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    Woad V. got a reaction from goen in Android?   
    Hi all,
     
    I appreciate R&D is vastly expensive; that Android is far less homogeneous than Apple (and all the sub-points above). I do not like Apple - never have used in in many years as a designer and photographer. I have always been the exception to all the users who embraced Apple. Indeed, that is why I chose to use Serif from Page+ "1" - because it operated on Windows.
     
    I do not wish to suggest a strategy which would bankrupt Serif. I cherish the firm, their products and their history and feel for their staff. Serif must take sensible business decisions. Google's Android (which I use extensively, with Windows desktop machines too) is vast though and I would have thought some acknowledgement of this might be in Serif's best interests.
     
    Perhaps developing full-scale Affinity for Android now is not sensible. Fair enough.
     
    But what about developing an Android "app" (programme to me) which would be able to link Android to Affinity Windows? (I am assuming Apple users mainly only use Apple). This app could be lowish tech - ie very limited in scope. Perhaps something to tweak smartphone / table shot images within the shooting device; something to facilitate the interchange-information of images from Android to PC; something to smooth the path of photographs and images between the two platforms. Now, true, all this can be done with other apps. But, offering a programme to keep images, from shooting to high-level processing (and, maybe, back to the device) within Affinity's ecosystem, might encourage purchases by other people. And it would enable through-put much smoother for Windows's Affinity users who also use Android. It would also start to afford Serif's developers a better understanding of Android, should they wish to further Affinity's presence in the future.
     
    Just a thought.
     
    Toodle Pip. (Damn! did that sound like an Apple reference?)
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    Woad V. got a reaction from pioneer in PagePlus X9   
    Hi Pioneer.
     
    Thanks muchly. That, then, is partly my ignorance - I did not realize Page+ supported external photo-editors. I always either used the tools in Page+ or, if too complex, I opened my photo-editor (Photo+ and / or ACDSee), edited in those, then saved and imported the result into Page+. No wonder the dinosaurs died-out, if that's the sort of thing I've been doing. Or something like that. Again, thanks, John.
     
    Toodle pip.
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    Woad V. reacted to MikeW in Adobe Colour Space v sRGB   
    Like I wrote, it isn't an end format. It's a working space (for me) that represents the raw data itself better than the lower formats. And I work with 16 bit images as much as possible using LAB for adjustments where appropriate.
     
    But yeah, unless someone is throwing gobs of money at an art print to a 12 color Epson inkjet or the like, then the file will eventually be stepped on to a smaller color space. But if I need to tweak an image, it's back to the ProPhoto version to make edits, then back to the end 8 bit and Adobe rgb for print and sRGB for lesser output formats.
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    Woad V. reacted to MikeW in Adobe Colour Space v sRGB   
    Short of converting raw into the sub formats directly, ProPhoto is the largest space, so all the as-shot color detail is retained in my working format. Each sub format ends up discarding color in different ways. ProPhoto is a means to an end, a working format with the largest gamut is all. If I step on the colors too early in the workflow then I am baking in later changes I could not get back.
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    Woad V. got a reaction from Fixx in Adobe Colour Space v sRGB   
    Fixx, thank you so much for that info; very helpful.
     
    HDR: I do not do a lot but I did find when I used -2,-1,0,+1 and +2 stops I had quite dramatic results. On this bracketing, I used seven images from -1 to +1 in thirds, with less drama. But (i) the image itself is not especially dramatic and (ii) the range of -1 to +1 is axiomatically smaller than that of -2 to +2. Thus, I take your point as partially correct - viz it is the processing itself which adds drama. However, I suspect the range does, too - which is different from what I said before - so, yes, I was incorrect.
     
    Apropos the RAW colour-space not existing. No, of course it doesn't. What an idiot. I shall hit myself with a foam-rubber tripod (one should not be too reckless). If RAW had a colour-space, it would not be RAW, would it? That was the colour-space of my brain-fade. Thank you for not calling me an idiot - though I have now done so.
     
    Apropos final use: Need images available for professional printing for A4 through to A2 at least, perhaps even A1 if I'm lucky. I have printed a bridge camera's 16mpix output on A3 and it was grand, so now I am using a very low-end crop-sensor DSLR, at 18Mpix, I would hope to be able to reach A1. I hope to upgrade to a 24Mpix Crop-Sensor soon. (ie: Bridge - Fuji HXR; Present: Canon 1200D; Future: Canon 80D - or 90D?). I know full-frame is the tempting target but I can afford lenses etc easier on APS-C. Should I win a lottery, the Canon 5D and its lenses will be on my Day One shopping list. Sorry, I digress - anyway my printers like Abobe RGB, plus a load of other things in pre-prep before I send them the files.
     
    I have, as you suggested, re-developed using Adobe RGB. Thank you so much.
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    Woad V. reacted to Fixx in Adobe Colour Space v sRGB   
    It is not for drama (app adjustments make that), but just to cover all dynamic range with fewer exposures. Of course you can cover dynamic range with small step bracketing, it just may take many shots. I though have no knowledge what is the exact optimal overlap but I think HDR is quite forgiving and uses anything it can get.
     
     
    RAW images have no colour space, thus camera colour space setting affects only JPEG. RAW images get a colour space when development app attach one to them. It is usually the working colour space which you indeed set global in preferences.
     
    If you redevelop your files with right colour space you should get embedded proper Adobe RGB space and somewhat wider colour gamut. This may or may not make a difference depending your images and what end use they are intended.
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    Woad V. got a reaction from MEB in Google Nik Collection is now free for everyone.   
    MEB, A very belated big "thank you" from me. Nix filters installed and working well. Cheers!
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    Woad V. reacted to TDawes in Introduce Yourself   
    Hello, I'm Tony Dawes and I've been using Serif products on Windows for years. Mainly Photo Plus, Page Plus and occasionally Web Plus. I also have Movie Plus but that hasn't been updated in years, and Draw Plus which I rarely use. Just installed Affinity Photo and it looks good enough to cancel my Photoshop CC subscription.
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