Affinity Photo consistency

[DJeroen]

Hi All,

 

I am an experienced LR user, with some GIMP experience migrating to AP, reason I say so, I am not a experienced PS user and an AP beginner, so I may miss some of the concepts, however I have observed the following issues, I can do a little help with in my understanding.

 

First AP team great job and product! Keep up the good work, I really like working with AP and comments below are meant in a constructive way.

 

1) Personas, great concept, why is there no Panorama Persona and no Stack Persona? Both develop an image and end up in the Photo Persona, I tried both with RAW files and are unable to use the RAW Persona. I would AP expect to create a Panorama or Stack in RAW for development.

 

2) RAW and Photo Persona, after applying development in RAW and working in the Photo Persona, going back to RAW seems to leave me with the developed picture, my original development settings are visible in the picture, the sliders back to 0. So if I make adjustments I develop an developed RAW.

 

3) Some of the functions are available in different Persona's and menus were others are not, to give some examples:

Photo Persona, perspective correction and distortion filters, great for easy access, I would expect these in the Liquify Persona.

Organisation and grouping of adjustments, filters, live filters and functions, I can not see the logic of how they are grouped. I understand their operations on either pixel layers, adjustment layers, why 2 sets of filter (destructive and non destructive (live)). Not all Filers are Live Filter (or is this part of the road map and fase out destructive filters?)

I fail to understand the order of the live filters in the menu, group picture optimisation and effects (artistic) they seem to be everywhere. What is the difference between the perspective correction on the tool menu and the perspective live filter.

I guess the Layer Adjustments from the Layer menu are the same as from the dialogues on the right side (adjustment tab next to layer tab with the adjustment previews (Cool!) and the icon on the bottom of the dialogue (half B/W circle) the layer effects can only be found in 1 place, next to the adjustments Fx, not even on right click layer......)

 

Last example, there are more.. why is Lighting in the filter menu.....? it is a destructive pixel layer tool and should be in the tool box.

 

I think every user has his view and working and I would opt for a Personal Persona ;-) where one can configure not only the toolbar and the studio but also the top menu options.

 

I understand that Affinity want to make everybody happy but I get the Martini commercial feeling : anytime anyplace anywhere.

 

Cheers,

 

Jeroen

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Leigh]

You’re correct, the Panorama and Stack personas do end up in the Photo persona but these Personas require that you select and open several images before editing. To me, the File menu seems like the best place for these options to be.

 

Adjustments made in the Develop Persona are lost after committing. This is expected behaviour for now. Our developers have plans to include Non destructive develop layers in the future :) More information can be found here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10075-affinity-photo-feature-roadmap/

 

If you feel the app is missing a feature or you have a suggestion that you think will make the better for you and other users, feel free to start a thread in our Feature Request section: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/6-feature-requests/

 

Leigh

[R C-R]

"... why is Lighting in the filter menu.....? it is a destructive pixel layer tool and should be in the tool box."

 

Everything in the Filters menu is destructive (unless you use the snapshot feature & the undo brush).