Dynamic Range

Bart is correct, A while back I used to use Adobe Bridge and I realised that I needed a DAM tool / raw converter that not only worked well with keywords but was also Adobe Photoshop friendly. Currently nearly all my photos are finished in Photoshop. I had a deep, close look at both Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro. The latter would not provide any information on the internal color space (in fact were very evasive on answering my query) so I did some testing and was indeed able to confirm DxO was clipping colors, exporting as Adobe RGB or Prophoto RGB for further editing in Photoshop meant colors were lost, colors that I could print on certain papers. I spent a lot of time with ColorThink etc to do my testing. I am interested in alternatives to Photoshop but the editor must be able to preserve the colors captured in camera as I do final soft proofing based on output destination. It would be great if somebody from Affinity could confirm either way if there are any internal color gamut restrictions. If no internal color clipping and Affinity Photo were to add a HSB color model that would be a game changer for me.

Thanks for the info. I was treading carefully about the internal color space question. I know of two popular raw editors that only use Adobe RGB internally. At least one of them allows export to ProPhoto RGB but no colors beyond Adobe RGB are ever saved into the exported file. If you are going to print the final result I think it is worth using ProPhoto RGB so you can print to the full gamut of the paper. Just wondered if Affinity Photo would preserve the full gamut captured by the camera or if it is like some other raw converters and clips then down to Adobe RGB. Good to hear there is a Lab color space, I use that for specific color corrections. Fingers crossed for a better macro facility in a later release.

Hi, I am looking at Affinity Photo as a replacement to Photoshop. I use prophoto RGB in Photoshop so I keen to understand a little about Affinity photo please. The web site states Affinity Photo uses an unbounded linear colour space. Does this mean there is no internal color rendering intents that clip the color space to say Adobe RGB? I would be looking to export from Lightroom so keen to understand if I can use proPhoto RGB color space end-to-end for editing. Does Affinity Photo have a Lab color space with l, a and b channels? Does Affintiy Photo have a means for macros / actions and if so does it have simple programmable logic like if .. then .. else? Many thanks