How can the size of .afphoto be reduced?

[yut.sin1301]

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If I edit a RAW file (no matter of the brand, Nikon or Fujifilm) using AF and save my edited file as .afphoto, the file size becomes at least 10 times larger. Is there any method or future consideration of program development to save the edited files in an effective way by compressing them?

In Adobe Lightroom there is the possibility to save the changes/history as seperate .XMP file, which is very small size. The original RAW files remains untouched.

Thank you

[v_kyr]

APh files are already stored in a compressed Affinity proprietary format, so to say in a similar fashion as Photoshop PSD files would be and the file sizes (between APh and PS) are similar in overall sizes here. Lightroom in contrast as a full blown RAW processing software stores the to RAW files applied processing steps in sidecar files (XMP format) beside allowing these to be converted into the DNG or JPG format etc. Other RAW converters also do make mostly use of sidecar files instead of proprietary binary file formats, since they just do common RAW conversion and don't offer much image manipulation tasks beyond common RAW processing features. - So the Affinity file format here is no simpler sidecar format but instead Affinitys own binary image format which is also sharable between their apps, thus it stores the whole image data and the whole applied/made image changes etc. which all takes it's space.

So .afphoto files already have their size and you can't reduce these any further if you use that format for final storage. Instead you may store/export the processed RAW files (which also remains untouched by APh) as JPGs etc. in order to save some space.

[Lee D]

If you have any snapshots saved and they aren't being used in your workflow you can delete them and then re-save your file. Also check to see if you have Save History with Document enabled on the File menu, turning this off will stop you from reverting to a previous position on the History panel but can reduce the file size.

[Sempervivum]

I have the same problem: An afphoto file is five times larger than the RAW file. Would appreciate if there was an option to save the data without the original RAW file.

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, Sempervivum said:

I have the same problem: An afphoto file is five times larger than the RAW file. Would appreciate if there was an option to save the data without the original RAW file.

Affinity Photo saves developed files in its own format. It does not touch the original RAW file nor save anything in that format.

[Sempervivum]

You misunderstood me: I do not want AP to modify the RAW image nor save in that format. I wish that it saves information about modifications in a sidecar file like the RAW importer of Photoshop or JPG-Illuminator do. Then, when the file is opened again, read the original source file and apply the changes being stored in the sidecar file. No need to save the data of the original image in the afPhoto file.