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@Chris B Thank you Chris for response. There is no doubt the photo is overexposed in highlights but Adobe Camera Raw or free Darktable are able to reconstruct the highlights. Someone wrote that Adobe has a much much bigger budget but it doesn't explain why Darktable has a feature that is able to fix it.

@NotMyFault I tried to resolve this image in Darktable (it's open source app) and I got better results. I still think the problem is Developer persona. I attached the file that was opened in Darktable and saved to OpenEXR.

@NotMyFault "One time cost instead of monthly payment. Who are they probably competing with?" 🤔 Okay. I'll wait for moderator opinon and after that will move on.

@NotMyFault You haven't to explain me how big and rich Adobe company is. The aim of this forum is to move the Affinity Photo to the next level. Not crying on the reasons why something is not possible. I expect that Affinity want to be a strong competitor for Adobe and want to provide a pro tool, not an argument "You may expect a tiny little bit too much" 😉

@NotMyFault Sorry man but I don't want to deform the image by using Clarify. I don't need to add more local contrast. I need to decrease the light in the brightest part of image. I tried to use your trick but the result are not good for me. Simply. I just want to open the file and move Highlights slider (or another White slider) to the left. Done. No other little helpers like Canon DPP. If the Photoshop is able to fix it why the Affinity developers wouldn't help us?

@NotMyFault Thank you for answer. I'm not sure if you catch the point of the problem. We've the same raw file. When you open the file in CameraRaw, you are able to see the cable's shadow between cable and ledge. In Affinity Photo 2 for Windows, this part of data is missing. There is something different I see like a bug. Nothing can help to reslove this problem (brightness, exposure, blackpoint, contrast, curves). I don't expect the same functionality like a Photoshop has even though I would appreciate to change terrible algorithm for contrast (solving through the curves is better, because you need to move Blacks and Whites to the middle, not just to limit levels of inputs the Shadows to middle and Highlights to do nothing like Affinity do) and missing White, Black function when you want to change just darkest and brightest parts but we talk about competition of image editors. And I would like to have the Affinity Photo editor like a tool that can replace Photoshop. At the moment, we are in Affinity Photo 2 for Windows thread. Apple RAW engine is irrelevant. So, I still see this problem as a bug.

I've a problem with fixing lightest parts of raw files in Affinity Photo2 opposite to Photoshop. It looks like the opened raw file is opened with lost of information in the light parts of photo. When I try to fix it I can do nothing with that. I attached the video where you can see my problem with comments in written form. You can try it by yourself. I attached the raw file. highlights affinity photo.avi 39 seville --lapseoftheshutter.com--.cr2

It's 2021 and there is the same problem. Please, could you fix it? It's important for creating logotypes.

If I work with more projects, I would always like to get the same export path for the same project (affinity designer file). At the moment, I get the last export path I used in previous opened project and it is terrible to find the right export path for every time I open another project.

Hello, I have a problem when I work with divide and add the shapes. When I want to create a shape from three circles I've got a wrong compound object. I've attached the video without voice. Just example. Rec_08-13-20_005.avi