missedbeat Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 As a new, and very happy, convert to Affinity from the Creative Cloud I have a question!! Leaving Lightroom CC I have now lost a viewer for all my photos from whatever source. In Lr these are hosted in the Cloud and easily viewed and shared without having to have an enormous hard-drive! Having moved to Affinity I needed somewhere to 'hold' the photos from where they could be viewed and shared. I chose Apple Photos and all is fine; all photos from my phone go there automatically and I can import RAW files directly form my camera. Photos also holds the originals in the Cloud when space is at a premium. If I right click on one of these RAW files in Photos, and select Edit in Affinity, the photo opens in the Photos Persona and not in the Develop Persona. I have to then click on Develop Persona to edit the RAW file. Is this an expected behaviour when using Photos and do I lose anything in the image editing by having to select the Develop Persona? As an aside, has anyone got a suggestion for storage other than Photos? Peter H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 2 hours ago, missedbeat said: If I right click on one of these RAW files in Photos, and select Edit in Affinity, the photo opens in the Photos Persona and not in the Develop Persona. Are you talking about right-clicking & using the Edit With > Affinity Photo popup menu item? If so, as explained in this post & the ones following it in the affinity won't open Raw files from Photos app. topic, there is an issue with that item in Affinity Photo, & even if there was not there are good reasons not to use it. Instead, use the Affinity Photo extension. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missedbeat Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 Thank you R C-R; I may be being a little dense here but what do you mean by 'Use the Edit in Affinity Photo extension'? Peter H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 28, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 28, 2019 Hi missedbeat, Welcome to Affinity Forums In Apple Photos after clicking the thumbnail in the library to see the selected image alone, click the Edit button on the top right of the interface, then click the ellipsis icon and finally select the Edit in Affinity Photo extension from the list. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missedbeat Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 Perfect, that works! Thank you. Peter H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 @missedbeat, in addition to what MEB wrote here & in the other topic I linked to in my reply, you might also want to read the Tidbits article that @C J T linked to in that other topic. It explains in some detail why "Edit with" is a bad choice as well as the intricacies of using extensions in Apple Photos. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missedbeat Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 That is indeed an interesting article. I am going to see how Photos performs but may well fall back on using Photo Mechanic to handle images prior to development and then just add jpegs on Photos of the developed image leaving me with the original raw and *.afphoto files to come back to if required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelG Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 1 On 8/28/2019 at 3:32 AM, missedbeatsaid: If Iright click on one of these RAW files in Photos, and select Edit in Affinity, the photo opens in the Photos Persona and not in the Develop Persona. I have to then clickon Develop Persona to edit the RAW file. Go to the Image menu and click on “Use RAW as original”. Toward the bottom of the list. Click the button with the ellipsis (…) and choose “Edit in Affinity Photo”. The instructions will tell you to open Affinity Photo. When you open Affinity, the image will be open in the Develop Persona Quote MelG If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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