Working with a DAM

[Amak]

I have long used Daminion as my DAM system and, much as I love the idea of saving files with their adjustment layers, it creates a problem when used with a DAM. Specifically, Daminion can't read or catalog these files and it's necessary to also save a standard flattened tif and then hunt around for the corresponding afphoto file, if it exists, for future modification.

May I suggest that Daminion and Affinity work together to resolve this? If Daminion could catalog afphoto files and generate flattened thumbnails it would be perfect!

Your companies' products complement each other and you seem to share very similar corporate values plus a commitment to perpetual licenses. These two products would be a strong competitor to Photoshop/Lightroom and their subscription licensing systems.

[walt.farrell]

Have you tried Exporting as a TIFF with the option Save Affinity Layers enabled? That gives you a TIFF file which your DAM should be able to handle, with a .afphoto file embedded in it for Affinity Photo to use.

[Amak]

All my DAM desires have been satisfied! I was in touch with tech support at Daminion and they too recognize the opportunity presented by these two like-minded companies working together. In fact, the latest iteration of Daminion, v9.0, includes support for Affinity files and they will be upgrading me via TeamViewer on Monday. I strongly suggest that anyone with more than 10 image files spend the hundred bucks to get Daminion Server installed. Daminion Server runs only on Windows but the catalog can be accessed on any device via the included web client.

And may I add that Affinity is wonderful. It took a couple of days to re-adjust my work habits but getting free of Adobe is a wonderful feeling. My luminance level has gone up considerably.