Hi Chris
It makes a difference, but the results aren't consistent! If I zoom in and out the image becomes a lot lighter. After that it might work or it might break the image into squares. Sometimes its the navigator image that breaks up, but there doesn't seem to be any consistency there either. I've tried 14bit DNG files and 12 bit RW2 files.
Just a quick update. We were planning on releasing the new beta for Windows on Monday (4 days ago), but unfortunately we discovered a bug which was crashing Windows 7 machines to crash when launching the apps. I considered launching the beta for Windows 10 users only, but ultimately decided that we should wait until the issue has been fully resolved. Unfortunately it's taking a little longer than expected, but hopefully it will be available soon.
I have several paid Photoshop actions that I am trying to manually transfer to Affinity Photo using Affinity's macro format. The problem is that many of the actions had duplicate document as one of the steps and Affinity does not have this feature. Unfortunately, I have not found a workaround therefore I am requesting that duplicate document be added. Thank you.
I have to say I have become a big fan of Darktable (ex Lightroom user). I do still have a current Adobe subscription in place but I almost never open either Lightroom or Photoshop any more as the Darktable/Affinity Photo combination satisfies my requirements. I won't be renewing my Adobe subscription when this current year runs out.
Just because Darktable is free and opensource does not mean it cannot achieve excellent results. Yes the interface is different to Lightroom, but at the same time it is very familiar. Yes some of the tools seem a bit geeky in their presentation, but in many cases are far more powerful that the equivalents in Lightroom. Like any new software when I first used it I felt lost and became frustrated because I knew what I wanted to do but not how to do it. But, if you invest some of your time trying things out, watching a few videos on YouTube, playing with each module to understand what they do, limiting the visible modules to the few favourites you use on nearly everything, setting up a few default module settings that can be different depending on the incoming file's EXIF data, making use of the straightforward (hierarchical) tagging system (which uses separate sidecar files - no central catalog to get corrupted) and your life becomes so much easier.
The only thing, and it is only one thing, that I miss from Lightroom is the side by side comparison feature that is not present in Darktable although you can achieve something similar using the snapshot feature. I would pay good money for Darktable, the fact that is free is quite unbelievable. It's worth noting that you don't have the ability to create a panorama within Darktable, and although you can merge several backeted shots to a HDR file (you do your own tonemapping using the existing DT tools) the images have to already be aligned as the process does not currently do that.
It is possible to more or less integrate Affinity Photo with Darktable. There is an extension to Darktable that gives another option in the export module to open the selected image in The Gimp. It's straightforward to install (copy and paste a few files into a folder) and then instead of pointing it at the gimp executable, you point it at the AP executable. Then in Darktable you select the file you want to edit in AP, use the new export option which opens up the file in AP, do your edits, save and close AP and the new image is automatically imported back into DT and grouped with the original source image. Works a treat (on my Win 10 machine - no direct experience of any other OS). some info here: https://github.com/darktable-org/lua-scripts If you are at all technically minded you can edit the script to change references in the displayed text from "gimp" to "external editor" although this is not needed for this to work.
Spend some serious time with Darktable and I'm sure some people will find it an excellent replacement for Lightroom, whether you are on a budget or not.
I have the leatest drivers for the tablet, but after checking all the settings I found out that using windows ink was activated, removing this has solved this problem.
Hi All, 100% new to this community. I have byed Designer and Photo for windows. I'am a photographer/designer living in The Netherlands. My Englisch language is not to best, but I try :)
Yes I'am using also Photoshop now mostly for the different actions I used working with. But maby these could be transformed to AP in the future.
DigitalVisuals got a reaction from SrPx in Wacom tablet slow