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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 755359" data-attributes="member: 9240">There's no reason you should have XMP files on the card. I'm looking at mine from my D500 now and there are none. If you are opening your image in Affinity directly from you XQD card before moving or saving them to a hard drive then it's Affinity is creating them. The &quot;Develop Persona&quot; module is Affinity's version of Camera Raw, and if you do anything in that module then an XMP file will be created because all raw processing is non-destructive so those edits need to be stored somewhere. When you move to other personas the edited image becomes your background layer, just as in Photoshop, and yes, the applied edits would be stored there, but those edits are effectively permanent in the PSD file you're creating. If you never revisit your images then getting rid of the XMP file is fine. But if you ever came back to an image and realized something required tweaking in that base/background layer then without the XMP file you'd need to redo all those original edits from scratch.I revisit my old images constantly, usually a couple years after I have worked on them and after learning new techniques or getting better editing tools. I use Lightroom so all the edits that would have been in an XMP file had I used Camera Raw are stored in the catalog (there is an option to have Lightroom create XMP files).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 755359, member: 9240"] There's no reason you should have XMP files on the card. I'm looking at mine from my D500 now and there are none. If you are opening your image in Affinity directly from you XQD card before moving or saving them to a hard drive then it's Affinity is creating them. The "Develop Persona" module is Affinity's version of Camera Raw, and if you do anything in that module then an XMP file will be created because all raw processing is non-destructive so those edits need to be stored somewhere. When you move to other personas the edited image becomes your background layer, just as in Photoshop, and yes, the applied edits would be stored there, but those edits are effectively permanent in the PSD file you're creating. If you never revisit your images then getting rid of the XMP file is fine. But if you ever came back to an image and realized something required tweaking in that base/background layer then without the XMP file you'd need to redo all those original edits from scratch. I revisit my old images constantly, usually a couple years after I have worked on them and after learning new techniques or getting better editing tools. I use Lightroom so all the edits that would have been in an XMP file had I used Camera Raw are stored in the catalog (there is an option to have Lightroom create XMP files). [/QUOTE]

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