Saving images

[AndrewW]

I am a 79-year-old trying to learn Inffinity, I find the training videos great and easy to work through and understand, my question is regarding saving images after working them through the Develop Persona and the size of the afphoto files, can someone please advise me on their method on saving files as  files the size of these will soon slow my laptop down, if I just save a jpg I lose all my history , can someone please explain the best saving method.

 

Andy.

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[carl123]

As you have found out afphoto files can be huge and according to Serif doing a final Save As... is the best way to save the file at it's minimum size but they will still be huge.

There are some things such as not saving the history with the file, deleting layers no longer needed, resizing the document down to the smallest dimensions you will ever need, rasterising layers, clipping the canvas, etc etc etc which can reduce the size but it will still be huge and it's a pain in the neck to have to do all this just to conserve disk space.

In your case, assuming your usage is for personal use and thus not generating dozens of new files every week, I would just invest in an external drive for your Laptop and periodically move your finished afphoto files from the Laptop to the external drive thus keeping the space free on your Laptop and optimising it's performance in this respect.

PS  Although you can work off an external drive directly it is not recommended as the Affinity programs can have problems if the drive disconnects or goes to sleep during your use of it.

[AndrewW]

Thank you for your replies very helpful indeed, 

 

regards Andy.