summiter Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Dear Affinity People, I'm not proficient in using your software- yet. But I can't get Affinity Photo Beta to get the tonal gradations easily achieved in PhotoNinja. I tried replicating in Affinity what I can easily achieve in 1 minute in PN. See the attached files. I'm sure there is functionality in AP that can soften the highlights, and reveal detail better than I've done- but after almost 5 minutes of trying, I gave up. In the attached files I couldn't adjust the highlights to get even close to those in the PN example- and the purple fringing along the back of the man's shirt has got to go. I'm sure you'll get there eventually, but I hope sooner rather than later. Fuji has very difficult RAW files to get right. I love AP, and hope that soon I can make it my program of choice for my X-T1 and A-E1. Thanks! Dex
fleckintosh Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Hey Dex! I had to struggle too. But in the End i found some settings, that were very pleasing to me. Leading to BETTER results than Photo Ninja. PN is very good in sharpening, but does some weird things with colors. I don't like it... Try the following settings and save it as a Standard Setting: (I use the german translation) As a Standard, I use Adobe RGB - in Generell App Settings. In Lens Correction: check "reduce Chromatic Aberrations" (AF will do automatically) and "reduce color fringing" and save as a preset. In Details: Radius 5% Intensity 100% Luminance 0% Colors 150% Details 100% Contribution 100% Save this as a preset. Affinity Photo has indeed a very good RAW Converter, i think. You'll have to do this settings once and can apply this to other images as standard settings. cheers, fleckintosh paolo.limoncelli 1
paolo.limoncelli Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Thanks for your settings fleckintosh! I own an XE2 and these work like a charm. @summiter For highlights recovery I find very useful to turn off gamma correction and re-create a tone curve. DAUB® Brushes making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers
aslusers Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Thanks for sharing, fleckintosh! It took me a few frustrating attempts to come up with my preferred settings. Here is what I have been using: In Details: Radius 6% Intensity 73% Luminance57% Colors 41% Details 37% Contribution 100% I find the biggest difference between your settings and mine is the effect of luminance. If I set it to 0, i have a ton of noise. 57% or around there, usually takes care of noise for most film speeds. If I get way up there, 3200, 6400, I need to up this percentage to keep out the noise. I really have no idea what "details" and "contribution" settings do - I just played around until I liked the appearance. Does anyone else have any settings they could share?
fleckintosh Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 @aslusers: I think it all depends on the Picture, which settings are best. Glad to help you out!
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