NicolasG

I guess this can only be done in the Lightroom Classic because I cannot export PSDs from Lightroom CC. I can definitely edit it in Photoshop, then save a PSD from there, but the Lightroom settings are already baked plus it would take forever to do this manually for 6000 pictures. Thank you again for the additional description/definition of the softwares. I guess I was confused by the personas.

@fde101 Thank you for these precious bits of information. I was not aware integrating visual modifications was a non-standard practice as metadata are already embedded in my RAW files anyway. I understand the comparison to Photoshop more than Lightroom and never thought of it as an identical copy. I do not want to denature this thread but I always thought Affinity Photo was a Photoshop/Lightroom merge and Designer was a Illustrator/Photoshop merge. That being said, I was ready to ditch the collection and library management features of Lightroom, for a per-file edits inside well classified file structure. Saving my edits through some kind of sidecar file would've been amazing and also crucial for this to happen. Keeping my edits settings intact AND my RAW file as originals is a must. Not gonna lie, I am a little bit disappointed to learn Photo is not heading in that direction haha; I mean, no way to manage a collection nor to save any of the settings I spent a lot of time adjusting? It's a no go for my workflow. Will have to stick to Affinity Designer and Adobe Lightroom or switch to Luminar for the time being. Thank you for your suggestions!

As a Lightroom CC user, the only way I can fully migrate everything from LRCC to Affinity Photo is through XMP profiles so I do not lose nor bake all my previous edits. I am glad you are considering integrating XMP support in the next release. Although I am not able to make it work in the current beta. I have an exported, original CR2 file with its sidecar XMP with the same filename but the settings are not applied. Dragging the XMP resulted in the same error as the 1.7.X version saying it is not a compatible file. I did not find any option to import an XMP profile either. Can someone enlighten me? Thank you!