Tonser Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Hi What is the maximum file dimensions that Affinity Photo can work with ? Photoshop has a 300,000 pixel limit, but we have a project underway on which we need to go larger. Thanks Tony Mustard Post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted June 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 28, 2016 Affinity Photo has an arbitrary size limit of 256,000 pixels. We set the limit as editing images larger than that tend to cause disappointment. Photoshop may have a limit of 300,000 but I have never been able to use an image that big in Photoshop. What is your use case for such a large image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonser Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 We're working on some Gigapixel images for a client. The first was 300,000 x 180,000 pixels, which Photoshop managed ( with patience !), but they need to go bigger with the second. Up to 400,000 ideally. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted June 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 28, 2016 300,000 x 180000 pixel would give you a 200GB memory footprint. That's a very big image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonser Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Indeed it does. The first was 146Gb (rgb). The PS system was built specifically for it - 128Gb ram, 4 x 6g 1TB SSDs as Raid0 scratch over TB2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep.studios Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) Agreed w/ Tonser & seconded-- hard at work here on some historic NASA mosaics, we have a system built for it, yet your program simply tells us "no," for no plausible reason. I thought one of the points of AP over PS was that it didn't have the type of arbitrary (which I read: "unnecessary") limits that Photoshop imposes due to its legacy approach. Might you please consider in the next update arbitrarily REMOVING ALL LIMITS and simply replacing them with a warning?? If we can simultaneously open many images of more than 150kpx wide, we certainly have the memory to load at least one that's 400kpx +/-. We are only 10kpx tall. So ffs we should be allowed to do this. At the very least, why not base it on total px instead of lazily throwing an arbitrary limit on each dimension?? Would you like to be used on the highest-end/historic productions or not? We will gladly say "Made possible by Affinity Photo" if you're able to accommodate. As it stands now, having to find some other solution and you guys have no place in our pipeline. Apologies for my tone, I'm frustrated by these useless restrictions. No need to protect users from themselves, just pop a warning and make us click "okay" if something might crash our system. C'mon... Edited September 15, 2020 by deep.studios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Welcome to the forums @deep.studios 4 hours ago, deep.studios said: No need to protect users from themselves, just pop a warning and make us click "okay" if something might crash our system. Interesting. What benefit(s) would you get in allowing the software to crash arbitrarily? Most software is designed – up to a point – not to crash; at the very least its developers would like it not to crash, if at all possible. So I am wondering what advantage you would have as a user knowing that the software allowed you to tell it to ignore its own built-in limits and, essentially, tell it that crashing was acceptable behaviour. By way of explanation, maybe you can give us a workflow which nicely describes the sort of process where this would be acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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