hlarledge
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These folks complaining about bad experiences with Affinity Photo have me nervous, as do the things I've read about the death of the Plus product line, which apparently was before my time. I don't want to put all of my chickens in this basket if they may eventually break, but today I love this product!
From my perspective, I am a photographer who has just found the perfect solution to my workflow problems. With Affinity Photo, I do the things I did in Photoshop in half the time and my finished product is gorgeous. I'll say it again: I absolutely love this product. I seldom use Illustrator much these days, but I would gladly buy Designer just to support this company.
Please tell me the future of this product is a safe one, and if it is not certain, please tell me how we can make it so.
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Thanks, Alfred.
Being a photographer, I seldom use text, so that would be great for me if it's the only problem.
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I'm really enjoying Affinity Photo, but I'm struggling to manage my workflow, going back and forth between AP and other tools. This has me wondering:
- Do I lose anything if I go from one tool to another working with a layered PSD and never use the AP proprietary format?
- And if so, is what I lose minor enough to be worth the sacrifice?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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Works like a charm. Thanks!
Any chance of using those outside of cropping, maybe even adding others?
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Photo Supreme lets me set any application I want as an external editor. I can then choose an image (or many) inside of Photo Supreme and click the external application's icon in order to open those photos in the chosen application. I'm not sure what will happen if I attempt to open a photo in an incompatible application. Also, as far as I know, I can't set up Photo Supreme to "open any JPG in Preview, but open any TIFF in Affinity Photo" or some similar argument.
My workflow is a thing in progress. So far, here's what I do:
1) I transfer my RAW files (NEF from my Nikon D750) into a folder on my drive. I keep the folders organized by Year > Date > Subject Matter. So, for instance, I'll have a folder called "Feb 2 - Family Photos" inside the "2017" folder. Actually, each subject matter folder has a number of subfolders inside, including folders for RAW, TIFF, AFFINITY, and JPG versions.
2) First thing to do is Import these RAW files into Photo Supreme. From there, I apply keywords and GeoTag the photos. Since they are (presumably) related, they are really easy to keyword, since most of the keywords end up being the same for all of them.
3) I'll cull through the photos to decide which ones to work on. I'll mark them with "1 star."
4) Once I get through all of them, I apply a filter to show me only the 1-star photos (really easy to do) and I open all of these in DxO Optics Pro 11 - my Raw Converter of choice.
5) DxO Optics Pro opens (actually it opens the folder that all of the pictures are in) and the star ratings are carried over. Inside of Optics Pro, I can again limit my viewing to the 1-star photos. I develop those RAW files to TIFF and store them in the TIFF subfolder.
6) Normally, I only use the TIFF files temporarily so I don't bring them back into Photo Supreme.
7) Quitting DxO Optics Pro, I'll now open Affinity Photo to do any extra work on the TIFF files. I save these as "afphoto" files but also export them as JPG files (using the appropriate subfolders).
8) I re-enter Photo Supreme and import the JPG files. The star rating survives this process, as do the keywords and geotagging.
9) I don't (can't) bring the Affinity Photo files into Photo Supreme, since it doesn't seem to recognize the file type as one which it can catalogue. I usually trash the TIFF subfolder, since I can re-create the TIFF files exactly through Optics Pro, and because they take up an enormous amount of space.
The workflow may seem a bit convoluted. In fact, it seems a bit complex as I type it all out. However, I am a believer in using tools that do one thing well instead of looking for a tool that does everything. So, I have tried to incorporate different applications for the various steps in the process. It works for me.
EDIT - An update to all this. As it turns out, I can go into the Preferences of Photo Supreme and enter ".afphoto" as a file type. Photo Supreme will then recognize Affinity Photo files and will, in fact, create thumbnails for them and display it all in its catalogue. However, it cannot apply keywords or geotags to the Affinity Photo files (since these are proprietary formats over which, I assume, it cannot or will not exercise editing control). Also, if I bring ".afphoto" files into the Photo Supreme catalogue, double-clicking on them will open that file in Affinity Photo. It doesn't seem that Photo Supreme will attempt to use its internal viewer to look at the .afphoto file.
This is great info, smadell. Thanks for your insight!
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I would like to see this round-trip working better also. Not for Lightroom but for other DAWs.
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I spent 4 times as much money last year on another RAW editing product. After 7 grueling months of pain, I demanded my money back. The product crashed repeatedly.
I didn't know until today that some folks consider Affinity Photo a beta. I've been using it a month, and I love it. I'm in heaven compared to last year's attempt at beta testing a less than alpha product.
Be thankful for what we have. Trust me. It could be much worse and much more expensive.
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We are going to make a professional Affinity DAM application - stay tuned in 2016 for more information ;)
Andy,
Now that it's 2017, how close are you guys to making this product a reality?
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One thing that I really appreciate about Photo Supreme is that it has the option (which I take) to write its cataloguing data directly to the file itself rather than to sidecar files. It will write metadata directly to RAW files (which, for reasons I don't fully understand, is anathema to some). But (and this is the nice part) if and when I decide to leave Photo Supreme, I won't have to re-catalogue all of my files. I've also found that if I do my keywording, geotagging, etc. on the RAW files prior to any processing, I can ensure that the metadata moves forward into any subsequent files I create (TIFFs, JPEGs, Affinity Photo files, etc).
smadell,
I'm interested in your workflow. How do you use Affinity Photo with Photo Supreme? Will it open a file in a particular application based on file type?
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I would like to be able to use the Compositional Overlays when designing as well as when cropping.
Additionally, is there a way to flip the Golden Spiral both horizontally and vertically?
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Well done, sir. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for your feedback.
It is a pitty...
I really like the software very much.
I love it, and I'm confident they will resolve this issue soon. It's the only problem I have with the product aside from an odd difference in Auto-levels compared to Photoshop, but that's another thread altogether.
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There _is_ an Auto Levels.. and an Auto Contrast, Auto Color, Auto Whitebalance (which is really funky :P).
I've noticed when I open images in Photoshop that I've Auto-leveled and exported from Affinity Photo, I can click Photoshop's Auto-level option and get a vastly different looking image.
How do we know which "auto-level" is more accurate?
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I am seeing this same problem in relation to preparing files for 500px and Facebook. Basically, the export quality is always less than Photoshop, Alien Skin Exposure, and other tools I've tested.
Additionally, I exported as a TIFF with no compression, then opened the file in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I exported to JPG and the same blocky jagged pixelation appeared in the same area of the image as the AP export. So the problem may lie not in the JPG export but somewhere else in Affinity Photo.
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Hi @hlarledge! Thank you for the feedback! Does the article refer to the white balance issue in particular? I'd be curious to read this review if you happen to know where to point me to!
I wish I could find it, F_Kal. I tried after I read your post. No luck, but I am certain they were describing the exact same issue with the white balance. They were also comparing with Apple Raw, which I couldn't test, because I am on Windows.
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Boudoir Affinity Photo Style (Please don't look if sexy offends you.)
in Share your work
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If you look closely and compare the two, I believe you can see how I used the following Affinity Photo tools:
I removed minor Noise and corrected the White Balance in the Develop persona, before moving to Photo.
In Photo, I used:
I did not need Liquify here, but I do use it often in Photoshop. This was my first start-to-finish image in AP, but there will be more. I am very happy with the results.