What is a .afphoto file?
Affinity Photo Document · Design · Serif (Canva) · 2015
An .afphoto file is a document from Affinity Photo, a popular one-time-purchase alternative to Photoshop. It keeps the full layered, non-destructive edit of a photo or composite.
What is a .afphoto file used for?
Affinity Photo is used for photo editing and compositing across Windows, Mac and iPad. The .afphoto format is proprietary and best opened in Affinity Photo itself.
To share with other software, export to PSD (with layers), TIFF, PNG or JPG. Its sibling format .afdesign belongs to Affinity Designer.
What opens a .afphoto file?
The .afphoto format opens in the following apps, grouped by operating system. If one app does not work, try another from the same list.
Windows
- Affinity Photo
- export to PSD/TIFF
macOS
- Affinity Photo
- export to PSD/TIFF
Linux
- No native option; use exported PSD/TIFF
Open a .afphoto file step by step
- Confirm the file really is a .afphoto. Drop it into the WhatFileType identifier, which reads its signature in your browser without uploading anything.
- On Windows, open it with Affinity Photo or export to PSD/TIFF.
- On Mac, use Affinity Photo or export to PSD/TIFF.
- On Linux, try No native option; use exported PSD/TIFF.
- Still stuck? Convert the .afphoto to psd, which opens more widely.
Why can't I open my .afphoto file?
Almost always because no installed app understands Affinity Photo. Install one of the apps above, or convert the file to a format your existing software already reads. If double-clicking opens the wrong program instead of nothing at all, the file association is set to the wrong app rather than the file being broken.
The other possibility is that the file is not really a .afphoto at all. Drop it into the file identifier to check it by its bytes instead of its name. Nothing is uploaded.
How to convert a .afphoto file
You can convert a .afphoto file to psd, tiff, png, jpg using a conversion tool or the export menu of an app that opens it.
Affinity Photo has no fixed magic number, so there is no signature table on this page. Its bytes alone do not prove the format: identification relies on the extension, the structure of the content and the program that created it. The magic-numbers reference lists the formats that do carry one.
Frequently asked questions
What is a .afphoto file?
An .afphoto file is a document from Affinity Photo, a popular one-time-purchase alternative to Photoshop. It keeps the full layered, non-destructive edit of a photo or composite.
How do I open an .afphoto file without Affinity Photo?
There is no full free viewer. Ask for a PSD or TIFF export, which most image editors open with layers or as a flat image.
Can Photoshop open an .afphoto file?
Not directly. Export it from Affinity Photo as a PSD, which Photoshop opens with the layers intact.
What is the difference between .afphoto and .afdesign?
.afphoto is an Affinity Photo (raster/photo) document; .afdesign is an Affinity Designer (vector) document. They are sibling formats from the same suite.
Related formats
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