Rory Williams

Excellent advise. I can see some late nights ahead to really get to grips with the program.

The workflow in Lightroom is simple. Open the file. Open negative lab pro. Click Convert. It's done in about 5 seconds. Post adjustments are available before saving it I rarely need to. Couldn't be easier. Whatever it's doing it does a very good job indeed. All my work is landscapes so I usually finish off using silver effects pro. I love affinity and I'm sure if I get more proficient with it I can achieve the same results. I was hoping to avoid to much time fiddling. I apologise for not posting a sample. I live high in the mountains of Galicia and I'm busy getting the old house more wind proof for the winter.

I don't own a scanner. I use a bellows, copy stand, light box and digital camera. The sharpness is outstanding. I shoot on Raw and then post process.

It takes such a lot of fiddling by eye to get a decent result. As most negs are different workflow can be slow. I've been using Negative lab pro which is brilliant. 30 seconds to convert a neg. However it only works with Lightroom and I'm happy with Affinity as a program. I don't want to have to return to Adobe. I thought there may be some quick method to get a decent result without having to fiddle with curves and go through the laborious trial and error. I appreciate your suggestions.

I shoot exclusively B+W negative film fp4 as I have done for 40 years and I now copy my negatives using a copy set up with bellows and nikor copy lenses on a digital camera and light box. I have abandoned Photoshop/lightroom and negative lab pro on recommendation from a fellow professional. He shoots only digital. I am struggling to get a decent conversion. I've tried everything and I simply cannot get a decent result. The inverted image is weak and lacks contrast no matter what I do. Any help would be much appreciated.