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RedLetter20

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  1. I must be somewhere in between then because I have almost 200,000 pictures in my catalog, But I’m not a professional. For me it’s a hobby that I take very seriously.
  2. This is true, but not for the iPad. Which I think would be the biggest target for something like this. Affinity Photo for iPad has literally changed my entire workflow almost overnight. The idea would be that the “gallery view” would be more or less a fancy file browser. So long as your images are organized in folders then you can browse back as far as you want. I do have a NAS at this point though so I am able to keep all my photos in one place instead of being spread out across numerous USB HDDs. I could see how this approach wouldn’t work as seamlessly for someone who has their data spread out over multiple devices. But for iPad users it’s still better than the nothing that’s currently available. As far as the filmstrip, that would just work like it does in Lightroom and Capture One, it would just be used to provide quick access to the photos you currently have selected to work on.
  3. I agree that it is important, and personally I’d love to see a full blown DAM setup like Lightroom. However, doing all that and having the ability to keep things in sync between mobile and desktop would be a pretty big undertaking, but a good chunk of the features could be implemented without the need for any of that. so let me try to expand on my idea a little. First would be to add a “gallery” and a “film strip” view. this could be done by either selecting a folder or drive to open, or even better would be to add the ability to tie into WebDAV/smb/nfs so people with a NAS or cloud storage can tie right in. The gallery view could be setup as another persona but with file management tools instead (I’ll touch on this more in a second). As for the film strip it could just be added as a pinable panel on the right side that stretches the full width of the screen, this will show all images in the range of images you have selected in the gallery persona. Now as far as the organization goes, that could all be handled using file tags, or an xml sidecar file. Things such as rating, color label, and any custom tags you could want can all be written directly into the file or a sidecar file from the gallery persona. The gallery view would also allow searching and filtering by these tags. Doing it this way doesn’t require any kind of database, only the ability to read and write tags which is a pretty basic thing. lastly would be the non destructive editing. The best way to do this if it’s possible would be to create a “.afphoto” file beside each original image that references the original image and contains all the edits, you could even have more than one for different edits of the same picture. I think this would get a majority of people 90% of the way there, plus it is completely portable between installations of AF, even between different systems, users, and mobile. Plus, if you chose to write the tags and other metadata into the file instead of a sidecar, then most of your tags and rating will be available in other photo apps, as well as in the iOS files app, finder, and Windows explorer. Best of all is you don’t have to worry about corrupting, syncing and backing up a catalog file, and you could even use an external program to bulk edit tags, etc... just my two cents. 😁
  4. Affinity Photo already has what a majority of users need as far as processing and editing goes, what’s missing is management. Something that might be a very good compromise would be to add in the ability to open a folder of images, when you do this you get a filmstrip at the bottom of the screen just like Lightroom. As for adjustments, layers, etc, make it “non destructive” by saving everything as a “.affinity” sidecar file that simply references the original photo. so basically just make it part of Affinity Photo, and skip the “library” or “catalog” part and just use sidecar files, I imagine doing it this way would be significantly easier to develop and maintain. Plus it gives users the added benefit of their entire library being portable and can be opened in any version of Affinity Photo without having to deal with re-importing and catalog files.
  5. With Adobe pushing their cloud storage more and more aggressively I am trying to get away more and more aggressively. I have been checking out Affinity Photo, and will likely be switching to it in the near future, especially since it will run on my new iPad as-well. But the biggest thing I need to get rid of is Lightroom. I have found myself editing on my iPad more and more lately, and there is no way to use Lightroom Mobile without also storing your entire catalog in the Adobe Cloud, and Im just simply not going to do that. So for now I have been using CaptureOne with EasyCanvas, but I would really like to move to something that can run natively on both my Macbook Pro and my iPad. Seeing the apps that Affinity currently has to offer, it would seem like a Lightroom replacement would be the next logical step.
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