rhmb Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Some things never change .... or maybe the saying is, change is inevitable, progress is not: Affinity photo 1.8.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecil Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Catalina prior fault, now I guess Big Slur? Quote Cecil iMac Retina 5K, 27”, 2019. 3.6 GHz Intel Core 9, 40 GB Memory DDR4, Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB, macOS,iPad Pro iPadOS Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGB Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Interesting, For the first time the "edit in Affinity Photo" seems to work properly with my RAW-files. I can open, edit and save back to Photos. I am using 1.8.6 with Big Sur. For jpeg's I got this error too, but after I flattened the file in Affinity, it worked ok. So there is a begin of a smile for me I do have some problems though with the other extensions using RAW-files. (see my other post on this matter), They seem not to work, or at least show curious behavior, that I cannot explain yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhmb Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 12 hours ago, MacGB said: For the first time the "edit in Affinity Photo" seems to work properly with my RAW-files I did attempt an edit of a raw file with the "Edit in ..." extension and it did work ok. I am still on Catalina, however. I also attempted to "develop" a raw file using the Affinity Develop extension. Unfortunately, that results in the all too familiar "Unable to edit with Affinity Develop" message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGB Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hello RHMB, I did already post (the wrong way I guess) a few hours ago, Hence this new attempt: The "Edith with Affinity Develop" stopped working "ages" ago. (If I remember correctly, with the introduction of version 1.7). I disabled this one a time ago , also because it's limitations add nothing special to what Photo's can do in the meantime. Lots more possibilities for that matter. Of course I tried with this new version, but it simply doesn't work for RAW, as you noticed. Glad the extension "edit in Affinity" does work for you as well. I find this one much more valuable if I want to use layer or other advanced functionality. However using this option has, to me, one big disadvantage. If you save back your RAW-edits to Photo's, and like to continue afterwards were you left it isn't possible. When you re-open the file from Photo's, Affinity will start again wit the original RAW, without any edits. So you have to start over again, the history is gone ! Other apps like RawPower, and f.e.On1 keep the history, so you can pick-up where you left. Due to the way apps and Apple Photo's work this is limited anyway. If you like there is a very interesting article by Nik Bhatt https://tidbits.com/2019/06/14/the-ins-and-outs-of-non-destructive-editing-in-photos-for-mac-and-ios/ Ben rhmb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhmb Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 Hi Ben, Edit in Affinity does work for me, sometimes. It is, however, too unreliable and I am never quite sure if my edits are going to save or not. I had great hopes for Affinity working with Apple Photos to replace Lightroom but I eventually tired of its capriciousness. The fact that it doesn't even recognize its own edits when I re-opened the image in Edit in Affinity (jpg or raw) was the last straw. I moved on to On1 almost a year ago. It does almost everything Affinity does (raw, layers, masks, panorama, etc) plus has a very good DAM. For me, it replaces Lightroom and Elements. I rarely use Affinity but it is there if I need it. I too found Nik Bhatt's article to be very interesting. In fact, by coincidence, I posted a link to the same article on the On1 community forum just yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGB Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 👍. Just stopped using on1 😉, great UI, far more easy then Affinity, but rather slow and also quite some problems with BigSur I understand. I stick to the DAM from Photos. The combination of RawPower, Photo’s and occasionally Affinity works for me. Every body has a workflow that suites him best I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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