fingersitchy Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I'm looking to replace Lightroom - it just isn't intuitive enough for me, and Aperture isn't around anymore. However, I DO need the replacement to provide an image management capability within the workflow so I can break up various projects by date, job, location etc. Can Affinity Photo provide this? I've looked through the forums and haven't found an answer for that. Thanks in advance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 16, 2015 Hi fingersitchy, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, Affinity Photo is not a DAM (Digital Asset Management) as Lightroom. It's a RAW converter/developer and Photo editor comparable to Adobe Camera RAW + Photoshop. fingersitchy and Elf 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingersitchy Posted July 20, 2015 Author Share Posted July 20, 2015 Thank you. That clarifies how I could use Affinity. Here's another query, If I use Lightroom as my DAM tool, can I make my modifications/adjustments within Affinity, and round-trip the image back into Lightroom? (ie. use it as an external editor within Lightroom?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperD Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 ... It's a RAW converter/developer and Photo editor comparable to Adobe Camera RAW + Photoshop. It would be awfully nice though, to add something comparable to Bridge to it. The real one, not MiniBridge. Makes it kind of complete. Food for thoughts maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaxian Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 And by the way - Aperture IS still around, as long as you bought it before they stopped further development. It's just that they are no longer developing it. Which is a great disappointment, and a silly move by Apple.... But who am I to criticise Apple? Hah...! Affinity Photo is ALMOST there to take over from Photoshop for my usage - but I just need it to work properly with all my Photoshop plugins, from Topaz, to Nik, from Photomatix to OnOne, etc. But Serif already know that, so I just hope they're working on it as we speak :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldexterldesign Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 BUMP https://twitter.com/ldexterldesign/status/690966573629231104 Hope this is useful Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedorme Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 As a Mac user who switched to Aperture after becoming frustrated with the non-intuitive operation of LR, I now use Aperture for my file organization & storage but Affinity Photo for all of my editing. Aperture has a feature that allows you to select Affinity Photo as an external editor by going to Preferences & selecting the Export tab; under that you press the Choose button to select the External Photo Editor & pick Affinity Photo. For the External File Format you can select Tiff (8 or 16 bits as you prefer). Then when you want to edit an image from those stored in Aperture, you right-click on the image & select Edit with Affinity Photo App. Affinity Photo will start with the image loaded & ready to be edited. Then to return the edited image to Aperture for storage, select File > Save - a dialog will appear saying the image contains non-pixel elements - Select Save Flattened to flatten the image before sending it to Aperture. That's it; the edited image will appear in Aperture alongside the original. Hopefully Affinity will soon have its own storage & organization of images so it will no longer be necessary to involve Aperture in this DAM function. But for now at least, I find this to be a very easy & straightforward way to use Aperture with Photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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