summiter Posted November 29, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleckintosh Posted November 29, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted November 29, 2015 Share 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. The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslusers Posted November 29, 2015 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleckintosh Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 @aslusers: I think it all depends on the Picture, which settings are best. Glad to help you out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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