Ethcap

I see you've also posted in the Bugs section and this is issue is being looked into by the QA team   
When the bugs thread is updated, i'll also update this one as well.

I have to say this mind set seems oddly rigid and unsupported by the nature of the 2 applications. While they each do have "features that the other doesn't have" they clearly share many, many others, some of which you would not expect. Like being able to "create a feature in one app and then edit it in the other." This does not set them apart from each other. It sets them apart from Adobe. This feature compatibility between the two apps and the pixel persona in Designer specifically, is much more advantageous to designers who often work with photos and vectors than it is to photographers who I image rarely need the design capabilities of a vector app. There is clearly a need, even if only now and then, by photographers, and I would imagine digital painters as well, to make attractive text within their images. This is a feature that makes sense to include in Affinity Photo. If you not going to allow text on a path because "Photo and Designer are different apps" then why include text in Photo at all? I really don't understand the logic here and forcing photographers to buy (even at a very reasonable cost) an additional application to access this one feature doesn't seem reasonable.

Pleeeease reconsider this. Why not make Affinity Photo better than Photoshop in *every* way?
 
Even Photoshop Elements, the cheap baby-version of Photoshop, has:
 
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/add-text.html
 
* Text on Shape
* Text on Selection
* Text on Path
 
They're extremely useful tools and the lack of them is a huge limitation for adding creative text to photos in Affinity Photo. :-( Every time I go to add text in Photos, I wish the feature existed... And ironically, Photos is a place where creative text matters a lot. Imagine you're making a wallpaper from a family vacation or wedding, and you want to add a headline title to it. Do you really want the letters to be on a flat, boring, straight line, or do you want the text to have some fun flair? Or just look at the dog-example in the above Photoshop link, which shows a really fun use for text in creative photo editing, where they've wrapped the text around the dog. Creative text is insanely useful in photo editing to set the right mood. This is why Photoshop includes the feature in its photo editor (even in Elements), instead of just having it in Illustrator... Please don't artificially hold back an essential core text feature of Photo editing just to differentiate Designer and Photo. You can differentiate Designer in non-text-related ways (more smart shapes, bitmap to vector auto-conversion, being able to draw vectors as a paintbrush instead of just a pen tool, infinite zoom, vector outline "xray" view mode, pixel preview of vectors, etc)... Creative text is a basic feature of any editor out there except Affinity Photo...
 
I'm sad now, and it's the first time I've been sad about Affinity... :-( Heh...
 
 
edit: Hi to everyone giving this post a "like"! But it's probably better if you also post your opinions in the thread for more visibility.

I have now tested with multiple images, using multiple ICC profiles and the results stay consistent, e.g. switching from Absolute Colorimetric to Relative or Perceptual does nothing to bring out of gamut colours into gamut in Affinity Photo. I should note it is not as sever on all profiles and acceptable on some (depending on the image), however when compared to Lightroom or Photoshop the differences are simply too great to ignore, at least to me, as illustrated in the chart I posted originally.
In the end one of apps must be having some form of bug/problem in my opinion, and since no one seems to be interested in answering this thread I will open a new post in the bug and well linking back to this one.

Hoping someone can shed some light on an apparent issue with Soft Proofing in Affinity Photo, but first a little background; I am looking to switch from Adobe products and Affinity Photo will be taking over the role Photoshop has played so far in my workflow, and so far so good.
 
Then recently I was contacted by a client that wishes to purchase a print of one of my photos. This is the first time I am making a large size print for a client so I am doing this via a gallery print lab (I have done printing on my home printer before so I know the basics of Soft Proofing, however it’s a home printer Epson XP-235 so no ICC profiles for that consumer model). So I though this is the perfect time to test out the soft proofing in Affinity Photo.
 
However I am getting very strange, and what I assume are incorrect results out of Affinity Photo.
 
The colour space required by the lab is sRGB and a TIF file with a DPI of 300 which will be printed on Hahnemüehle Photo Rag and are soft proofing using the ICC profile for the given paper and printer at the gallery, so far so good or so I thought.
 
What first got me thinking something was off was when I changed rendering intent, in Affinity Photo and there was little to no difference between any of the intents and huge amount of out of gamut colour.
 
So I went back to Lightroom and sure enough in Lightroom there was far from the same amount of clipping using the same ICC profile and rending intent. Hence I opened the file in Photoshop and here results were the same as Lightroom’s rendering intents (relative and perceptual), while Absolute matches what I see in Affinity Photo.
 
I would have assumed since I use the same file with the same colour space and the same ICC profile on the same computer the results should be the same, unless one software is interpreting colours and the ICC profile differently which in that case begs the question;
which is closest to the truth?
Or is this a bug in Affinity Photo’s soft proof adjustment layer?
(And yes I know that soft proof will never match the true to life print, however I like to get an as close to the print rendition as possible, but I now have a very hard time trustingt what I am seeing in Affinity Photo).
Pictures speak louder than words, so here is a chart detailing the results I am seeing and as you can see it's a huge difference.

Hope someone can answer this or if I am missing something in the workflow.
Software versions:
Affinity Photo: 1.6.7
Photoshop: CC 19.1.5
Lightroom: 6.14 standalone
Thanks.