Peat

I had a weird glitch happen earlier today when I tried to edit some raw photos (thanks Alfred for the fix!!)- it looked really cool and out there so I played with it and figured out how to get some neat different effects with the sliders and other tools while I waited to hear back on how to fix it. Lead to some really fun images that are far outside my normal style- figured I'd share a couple here.

Thanks Alfred! that seems to have done the trick!

beautiful photo!

So I just updated to version 2.4.0- and now my raw images are opening up really glitched out and weird. It's frankly a cool effect, I'd do it intentionally for some images if I could replicate it, but it's not what I'm going for for the shots I'm trying to edit today, and I understandably don't want to do it all the time. The matrix looking vertical lines will shift when I adjust things like white-balance, but will remain present no matter what I do, whether I "develop" the photo or not. I know it's not the images themselves being corrupted because other apps can open them no problem, it's just affinity. I've tried restarting the app as well as my computer- I only haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling yet, which will be my next course of action. Attached are screenshots with the issue.

Yup! Ya'll are right, I don't need the Develop Persona, I was just missing the adjustment's tab from my workspace window so making any adjustment took a lot more searching than I wanted. Now that I have the adjustment's tab in view it's quick and easy to edit any of my photos! And thank you to @Hangman for the article! This community has already been so helpful, I think Affinity is going to end up being the right software for me after all, in large part because I know I can come here to get help if I need it. Now to just learn how to actually edit well, as post processing has never been a strong suit of mine. Thanks again!

Thanks all! You've been super helpful. It's a pain that I can't use the develop persona with my black and white photography, so I may not end up purchasing the app (I have one more criteria to research and consider that'll make my final decision) but the helpfulness of the community here is a distinct pro on my pros and cons list!

Hi Walt, I'm using TIFF files for my film photography as that's the highest quality/most resilient to editing file type that my scanner (an Epson Perfection V600 Photo) can spit out. For my digital photography I do work in RAW but my digital stuff is mostly color, it's the black and white film scans that I'm running into the "cant use Develop Persona" problem on.

Hi all, I'm using the Affinity Photo 2 software for a 30 day trial, comparing it with other programs and trying to pick the best for my ease of workflow. I'm a film photographer, so I'm editing film scans, and I predominantly, but not entirely, shoot in black and white. I've noticed that the entire Develop Persona is unavailable when I'm editing my black and white photography. Is this a glitch or is there a reason for this? I was hoping to be able to non destructively and easily edit all my photos using the sliders in the Develop Persona, but if it is not compatible with my black and white photography then this app wont be the one for me. I did find other ways to edit levels and curves and the like in layers in the Photo Persona, but the Develop Persona is non destructive and far more time efficient for me. Hoping it's just a glitch or something, I otherwise really like the setup of Affinity Photo and would love to use it as my primary editing application, currently it's in a race against efficiency with two other programs. Thanks for the help! - Pete