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Don’t know why I couldn’t find that! Thanks

I have used the Dodge and Burn tools on the iPad version for a while and have always wondered how the little color wheel with a lock in the middle is used, and the gray target with the pen in the bullseye. What's that for? When I tap my Apple pencil, or finger, on them, nothing seems to change with the tool's performance other than they get a gray highlight around them. I've learned a lot from videos, but none seem to go through each tool with a detailed explanation.

Thanks, James! In this case, suggest that they be labelled differently since they perform different functions! UPDATE In my experiments, in addition to the Develop Persona, there are three ways to adjust highlights and shadows (Adjustment in the Studio, Layer->Adjustment, and Layer->Live Filter. They all seem to function differently. When trying to recover shadows in a severely underexposed image, only the tool in the develop persona works well. The Live Filter layer has more options seems to desaturate the image; and the adjustment layer in both the Layer menu and the Adjustment tab in the Studio go to +/- 200% but performs as the previous version of AP performed (muddy shadow recovery). Honestly, it seems that the new shadow/highlight algorithms were only applied to the Develop module. I find both the Live filter and the adjustments to be useless. If they are not for shadow/highlight recovery are you say, @James Ritson, they need to be relabeled and there unique purpose explained clearly.

As impressed as I am with the improvements to the highlights and shadows recovery in the Develop Persona, it seems that those improvements did not make it into the Photo persona.

Same problem on the iPad Pro.

Thanks for the improvements to shadow/highlight recovery. I tried it on a shot of Half Dome in Yosemite. Not a great shot, but the most underexposed shot in a bracketed set. In full disclosure after being successful with shadows/highlights, I gave it a touch of tone mapping.

I just had the same problem on a 10” iPad Pro with a pano that I stitched. It crashed when I selected Export -> share -> save image. It also failed to successfully a transfer the file through AirDrop. I tried flattening the file and had the same problem. I did succeed in using Export -> Share -> Copy to Snapseed. From Snapseed I was able to save the image, but that’s a little circuitous...

Hi @Justin! Here are some samples. -RAF with no adjustments. I chose a photo that clearly had been shot with deep shadows. It was actually part of a bracket set of five; -Current version of AP with shadows opened up to 100%. The muddy shadows are so very obvious and detail is completely lost; -Beta 1 to 100%. A great improvement, but a good deal of work will be needed in addition to opening up the shadows to make the image pop. Still some detail lost in shadows, but the clouds retain a great degree of contrast, which is good.; and -For a comparison I included a sample from On1 RAW 2018 at 100%. The image pops a lot more. There is work to be done, but it is an easier starting point from my perspective. The On1 result was very comparable to the result in Lightroom 6.

There so many great things about Affinity Photo, but I am still not loving the Shadow recovery in the 1.6.7 (Beta 1). I normally shoot a Fuji X-T2 and no matter how I process an image, the shadow recovery is now were near as well done as in Lightroom or On1 RAW 2018. The process is better on images from my Nikon d610, but still needs work. I recommend that you look at On1 RAW 2018. It has sliders for highlights, midtones, and shadows within their Develop Module. I know you are working on it, and appreciate that, but it is confusing to to have shadow/highlight in so many places (Develop, Filters, Adjustments, and Live Filters).

I’m in exactly the same situation, though ON1 RAW 2018 is looking good.

The newest release leaves this problem unaddressed.

@rainwilds try the ON1 2018 beta 3. Not perfect but getting better and better. It plays pretty well with AP, though it can’t deal with AP’s complex PSD eformat when you use live layers. It wants to flatten the PSD to open it. And of course it can’t read .AFPHOTO files, which is why I want an Affinity DAM.

Macphun is changing their name their name to Skylum, because they are going multi-platform. I think the Windows version is in beta now.

There is growing interest in this since Adobe announced that LR 6 would be the last version with a perpetual license and that they would stop issuing updates to it this year. MacPhun (Skylum) announced a forthcoming (2108) DAM to accompany their Luminar product. ON1 RAW 2017 already has a DAM but it’s really a beta product ON1 RAW 2018 looks like it will actually be a useful product. AlienSkin’s Exposure X3 has a DAM/developer, as does Picktorial, ACDSee, etc. Then there is Capture One Pro 10 on the high end. It seems like the competition is growing and the window of opportunity is closing. Once the former LR 6 users settle on an alternative DAM with a perpetual license, inertia will probably keep them with the product that they choose. Once you go through the effort of migrating a catalog, it’s hard to think about doing it again! I would love to see Serif jump in with a DAM that plays well with AP before it’s too late!

Interesting idea, R C-R, no matter how I fuss with the sliders, I can't get a similar effect in the images or the histograms. I have tried it on similar landscapes shot with a Nikon d610 and the Fuji X-T2, with comparable awful results. Have you experienced this problem on you images? My solution so far is to develop images in Lightroom to take advantage of their Shadow and Highlights algorithm, and then transfer to AP to take advantage of it's strengths.