Preview of Raw Files from Canon 6D Mkll

[David Maxey]

Support,

 

I am new to Affinity Photo, I am moving from using Adobe Photoshop to Affinity.system  on C drive in my documents area and I pick the year file and then drill down to my date of photoshoot file/subject and open it. All my files are shot in the RAW. I can not tap on one and see a preview thumbnail before I open like a can in Bridge on Photoshop.

So I end up guessing about where the shot is and start opening files and canceling until I find the right RAW photo to process. 

How do I avoid this? How can a see a thumbnail preview on the file in C drive?

Thank you,

David Maxey

[Ron P.]

Hi David Maxey and welcome to the forums;

Are you using a Mac or Windows? I know nothing about Macs. In windows, this is a function of the OS, not the App such as Affinity. Clicking on File>Open, opens a browser window, ie; Windows Explorer. Using Win10 it has the proper codec for the RAW file to display the JPEG image contained within.

What Camera are you shooting? I shoot Canon and the OS provides thumbnail images for my CR2 RAW files. See attached screenshot. The second screenshot shows the icon in the upper-right of the Browse/Explore window to click to open a menu where you can choose how the folder contents is displayed. Choosing Large or Extra Large should produce the thumbnail views.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Ron P. said:

Are you using a Mac or Windows? I know nothing about Macs. In windows, this is a function of the OS, not the App such as Affinity.

I assume from the mention of a C drive, it is Windows, but it is basically the same on Macs -- previews of RAW files in Finder are provided by the OS.

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13 hours ago, David Maxey said:

…All my files are shot in the RAW. I can not tap on one and see a preview thumbnail before I open like a can in Bridge on Photoshop.

So I end up guessing about where the shot is and start opening files and canceling until I find the right RAW photo to process. 

How do I avoid this? How can a see a thumbnail preview on the file in C drive?

Affinity applications utilise Windows File Explorer, therefore thumbnails won't show for the Canon 6D Mk II, you'll just see icons.

Up until around mid 2016, camera codecs were added to Windows 10 automatically by Microsoft via Windows Update, which meant Windows File Explorer would display CR2 raw files natively without the user needing to do anything. 

For some reason Microsoft stopped updating the codecs around mid 2016 (I think Windows 10 1607 was the last version that contained the latest camera codecs).  Therefore, Windows File Explorer will natively display raw files for cameras up to the Canon 80D (which was announced 2016 Quarter 2), but it won't display 5D Mk IV or later (which was announced 2016 Quarter 3). 

The 6D Mk II was announced in 2017, therefore Windows File Explorer won't display thumbnails (or metadata) for it natively.  Canon don't provide a codec to download either, which means you would need to install third-party codecs in order to see them in Windows File Explorer.

 

[IanSG]

16 minutes ago, - S - said:

Affinity applications utilise Windows File Explorer, therefore thumbnails won't show for the Canon 6D Mk II, you'll just see icons.

But you can install additional codecs.  I use the FastPictureViewer codec pack - it's not free, but it's only a few £/$ and it works with every RAW format I've used, including CR2.