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Much as I love Affinity Photo, I find it frustrating after having just saved to an Affinity File, then exported, to be asked whether I want to save my changes. If I export my changes, which almost invariably mean less pixels, then I do not want to lose resolution in the Affinity File. Over many saves, I find things not standard, sometimes I am told there have been changes and sometimes not. There seems no consistency. One of my two pet hates >:(>:( (but I still love you Affinity!)

Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander

(Jim)

Windows 11

Affinity Photo 2.4

Lightroom 6

Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI

Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz    32 °C
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You would not lose anything in the .afphoto file if all you did to "lose" pixels during export was to change export settings. So Saving will be safe.

If you look at the History panel before and after your Export, you will see that the action of exporting added a History entry. Therefore, Photo considers your file to have changed.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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11 hours ago, Jaffa said:

Much as I love Affinity Photo, I find it frustrating after having just saved to an Affinity File, then exported, to be asked whether I want to save my changes. If I export my changes, which almost invariably mean less pixels, then I do not want to lose resolution in the Affinity File. Over many saves, I find things not standard, sometimes I am told there have been changes and sometimes not. There seems no consistency. One of my two pet hates >:(>:( (but I still love you Affinity!)

As Walt.farrell said you are only changing the export settings, these can be set up once then reused without an entry being made in the history pane. The only thing that is changing is the export settings.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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12 minutes ago, Fida Jessa said:

I love affinity, but I have lost left & right Side I have lost Tools

So I cannot work with it. Please Help.

Jessa 

 

A screenshot would help, but it souns like you might have pressed Tab, which is the default shortcut for the menu action View > Toggle UI. If so, just press Tab again, or use that menu action.

-- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7

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