on an image and you click on Share (for instance to Photo app)? Does Affinity flatten the image as a jpg? Sometimes, I don't need to save the image by using Save or Save as and I just want to add it to the Photo app on my Mac. But I wonder what does Affinity actually do with the image and can you control how the image is "shared"? killwilly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killwilly Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 What happens when you finish working on an image and you click on Share (for instance to Photo app)? Does Affinity flatten the image as a jpg? Sometimes, I don't need to save the image by using Save or Save as and I just want to add it to the Photo app on my Mac. But I wonder what does Affinity actually do with the image and can you control how the image is "shared"? A very good question, I too would be interested in knowing the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 9, 2016 Staff Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hi, The 'Share' ability is an OS-specific feature that we've added support for, so we are serving up a 100% size version of the image as a transparent uncompressed representation and the OS makes the decision of how to store it. I suspect that for Photos it may be deciding to save it to a JPG at a certain quality so if you'd been doing something with vectors then you'd be losing some fidelity and transparency - but if you were editing a photo that came from Photos in the first place, it may appear to be a very appropriate way to put data back into Photos? I would usually just export manually so I had control of the settings and then import into Photos - but I can imagine the option does have a time and a place :) Thanks, Matt R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alecspra Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 Thanks Matt. It is good information to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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