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That's all I was aiming for… happy it helped!

• 50 photos? My experience tells me that you'll be better off with C1 as AP can, at this time, process one file at the time. I use C1 as RAW converter and AP as pixel editor.

• Both have gained greatly from the cleanup! I see a slight WB issue in the second shot though. You're really good at BG cleanups!

…and still think it is disturbing?

If you know the CO way to do it… very discrete!

• Indeed! That would be darn cool! I remember using that in CO at the beginnings.

I can read your German accent as others may read my French one! :P :D :lol:

mur–phy posted yesterday a very cool video that should inspire you: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/34702-composite-workflow/ Have a good time!

— "Free Software: NIK collection, Sony CaptureOne9, Cyberlink PhotoDirector6, Hugin, ImageJ, MS Ice, DaVinci Resolve" Hello rmar, In that list, Capture One v.9 for Sony is your better bet… by far, IMO! I use the Pro version as my gear is Nikon. RAW processing is no magic and, quite like Affinity for the quality and diversity, CO9 has lots of tutorial videos readily available on their site. I recommend CaptureOne to all my students and none is thinking of any other for multiple files processing. Though I never do so, it can work in catalogue mode as well, but I prefer in sessions. If you have just a single file to process, Affinity Photo is an other option. It has become my main pixel editor. Since all my shoots produce a fair number of files, as con- verter and with it's in the actual limitation, I prefer to use a dedicated RAW converter that will permit faster processing of all these sessions. Workflow? DRL* and WB are the two first steps. * DRL = Dynamic Range Levels = black and white points setting. Have a good time!

Right, so am I! …and, very early after I registered, I noticed that too. I got the idea to add "AP" in front of my threads titles.

• So, you are of the trigger happy bunch? Me too! ;)

• Stupendous!

• Wow, that looks right for sure! ;)

• Servus! Coooool, very much so! As a photographer, I miss the shy presence of a front glass. And, just FYI, good lenses have min. 9 blades… I wouldn't want yours to be said "cheap"! ;)

• I agree with all of the above… delicious! My only thing is, and this may well be a photographer's PoV, that the string's shadows show the instrument lit from the under and the body from over left.

• The way I understand it LeviA, an Affinity licence grants you the right to use this tool freely and create which ever way, and what ever you want.

I personally have no ego issue in this as I propose a strategy, an approach to the rendition and I explain why. — "Looks terrible, too" You're right in this! This is no more adjustments to a file but heavy exposure repair! — "…perfect proof that the job doesn't finish at the converter..." So, that one really did hurt, right? I said that MY photographer's work ends in the converter and I maintain it. For publishing purpose, the clients may do what is ever needed (they should know, they bought it!)

…‘abend Pollux! My suggestion to charlychuck was to propose an other strategy as I thought that "haze" was not the guilty point in this case but exposure. I just treated the picture for exposure difficulties and nothing else. My point was to illustrate this. …'verstehe, aber… IMO, as much as I dig the dehaze tool, it is not the proper approach to resolve the exposure problem nor is it the right file to explain it… though you did demonstrate it well! — It is now to charlychuck to appreciate, evaluate the results and the strategies… no right no wrong, just options. :)

• …a quickie in my RAW converter. No dehaze used! Quite overexposed and, at ISO 800, rather noisy!

CORRECTION! I must correct this statement as I was at a colleague to fine tune the colours for his new printer and his new machine does not handle well being fed any RGB files. All printer drivers are not created equal!

My RAW converter can do through an adjustment layer! Sorry my idea was not so good!

• Maybe applying the blur through an adjustment layer could solve the problem?

Yes! I imagine nothing more horrible than having cold wet feet… when having a cold like now! I was curious, at winter begin, as how they manage that situation. I did some research and learned that evolution had found a crazy but working solution for that too! Thanks for your comment!

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• Right, very tricky situation! This is a reason I cannot rely on that persona for my RAW files. Maybe one way to explain it would be the "container" used to measure the DR of a data file. AP's container could be of great- ter capacity than the measured sample. I mean if your file was captured at a 8~10 stops DR and AP's "con- tanner" is capable of say 12~14 stops DR, there will be some "un- derexposure" expressed in the histogram. I am not into the bells and whistles of applications but just trying to understand, finding some explanations… and relative DR could be an explanation.