Cavor Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hi, I just started with Affinity Photo and I don't know what to save my pictures as. I used to save pictures as bmp while I was working on them so that I could open them in numerous arty programs and make use of all the different tools. With bmp there was no compression or resampling, so I knew the picture wouldn't get altered. But Affinity Photo doesn't give me bmp, so can I save in one of the other formats without any resampling/compression? It looks like all the raster formats have to have some type of resampling applied. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 PNG compression is lossless. timfromtennessee and webisoft 2 Quote 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...
walt.farrell Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 TIFF is also be a lossless format, though it will probably result in larger files than PNG. timfromtennessee 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Yes, TIFF is usually the most powerful format here and used to provide high-resolution images in print-ready, lossless quality. The format also offerers a higher color depth (up to 32 bits per color component) and is a defacto-standard for high-quality images here, which is also the reason why TIFF is often used for data exchange during RAW conversion. But due to it's complexity it has several times the size of a lossy compressed JPEG image. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavor Posted December 6, 2017 Author Share Posted December 6, 2017 Hi, Thanks for all the answers. I'm still a bit confused because even with TIFF I still have to select a resampling method. If I export a picture without altering its size, is it safe then to assume that no resampling is taking place, no matter what resampling method I choose? And therefore will resampling only happen if I export the image to a smaller/larger size (downscaling/upscaling?)? Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimW Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 There are several different types of TIFF. Which is Affinity Photo using? I plan to move them to Capture One 10.x for cataloging. I'm being forced by Apple's poor judgement from v1.x on to 3.6 of Aperture being EOL. 40 years of photos, digital capture since 1980. All Nikon great majority NEF RAW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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