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@NotMyFault, I totally agree. There’s nothing that beats DPP for canon colors and processing their raw files. The thing I miss are local adjustments and gradients and easier HSL adjustments and speed of processing. I wanted something better than DPP, with regards to a more modern / easier interface. DPP is also slow.. I have Affinity Photo which was perfect for editing a few photo’s, but not for hundreds. So I’m doing a trial in lightroom… however as mentioned above the colors are wrong. Maybe in the (far) future Serif will have a DAM/raw batch editor… really wished they had it already…but waited for too long. At the moment, I’ve managed to get closer to DPP faithful colors, and maybe it’s something I can built upon.

Hi Old Bruce, I’m afraid that will indeed be the case… The reason why this idea came to my mind is because the camera color profiles for a canon r5 do not exist. In other words, only Canon’s own DPP software is able to render colors as I want. Eg. ‘Faithfull’ is a proprietary color profile. This means, rendering a raw file in affinity, lightroom or in dpp is totally different. I believed LUTs were the solution.. because affinity lets you ‘infer’ luts. This way, a file saved in dpp and in affinity could give a lut to apply the ‘Faithfull’ profile. I’m sorry if I’m not totally clear, but I just wanted to get some way to get the same rendered output in lightroom / affinity as in dpp. Seems this isnt easy.. if you google on Canon R5 and lightroom profiles. Adobe doesn’t provide camera profiles for the r5. Using the Adobe Camera raw converter one can create their own profiles, using luts and using adjustments done manually using the adjustment sliders. So I thought…ok lets use luts. There’s somebody who created profiles like this (search for canon r5 color fidelity)

The desired result is one lut that can be used for all photo’s. Eg. lut1 = for portaits with skin colors lut2 = for landscapes with green A combined lut could then be used to apply on a portait as if it would be lut1. The same combined lut could also be used on a landscape as if it would be lut2 So, similar to how a color profile is used… for example, but then for photo’s

What’s the best way to mix LUT’s? For example, I have a couple of photo’s: portrait, landscape, city, etc. They all have different color schemes. Eg. Portrait pictures have skintones. Landscape pictures have green colors, sky. City pictures buildings, concrete, etc. If I tweak skincolors and ‘bake’ that into a LUT and later on, tweak another picture and again ‘bake’ that into another LUT… then I would like to combine the tweaks into one LUT, so I could use it as a generic color profile that can be applied. Because, eventually a LUT is a lookup table and I was thinking, the more versatile color re-mappings I could add, the more generic I could make it.

Thanks David, I’ll look into that as soon as I have a moment. Didn’t know this tweaking was possible, looks like that will save me from having it to modify each time.

Hey Old Bruce, this did the trick! It's looking ok now. Not sure why that checkmark was set to on, but seems obvious now. Somehow it still kind of a bug, where it should not turn completely black and should just 'remove' the vignette, not everything. However, super happy that it can be "fixed" by just unchecking this. Thank you very much for your time & help!

Dear, I'm a big fan of Affinity Photo. I've just purchased a new camera, the Canon R5. Currently using it with the Canon Mount Adaptor to shoot raw (cr3) files with my EF-S lens 17-55 2.8. The camera is automatically setting it to crop mode (1.6), because of this. Photo's look ok in DPP from Canon. The raw development in Affinity Photo is wrong and not usuable... just can't use affinity photo anymore :-( Easily reproducable, just open a CR3 raw file taken with the R5, mounted with the adapter and the EF-S lens 17-55 2.8. Not sure, but most likely it is true for other EF-S lenses as well (just don't have any other to test). See attachments: - originally produced CR3 file - the same photo, but JPEG straight out of the R5 - screenshot the result in Affinity Phot after opening the CR3 2N5A0060.CR3