RamirezAP Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 I take pictures with Sony A6500 camera - RAW files - these files are about 22MB size - this is normal for me I open RAW files with Affinity Photo software, cut out the background from photo (product photos) ... and I save this as Affinity file. Why my new Affinity file have an average of 89...160Mb. Is this normal? When exported as png, the png file already has the correct size of approx. 12MB but Affinity file is very high size Why ?? DSC04871.afphoto DSC04871.ARW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 1 hour ago, RamirezAP said: Is this normal? Yes. toltec 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 It is well "documented" in this forum that Affinity can create some exceptionally high and unexpected file sizes when working on images. Various (official) reasons and some solutions have been given for this but you will have to search the forum to understand the "problem" and what can be done about it in different scenarios. In your particular case... When I initially save your afphoto file it is 98.5MB 1. If I unclip the canvas on your file I can see you have cropped it, which is non-destructive. 2. Affinity also creates an initial snapshot of your original document when you start working on it. So, if I Rasterise your image to get rid of the unneeded cropped parts plus delete the initial snapshot then resaving your document (using Save As...) brings the file size down to a more reasonable 16.5MB Additional info: In some cases understanding what is causing the large file size can help in reducing it, in other cases there may not be anything you can do. So you may need to plan for additional disk storage space for your working drive(s) and backup drive(s) plus additional backup times and costs (if using paid cloud services and metered Internet access). R C-R 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 7 hours ago, carl123 said: So, if I Rasterise your image to get rid of the unneeded cropped parts plus delete the initial snapshot Good explanation, Carl. One question: does rasterizing the image accomplish the deletion of the initial snapshot, or is there some other action needed to do that? I don't recall reading about ways of doing that deletion before. Also, I presume that saving the history (or not) will also have some effect? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 No, Rasterising the image does not remove the initial snapshot you have to go into the Snapshots Panel and do that separately. Yes, saving the history can greatly increase the file size so I would not do that routinely for any file unless there is a good reason (e.g. for diagnostic purposes) SrPx and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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