Riegal Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 The tutorial "HDR merging" has you change the "RAW output format" from 16 bit to 32 bit to process process one image as an HDR photo. When done, of course the RAW output format remains at 32 bit. Before processing more photos, not HDR just regular photos, should Affinity be changed back to 16 bit? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 If you load a RAW image into Photo and then promote it to 32 bits for your HDR work, the original RAW file is unaffected. So, if you finish your HDR processing, export your HDR image and close your RAW file then, next time you load your RAW file it will be in its original state. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Riegal. If you're asking whether you should set the Develop Assistant back to RGB (16 bit) when you no longer want 32-bit output, yes. The Develop Assistant will remember the last mode you used, and continue to use that mode until you change it. Riegal and John Rostron 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riegal Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminitiger Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 If you change the raw output format from 16bit to 32bit HDR then you can also edit in the main Photo Persona with the same bit depth as you did in Develop. I read this on a post on YouTube, is this correct? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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