Stefan Johnsson

There are endless of tutorials for the desktop. I need all these for the iPad. It’s impossible to follow along with these videos on an iPad.

Here’s anther way of doing it. Probably the best way, but a bit more complicated to understand at first. There also seem to be some issue with the automatic rotation not liked to the possition. That’s why you see me doing the 360/12 and getting 30 degrees but it’s rotated wrong and I have to manually move it. B7410183-7749-4FBC-82FE-050F43FB05B4.MP4

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You can also try the cog tool. Select the cog tool from the shape tools, it’s probably a square now. Pick how many repeating cogs you want and move the inner circle so it covers the outer one leaving only the cogs of the circle. Now adjust the shape and make them small squares. Convert to lines and select the corner tool and round all corners leaving dots or circles.

Ok, I was watching some tutorials and learned the trick of doing two separate raw processing and then merging them in a photo editor then combining them by selecting the exposure you want. This should work as way to get the same latitude as local raw adjustments. Will work on that.

There was a promotional link to DxO Optics Pro 9 for free at Dpreview... so I tried it. It does not have local adjustments available. Now I understand that with a separate non-destructive raw developer, and photo editor you're talking about no local adjustments at all in the raw stage. I don't understand what the benefit of that would be, other than maybe ease of use in the tool you make the adjustment with. Surely, you will have more latitude to work with in the raw file? So, doing at least a rough targeted adjustment at that stage must then give a better image quality, no? Not even with a gradient filter in the sky? If there's something I'm missing here I want to learn. Thanks!

Will let you know... If Affinity don't do refunds they have every right to. I just thought I would ask because I have no real use for the editing part without a solid reliable processing module. What is your workflow from raw to jpg with Affinity? Do you keep the 300mb files around? Do you use the develop persona? I just did very minimum edits in Photoshop because I could get very close to a look I liked with just Camera Raw with most photos. Just don't like Adobe and there prescription model.

I also prefer the raw processing separate from my photo editing like how Photoshop/Camera Raw works. That separate but integrated workflow is what I was hoping for. The choice of the modules or personas in one app seemed like a strange choice to me. Would in not work more efficient if they where separate apps? I don't want to sound like it's not great that someone is working on an alternative to Adobe. I get that this is very hard to do. My disappointment with Affinity Photo is that the description sounded like it already had a full Photoshop replacement workflow.

MJSfoto 1956: You want to use a different program than Affinity for raw processing and your still happy with Affinity's methodology? Would it not be better if Affinity's develop persona supported non-destructive raw like DxO Optics Pro? Then you could use that part of Affinity instead of buying and using two programs. MEB: I forgot to answer that the raw files are Canon's CR2. When save in the Affinity format a file that's only been processed becomes around 300mb.

Thanks for the fast reply! I asked for a refund like you suggested. I would really like to use the app but with without a non-destructive raw processing workflow it's not useful to me. Hope you guys make that happen and I can come back.

Thanks for the reply! All those answers are a bummer, and real deal breakers for me to use the program. Why is it designed like that? Any idea how you ask for a refund?

Hey! Just got Affinity Photo. It looks promising, but it's very different from the Camera Raw to Photoshop workflow I'm use to. I process, or develop to use your term, in Camera raw. The changes I do there are always "saved". Not sure how it works just that I can open the file again and the changes are there. I assume it's a profile that is applied and that camera raw links to that file. Is there any way to do that in Affinity? I get that I can save in the Affinity file format, but this creates a file 10 times bigger or more. I also get that I can save a profile in the develop persona, but it's not linked to any image. What am I missing here? The other thing is lens correction. Is there a way to add corrections from Canon like in Camera raw? Alos, it looks like Affinity is using a lot more CPU because the fan on my Macbook Pro is working hard after a few minutes of work with Raw files. With Camera Raw or Photoshop it never does that. Any reason for this? Lastly, masking when applying sharpening to a raw file I could not see an option for. Is this available in the develop persona? Thanks, Stefan Johnsson