Philip Thorpe Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 So after a great deal of hassle finding the Inpainting brush tool, i used it and then clicked one Save. The saved photo however always appears together with Affinity and not as a stand-alone photo. I do not want the photo to appear with Affinity every time i click on it. I want to be able to put it back with the file-i photo where it came from. How do i do this? Thanks for any suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 14, 2019 Hi Philip Thorpe, Welcome to Affinity Forums To "save" files in other formats other than our own native (.afphoto file) use File ▸ Export instead. Affinity only rewrites an existing file (processed files with no support for layers like JPG, PNG etc) if all the layers were flattened/merged into one first. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steps Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Quote Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080 Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Thorpe Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Thanks for all the comments. A word to MEB. Your last sentence is basically Chinese to me. What do you mean by flattened/merged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steps Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 7 minutes ago, Philip Thorpe said: Thanks for all the comments. A word to MEB. Your last sentence is basically Chinese to me. What do you mean by flattened/merged? JPG & PNG just have a single layer while TIF, PSD & aphoto can have multiple layers. By saving your document as JPG you loose that Information because it's merged. If you read the linked discussion you find out that this distinction is so very important to Serif that they separated "Saving" and "Exporting". It's a bit artifical. @MEB Sorry for answering ahead of you. Quote Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080 Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Hi @Philip Thorpe Documents, images etc can be made up of several objects on layers, like resting on sheets of clear film. This makes it easy to move things around. If you flatten the layers, all the objects are moved onto one layer, but you can no longer move the objects individually jmwellborn 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Thorpe Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Hello toltec. Thanks for the illustrated explanation. It seems to imply that JPEG iS rather limited, although i can't grasp what you could actually move around in a photo in a different format. Any suggestions as to what tutorial video i should view on this subject? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, Philip Thorpe said: Any suggestions as to what tutorial video i should view on this subject? Have a look at this one. This one's good, too. v_kyr 1 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, Philip Thorpe said: Any suggestions as to what tutorial video i should view on this subject? See for Photo bitmap/pixel based: Layers - YouTube / Vimeo Layer Concepts Layers Overview Generally take a look here: Official Affinity Photo (Desktop) Video Tutorials (200+) Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Thorpe Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 OK thanks everyone. This should keep me busy for awhile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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