Paul Hendren Posted March 18, 2021 Posted March 18, 2021 I'm a sports shooter who has recently purchased Affinity with the hope of replacing Lightroom. I'm learning the ropes today. Given the nature of my photography I will be importing several hundred RAW images at a time. How do I accomplish this? Please share all resources with respect to importing and organizing on the fly. Eventually I hope to introduce Photo Mechanics to my work flow. Thanks Paul Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 18, 2021 Posted March 18, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Affinity Photo is not a Lightroom replacement. It is a photo editor and RAW file developer that is better suited for one image at a time. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
Paul Hendren Posted March 18, 2021 Author Posted March 18, 2021 Thanks Walt. This came about when I graduated to a new desk top and discovered that my licence for Lighroom 5 was only designated for my laptop. Adobe informed me that I would need to purchase a second licence at $140 for the desktop. I have been looking at replacements for Lightroom to edit large batches of RAW images. Although I'm a sports shooter I do like other photography as I use a Ricoh GR2 for street photos. Playing with Affinity todsy , I see your point. It is a fairly tedius (but decent) editor. I'm not sure if it could handle my workload after games. Quote
PeterRex Posted March 18, 2021 Posted March 18, 2021 Another option for RAW editing is Acdsee. I've used Lighroom and Capture One before, but I am now quite happy with Acdsee Photo Studio Professional. You can easily throw hundreds of RAWs at it and develop them in no time. Quote
Greyfox Posted March 19, 2021 Posted March 19, 2021 10 hours ago, PeterRex said: Another option for RAW editing is Acdsee.. +1 I've been using ACDSee for around 8 years, currently on ACDSee Ultimate 2021. Can call Affinity Photo as external editor from manage mode. Quote Intel i7-10700 Gen10 CPU, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6GB Windows 10 Pro 22H2, 1x 1TB M.2 NVMe, 1 x 2TB M.2 NVMe. Affinity APh, APu, ADe
Paul Hendren Posted March 19, 2021 Author Posted March 19, 2021 Thanks Guys for the recommendation. I have downloaded the free trial of ACDsee and it looks quite good. I need to put it through the paces with some RAW images. I'm wondering if anyone has used it in conjunction with Photo Mechanic? Quote
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