New user - Searching for the perfect workflow in Affinity Photo ;)

[dverleysen]

I'm a Photoshop user and I'm curious about Affinity Photo.

Bought this week Affinity Photo to check if this is something for me.

 

In Photoshop I adjust always a set of ±200 pictures with the same settings (indoor and outdoor sport photos). I create a preset with 'Camera raw' in Photoshop and save this. After that I create an action.

Action is like...:

- Open picture
- Use 'camera raw' preset
- resize picture
- And save picture

How can I create such a workflow in Affinity Photo?

In Photoshop I have a list with presets with different settings, eg. "indoor sports hall 1", "indoor sports hall 2", ... "outdoor ...", ... and i can re-use these presets.

I've already discovered "Develop Persona" (strange name  ) where I can adjust my image and save a preset, but I can not use this preset in a Macro.

 

There's somewhere a nice tutorial that I can follow or this is not yet possible in Affinity Photo?

 

Thanks a lot!

[NotMyFault]

Welcome to the forum.

Unfortunately there is no direct replacement in Affinity Photo for this workflow.

If you want to mass-process 200 images with priority on throughput (not quality), you may use some tricks. Instead of Developing images individually, you could

• create a New Stack, and add lots of RAW images (limit to 20 images initially to avoid issues)
• Affinity will run a simplified RAW conversion (no adjustments possible). 
• Remove the stack
• Then continue to edit the image layers in Photo Persona
• Use self-created LUTS as a way to apply lots of adjustments in one step
• Use Macros to apply filters / adjustments which cannot be materialized in a LUT
• Use Export Persona to mass-export layers

[dverleysen]

@NotMyFaultThanks for the tips, will try to use LUTS