RAW file editing bug

[Cpoole]

I am very new to photo editing so I am fully exspecting my question to be wrong or have an easy solution. I have resently started shooting with my sonny a6000 in raw format and wanted to edit them on affinity photo, the photos look fine on windows viewer but when I open them on affinity photo, the exposure has massively changed, there is alot more noise and in general they just look significantly worse. I have attached one of the files i have been having problems with but it happens with most of my photos. I have also attached screen shots of what it looks like in the windows viewer and affinity photo (both un edited). on some photos the diffenece is alot bigger. to me it looks like affinity photo is doing edits for me which I dont want it to do.

thanks

 

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[Dan C]

Hi Cpoole,

Welcome to the forums

18 hours ago, Cpoole said:

the photos look fine on windows viewer but when I open them on affinity photo, the exposure has massively changed, there is alot more noise and in general they just look significantly worse

When viewing a RAW file through Windows Viewer, you will be shown an embedded JPEG from the file, not the actual RAW file itself. Therefore, when opening the RAW file in Affinity Photo it's not uncommon that the image will appear differently, as the JPEG file you're shown in Photo Viewer will have been processed by your camera.

18 hours ago, Cpoole said:

it looks like affinity photo is doing edits for me which I dont want it to do

You can adjust your Development Assistant settings to control the changes applied to an image when loading it in Affinity Photo. To change these, please go to View>Assistant Manager... then is the dialog that opens select Develop Assistant in the bottom left corner. Here you can change the following settings, which affect how your RAW files are loaded into Affinity -

Please note, after changing any of these settings you will need to re-open any RAW files for the changes to take effect. I hope this helps!