Open documents and images

You can open photos and raster images as well as a range of popular camera raw images in Affinity Photo, ready for editing and designing. You can open previously saved Affinity Photo documents, as well as vector images (SVGs) and projects from other, selected professional photo editing apps. For a comprehensive list of compatible import file formats, see Import and export file formats.

A key feature of the Affinity product range is the ability to seamlessly open any Affinity project file in any Affinity product, regardless of the original Affinity product it was created in. In doing so, you can enhance your work with another Affinity product's features with no concern over file compatibility on saving.

To open a document or photo:
  1. Do one of the following:
    • From the File menu, click Open.
    • Double-click anywhere in the empty view. (Only available in Normal mode when no other documents are open.)
  2. Select the file you want and click Open.
To open a recently used document:
To open an image as a new document (via Finder):
  • Open Finder and drag the file to an off page area of your workspace.
To open an image as a new document (via Explorer):
  • Open Explorer and drag the file to an off page area of your workspace.
To open Adobe PDF files:
  1. From the File menu, click Open.
  2. From the PDF Options dialog, you can choose:
    • A specific or all pages to import.
    • The document color space that PDF contents will use. The Estimate option senses the PDF file's color space and uses that.
    • Set the resolution for the PDF content.
    • If text is to remain more editable at the expense of accurate design reproduction.
    • If separate text lines can be treated as a single text frame to aid text flow.
    • To substitute a missing font with a similar replacement font.
To open a document template:
  1. From the File menu, click Open.
  2. Select the .aftemplate file you want and click Open.

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