Supported file formats

Affinity Photo is capable of opening many raster and vector file formats. Photo also imports PDF and Adobe PSD files, and exports a range of raster file formats and the PSD file format.

File type Open Export
Adobe Illustrator (AI) check1
Adobe Freehand (10 and MX) check2
Adobe Photoshop (PSD) check3 check10
Adobe Photoshop (PSB) check
DNG check9
EPS check check
GIF check check
HEIF check4
JPEG check check
J2K,JP2 check
JPEG-XR/JXR (WDP/HDP) check11
PDF check1,8 check
PNG check check5
RAW check6
SVG check check
TGA check5 check
TIFF check7 check5
WEBP check
EXR check check
HDR check check

1 Files with multiple artboards (AI) or pages (PDF) can be imported; each artboard/page will be kept as a distinct page on its own layer.

2 Multi-page Freehand files open with each page concatenated onto a single page. Add file extensions .fh10 or .fh11 in Finder to import. Text import is not supported.

3 Includes Smart Objects, loaded as editable embedded documents.

4 Includes depth map, loaded as second layer. Depth maps are upsampled.

5 Supports transparency.

6 For a comprehensive up-to-date list of RAW file support, please see the following links:

712 bit TIFF (RGB or Greyscale) included.

8JBIG2 PDF encoding is supported.

9Apple ProRAW DNG support (from Apple iPhone12 Pro) is supported.

10 Text will be rasterised on export.

11 Includes JPEG-XR 101010 (e.g. XBOX screen captures).