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For those recommending paying into the Adobe Borg, the recommendation of gifting a copy of Affinity Photo makes more sense. That's a single month's subscription cost (when Affinity Photo is on sale). Affinity could consider a special gifting license available at promotional prices to existing owners of an Affinity Photo license.

That's not good news. That is a downer. What this means is that everyone who uses DxO should complain loud and clear to DxO Support and share their grievance at https://feedback.dxo.com as well. DxO should support Affinity Photo, particularly when Serif is open to collaboration. Does anyone else have Affinity Photo 2.2.1 working with FilmPack 7? I don't want to have to downgrade.

DxO PhotoLab achieves the same results in terms of noise reduction and subtle sharpening, has a much more attractive interface and is much faster to process images than any Topaz software. Still PhotoLab has the same issues with roundtripping as the other plugins though. Affinity Photo should really fix its plugin issues once and for all. Weak plugin support is one of the biggest differentiators from Photoshop. Photoshop has ACR for RAW import which is head and shoulders above Affinity Photo's RAW processing. All the more reason for Affinity Photo to play well with other applications and plugins. In terms of colour, if a photographer wants to use a collaborative workflow between applications and plugins, s/he's really best served by restricting him or herself to sRGB. Yes, there's some missing colour range (not visible on most monitors or even most printers' works) but at least the colours are consistent. *** Altae wrote: Great workaround. Thanks for that.

Thanks for this answer. I was doing all kinds of contortions with cropping tool, select tool, selecting layers, transform. Finally with the right answer, it's easy as pie and very intuitive. Perhaps the software should come with a hammer that hits you over the head when you open the box to let new users know how to resize layers.

I do own Affinity Photo but have to agree with GoCatGo, craigo and charisma that the black interface is really headache inducing. You seem to understand the issue as the colours of your forum here are about exactly right for a long term work environment. Black on white and grey with good contrast. Please create a light interface option (even if it's not adjustable: we don't need sliders and colour wheels and time wasting tweaking, just a simple light interface). Thanks!