Budd69 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I’m a newbie with very basic question. I have many NEF raw photos with associated sidecar file containing changes to the raw file. Must all the photos be saved as a combined file, such as tif, before importing? Or can the NEF raw file with associated sidecar file be imported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted March 11, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2019 Hi Budd69 and Welcome to the Forums, We don't currently support sidecar files, so you wouldn't be able to open them in Affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 7 hours ago, stokerg said: We don't currently support sidecar files, so you wouldn't be able to open them in Affinity. But you could export them as tiff, png or jpg whatever suits you. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 1 hour ago, John Rostron said: But you could export them as tiff, png or jpg whatever suits you. TIFF or PNG would be better than JPG, of course, as every time you export a JPG file you lose quality. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 20 hours ago, Budd69 said: have many NEF raw photos with associated sidecar file containing changes to the raw file. Must all the photos be saved as a combined file, such as tif, before importing? If the question is, if you can reuse your NEFs with made changes so far as the sidecar files contain the list of already made changes, the answer is NO. - APh might be able to process your NEF files (depending on the support of the individual Nikon cam and used lenses) but you would have to start with the initial raw NEF files here, since APh doesn't know to read, interpret or make any use out of acompanied sidecar files so far. Instead, as you already assumed, you would have to export the so far altered/manupulated NEFs to TIFF, in order to reuse and continue with the processing of the NEF files where you stopped before. - Other than that you would have otherwise to restart the NEF processing from ground up under APh, if not reusing TIFFs here as an exchange format. 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...
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