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That worked, thanks much!

Is there a method to save a preset in the Fx panel? After making a frame for the image I’d like to save it as I use the same frame on every image I do. It seems the only way to get the Fx effect is on the original layer. If I make a new pixel layer the effect won’t show. I can’t seem to make it on its own layer. But that’s a separate issue. Thanks for any insight.

Thanks Walt.

I’m looking at this LUT pack and wondering if it will work with my iPad Air 4. Can’t find the info on the page. The video shows a laptop. Thanks much https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/product/top-9-lut-pack-by-ivan-weiss/?utm_source=serifemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=content_sale_feb23&utm_id=us&utm_content=general&utm_term=reminder

You all talked me into it. I got Procreate to draw with. Not bad at all and has a fairly simple interface. Plenty of good brush tools. Love the color wheel disc, classic, harmony, value and pallets. I use Affinity Photo for photo work. It has a plethora of adjustments and tools. However it still does not recognize a ProRaw file properly. It initially renders either too bright or too dark. This is the future so it would be good to see an update specifically for this.

In the Photo Persona open the Documents menu. Down near the bottom you will see Assistant. Open that and you will find the raw engine choices. Mine shows bottom left in portrait mode. So you’ll have to open a jpeg or some other non raw file to get to the raw engine menu in Photo Persona/Assistant.

Thanks, got it in Readle Documents now to reference. Looks good!

You are really going to like your new setup. That is fantastic. Affinity makes huge apps and the power of your setup will handle them beautifully. I found Affinity Photo to have a bit of a learning curve too. I used to use Photoshop so that really helped but it did take me about 7 weeks to find all the features and methods for what I do. I would suspect Affinity Designer to have a learning curve too. I’m a serious photographer so Photo is something I use for that but I did find two methods to draw and paint in Affinity Photo so I figured Procreate would not be of benefit in my case.

Odd, I’m not seeing any of that. Dodge and burn shows brush strokes immediately with no lag here. Good luck.

I should add I use Affinity Photo for drawing at times, like today. The pencil strokes do not lag and it is a great drawing experience.

I recently went from an iPad 6 to an iPad Air 4 and am blown away by the increased performance. The iPad Air 4 doubles the RAM and the A14 Bionic processor chip is amazing. I got the Apple Pencil 2 with it and am super pleased. Running Affinity Photo is a very stable and smooth experience. Haven’t used a desktop or laptop for 6 years now and don’t miss them one bit.

Funny because I edited a ProRae file yesterday, hit develop and almost immediately remembered the forgotten perspective adjustments. Yes, you have to go back to the start line as the developed file can’t be a raw ever again. Happens to everyone. Lol

I’ve noticed recently that mine doesn’t save selected commands either.

Changing to the Serif raw engine seems to be somewhat better but still not what I’d call right or totally acceptable on opening in the Develop Persona.

Lol, my bad. I’ve never owned a Mac and have not used any kind of desktop in 5 years. That’s why I stick exclusively to the iPad forum here. However when trying to figure this out I did see a desktop explanation and believe that there is an hourglass symbol at the top that is the assistant but don’t know if that is enabled normally. If Tony can find that I believe that will lead him to the Raw Engine choices. Any Mac users are welcome to chime in.

Hi Tony. Make sure you are in the Photo Persona, not the Develop Person where a Raw image opens. That’s why my search was so difficult. Here is a screenshot. Tell me if you need more of a description. When you tap the Assistant a dialogue box will appear with many options. Look down near the bottom left. This seemed to really help with how a ProRaw opens. I’m still experimenting.

Found it in the Photo Persona, second to the bottom in the Command menu called Assistant. It is in that dialogue box.

Fantastic update with version 1.9 for Affinity Photo. It does say in the help menu under Raw and what’s new that Apple ProRAW is supported but still opens far too bright and overexposed looking. It also says one can choose from Apple’s raw engine or Serif’s raw engine but I can’t discover where to toggle between the two. Can anyone help with the path to find this feature? I did register the product and received two sets of brushes from the Serif Labs Affinity store.

Every other app that is now working well with the new ProRaw format has had to update their apps to utilize the new Apple algorithms so it’s not a far stretch to think that Affinity needs to do the same. None of those other apps worked until they did the update process themselves. New proprietary Apple tools and algorithms appeared only with the update for iOS 14.3, something none of them had prior even with my iPhone and iPad updated to 14.3. Looks like a necessary in app update.

The new ProRaw format did come with new editing tools with iOS 14.3. In the native editing app one is called Brilliance which is called Tone Map in Raw Power raw engine. Same with ProCamera editing. Tone map didn’t appear before 14.3. It opens up shadows and brings back blown highlights in an amazing way. There are other tools too. Talking to Gentlemen Coders, some of these ProRaw editing features are proprietary Apple algorithms and are used by third party apps with permission I guess. Yes, I can open a ProRaw in Affinity Photo and edit it but it starts out very off. An update like other apps have gotten should fix this. Affinity is different than any other mobile apps I’ve used so there might be more to it. We’ll see but for the current it is much harder to get stellar results in Affinity than another editing app for me for the initial raw edits.

Not exactly sure for you but when I open Affinity Photo and hit the + symbol at the top a whole menu of possibilities are shown. The second box down on the right says Import from Photos and has the Apple photo symbol. Most of the time I swipe up on my floating toolbar and drag Photos up and dock it to the right side of the iPad screen. You need to enable multitasking for that. Is that what you are looking for?

The Inpainting brush works very well for this issue. It is located in the Clone tool menu. Just double tap the clone tool and the menu pops out. Select the inpainting brush, duplicate your layer, zoom in as far as you can, adjust the size of the brush and start painting over the lampshade. You can undo if you don’t like it or keep painting more. I downloaded your image and this technique worked well with little effort.

I’ll,add that I’m now, this morning shooting with the ProCamera iOS app, an app I’ve shot raw iPhone images for three years now. They added ProRaw support this morning with full manual and semi automatic control that one does not have in the native Apple camera app. It seems to work well with some limitations that might be ruled by ProRaw. So far I’m pretty blown away with the performance. I like a very low iso so much less noise reduction needed preserving more fine detail.

Yes, I’ve worked with raw files for decades too but only one day with ProRaw files. New things are coming to light pretty fast. I’m not disputing high end cameras though. I’ve had a few and was fanatical about them at one time. I no longer need them for my career and appreciate the ultralight capabilities of the flagship iPhones for my hiking pursuits these days.

Generally a ProRaw image does not look like the little jpeg preview when you open it in a raw engine. It is soft and does have dark areas where there was darkness but a ton of info is in there waiting to be pulled out. We get a lot more control doing that with third party raw editing apps like Affinity photo. When I open in Raw Power the preview is nothing like the ProRaw file in preview but I can extract an amazing amount of information from shadows that would be lost with a jpeg. Affinity photo for iPad just needs a little update for 14.3.