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With Affinity Photo, I work with the old Nik Software bundle (before DxO bought it to google). It works fine to me...

Tell me If you encounter any problem.

Hello, Happy to see that you enjoy this little trick. I learned it from a Capture One User. And I didn't know it was working too with ON1 Photo RAW until I tried to answer your question... But, now I see that since I can go back and forth with this little trick, then using Effect 2019 as a plug in in Affinity is a non sense, since I can use Photo RAW 2019...

For Fuji user using Capture One Pro (like me)... the process works fine !

Hello, I'm a big fan of ON1 Photo RAW. Iactually own the 2019.5 version. It's a great piece of software. Here is something to help you. First, in Affinity, go the Edit/Preferences/General and enable the option "Enable "Save" over imported PSD files" After editing your RAW file in ON1 Photo RAW, go to the ON1 browser, right click on the edited picture, then click on "Send to Other Application". Use the Windows browser until you select Affinity.exe in the dedicated folder. Then, ON1 generate a PSD file and open it in Affinity. Also, the PSD files appears in the ON1 browser. Make your changes in Affinity. Save them and go back to ON1. You will see your changes reflected on the PSD file in the ON1 Browser.... PSD file than you can again edit in ON1... DONE !!!! In my case, there is something that I'd like to know : I can't use the ON1 Effect 2019 as plugin in Affinity Photo. Do you have any idea ? I mean, they are photoshop plugins, but Affinity does not see them in their folder...

you're welcome !

Hello, I found another french bug. In the blend modes panel, there are 2 different modes named "Superposition". The upper one correspond to "Screen mode", while the lower one correspond to "Overlays" mode.

Hello, thanks for this update. Really great improvements. I found a small bug innthe display of the new HSL panel in the french version. It's more cosmetic than a real bug, but the color picker icon ("sélecteur de couleur") is too wide and hide half of the magenta circle. Thanks !

I'm a Fuji X-T20 owner. With affinity, I use Iridient X-Transformer. It really improves the RAW conversion. I read that there is an improvement of X-trans conversion in the next 1.7 version of Affinity Photo. Capture One Express Fuji is a really good RAW converter. You can tweak ligh, colors contrast and details. On1 Photo RAW 2019 is an excellent RAW converter for Fuji users. No need to use the Iridient X-Transformer tool with it. But it needs a really powerfull computer if you want to go on deep retouching. One excellent thing in On 1 is that you have a full non destructive retouching of your RAW (witch is not the case in Affinity Photo). You can save many versions of your retouching since all the changes are just written in an XML file. And finally, you can export your job as a PSD file that can easily open in Affinity to go further. When using Affinity as a RAW converter with my X-T20, I found that I had a small magenta color cast in the blue of the skies that was difficult to remove using only white balance tool. I found last night that the problem seems to come from the curve applied by the developp wizard. To avoid it, I must disabled this curve and then create a custom one in the Develop Personna where I act on the red channel and push it down a little bit. The other solution is to open the RAF file in On1, make basic adjustments or more and save it as a PSD file to open it in Affinity. Then there is no more magenta color cast and I can finish je job in Affinity. See you guys !

another bump for this post.

Hello, Last year, I've changed my camera and bought a Fuji X-T20. During this time, I spent a lot of time trying to remove a magenta color cast in the blue of my skies. I thought it was me or the way I used the camera. But using others raw converters (On1 Photo RAW, Luminar, Capture One Express Fuji) , I found that it comes from Affinity. Finally, it can easily be corrected when turning off the tone curve in the develop Wizard, and shiffting a bit the red curve in the develop personna. Do you know if we can define a specific tone curve that can be set as default in the develop the wizard ? Also, do you know if Serif planned to improve their Fuji X-Trans conversion algorithm ? Best Regards

Hello, since a few days, when I use luminosity masking, the resulte produce unwanted artefacts on the picture. On the attached picture, after several retouchings, I merged all the visible layers to obtain One complete picture on One layer. Then, I duplicate the layers and used the Screen blend mode and since I didn't want the sky to be affected, I used a luminosity mask a a pre-selection, then I refine the selection, and finally removed the sky from the mask layer. So I should have a darker sky (not affected by the upper layer in screen mode) and a lighter landscape. You can see the result in the attached screenshot. Any Idea ? It worked fine before... Best Regards ! EDIT : Apparently, it works fine in the 1.6.0.86 beta version....

Hi, would it be possible to add a way to save the job done in develop persona before the complete process is done and be able to start again from where we were at that point? I hope I'm clear :-) Best Regards Cyril

Ok... I've always find that the exposure tuning in Affinity give weird results, By weird, I mean when decreasing the exposure, the result looks more like I am graying the photo instead of darkening it (Am I clear ?). In the past, I've been using Lightroom 4 and I'm pretty sure that the exposure slider didn't work the same. To be sure, I decided to make a comparison with another powerful software. Since I'm not a Lightroom user anymore, I decided to compare Affinity with ON1 photo Raw. I took one of my photos. In each software, I removed any color curve or lens and noise correction. I just set the exposure slider to -2EV. The result is clear. With Affinity, there is a loss of contrast and details. The image is darker but flatten.... The sky is gray, not blue. On the contrary, when increasing the exposure up to 2EV, Affinity performs better than ON1. I had a last test with the free Rawtherapee. The results are almost the same than the ones with Affinity. Don't really know what to think about that ! Results with Affinity Photo 1.5.2 Results with ON1 Photo Raw 2017.6 Results with Rawtherapee

I agree with Karl Works. Does someone have any idea of the roadmap for the next updates in Affinity photo ? But in my case, I've turned to ON1 Photo Raw which is also a great alternative to Lightroom.