Vinther Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Hey, I can not see my ORF tunderbaal pictures in windows 10 more I get Affinity logo. Only ORF RAW I not can see. :( Friendly Vinther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted December 15, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 15, 2016 Hi Vinther,It sounds as though you've told Windows to always open your ORF files into Affinity. Had you previously had thumbnails for them? Windows is unable to show thumbnails for all RAW files (particularly newer ones) so won't. Affinity thumbnail handler will only show thumbnails for afdesign and afphoto files, so if you don't have any additional thumbnail handlers for RAW files then it will not show them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 IS there any workaround so that we can see the thumbnails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory St. Laurent Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 6 hours ago, Blu-By-U said: IS there any workaround so that we can see the thumbnails? You can get a Codec pack as I did, works very well for all My Olympus RAW files. http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/ Mark Ingram 1 Desktop: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB Ram, RTX 3070, LG 27" 4K 10Bit Windows 11 22h2 Dell Laptop: i7 7700, 32GB Ram, GTX 1060, 16" 4K Windows 10 22h2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Can someone suggest how to view those thumbnails in Affinity Photo? Even a FREE faststone have no trouble displaying those thumbnails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 18 hours ago, Gregory St. Laurent said: You can get a Codec pack as I did, works very well for all My Olympus RAW files. http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/ Have already paid for Affinity Photo, Why pay again if a FREE Faststone can do it seamlessly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Because the thumbnails are provided by Windows, and Windows has no way of previewing those files without a codec pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory St. Laurent Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 On 11/9/2017 at 1:30 AM, Blu-By-U said: Have already paid for Affinity Photo, Why pay again if a FREE Faststone can do it seamlessly? Because Faststone isn't really showing you the raw images with their thumbnails, it is displaying the embedded jpeg preview within the raw files. Desktop: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB Ram, RTX 3070, LG 27" 4K 10Bit Windows 11 22h2 Dell Laptop: i7 7700, 32GB Ram, GTX 1060, 16" 4K Windows 10 22h2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Then maybe Affinity have their own file viewer that will show the embedded jpeg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 6 hours ago, Blu-By-U said: Then maybe Affinity have their own file viewer that will show the embedded jpeg. Currently we only load images within the Affinity application, and we don't plan on offering a Windows Thumbnail Preview plugin as a product. AiDon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 From checking, it seems that Faststone is just displaying the embedded jpg. why can't Affinity do the same? Why rely on Microsoft's file explorer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 6 hours ago, Blu-By-U said: From checking, it seems that Faststone is just displaying the embedded jpg. why can't Affinity do the same? Why rely on Microsoft's file explorer? Because Affinity provides the Photo editing software, we don't provide Windows Explorer plugins for files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 On 09/11/2017 at 6:29 AM, Blu-By-U said: Even a FREE faststone have no trouble displaying those thumbnails. FastStone Image Viewer requires a licence for commercial use. Even though it’s free for personal and educational use, it’s supported by donations. And it isn’t an image editor, it’s only a viewer. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 For a program which is supported by donations, Faststone offers a very usable set of editing tools. I have been using faststone for a long time and even giving them a donation for their efforts. BUT Affinity is not free or on donation. It's a PAID software and as a client, I find that I cannot see the ORF to enable selection for editing. If I had know of this short fall, I would not have purchase this. AND since I only had it for less than 30 days, Can I ask for a refund as I cannot possibly be using an alternative program to see what I need to edit before opening it. And since there is no 1 stop solution and there is no offer for it to be fixed either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verysame Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Blu-By-U, They have already tried to explain you that the preview of media files has nothing to do with a graphics editor. The reason why you can see the preview in Fastone Image Viewer is because, like the name implies, is a viewer. When it comes to open the raw files from within a graphics program, the software can only rely on the native OS to preview the files on your hard drive. And that's not a limitation of Affinity Photo, this would happen in any other software. You can try free software to enable preview in Windows Explorer which will work for all the graphics applications you have installed on your machine (because these apps work at the OS level). Here are a few examples: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sagethumbs/ Argus Viewer (can't find the link at the moment) https://www.videohelp.com/software/Media-Preview Blu-By-U and Mark Ingram 2 Andrew - Win10 x64 AMD Threadripper 1950x, 64GB, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD + 2TB, dual GTX 1080ti Dual Monitor Dell Ultra HD 4k P2715Q 27-Inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Finally something works. Thank you verysame. Why did you come in earlier? 25 minutes ago, verysame said: Blu-By-U, They have already tried to explain you that the preview of media files has nothing to do with a graphics editor. The reason why you can see the preview in Fastone Image Viewer is because, like the name implies, is a viewer. When it comes to open the raw files from within a graphics program, the software can only rely on the native OS to preview the files on your hard drive. And that's not a limitation of Affinity Photo, this would happen in any other software. You can try free software to enable preview in Windows Explorer which will work for all the graphics applications you have installed on your machine (because these apps work at the OS level). Here are a few examples: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sagethumbs/ Argus Viewer (can't find the link at the moment) https://www.videohelp.com/software/Media-Preview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verysame Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Give Sagethumbs a try, I used to have it installed on my box a while back and it worked pretty well. I'll see if I can find the link for Argus Viewer, I remember was kind of buried on their website. Media Preview as far as I remember it's mainly for video files. I personally switched to fastpictureviewer codecs, it just works too well. Hope that helps. Andrew - Win10 x64 AMD Threadripper 1950x, 64GB, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD + 2TB, dual GTX 1080ti Dual Monitor Dell Ultra HD 4k P2715Q 27-Inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu-By-U Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 As long as it's FREE, Won't mind trying. That Sage is painfully slow. Maybe it's not optimized for windows 10. 18 hours ago, verysame said: Give Sagethumbs a try, I used to have it installed on my box a while back and it worked pretty well. I'll see if I can find the link for Argus Viewer, I remember was kind of buried on their website. Media Preview as far as I remember it's mainly for video files. I personally switched to fastpictureviewer codecs, it just works too well. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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