Hi Lee,
Thanks for the response. Before I continue, I'll mention that after playing with the trial version of Affinity 1.5 for the past week or so on my PC, I'm going to purchase it in the next few hours.
So, sorry to seem dense about this, but is there anything in the Develop persona (other than the basic RAW conversion) that can't be achieved later in the Photo persona? I'm not entirely clear about the function or rationale of the divide between them. Is the Develop persona sort of intended as a quick way to get an image out, for those who don't want or need to go deeper in the Photo persona? Is there any reason, if one knows that a RAW image is going to be manipulated substantially in the Photo persona, to not simply "develop" it immediately and go right on into Photo? That's really the crux of my question - what if anything is the drawback of doing that? Or am i still missing something altogether different? Thanks so much for your help.