Help please: Save photo as JPEG

[Footloose]

I have just bought affinity and edited a photo. This has saved automatically as a affinity file. How can I save as a JPEG to view on my friends computer?

Thanks in advance for any help

[mac_heibu]

Use the „Export“ command.

[Dan C]

Hi Footloose,

Welcome to the forums   Check out our video tutorial below on exporting to formats such as JPEG!

 

[Footloose]

Thank you for your help.

[Kenstogie]

I try this on my iPad Pro and everything happens just like in the video but the photos never show up...I look under the photos icon, save them to ...on my iPad/ photos or even the iCloud but nothing ever shows up......what is going on?

 

Other than that i seem to be getting the hang of it...

[MEB]

Hi Kenstogie,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Check this video tutorial instead (for iPad). Let us know if you still have issues have checking the video.

[PJA68]

Thanks for your advise, I'm gonna try all your suggestions......

[SydBee]

Hi, I am used to PS where I can save as thus keeping my original file and the edited one. If I export in Affinity do I lose my original file?  Many thanks

[h_d]

Hi @SydBee and welcome! No, if you export then your original file remains intact. Just close it and don't save. If you've made adjustments, added layers, masks etc to an original file, and you choose to save, you'll create an additional .afphoto file and again the original will remain unchanged.

[Fixx]

If your original is normal image file (JPG, TIFF... but not AFPhoto) just export and use different name than original. If you use same name OS will as if you want to replace earlier one. In that regard export behaves just like Save As in PS.

[csmoore]

Just noticed this too as I'm new to Affinity Photo.   Seems so much simpler if you could just "Save As:" and type a new name.jpg.....   Exporting each time I edit seems like a pain.

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, csmoore said:

Just noticed this too as I'm new to Affinity Photo.   Seems so much simpler if you could just "Save As:" and type a new name.jpg.....   Exporting each time I edit seems like a pain.

Welcome to the forums,

AP is not unique with this Export vs Save as approach. I have others that do the same. Save as is for saving your project, the working file in the proprietary format, in this case it's afphoto.

Unless you have no problem with overwriting original files, then the Export approach protects against that. If you want to overwrite the original, AP will allow you to Save, in the same format, jpg, tif, png.

It's just different for you, and you're not accustom to it yet. But overwrite a file or two that you didn't intend on, and you'll come to appreciate this. 😉

[Pšenda]

I will add - when opening JPG/PNG/TIFF it is possible to save to JPG/PNG/TIFF also using Save (of course with the loss of information about layers and modifications).

[csmoore]

Yes, I'm sure will get used to.     I like the option to Save (Overwrite) and SaveAs (new name and/or format).    Similar to Export I guess, but just easier.    

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, csmoore said:

SaveAs (new name and/or format).

"Save As" in the Affinity applications will only save in an Affinity native format, e.g, .afdesign, .afphoto, or .afpub. If you want to save in some other format and change the name you need to use Export.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, csmoore said:

I like the option to Save (Overwrite) and SaveAs (new name and/or format). 

But consider all the possible options available when you decide to 'save' a native Affinity format file to a different file format. For example for JPEGs you have choices for image dimensions, compression quality, resampling method, area of the document, a choice of embedded ICC profiles, whether to embed metadata or not, etc.

A few old Mac apps from back in the pre-OSX days offered something similar via their Save as menu option but to access all the options you had to open several different modal windows. It was a kludgey approach that in more modern apps has mostly been replaced by a separate Export menu option.

[csmoore]

Just want to edit a jpg and save in same format with different name.   Seems simple enough.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, csmoore said:

Just want to edit a jpg and save in same format with different name.   Seems simple enough.

It is simple, as long as you do not do anything to it that the jpeg format does not support (like transparency or extra layers).

If you avoid doing that, just use Save, not Save as, but as previously mentioned, it will overwrite the unedited version.

[Pšenda]

9 minutes ago, csmoore said:

Seems simple enough.

That's why Affinity does - although this disrupts the consistency in the Save/SaveAs = native format, Export = non native format approach.

[csmoore]

Unfortunately I just thought this was limitation of the Trial, where it wouldn’t allow SaveAs formats.    
 

Still would be something for developers to think about if you just could SaveAs to have a choice when native format.

Thanks, Carl

 

[Old Bruce]

I miss the old original method of having the choices 

Save

Save as ...

Save a Copy as...

That last one would literally save a copy and leave you free to continue working on the document you started with.

[R C-R]

30 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

That's why Affinity does - although this disrupts the consistency in the Save/SaveAs = native format, Export = non native format approach.

Do I have this wrong or does "Save as..." always/ consistently save to the native file format, while "Save" will save to the current format, whatever it is, if nothing has been done to the file that format either cannot support at all or there is more than one way to do that?

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

while "Save" will save to the current format, whatever it is, if nothing has been done to the file that format either cannot support at all

Certainly that will work for several of the raster formats (png, jpg, tiff), but perhaps not all the raster formats. I'm not sure it will work for any of the vector formats.

[R C-R]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Certainly that will work for several of the raster formats (png, jpg, tiff), but perhaps not all the raster formats. I'm not sure it will work for any of the vector formats.

OK, in a quick check, that does not seem to work for GIF's or SVG files, but I did not check any others, & it may be that it does not because there is more than one way for those formats to support whatever I changed when I edited them.

Maybe one of the staff can explain the logic used for that?

[Pšenda]

12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure it will work for any of the vector formats.

It is clearly stated in the Help that this is only an "image file type".

https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/GetStarted/save.html