NX Studio and Affinity Photo 2

[addisonk]

Asking if someone could offer workflow/settings to process Raw file from NX import for processing in Affinity Photo 2. Thanks in advance.

[Dan C]

Hi @addisonk,

I haven't personally used NX Studio, however looking at their online helpfile, it seems possible to both export your edited image to a format for further editing in Affinity Photo 2 or connect Affinity Photo 2 directly as an external editor.

You can export your image from NX Studio to JPEG or TIFF and then open this within Affinity Photo 2 for further editing.

Alternatively, you can follow the below instructions to add Affinity Photo 2 as an external editor from within NX Studio - 

https://nikonimglib.com/nxstdo/onlinehelp/en/11_preference_09.html

If you're having trouble adding Affinity Photo 2 to this list, please do let me know

[addisonk]

Thanks Dan. I already have Affinity linked in NX Studio as you helpfully illustrated with the link. Also I am now exporting as a TIFF which works for me. My issue (which I should have described more accurately) is when I an image from NX into Affinity, the tones, saturation etc. is totally off for the raw file. I work in Adobe RGB across camera and software. I’m puzzled as to why Affinity doesn’t replicate the raw accurately.

[Ron P.]

What might be happening is the NX Studio is using some Picture Controls which are settings/presets, the camera manufacturers place in cameras, and are generally read only by the proprietary software. Canon does the same with their Digital Photo Professional software. It can read the various settings like Camera Faithful, Landscape, ect. Adobe Lightroom does read those settings for Canon anyway. Those presets/settings give a starting point for developing/processing RAW files. Affinity does not see those. So those can have an affect on what you're seeing or not, when you open or pass off RAW files to AP.

[addisonk]

Very interesting Ron…makes absolute sense when I see the exported image in the develop persona. It would be interesting to hear a response/ comment from Serif regarding this. Rather than opening my NX import file through the link, for now, I’ll use the export to tiff and then open the file in Affinity. Thanks. Makes the SOOC Fuji folks look good 😊

[Dan C]

2 hours ago, addisonk said:

My issue (which I should have described more accurately) is when I an image from NX into Affinity, the tones, saturation etc. is totally off for the raw file. I work in Adobe RGB across camera and software. I’m puzzled as to why Affinity doesn’t replicate the raw accurately.

Thanks for confirming that for me! As Ron has mentioned above, this will simply be due to Nikon applying selective adjustments to your RAW file automatically, based on their proprietary software and knowledge of their own cameras.

Unfortunately as Affinity Photo does not have access to the same proprietary data, the representation of the RAW file may appear differently between the applications.

I hope this clears things up

[addisonk]

It does Dan. Thanks