DanVM

We are going to make a professional Affinity DAM application - stay tuned in 2016 for more information ;)
 
Thanks,
 
Andy.

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

I'm definitely one seeing things a little similar to your POV.
At least I strongly agree for the need of a great DAM/ Browsing engine.

Would love a red eye removal tool for birds/wildlife in Affinity Photo. I've yet to find anything that can remove the red eye in birds as a result of using fill flash that also doesn't remove the catch light in the eye. 

Fast Fourier Transform.
 
Affinity have made a video. Search for  Affinity Photo - FFT denoise
 
 

Hi dspellman,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
You can save presets for each section in Develop Persona (Basic, Lens, Details etc), but you can't simply copy all settings applied to an image  and paste over another.
All the features you're describing are usually performed in a DAM software which is able to manage multiple images/libraries and apply settings to whole groups etc.
Affinity Photo is a RAW converter/developer and photo editing software (similar to Photoshop + Camera RAW). It doesn't manage libraries or groups of photos like Aperture or Lightroom.
We already announced our own DAM (digital assets managements) software solution for later, which will work seamlessly with Affinity Photo and should be able to do what you're describing.