conrad2k
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I used to use MS publisher and their support of Avery templates was a real boon for simple projects like business card layout and home printing. It would also be great to have templates for Red River Paper's various formats!
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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.
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Thanks, James! In this case, suggest that they be labelled differently since they perform different functions!
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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.
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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.
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Same problem on the iPad Pro.
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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.
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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).
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1 hour ago, shojtsy said:
I am also very much interested in getting a fix for this. I can't replace LR without a working shadows/highlights adjustment. Happy to see that others are also noticing the issue.
I’m in exactly the same situation, though ON1 RAW 2018 is looking good.
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@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.
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Macphun is changing their name their name to Skylum, because they are going multi-platform. I think the Windows version is in beta now.
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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!
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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.
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You are correct. I was just moving the sliders to the max left or right. The result below is less muddy, but still awful. This is how it compares to Lightroom. Can you replicate it R C-R?
I forgot to mention that this uses AP's "normal" blend mode. I have tried others and "Screen" is not so muddy at +- 100%, but it does not definition in the clouds or the shadows that LR has by default.
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The Shadows/Highlights issue still plagues AP. I have attached an file that shows my concern. In the top left is the unadjusted image in Lightroom., the lower left corner is dark and needs to have the shadows lightened. Similarly the sky could have it's highlights pulled down a little. In the top right I dragged the LR shadows slider all the way to the right and the Highlights slider all the way to the left. Not my preferred processing but it looks better. In the lower left is the same image in AP with Shadows slider dragged left, and the lower right is the same image with the Highlights slider dragged right. The results are a muddy mess. I tried less extreme uses of the each slider in AP but could never find a point that brought out the Shadows and dampened the highlights as clearly as LR does.
I had the same result with the Mac 1.6.6 beta 7. Will the next beta address this problem?
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It would be great to have Fuji’s legendary film simulations: Arcos, Provia, Velevia, Astia, etc. built into AP. I have found on LUT’s for Fuji film simulations on the web that can be imported into AP. Here’s a link: https://blog.sowerby.me/fuji-film-simulation-profiles/
- Nick Ingamells and ReO2
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On 10/20/2017 at 7:28 AM, ChrisChiera said:
I've switched to CC a few years back so while I remember all the uproar when they made that switch, personally I"ve always been in favor of subscription models for programs I love and rely on, since while I hate spending money, I know there is a far better chance the product will be sustainable if they have renewable income to keep working on new features and support. I've used a lot of software where it's a one time fee and then don't see updates and major improvements and ends up getting abandoned or sold.
However is a company is going to charge a subscription model and high priced one, they have to make certain they are best in class and still a good relative value. The problem is Lightroom and Adobe in general never leverages all of Mac's incredible hardware and software features like apps such as Affinity or PIxelmator do. Which can make us angry, since we feel cheated that we have invested into a higher price option but not getting the best. The biggest problem with Lightroom is that it forces you to use their subpar syncing which is quite over priced. They should support iCloud and third party options for professionals such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud.
In the end I think a subscription model is the way to go, but that Adobe does add enough value and in the end it will be their demise as companies like Sketch, Affinity and others continue to take away marketshare. Still a long ways to go since hard for professionals to all switch, but it happened with Sketch, so will someday.
If I remember correctly, LR CC started the Subscription Service at about the same time as LR 6 was released. The big reason to subscribe was said to be that subscribers would get all the new features and and upgrades continuously and seamlessly. In that approximate 2.5 year period, the only feature that I feel that I have missed is the official de-haze filter, and even for that there is an unofficial plug-in that leverages the core Adobe tech. Even with the Dehaze though, AP provides far more control and quality. I simply don't think that Adobe has provided enough value since it's intro of CC. Now they make this confusing launch of Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC, dividing their market. I have noted a new feature in LR Classic, the "Range Masking" that makes their graduated filter, and adjustment brush more useful, but it seems to be the biggest new feature since the launch of LR CC. Not exactly a lot of value. No, I think that from Adobe's viewpoint "CC" stands for "Cash Cow."
As for giving money to big companies to assure longterm stability of their product, I recall that when I was coming up in computers, people used to say, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." It was the big boy on the block. Now? not so much. Adobe should pay heed to the past and it's customers should remember that big, publicly held corporations chase quarterly profits for their share holders, not the loyalty of their customer base. It was less than 2 years ago that Adobe assured it's user base that they would always have a perpetually licensed version of Lightroom...
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The new Lightroom has a new feature called “Range Masking” to the Grad filter, the Radial filter and the Adjustment Brush. The Range Mask let you quickly create a mask based on color or luminance to protect areas from the effect of the filter or brush. For example, in a landscape the horizon is rarely a straight line and often has darker foreground objects crossing the horizon line. Quick adjustments of the luminance range slider allow you to protect those darker objects from the effect from the straight line of the Grad filter.
Does anyone have an AP technique that is comparable?
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Luminar 2018 is promising a DAM, but I REALLY would like Serif to come out wit one that plays well with AP!!
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i have successfully used the FileBrowser Pro app from the Apple App Store to both open and save affinity photo files, psd files and jpgs with my iPad Pro to/from a NAS (Synology and Western Digital Passport Wireless Pro). I don't recommend it for everyday workflow due to iPad limitations more than AP limitations, even with a 2017 iPad Pro 12.9, but it works.
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I was amazed that the iPad version had a stacking mode (Outlier) that version 1.5.2 of the Mac Desktop didn't yet have! I created a 7 image stack in beta 1.6.4 (Beta 3) and it crashed when I exported to jpg format using the same root name as the original file. However when I added .jpg to the root file name (e.g. Filename.jpg) it did not crash. Shouldnt the app be able to distinguish between an existing .afphoto file and a .jpg?
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[iOS13] Cannot access USB storage media
in V1 Bugs found on iPads
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Using iPadOS 13 and an SD card reader AP doesn’t show up as an available app in the Share list in the Files app, though the Darkroom app does, so it appears that AP isn’t registering with iPadOS. The only workaround that I have found is to Share->Save and then go the AP and Import from Photos.