Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Staff Posted December 12, 2015 Hello all, Just thought I'd post up this little preview video of one of the features which will become available in Affinity Photo Beta sometime early next year - 32bit HDR editing mode! https://s3.amazonaws.com/affinity-beta/download/HDR+Preview.mov Andy. Paul Bravery, A_B_C, MacGueurle and 13 others 16
Jonas14 Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Andy, I'm very excited! Looks very interesting!! I wish you peaceful Christmas and an equally successful 2016!!! Joachim www.donath-photographie.eu
anon1 Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 So do you always use 32bit to store the color values in the back? Otherwise they would have gotten clipped after the 8bit conversion?!
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 12, 2015 Yep - the 32bit mode composites in unbounded floating point space - so even if one layer makes a pixel "clipped", a subsequent layer can bring it back :) Andy. ronnyb, Paul Bravery and achilles177 3
MikeFromMesa Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Very nice. I use HDR frequently so I am really looking forward to this. You have had a great 2015. May you have an equally great 2016. MattP 1
anon1 Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 So if I use a "too strong" levels adjustment and clip (I hope it´s the right word) the whites and then adjust the exposure later on (bring it down), the whites detail will come back? That sounds good cause I questioned myself just recently if it would be better to use levels adjustment in an early or a late stage of image manipulation....your solution would erase that question :)
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 12, 2015 Precisely :) It will also be useful for RAW develop - because anything clipped when you commit from Develop Persona can be recovered / tweaked later on using normal adjustment layers.. Andy. ronnyb and anon1 2
csp Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 but how are the benefits kept when we output to 8 / 16 bit files ?
anon1 Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Why would you capture RAW files with more than 8bit? The benefit is during the working process...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 12, 2015 The benefits are not kept when exporting to 8/16bit - but you don't need to! As well as being able to keep the .afphoto file, we are also adding import / export support for OpenEXR and JPEG-XR - both of which can store 32bit unbounded. Thanks, Andy.
ronnyb Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Quite amazing! Great work Andy! 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1
Paekke Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 The benefits are not kept when exporting to 8/16bit - but you don't need to! As well as being able to keep the .afphoto file, we are also adding import / export support for OpenEXR and JPEG-XR - both of which can store 32bit unbounded. Thanks, Andy. OpenEXR - I hope this means that you'll support import of OpenEXR as well :)
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 12, 2015 Yes, both import and export :D A Sven Kalkschmidt and Paekke 2
ronnyb Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Andy, will the native Affinity file formats (.afdesign, .afphoto, etc) support 32-bit HDR, or only via import and export of OpenEXR format files? Yes, both import and export :D A 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 12, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 12, 2015 .afdesign and .afphoto are the same format - just with different names - and they will both support 32-bit HDR completely :) A Paekke 1
Nana Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 Hi Andy, What about the macro persona? Will it make it way back into photo in 2016?
ronnyb Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 Great that's what i was hoping to hear... What an amazing format you guys have developed! Adoblow™ — your days are numbered! .afdesign and .afphoto are the same format - just with different names - and they will both support 32-bit HDR completely :) A 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1
rui_mac Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 Can I post this demo video in my facebook page to show my friends how Affinity Photo is/will be so amazing?
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 13, 2015 Author Staff Posted December 13, 2015 Of course rui_mac! Andy. rui_mac 1
Metin Seven Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 Great! Eagerly awaiting this update. Really useful for 3D render passes, such as Keyshot's 32-bit EXR depth pass. visualization • illustration • animation • 3D design — metinseven.nl
rui_mac Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 I guess I will be doing more 32 bit multipass renders in Cinema 4D :)
kirk23 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 I'd love to work with 32 render passes too . Only problem Photo needs a few tools from node based Fusion and Nuke to make any advantages from that. Or at least a kind of "formula" driven layers and masks where I could use output of certain layer group as a mask for another layer . Photo ability to do that are extremely limited. Not even at Photoshop level comparing with its clipping groups feature appeared in cs6. .
killwilly Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 I find all of the tutorials impressive, but why move the curser so quickly, please slow down a bit.
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