Hi
I've used Affinity for a few years now and love everything about it... bar one thing! The sharpening function! Whether it be in Develop of Photo persona I find that the sharpening tool is difficult to use. As others have said in previous sharpening posts its designed to be used at 100%... the problem is when im looking at a landscape picture I really want to see the effect of the sharpening on the whole picture and not just a postage stamp detail section. Especially when working with a 45MP full frame output from a Canon R5 100% is a tiny proportion of the shot on screen.
The problem is that when you sharpen in either the Develop or photo persona, when you hit develop or apply then you seem to loose a good proportion of the sharpness. I often feel I have to over sharpen to then end up with the actual sharpness I want when I hit develop or apply. This is silly however and really not how id like to sharpen images.
I have also heard it may only be a problem with Canon RAW files? And other files from Nikon or Sony don't behave this way... but I cant see how that can be true.
I guess im looking for some advice from other Landscape photographers on here using Affinity... What is your sharpening process??? Am I doing something really stupid or do you all just follow a similar iterative approach to you are happy. Id rather have a more reliable approach.
Id really recommend anyones thoughts. Is this the same for sharpening in photoshop or Lightroom? Or should I maybe process the raw files first in Canon Digital Photo Professional? Id rather not do that as Affinity does it all in one place... but yeh I find the sharpening a bit of an iterative process Id rather speed up with even a workaround method.
Any help with this or thoughts would be really appreciated.
