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Yahoooo!

Quark has been dying a slow death for years and now that it has been acquired by Parallax Capital Partners - it may be finished. Quark lost a lot of its users to Adobe due to its poor service and arrogant attitude. That means there's only one pro page layout application - Adobe's InDesign - and I think that a great many users would like to move away from it. You've already got two of the trinity with photo and design. Just one more to make it complete.

Quark has been dying a slow death for years and now that it has been acquired by Parallax Capital Partners - it may be finished. Quark lost a lot of its users to Adobe due to its poor service and arrogant attitude. That means there's only one pro page layout application - Adobe's InDesign - and I think that a great many users would like to move away from it. You've already got two of the trinity with photo and design. Just one more to make it complete.

Trying the Affinity Photo 1.5/11 beta on MAC OS. The "Batch" processing doesn't appear to work. I've tried File-->New Batch Job and loaded 5 RAW images. Chose Output: save into original location and Save as JPEG. Then applied the "B&W Macro" and hit "OK" Affinity appeared to process each image. But when it's finished there are no processed images to be found.

I see a BIG problem with this! All those new features and it's only a .08 update??? This should have moved it up to V 2 at least LOL! Great work. Looking forward to it - especially focus stacking.

Has the demosaicing issue been fixed? (referred to here with examples: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15441-is-there-a-demosaicing-issue-with-raw-files/?hl=demosaicing )

I guess my last post/response hasn't been vetted yet? Here's another example - and a new twist that I've seen before but ignored: Affinity does not open RAW images in the same position as PShop. If you overlay the Affinity image on top of the PShop version and set the transparency to, say 40%, you'll see the difference in image alignment as in the attached example. I've also attached another image that shows this apparent demosaicing issue. All settings in the RAW processor for both Affinity and PShop are "OFF". I've circled an area that shows the issue - Affinity on the left and PShop on the right. I'd love to use Affinity as my primary editor - but this issue means I have to use a separate RAW processor.

If I switch chromatic aberration correction "on" in Affinity nothing changes. So I don't think it's chromatic aberration in the original image. Opening the RAW image in PShop at its default settings with chromatic aberration turned off keeps any chromatic aberrations (if present in the original shot). With chromatic aberration turned off in PShop the color fringing that appears in the Affinity developed image does not appear in the PShop image. Affinity corrects chromatic aberrations very well when they're present in the image. However this color fringing does not appear to be chromatic aberration and is not affected by turning on chromatic aberration correction in Affinity.

I've been using Affinity Photo for awhile (in conjunction with PShop CC) but, with the Beta version I've started to try and use it to open RAW images (Sony a77ii). I've run into a bit of an issue in that Affinity seems to have a problem with demosaicing RAW images. My attached example is a tight crop of an image to show the effect. On the left is the Affinity image opened and developed with its presets. On the right is the same RAW image opened with PShop. The red fingers on the Affinity version point to the artefacts - a Magenta/Green fringe on the spine of the Sargent book and the black wire. The white text on the spine of the center book is garbled colored pixels. On the right is the same image using PShop's default for opening the image. No color fringing. At first I thought this was some kind of chromatic aberration however on the Affinity image the Magenta/Green fringes aren't place on the same sides of the affected images.