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C_Calmes

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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

    Affinity retouching.JPG

    ON1 Browser.JPG

    Affinity Parameters.JPG

  3. 6 hours ago, mapline said:

    Hi C_Calmes

    To load Affinity and 22.15mb compressed RAF file for me .

    1.6  30sec

    1.7  13sec.

    I would call that  a significant difference/improvement!

    Yes... this is an improvement... But I was expecting a better converter that could avoid the use of Iridient X-Transformer. A RAF file opened in On1 Photo RAW or Exposure X4 is really sharper than in Affinity Photo.

    What is the C1 v12 Beta you're talking about ?

  4. 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 !

  5. On 11/15/2018 at 1:51 AM, jeffkovitz said:

    Was hoping a simple “view existing mask” would be added - makes it so much easier to edit adjust the mask.   Have a look at ON1 and Luminar.  It’s mindless in its use, amd very helpful. It can’t be that tough..,.

    I definitly agree... View a mask is really use full. The On1 tool is really amazing and a similar tool for Luminosity masking would be a great improvement.

     

  6. 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

  7. 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

    Affinity_-2EV.jpg

    Affinity_+2EV.jpg

     

    Results with ON1 Photo Raw 2017.6

    ON1 Photo Raw_+2EV.jpg

    ON1 Photo Raw_-2EV.jpg

     

    Results with Rawtherapee

    Rawtherapee_+2EV.jpg

    Rawtherapee_-2EV.jpg

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