[dng file from Lightroom: if I open it on Affinity Photo (1) I see no edits?]

11 minutes ago, Ldina said:

I agree with Walt if the goal is to retain maximum information and detail, and to send a file the other can preview accurately.

I often choose reduced-size JPGs when sending 'proofs' to clients to keep file size small. Besides, at this stage, I'm usually only interested in giving them small, lower quality previews, sometimes with watermarks, so they can select final images to work on. When submitting final files, I'll typically send TIFF or PNG, or high quality JPGs, depending on the situation. 

I have a few photographer friends and we often send each other RAW images (usually DNG format, but sometimes proprietary RAW formats) back and forth, and we all have LightRoom, so updating DNG Preview and metadata in the files allows the other person to see all our edits, slider settings, custom camera profiles, WB, etc, within LR, plus the files display properly with those settings inside LR or ACR (they both use the same raw engine and slider settings). We can also create different versions inside LR and create "snapshots" of each version, which can be handy and instructive. That's about the only time I send out RAW images. 

thanks Ldina

I am starting as unit still photographer so my clients will sometimes be happy just with JPEGs but other times they want RAW too, with or without edits

it really varies in this industry

[dng file from Lightroom: if I open it on Affinity Photo (1) I see no edits?]

so essentially, in a commercial environment, when submitting raw photos w/edits to a client, one should always check what software the receiving end uses (hopefully the same)? otherwise they won't see the edits at all.

or the alternative is to send jpegs or other non-raw formats

[dng file from Lightroom: if I open it on Affinity Photo (1) I see no edits?]

thanks - yes using "edit with" and choosing Affinity Photo works well 

[dng file from Lightroom: if I open it on Affinity Photo (1) I see no edits?]

thank you! makes sense - so there isn't a universal type of raw file that includes edits that can be viewed by all editing software?

even sending the raw + XMP file needs to be opened by Lightroom or Photoshop, I believe, or you don't see the edits

[dng file from Lightroom: if I open it on Affinity Photo (1) I see no edits?]

hi guys

I edited a RAW file on Lightroom then exported as dng file. the preview clearly shows the edits 

if I then open this file on AP the file opens as original raw - it doesn't show any of the edits before or after hitting develop on AP.

is this normal behaviour?

[HUGE psd file when editing on Affinity Photo from Lightroom]

issue with PSD file being too big when using affinity photo w/Lightroom

 

hello guys - I use Affinity Photo (v1) as external editor on Lightroom classic. when I finish editing, I save and have the box ticked for "Enable "save" over imported PSD files" so I can have the psd file back straight to LR.

the issue is that the resulting PSD file I now have in Lightroom is huge. sometimes 100 or 200MB or more (from a jpg of around 10-15MB), even after super light editing.

I am clearly missing something. why would the PSD file be so huge? 

thanks!

[Affinity Designer iPad Color Palette Import?]

Any updates? The world needs this

[How to interpret these requirements]

Thanks! By the way , Is there a way to resize a file by size? Cannot seem to find it other than on the export menu, yet it doesn’t seem to allow to set a target size

[How to interpret these requirements]

Hi guys. I wanted to create some art for a specific videogame and these are their requirements.  what are SVG 1.0 or 1.1? Any specific tweak I need to be aware of in this case? Thanks

SVG files to be used as User Decals must adhere to the following specifications:
- the file must not be larger than 15kb in size;
- the text must be outlined;
- special drawing (blend) modes such as 'multiply' and 'adding' are not allowed;
- the file must comply to the SVG 1.0 or 1.1 specifications;
- for gradations, only simple shapes are supported.

Please note that the area displayed in a thumbnail is dependent on the SVG view port settings

 

 

 

 

[Autotrace coming any time soon?]

Not sure if this has been asked recently but it would be really a welcome addition to the app

 

thanks 

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

I have sent you the video by mail - 

the system you suggest works fine. the glitch only happens when you import a photo from photostream to start a project directly from the new project menu

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

Hi Dan

1. What iPad model and iOS version are you using? IPad Pro 10.5 with latest IOS 
2. Are your images in a RAW format? No
3. If you open your Photos Library, then drag and drop an image from here onto the homescreen of the Affinity app, does the image open at full size? Haven’t tried this but not sure AP supports multi screen on the iPad Pro?
4. Do you have an active internet connection when trying to open these images? Yes

i think this is a serious glitch that definitely wasn’t there before  

 

federico

 

 

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

can someone with AP on iPad and Mac try to replicate my issue?

