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I agree with Red Sands's view of some of the algorithms. Lightroom's RAW editor is more effective in some of the exposure-oriented elements. I also tried editing some photos in the Photo persona of Affinity Publisher. It didn't do a very good job of lifting the exposure; it managed better when I was able to open Photo proper in the Develop persona, though.

Lightroom Classic can view the lossless compressed raw files from my Sony A7r5 without a problem. I've just installed the latest Affinity Photo 2 Beta hoping to see this supported. But no, it's still refusing to open them. Any chance of an update on when I'll be able to process these files with Affinity Photo 2?

Hi I'm also keen to process my compressed raw files from my Sony A7r5. Any update on timings for that update, as the list, above, doesn't include this model. Thanks

Also apologies from me for the delayed response. Yes, the masks and inverted masks work in the beta version.

I've also recently installed 1.9.0.932 and my mask functionality isn't working at all - both inverted and non-inverted - I can't use the black or white paint function, it just does nothing to the image. I saw on a previous thread this was down to the 'Protect Alpha' being chosen, but it's not switched on with my session. I've created the mask by the Layer menu and the Mask icon but both suffer from the same problem.