Trinity

If you place your cursor in the box with the values you can then use your scroller on your mouse to adjust the values in single increments. Hope that makes sense!

I used Photoshop for a very long time and Camera Raw was my favourite utility for processing RAW images.
But since I switched to Affinity Photo, I am missing the HSL Color Model, because in my opinion it is one of the most powerful 
features for the editing of colours, their luminosity and saturation. When the skies are burnt out, you could easily restore the blues of the skies with turning down the luminosity slider for the blues. I wish, that the developer of Affinity Photo will improve the Develop Persona 
feature and add the HSL Color editing like it is in Camera Raw.

Hi,
I am a professional photographer and sometimes use Affinity Photo for RAW development. But unfortunately RAW development of multiple files is a big weakness of Affinity Photo.   I know there are many requests for a complete DAM. But from my point of view, it actually doesn't take that much effort for Affinity Photo to be a very good RAW developer.   For example, I prefer to manage my images in the macOS Finder. I don't like photo databases. In the Finder I can use tags and folders and search for tags. So I hardly need a DAM to organize pictures.   But I would like to develop multiple images with Affinity Photo. There should be the possibility to open multiple RAWs and display them in an overview. The one or more selected RAWs can be edited together using the sliders. There needs to be an easy way to transfer RAW settings. Single and all settings. Further it would be good if the RAW development settings are not gone after developing. I often change RAW parameters again afterwards. Currently, with Affinity Photo, when you reopen a RAW image, you always have to start from scratch. It would be easy to save the RAW parameters in a parallel file.   But what bothers me most about the typical RAW development process in all programs is that an image is developed and then when you want to apply further processing to the image, where an image editing program like Affinity Photo is needed, a pixel copy is created from the developed RAW image that is no longer connected to the RAW image. Here is always a hard cut. Subsequent changes to the RAW parameters no longer affect this pixel copy. Further, the Affinity Photo format is also not supported in many DAMs and is often not even displayed.   Suggestion of a RAW layer That's why I would find it most awesome if a special RAW layer is created in Affinity Photo after developing a RAW image. With this layer you can do everything you can do with a pixel layer. Live effects, masks, inpainting brush.I can change this RAW layer with all the development parameters later. The new development parameters will immediately affect the image.  It is also conceivable to have more than one RAW layer with different parameters for different development variants.  I can also make parameter changes or transfer RAW settings to several marked RAW images in the overview, which then affects this layer.  Each of these RAW images can be saved normally as an *.afphoto file. The original RAW could also be embedded in the Affinity file.   The ability to have multiple RAW layers in one .afphoto file would also open the possibility for Panorama, Stack, HDR Merge and Focus Stacking to be based on the actual RAW files. So one could select the RAW layer of a part of the panorama and restore the highlights of it for example.   That would be really extremely powerful! And actually not so particularly complex to develop.   Wish you all the best,
Christoph

Hello
 
Using latest Beta
1] duplicate background
2] create folder
3]several adjustments  
4] merge layers
5] Add live High Pass filter - - programme crashes 
4 attempts - same result
Here are I think the crash reports:
 
191495b1-0f63-4823-8d96-c5a856ed8a18.dmp c3ca95eb-ed26-4fbf-ae4a-ce84c1481d82.dmp 01560b45-230b-43f9-9969-1204a41106fa.dmp 730a1934-7f90-4bcf-a046-824514d2467a.dmp

Sky replacement (coming to Photoshop).  This would be an amazing feature to have in version 2.x of Affinity Photo!!!
 
 

Hello Affinity Team,

it would be possible to add the HSL settings in the Develop Persona area, as this is one of the most important functions of color matching in RAW development for me and many other users.

Any photographer would confirm this, as RAW files have more image information and can therefore carry out color adjustments much more precisely.

No worries Trinity. Let me know if it happens again  

I reiterate a point that I made earlier that, in my view, Adobe's Lightroom is not a digital asset management application but, rather, more of an image management application, in that it is primarily designed for the management (and editing) of files created in a camera.
I am longing for a true digital asset management application - one that manages files regardless of their source.
They may be camera RAW files, JPEGs or TIFFs but they may also be files from the likes of Affinity Designer and Publisher - offering previews of these files which Adobe Bridge doesn't do (not that I want to use Bridge... that's the whole reason I want Affinity to produce a program with similar functionality to Bridge - but better!).
It should also be able to handle (and show previews for) Illustrator and InDesign files (because, like it or not, I have thousands of these files in my archives), video and audio files, HTML files, Word and Excel files and so on. In short, all types of digital assets.
I do not seek nor expect it to have any sort of editing capabilities built in - it is simply a cataloguing application.
If Affinity could nail this I'd dump Adobe in a flash!

Hi J a n,
If you were using the Beta all this time, then no, its major improvements/features were already announced quite some time ago, so users/beta testers who wish to test them could do so. But for most regular users, using the retail version (which is v1.6) all these features are new. Affinity Photo 1.7 wasn't officially launched yet and exists only as a beta version.
This 1.7 cycle took more time than usual because we had to ensure fully integration with the upcoming Affinity Publisher (which will complete the suite's foundation). After Publisher's release you should see upgrades/new features more frequently since most complex work was already done.

I have been using Affinity Photo since mid 2017 and overall love the program but do have some issues with the UI, especially the RAW engine develop mode.
Exposure has this nice slider with an edit box containing 2 digit precision  which is extremely helpful.
My complaint is that things like Blackpoint go black very fast in full 1% increments, so why don't we have the same 2 digit precision control for the other sliders too?
Having retired from the programming profession after over 30 years, I know for a fact that although 0 to 100% may be the range, creating a double precision floating point variable to control it is not rocket science.    I like very precise control in RAW development.    At the moment (for 18 months now), I've been forced to export into TIFF and bring back in for any semblance of control over such rudimentary features.
Please consider putting in those boxes and give your users the ability to precisely control these aspects of the RAW development process.   It would surely shorten my workflow.
Thanks for listening.

I haven't posted much here for a while as the current MAS version meets my editing needs quite nicely - thanks to all for your great work.   However, it seems like a lifetime ago that we were assured that a DAM was coming.  Is this still the case or has it been dropped?
 

Try searching "DAM". For example this
 

I agree. However, I think it would be hard to find the help for that without knowing what it is

Thank You Jon
I have just recently installed a copy of Bridge to use as a DAM, and have worked out how to edit the details in there. Many Thanks

hello ..if you go the develop module and under the lens tab you will find sliders to adjust your image, horizontally, vertically and also the option to rotate and scale it.  In the persona module the only option is to go to the crop tool, and then take your cursor to the corner and click just outside your image, your cursor will change and  a set of guidelines will appear inside your image you will then be able to rotate it using the guidelines to straighten your verticals.  Hope that helps.   

Hello, I think what you are referring to can be found on the top right hand side of the screen under the tab colour. You should see the histogram, colour, swatches and brushes tabs. There you can change from black to white by pressing the shortcut x. That will give you the ability to erase the dirt on your image using the white paint, or if you go to far and make a mistake to rectify it by using the black paint. Also make sure you have selected a pixel layer
Hope that makes sense. good luck...

If you place your cursor in the box with the values you can then use your scroller on your mouse to adjust the values in single increments. Hope that makes sense!

Hi Trinity,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
In Develop Persona you can enable this using the split view icons on the main toolbar (see screenshot below).
In Photo Persona these icons also appear on each destructive filter dialog (form the Filters menu) so you can preview them, and for live adjustments/filters (under the Layer menu) you can use the layer's visibility checkboxes on each layer to turn them on/off.