Amadeus47 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 I've seen this topic in earlier questions and am having the same problem. The only solution I see is turning off the "Apply Tone Curve and/or "Exposure Bias" in Development Manager. These actions didn't work. I have a Canon 80D and shoot RAW + JPEG. I also read that there may be a problem with Picture Style Settings in the camera, but the answers were vague. My camera is set to Auto for picture style. If I open a RAW file in Canon DPP software or on my desktop with windows the picture appears with normal exposure, but in Affinity it is much darker. I have to increase the exposure on the tools palette between 1.0 and 1.8 to have the picture be close in exposure to the files opened in other applications or the JPEG. If anyone knows a fix for this, it would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Owner of 80D here, too. There is no fix. Changes Development Assistant „Exposure Bias“ to „Take no action“ is key factor. Apply tone curve should stay active, otherwise images will look dull. If you need consistent results, especially batch processing multiple images, use DPP. It’s UI is dated, performance is slow, but the results are the benchmark and superior to Affinity in some aspects (CA, lens correction for canon lenses, ability to get identical grading to in-camera jpegs combined with ability to export in far higher image quality as TGB/16 tiff with wider color gamut). Affinity is fine when these aspect do not matter: consistency across multiple images (using recipes and apply then to multiple images) consistency to Canon picture style consistency to „auto“ settings (i doubt Affinity will do the same kind of auto) Dual pixel optimization Digital Lens optimization (sharpening specific to a lens and focus distance) Of course, after RAW development, export as tiff/16 and do all remaining edits in Affinity. Combining DPP and Affinity will give the optimal result. When processing multiple images, the batch processing feature and recipes will even save time despite using two apps. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.