TBear Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I am new to AP and need some help please. I am using Apple Mac. ' Photos ' to store and catalogue my images. The images go direct into Photos via a card reader and all my images are RAW files (Canon CR2) When I open AP and then go to File - Open I am directed to 'Photos' to select an image. So far so good. The images that are in Photos are RAW but when selected to go into AP they do not go to Develop Persona but instead go into Photo Persona as a JPEG. What am I doing wrong ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 14, 2016 Staff Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hi TBear, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) You're not doing anything wrong. There's no way to send the images directly as RAW from Apple Photos. You have to manually export them going to menu File ▸ Export ▸ Export Unmodified Original within Apple Photos app. My Strawberry Monkey 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminitiger Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Hi Meb Was tgere an option at some point of going to Apple photos menu and edit photo in AP,im sure i coukd do that before the extensions became available but maybe im confused? This is driving me nuts lol,please yes or no? Thanks Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Geminitiger, I believe I saved your sanity with my reply in your other topic about this, right? :lol: Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 17, 2016 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2016 Hi Geminitiger, No, the Edit in... functionality is only available in Apple iPhoto and Aperture. In Affinity Photo you can go to menu File ▸ Open, scroll down a little to the Media section and access Apple Photos's library directly from there, however the files will be imported to Affinity as JPG's not RAW's. Note for this to work you must have your Photo Library set as System Photo Library. You can set this in Apple Photos Preferences, General tab, pressing the Use as System Photo Library button right below the the Library Location path. You can then edit them as you wish, then go to menu File ▸ Save and select Save Flattened from the dialog that will appear. The image will be saved directly to Apple Photos. I don't recommend using this process because if you only have JPG files in Photos Library, when you save the edited version from Affinity Photo it will rewrite the original in Apple Photos and apparently there's no way to get the original back (despite the thumbnail in Photos still display the original unedited version). If you have the corresponding RAW file then you can at least use it to recover the original if needed. If you prefer to work with the RAW files instead you must export them from Apple Photos first manually going to menu File ▸ Export ▸ Export Unmodified Original.... Then open it in Affinity Photo, edit the image and save in your preferred format. To import it back to Apple Photos go to menu File ▸ Import... and select the file you exported from Affinity or drag it from the Finder to Apple Photos. I believe Apple will introduce some improvements here with the next OS X release. My Strawberry Monkey 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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