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

thanks but that's not the reason. Photo stream photos are surely a bit lower but definitely not 480*360 like Affinity Photo now imports them. something weird is going on here that didn't happen before.

I used to edit phots straight from Photostream no problem.

the same photo I am able to import it from Photostream at 2016*1512px using AP on my Mac  - why on earth AP on iPad now arbitrarily reduces it to 480*360px?

can anyone replicate this issue?

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

Nobody?

[Affinity Photo downsizes images when importing from Photo Stream?]

Hi guys I’ve not used the app in a while but I’ve noticed that if I start a new project from “import from photos” and load a photo to from my Photo Stream A weird thing happen

 

If I import from my photo stream the resolution gets dramatically lowered - why is that? The imported photo looks way worse than if I open it via the photo app, it’s quite pixelated. Is there a setting to tell AP to not lower the resolution of photo stream photos?

 

thanks. Fed

[Can someone explain the “new batch job” command?]

Not sure when this was added. Is it just to export a batch of photos in a given format? What about applying the same filter or adjustment to all the photos?

also cannot find any macro as I think happens on the Mac version

 

thanks

[Affinity photo iPad - extreme lag time after 1.7 update]

Ive noticed a lag using paintbrush on the iPad version. Not sure if related but definitely noticeable 

[How to rotate and crop a photo on Photo?]

I never realised I could draw a line to align and straighten the photo.

interestingly the iphone photo app does all of this in one go. they seem to have implemented a macro that aligns to the main lines visibile and then straightens and crops accordingly. impressive.

[How to rotate and crop a photo on Photo?]

4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Use the crop tool, select the straighten option on the context toolbar at the bottom, draw a straight line which will rotate the photo as Alfred says with triangles at the edges. 

Now, that’s where the inpaintcrop2  macro that Jim Welsh created comes in to do all the hard work of fixing the edges. See this post for the macros.

 

 

 

 

Thanks a lot!

[How to rotate and crop a photo on Photo?]

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

If you want to keep the photo the same size, you’ll need to rasterize it after rotation and then do some careful cloning or inpainting to fill in the blank triangles around the edges. If you’re happy to enlarge it and lose some of the original content, you can simply drag the corners outwards with the Move Tool: when you export the result, anything beyond the edges of the canvas will be cropped away automatically.

Thanks. It does sound a lot of work whereas said feature on iOS photos does rotate and crop in one go.. quite neat. Anyway I think the best way I found is to use the rotate command under develop persona and then crop if needed. More laborious but I get there

[How to rotate and crop a photo on Photo?]

Hello I’d like to know if someone can tell me how to rotate a photo but within the constraint of the original canvas?

in other words I’m trying to replicate what the iPhone does in the photo rotate/align tool, where you want to simply make straight a photo that’s slightly tilted, sometimes only by a few degrees, but keeping the original ratio in the background

 

thanks

[designer: how to move a straight line? how to space lines evenly?]

3 hours ago, Alfred said:

Group the parallel lines so that they don’t move relative to each other. Lock the rectangle,

how do I lock the rectangle on iPad?

[designer: how to move a straight line? how to space lines evenly?]

will try this now thanks! I am on the fence for buying Designer for Mac, after having AP for mac/iPad and Designer for iPad (all of whichk I like every day more)

I have to say there are quite a few extra functions of A.Photo mac vs Ipad but sometimes you just can't beat the immediacy of using the iPad..

[designer: how to move a straight line? how to space lines evenly?]

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Agreed. It certainly isn’t always as easy as it should be!

What would you like the spacing options to do, and what do you tend to find they actually do? 

well I would like them to give me options to space/distribute vs specific items. say I have a rectangle or square shape, and I add some parallel lines within that square, I would like to be able to space the lines taking the boundaries of that square into account...

sorry not sure I explained it too well...