BiffBrown
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Thought this was already available, but it seems I mis-remembered. It is available in Silver Efex (of the Nik Collection). There is also something similar in Lightzone (note: LightZONE not Lightroom). I feel it would be a useful addition to Affinity Photo. Keep up the good work, Biff
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A very interesting, and informative, video. I look forward to seeing the use of Gradient Maps in B&W conversion. There is, of course, a further method for converting to B&W - the use of B&W LUT's (Look Up Tables), especially for Film Simulation. See for more information. Regards, Biff -
Thanks for the reply, stokerg. Having just applied the technique to a fairly high dynamic range photo, I must agree. I'm not sure on the how or why it works, but the highlight recovery (sky) showed that it works. However, I find that I need to change the colour format back to 16 bit RGB after the Tone mapping stage, otherwise everything's can go horribly wrong in the Photo persona (must have something to do with the linear response to curve adjustments in 32 bit). Regards, Biff
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Good Morning. A couple of us (Affinity Photo users) have asked this question on the youTube presentation "HDR from one exposure" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar6CZvfyFvk&feature=youtu.be). In the video, the Develop Persona is set to 32-bit. However, as a single RAW file has only 12-14 bit depth, why are you setting the bit depth to 32 bit? Regards, Biff
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Great stuff. Thanks for all the hard work.
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Probably needs an other bump .... It's a good idea, and the tutorial video is great.
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Johny's Power Vignette (TUTORIAL)
BiffBrown replied to Jakerlund's topic in Tutorials (Staff and Customer Created Tutorials)
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[APh] Adjustable Vignette Center
BiffBrown replied to MelG's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
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You could reapply the Frequency Separation to the Low Frequency layer (residuals) several times, with a higher radius each time. For example, the first application could be at 2px, a second at 4px, a third at 8px etc for as many passes as you require. The High Frequency layers are all blended with Linear Light (the same as Grain Merge in GIMP), and can be treated the same. I tried Pat David's GIMP tutorials using Affinity and it seems to work. It could be automated with a macro, but I can't figure out a way of passing parameters - I would need a starting radius and a increase factor. Such fun, Biff
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http://contagiousart.com/?page=8&tut&lng=en perhaps?
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Oh, go on ....
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Further to this: Does anyone have any information about writing Plug-ins for Affinity Photo? Biff
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Thanks, v_kyr.
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Something I've just come across - ON1 Effects 10.5 is now free (sorry if this old news). https://www.on1.com/free/ It comes with plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom etc. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get the Photoshop plug-in to with Affinity Photo. Any ideas?? Regards, Biff
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DEVELOP persona: Tones, curves tool presets
BiffBrown replied to Luma_Nick's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
I'd like to add to this suggestion - that the Histogram is shown in the Curves graph (as is shown in Curves Adjustment tool in Photo the persona). Regards, Biff -
Some good idea's there, Matthias. I also found that you can open a New HDR Stack with just a single RAW file, with Tone mapping - then process as 'normal'. In reality, I guess, you are just extracting as much information as possible from the RAW file. I think most RAW files these days will have at least +/-2 stops, perhaps more. Of course, using 3 - 7 differently exposed RAW files would take this to extremes, but there may cases where tis is necessary. Cheers, Biff
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Hello. I'm busy working through the new and excellent AP Workbook. I refer to the section "Further Manipulating Layers" (pg. 126-ff) When Locked, a Pixel layer will not move. However, I locked both Pixel layers (Eye Colour and Tone Boost), then Grouped then (Group Layers). The unlocked group can be moved. Is this is Bug? Regards, Biff
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Photo Workbook
BiffBrown replied to Ron6319's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
https://affin.co/photocoreskills That link should download the photo_core_skills folder to your downloads folder. Did on mine (Mac). Just did it again - oh, well. Now I've got two copies Biff -
Book delivered this morning!! Could do with a 'photo credits' page - nice to know where they are. Picture on page 89 (Making advanced raw adjustments) - Gordale Scar? Biff
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I believe you can 'save' a LUT in the LUTs section of the Adjustment Panel. Here it forms a thumbnail preview of the picture (photo) being worked on. There are a few already pre-loaded with Affinity Photo. Biff
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Alternative to Lightroom
BiffBrown replied to Vitalspark's topic in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
You could have a look at RawTherapee as a replacement for Lightroom. You can even link it to Affinity Photo. It has the advantage that it writes a side-car file when developing, something the Affinity Photo Develop module doesn't do. It's also cheaper than Lightroom (free!!!). http://rawtherapee.com http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Main_Page Biff -
There's no reason why not, but .. Will Affinity Photo run on the new Mac OS HighSierra? Cheers, Biff
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Google Nik Collection is now free for everyone.
BiffBrown replied to MEB's topic in News and Information
There is some hope that maybe (just maybe) Google could release the code as Open Source. Biff -
Why not? Hot Cross Buns are on sale in Sainsbury's already :rolleyes:
