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Ukrainian beauty lying down on a sandy beach. Fashion swimwear vibes with a bit of shyness. Published magazine work. Old work from a Nikon d5200 edited in affinity photo.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMwcBaL0Rk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Well better safe than sorry. Didn’t know if this was Seriff forum appropriate.

Well better safe than sorry. Didn’t know if this was Seriff forum appropriate.

Ukrainian beauty lying down on a sandy beach. Fashion swimwear vibes with a bit of shyness. Published magazine work. Old work from a Nikon d5200 edited in affinity photo.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMwcBaL0Rk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ukrainian beauty lying down on a sandy beach. Fashion swimwear vibes with a bit of shyness. Published magazine work. Old work from a Nikon d5200 edited in affinity photo.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMwcBaL0Rk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

And another grandfather said "if a tool is broken - fix it" - like in bug fixing.

Go to facebook and try to explain this in the groups. Insta banned.  It is hilarious how many fanboys exist. Real problems that should have been fixed long ago. Example i keep giving people to which the have no answer to is serifs previous photo app. The raw develop of the previous app had more advanced features than v2. The only answer they have when provided with this proof is name calling. I wish they wouldnt take us for fools. I want them to succeed. I really dislike the way adobe runs things. 

Super excited when I got an email about V2 and even downloaded the free trials, but after looking at the lack of added features, it's a big pass. I'll wait for V3 or V6 or V9, what ever it takes to make this software compatible with the printing industry (Almost 1 Trillion Dollar (US$) industry worldwide).
There is still no support for overprint fills and strokes for ink trapping and color mixing, spot or CMYK color separations, non-printable layers for die cut rules or digital finishing equipment. Let's not even mention the still clunky interface. It's not workflow, it's work stoppage. Need to pull down menus to change stroke weights and type sizes, really???
I have worked in the graphic arts industry for over 40 years from paste up and film to digital prepress and digital printing, and every major graphic software package since the original Pagemaker. I know a thing or two about the industry. The reason professionals use Adobe products is because they support this kind of work. Our designers and prepress technicians agree that Affinity files are challenging to work with, and the only thing worse is Canva crap. We charge extra for such files because of the time it takes to make them work with our equipment.
Bottom line is if your like me and don't want to pay for subscription software, be prepared to pay for it on the back end.

Wrong. You clearly show the videos that prove what not to do for high end retouching. The only one that is close to perfectly accurate was perfect portraits. He did seem to know what he was talking about. He didn’t go that much into it though.Did you peruse the comments in some of the videos? The first one you linked has a comment where it is mostly explained.
 
the cloud strife pen name comment explains a lot.
 
you said I may be blind but you are not. It takes training the eye over and over to see what I mean. I’m not even at the master level as of yet but I’ve trained my eye enough to start seeing the differences.So like I said to the trained eye you will see what is high end and retouching and what isn’t.

I happened upon this thread by accident. I'm glad some people know what affinity actually needs for high end retouching. It is severely limited and that is apparent as ones skills grow. Serif likes to pretend it isn't a problem but it is. Even some of the youtube tutorials have misinformation when it comes to explaining how functions actually work and then they say it is for high end. It is not or it is used the wrong way. All the articles ive read on spotlight have misinformation on proper high end retouching. Have yet to see an article with a photographer on affinity spotlight that actually knows how to truly high end retouch. 

I didn't watch the whole video, sorry. You may need to experiment a bit to get something similar but I hope you know that Apply Image exists in Affinity Photo too. There will alway be differences between these 2 programs. Affinity Photo is not a clone of Photoshop.