Zoli1989
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2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:
Note further that the Nikon Z8 is not yet officially supported by the Serif RAW engine (and it's underlayed Libraw) and also not by the actual Apple RAW engine, thus it has not yet been listed in/among the list of supported camera formats there. The latter for the Serif RAW engine is more due to the LibRaw support, which underlies APh and which is used by APh to read the Nikon NEF RAW files.
However, it seems that Nikon Z8 NEFs (without hi compression) can still be opened in APh, as the uncompressed Nikon Z8 NEFs are similar to those of the Z9 (the latter is supported for uncompressed NEFs by APh/Libraw).
For Nikon's high effency raw recording (compression) of Nikon Z9/Z8/Zf cams, the TicoRaw RAW codec engine is used by Nikon, which is only supported by few RAW-Converters so far (Nikon Studio, Lightroom/ACR, C1, ...). So only few RAW-Converters can deal with such high effency compressed NEFs.
In fact, I checked some raw compression settings in the camera, and only uncompressed could be opened in APh. I'll wait and see what will happen once it's supported. In the meantime I can play with presets, or just develop in NX Studio and do further edits in Photo.
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2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
You should be able to create the same appearance using Affinity Photo, but it will involve more manual work and a learning curve of what changes you need to make.
Thank you! I'll make a nice and "easy" reference picture, so I'll be able to check all the details and values I need to compare the looks, then I'll play with the settings
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52 minutes ago, firstdefence said:
Which one looks closer to the actual product and which one do you prefer?
I prefer the one which gives back what I can see through and on the camera, so the Nikon in this case.
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1 hour ago, v_kyr said:
Well the difference is due to the fact that Nikon knows very well how to showup and interpret all of it's camera settings inside/from NEF files, like Active D-Lighting, Picture Control, Scene modes, ... etc. Even all of the difficult for other vendors to interpret specific Nikon EXIF Maker Notes. So what a cams internal screen and Nikon Studio do as default show here is pretty identical, as they can and know to deal with the same NEF & JPG data.
Affinity Photo on the other side in contrast here, doesn't apply any default presettings like brightness/contrast, sharpening, ... etc. It also doesn't have any clue about interpreting any Active D-Lighting, Picture Control settings and the like. Thus it's default image looks much more dull, flatter and unsharp here. - For APh you would have to setup some own presettings which deal with those things here, in order to get similar looking results.
Some of the big guys in the commercial field of RAW-Converters (Lightroom/ACR, C1, DxO, ...) can and do interpret more out of NEF settings here, they do apply some more cam presettings here so the images come closer to what Nikon Studio would as default show up.
IN SHORT: that's normal for Affinity Photo here.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the detailed answer! I guess if I wanna stick with Photo, I'll just have to try and get close to the Nikon look with presets as you suggested.
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Hello,
I just faced a situation which makes me worry, and I'd like to understand whether I do something wrong or it is a real issue.
I just bought a Nikon Z8, and I dowloaded all the Nikon softwares (NX tether, NX studio) for tethering. For developing and editing I wanted to keep using Affinity Photo, but when I sent to raw file from NX Studio to Affinity photo I realised that they are different.
Please have a look at the attached pictures: 1. back of the camera, 2. in NX STUDIO 3. Affinity Photo develop persona.
The histogram in the camera and NX studio is the same, but different in Photo and the overall, sharpness, and image quality as well. If I choose don't apply cone curve, the histogram is just even more different, and goes tot he darker side. If I change RAW Engine to Apple it's quite the same.
My question is, whether this is something that can be fixed by some settings, or Affinity just can't process the NEF files equally well?
Thank you very much in advance for your kind answer. I would love to be able to continue working in Photo.
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I can confirm, I have the same issue. The preset applies everything except for the white balance value. I have to click into the value box and hit enter to apply it. *Ventura 13.4, Photo 2.1.0
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Thanks everyone. I'll try with Beta and see if I make a V2 (even beta) 'save as' of it, perhaps it will open in V2 normal as well.
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Sure, here it is. Thanks
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Hi MikeTO,
Sorry, I didn't get notification about your reply. Thank you! I am trying to open it in 2.0.4.
No, it was already saved to my hard disk alone, without the files used in it, so I guess I embedded them back then. I can not even check it now that it doesn't open. -
Hello,
I started a family tree project in Designer Desktop V1, and now I fail to open it in V2, MacOS, Monterey 12.6.3. It's a small, less than 40MB file, yet nothing happens, "Loading 1 document" on the status bar forever.
Anyone has any idea how to fit this? I forced closed the app, restarted, tried again, rebooted, tried again, nothing helps.
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Hello,
I noticed in my last 2-3 works in which I saved history with the document, that Designer instantly crashes once I try to go back more than 3-5 steps in history.
Anyone experienced similar?
Thx.
Z.
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Hello,
I just bumped into this issue... I have a couple of object set to erase blend mode, grouped together, working just fine. I'd like to add another object outside of that group, again with erase blend mode, but then the previous group loses the transparency, like the new object knocks it out. -
Thank you!
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Hi everyone!
I'm following the projects in the workbook and one introduces as last step the save as package feature... It says go to File-Save as Package... I have version 1.8.6. (last now) and there is no Save as Package under file menu... Is it removed or places somewhere else, or...?
Thanks,
Z.
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Hello,
I recorded my macro, added my pictures, set my parameters etc...
When running the macro, instead of the picture a blurred rectangle something appears. Anyone knows why does it do this and how to fix it?
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Hi,
Sorry, I have deleted the RAW file already.
But my Mac details are: -
Ciao MEB,
Thanks for the tip, I tried and it seemed ok with that option unchecked. -
Ciao,
Does anyone experience the same when opening RAW file in Develop persona?
For now my solution is to cancel developing, and reopen the recent file, if I'm lucky it goes well if not, have to repeat this 3-5 times, maybe a full software restart....
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Hi,
I've just updated 1.7. and I wanted to find the new features in the HELP to understand them better, but unfortunately my HELP's language is Italian. I tried to reset the language of the whole software (for some reason it is Italian) then I set back everything in English as I use it, but the HELP still remained in Italian.
Anyone has any idea how to fix this?
Thank you!
Z. -
Dear team,
As it happened when you published version 1.5. can we expect to find the introductions of the new features of 1.7. also here?
Thank you!
Z.
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On 3/29/2019 at 2:49 PM, Joachim_L said:
Which version of Designer, which version of Publisher? I do know, that the PDF libraries differ between Designer 1.65 and Publisher 1.70. Maybe this will be fixed in the final release, the usual beta hiccups I guess.
Ciao,
The latest Publisher Beta 1.7.0.283. and Designer 1.6.1 -
I was duplicating a page, and then wanted to pull it over the original page...
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2 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
Please can you tell us the version you are running, it should be 1.7.0.283 as found in this pinned thread
Sure, I use 1.7.0.283
Nikon NEF raw development quality loss, Affinity Photo v.2.3.0. on Mac
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Well, until I don't have time to make presets for the raw development in affinity I think I just do the same. Raw development if needed I do in NX Studio, then 16 bit Tiff exported in Affinity if retouching or other things are needed.
But once I have time, I'd do the presets cause I like working in Photo and NX Studio is dull in many other ways after Photo.