[Are Affinity Making a Competitor to Adobe Lightroom ?]

Hi there,

 

I think a thread like this needs to grow. It's great to hear that Serif has plans for a DAM / Lightroom killer app. I would really like to see one. And I bet that no one would dislike the company's attention moving on to the DAM software.  Be sure that there's a great interest and support from the community. Just wanted to let everyone know.

[clipping warnings]

In the develop persona I can choose to display clipping warnings (blue for shadows and red for highlights, and even colour clipping warnings). Please add those to the photo persona. Super easy change, super useful addition. Or have I missed them?

[value boxes]

This is actually just like selecting text. But if I accidentally double click the 'px' term, I don't change the value. So I have to triple click to make sure that everything's selected. After I hit enter, the box behaves like I want. And if I hit tab, the next box is selected and I can start typing with the old value being deleted automatically. I'd just like to see this behaviour from the beginning.

[new hsl slider]

I totally agree. I think it should even be possible to select a tonal range (like a tonal mask) for every live layer available. But adding sliders for user chosen hues in the hsl tool would be really cool. I think that even Photoshop has such a tool. Please add this in future updates, Serif!

[value boxes]

Hi MEB,

 

I didn't know that, but know I will maybe try it. But I still think that it the situation is suboptimal in most cases right now. I need three clicks to select everything in the boxes, and  I'd appreciate a setting to change to one click (so whenever I type a new value the old one is automatically deleted). This could be completely optional, but it would speed up my workflow quite significantly. I bet this is were I lose the most time.

[library functions]

Hi Serif Team,

 

I bought Affinity Photo half a year ago, and it hasn't disappointed me. In fact, I am very happy with it. But I miss the library function from Lightroom. When I edit a 20mb RAW file, the .afphoto file is 130mb big (or similar dimensions). I would really appreciate a library functionality, the project files don't have to contain copies of the source files. And I would really like to hand off the managing of all the projects to a background program. Maybe this is even an idea for another new app, and it isn't urgent.

But I wanted to mention that there is interest in such an app.

 

Best Regards

[value boxes]

When clicking a value box to change the value inside, I get my cursor and have to delete what's in there before I can change the value. I would like to click on the box and just type a number in. It would save a lot of time. Or have I missed a setting?

[new hsl slider]

I recently switched from Lightroom 6 (which is no longer supported) to Affinity Photo, and I am very happy with my decision. But where is the hsl slider for orange tones? Please add one, the warm tones are in my opinion the most important ones.