budjames

It would be nice that Affinity Photo could export to layered Tifs that are readable by Photoshop. When I export to layered TIF, Photoshop opens this file as a flattened TIF. At the moment, I have to export to PSD to preserve layers that can be read by PSD. Thanks. Bud

Bud James here. I live in North Wales, PA and have an office for my business in nearby historic Doylestown, PA. Fine art and travel photography is my passion, hobby and part-time business. You can check out my work at www.budjames.photography. I have been a Canon shooter since high school, over 40 years. Three years ago, I sold my $30k+ worth of Canon pro DSLRs and "L" pro lenses and switched over completely to Fuji-X cameras and Fuji XF lenses. The reduced weight, size and cost was a pleasure and the image quality, particularly with JPGs, was an improvement over the Canon system because the Fuji-X sensor and Fuji XF lenses are so good. Unfortunately, as a long time Lightroom/Photoshop user, I was not completely happy with the RAW conversions of my Fuji RAF files. Then I discovered CaptureOne Pro! OMG, what a difference in image quality with much less fuss and fiddling. Three months ago, I converted my 145k+ Lightroom image library to a number of C1P catalogs (C1P chokes on large image libraries). A step in that process required converting all of my PSD files to layered TIFs because C1P cannot recognize PSD files. That was not a big deal because I mostly save to layered TIFs anyway for maximum compatibility at the expense of larger file sizes. My last need to completely dump the Adobe subscription model was to find a replacement for Photoshop. Although I am a competent Photoshop user, the depth of the program has always been way more than I ever needed for my relatively light usage for image retouching and composition. Then I discovered Affinity Photo! It does everything that I need and even can launch some of the Photoshop plugins that I use, although I find the plugins less useful now since I can do so much in CaptureOne Pro. I have completed my workflow conversion to CaptureOne Pro (now version 10) and Affinity Photo. Today, I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription! Hooray!!! Regards, Bud James www.budjames.photography