Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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Hello,

I'm new to this forum. After several years of professionally using Adobe products, I'm moving away from Adobe to the Affinity suite and also now started to use XnView MP. I have the following question:

With XnView MP, Is it possible to view afphoto files in full resolution, just like psd files?

When using the viewer in XnView MP V1.8.0 64bit (Windows), Affinity Photo 2 files do not display in full resolution. As far as I see, the max width showing in XnView's viewer is 512 pixels. For instance, I have an afphoto file with a resolution of 5837px x 3891px, still showing as max 512px x 341px in XnView's viewer. See attached screenshots. What's also noticeable, is that in XnView the width and height properties show as 512x341and not the actual 5837x3891. This in contrast with Adobe Photoshop files, which are shown with full resolution in XnView's viewer.

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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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You could try Tools > Settings... > Formats > Read -- Camera RAW tab and see if Use -- Full size solves the problem... :?:
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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cday wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 4:10 pm You could try Tools > Settings... > Formats > Read -- Camera RAW tab and see if Use -- Full size solves the problem... :?:
its for convert, for view/preview - "Camera RAW, use" (Settings > View) ref
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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Thank you for your reply cday and user0. Both settings are already set to 'full size', but do not make a difference for viewing afphoto files - I asume because afphoto files are not camera raw files.
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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could you send me a sample file?
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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Yes, Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kpdvk7na ... 07r1w&dl=0

In addition I hope the following information could be helpful:

As far as I can see on my side, XnView uses only the embedded thumbnail of afphoto files and does not read the full resolution 'image'. See screenshots below. In Affinity Photo settings - "General" - when I uncheck the option "Save thumbnails with documents", XnView's browser shows just the associated icon and in XnView's fullscreen viewer no image is shown (the context menu item 'viewer' is greyed out'. Possibly this explains why in XnView the width and height properties show as 512x341 (the embedded thumbnail dimensions?) and not the actual 5837x3891.
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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I see the same with files created with Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher: only thumbnail size images (max width or height of 512px) are shown in XnView MP.
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same issue in ACDSee, any other app I have cannot open it at all
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Re: Is it possible to show Affinity Photo files with full resolution?

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yes currently only embedded image is extracted
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