Saving Photos

[BReagan]

I just purchased the Windows version.  I have photos that were shot in raw and I played around editing one photo.  But it doesn't allow me to convert it to a jpg so I can upload to some of my programs.  It also saves with a watermark on it and not sure how to get that off the photo.  Please advise.  Thanks.

[MEB]

Hi BReagan,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

When you open a RAW file in Affinity Photo, it opens it in Develop Persona. This is where you can perform the Raw conversion/development applying a series of adjustements to the image. It's not possible to save or export the image at this stage. You have to click the blue Develop button on the top right of the interface (in the context toolbar) to move the image to Photo Persona where you can further edit the image using all usual photo-editing tools you find in photo editors (masks, channels, filters etc). It's here where you can export your image to any format you want going to menu File ▸ Export or save it in the native Affinity Photo file format (.afphoto) which will keep all edits/adjustments you have made in Photo Persona intact/editable for later editing if needed. Regular images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, etc) open directly in Photo Persona.

 

If you are getting started with the program I advise you to take a look at the Official Affinity Photo Video Tutorials thread. They cover almost (if not all) features of the program and and a great way to understand its concepts (Personas, Live Adjustements/filters etc etc).

[Elsea]

To my knowledge Affinity saves files at the last location. I would really find it very helpful if Affinity would save a file at the location where from the raw file is openend, because now I never can find back where Affinity left my file.. :P

[R C-R]

To my knowledge Affinity saves files at the last location. I would really find it very helpful if Affinity would save a file at the location where from the raw file is openend, because now I never can find back where Affinity left my file.. :P

File menu > Reveal in Finder (for Macs).

[Elsea]

That's very handy too, but mostly I was also so quick that I already closed the file.. I now remember to open a recent file, but I don't save document history in an attempt to save available memory. But thanks for your tip:)

[toltec]

Open in 

 

File menu > Reveal in Finder (for Macs).

Wot 'e said but

 

File menu. Open in Explorer (for PCs)

 

This of course only helps if the file is actually open, as you know.