New to desk top AF Photo

[John Morgan]

Hello. I have had AF Photo for a few days on my Apple Hi Sierra desk top, and have been able to adjust a couple of jpegs. Since I have never worked on a digital darkroom before, except the Apple "Photos" library, I have a couple of problems as a beginner, that I wonder if someone would be kind enough to guide me. The couple of problems I do not seem to be able to solve, are to do with import and export an image.

 

Since I use the Apple Photos as my library, I drag and drop an image from photos to the desktop that allows me to then put it into AF Photo to work on. I have tried to go into the library directly but AF seems not to allow it. This is my first issue.

 

When I have completed the work on a jpeg, I now want to save it, not only in AF, like documents which I can do, but also to put the finished image back into Apple Photos library. It seems no matter what I do the image is saved as the original number but with AF after it, which Apple Photos says it does not recognize the file type. I have watched some videos but cannot find an answer to my problems.

 

I want to do this because I print many of my photographs, and Apple gives more extensive print info that I can find in AF.

 

I would appreciate some input. Thank You.

 

John Morgan

 

  

[MEB]

Hi John Morgan,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

There's a couple ways to send the image from Apple Photos directly to Affinity Photo and send/save it back to Apple Photos:

1. Using the Affinity Extensions

Click the thumbnail image in Apple Photos to see the image in full screen then click the Edit button on the top right of the interface. Apple Photos switches to edit mode - the interfaces becomes dark. Click the three dots icon (again on the top right of the interface) to access the Apple Photo's extensions. Select the Edit in Affinity Photo extension to send the image to Affinity Photo. The image will open in Affinity Photo. Edit it as you see fit then close the document - you will be prompted to save the file - save it and close the document in Affinity Photo if it's still open. The image will be sent back to Apple Photos. Click Save Changes on the top right corner in Apple Photo to save the changes.

 

2. Using the menu Image ▸ Edit with ▸ Affinity Photo

With the image in full screen in Apple Photos go to menu Image ▸ Edit with ▸ Affinity Photo. The image will be sent to Affinity Photo. Edit it as you see fit then go to menu File ▸ Save. If you have created additional layers during your editing session Affinity Photo will prompt you to save the document as a flattened document - Choose/click the Save Flattened button.The edited image will be sent back to Apple Photos. Don't forget to close the image in Affinity Photo as well.

 

NOTE: there's a bug in Affinity Photo 1.6.6 (retail version) preventing the changes you have made in Affinity Photo to be sent/saved back to Apple Photos when using the Image ▸ Edit with ▸ Affinity Photo command. This issue was already fixed in the latest Beta and the fix will be available in the next retail update.

 

Regarding your second question, to export the image in the most common formats other than our native format (.afphoto) use the menu File ▸ Export in Affinity Photo.

[John Morgan]

Thank you very much, now I do not feel so silly. Will give it a go. JM