Note that this may say that it’s importing all of the rest of the files in the folder, but it’s just scanning them, so don’t worry. This will new import the file you previously saved from Affinity Photo. You can now continue to edit your image in Affinity Photo. Here you should make whatever changes you wish to make, and then click the Develop button. It will open in Affinity Photo’s develop persona. This will send the RAW file to Affinity Photo. So right click on the image in the browser and choose Open With > Affinity Photo (or select this command from the Image menu). In this case, if you want to send the RAW file, rather than an edited Tiff, then you choose “Open With” instead of “Edit With”. If you still want to do this, here’s what to do… Step 1

There is also no easy round tripping if you do this, and you will have to manually re-import the resulting edited image. This means that the file may look substantially different when you open it in Affinity Photo this way. It’s important to understand that if you send the RAW file, this means that you will loose any Raw edits that you may have done, and it will use Affinity Photo’s Engine rather than Capture One’s to decode the RAW file. If you want to send the RAW file to Affinity Photo, rather than the Capture One edited version, then things get a little tricker. When you switch back to Capture One it may take a few seconds to update the tiff file. When you’re finished making your changes, choose Save in Affinity photo and it will save back over the file. This will then open the file you saved earlier, and all of your layer information should be intact. So instead, choose Image > Open With > Affinity Photo, or right click and choose Open With > Affinity Photo. It uses this to make the copy, and so, you are left with a flattened version. This is because Capture One can’t read the Affinity Photo layer information, and just reads the composite image that’s stored in the tiff. If you choose “Edit With” again, it will make another copy of the Tiff you previously created, and you will loose any of the layers or other objects in your file that you may have created the first time you opened it in Affinity Photo.

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