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Ah, didn't think so. My current workflow is this: Capture One or Eos Utility for tethering. Capture One for editing. Affinity Photo for creating YouTube thumbnails as I feel Affinity Photo, until they implement an editable red mask (like Capture One) it will never be a pro tool, just an amateur one.

I know AP version one didn't, but does version two of Affinity Photo have tethering feature now? I still tether with Capture One and EOS Utility, but would be good to do it in Affinity Photo. I've just downloaded version two during the summer sale, but does anybody know if it has tethering ability now? If not, why not, it's a must have feature these days.

Affinity Photo desperately needs to feature the famous red overlay that is totally editable (like what Capture One and other use) for being able to draw in a red overlay on the skin areas of a face and then delete the red overlay on the eyes, brows, teeth, lips etc and add and delete to this red overlay as necessary being able to see the red overlay all the time and turn it off when you want to apply an affect to that area. Really, this is a fundamental necessity for portrait photographers and Affinity Photo seem to be well behind with this. To be honest, it is this feature alone that is keeping Affinity Photo in the amateur arena, not the professional one. Add this feature and folk won't need Capture One anymore.

Just read through the entire thread I linked to above and everybody is complaining about Affinity Photo 2 being an amateur programme. So many people want to cut the cord with Photoshop and Capture one, but until Affinity Photo start to put in professional features and being able to see a red overlay and edit it is the most basic fundamental tool that has been in Photoshop and Capture one since the dawn of the dinosaur - really, it's such a basic requirement that I can't understand how, or why, Affinity Photo have not implemented it? Really, it's like a car maker not putting wheels on their cars when everybody needs them. Every photographer on the planet needs this red overlay feature that is totally editable in the same way Capture One has it. So frustrating!!!

Basically I want to be able to go back in and edit the red overlay by either adding more or deleting parts of what is there - this is a 'must have' feature. Just looking around the forums and in 2017 loads of folk were requesting it to the AP developers team, surely in 6 years they have listened?

Tried that, you can only see the pink while paining, as soon as you stop it vanishes. I need it up on screen all the time until I choose to turn it off, can you do that?

I noticed the sale ends today so just bought it for £49 as, I suspect, the AP tech team won't get back to me in time and when they do it will be more expensive. Anyway, just downloaded and at least Canon CR3 files from R6 MK2 open with no issue now. Will do some RAW conversion tests later comparing it with Capture One and if they are a tad soft I'll experiment with sharpness detail to compensate. Warp tool works as I want it to so that's good news, as good as Photoshop from what I have briefly tried so far. Need to learn about masks in AP though as, from what I can see, there is no red opaque paint so you can't see what you are doing when trying to paint over just the skin area to create a mask for skin softening etc. In Capture One as you pain you can turn on/off a red mask that is opaque so you can see what you are painting over. Anybody know if there is a red mask that you can turn on to see where you are painting?

Ok, so I currently own Affinity Photo 1.10.6 as well as Capture One Pro 20. I have a few questions aimed at those with Affinity Photo (versions 1 or 2) who also have experience with Photoshop and Capture One Pro. Does anybody know if the Warp tool in affinity Photo is as comprehensive as the Warp tool in Photoshop as I do a lot of warping on portraits for straightening jaw lines, adjusting ear shape, making eyes larger etc. Next, is the RAW conversion in Affinity Photo as good as the RAW conversion in Capture One Pro as last time I converted some CR2 files from a Canon EOS 5D MK4 I found the AP conversion resulted in slightly soft images whereas the tattoo on models arm was clear and sharp in the resulting Capture One conversion. Is this because I would need to dial in some sharpness detail and clarity in AP at the RAW conversion stage as the default is soft – wondered if this has changed in AP version 2? Finally, does AP2 allow me to create different layer masks like Capture One, i.e. one layer mask to do skin detailing, another for eyes, another for teeth etc and does the mask show up on screen as am opaque red areas as you paint so you can see where you have painted, like in Capture One?

Thanks buys. Old Bruce, agreed. Just downloaded Canon Digital Professional Photo and I have a high end Mac and it is slooooow, welcome to the world of treacle. I only used it to do a basic RAW conversion and saved out as a TIFF and did work in Capture One Pro 20 and then exported as TIF again and finished in Affinity Photo and exported from there.

yes, thomaso, I had that strange magenta result with a lop-sided border too and it's impossible to grade from there as no matter what you do the images looks awful after trying to move sliders to get it into the ballpark so no good at all. Dare I say it, but I have Capture One Pro 20, which does open CR3 files from Canon R6, but not CR3 files from Canon R6 MK2 - odd, and those greedy buggers probably want £299 for the latest version just for the support of a camera.

I currently own Affinity Photo 1.10.6 but I’m having trouble converting CR3 files from a Canon EOS R6 MK2. Strangely, I can open CR3 files shot on a Canon R6, but not CR3 files shot on a Canon R6 MK2. What’s that about? Maybe Affinity Photo 2 will open them, but I don’t want to spend money on that if version 2 won’t work with converting these files either.

Makes sense having a nice clean docx, exported from Pages, or a bare bones Text document rather than putting PDF into Publisher and formatting there as I will be doing a Kindle version too. I'm thinking a Pages formatted document that I can save as docx and put into Publisher.

Hi Walt and Old Bruce Thanks for this. Ok, Apple’s Pages is sort of a light version of MS Word, and form Pages I can export as a docx file, which is good. Based on what you said, Walt, and Old Bruce, I will create a fresh document in Apple’s Pages and export it as docx so I can then use that, with the existing formatting. But, first I will have to cut/paste my PDF document into Apple’s Text Edit document and then in their I can click on ‘Format’ and select ‘Make Plain Text’ which does just that, removes all formatting. I’ll then cut and paste that into a Pages document and go through it over a week while reading it through and doing all the formatting to get a nice starting document in Pages that I can then export as a docx file before importing that into Publisher. How does this workflow sound?

I'm new to Affinity Publisher. Used InDesign for years but latest Mac OS on my iMac does not support my old CS5 so I bought Affinity Publisher as I'd heard it does the same job as InDesign and after playing with it and watching some YouTube tutorials it seems to be pretty decent. Question. I have a novel that I want to typeset and I know exactly how the process works in InDesign i.e. how to prepare the Word Document and import it into InDesign while retaining all the formatting options, but I don't know how to do this in Affinity Publisher. I also don't have Microsoft Word anymore, I'm using Apple's own Pages (but I have Text Edit too). So can anybody point me to a good online tutorial – video or text tutorial – on how to prepare a Text document or Pages document and how to import that to 'flow' the text throughout the book while retaining all the formatting. Alternatively, as I have to do all the formatting as I only have a PDF of this 100,000 word novel and I have to cut and paste that PDF text into either Text Edit or Pages and format everything anyway, so I suppose I could just cut and paste that text into Affinity Publisher and do all the formatting there if need be – swings and roundabouts really, but I'd like to know the fastest way of getting a text only PDF document cut and paste into Affinity Publisher so I can format all the text i.e. chapter headings larger than the rest of the text with a nice big gap between the chapter header and the start of the text and the relevant indent at each new paragraph, but with no paragraph line space, typical 'novel' layout. Thanks all.

Dan, I'm importing RAW files, all from same shoot (100 shots for example) in same lighting, and I only want to edit and grade one image and then put the same edits grades into the other 99 shots and output them as JPEG.