[Photoshop Compatibility]

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.

[Latetly when i export a Picture from Affinity Photo to FIlm Pack it result in a square format.]

On 9/28/2023 at 9:43 PM, Aktive Pupille said:

Good news

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.

[Color problem with Nik Collection plugins]

On 4/8/2019 at 8:47 PM, digit42 said:

For example on a regular basis I use Topaz' AI clear in Studio to remove noise and sharpen images (letting the noise alone). The results are quite amazing. I don't know of any other tool producing such quality results.

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.

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Altae wrote:

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I agree that it's very disappointing that these issues still have not been fixed. But there is a workaround: Export the image as 16 bit Tif in the desired color space, use the standalone version of the plugin (the Nik tools have them and most Topaz plugins too), process the image as desired and export again to 16 bit Tif. After this you can continue in Affinity Photo. Certainly not very convenient but it works.

Great workaround. Thanks for that.

[How to 'transform' the size of a newly-pasted image?]

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.

[Grey User Interface]

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!