detail refinement

[STA11223344]

Hi, 

HI, After a windows update yesterday, my affinity photo has stopped saving detail refinement. it just reverts to the original. 
Over and over

 

[Dan C]

Hi @STA11223344,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums & sorry to hear you're having trouble!

I'm not seeing the same issue here currently and I'm unsure how a Windows update could have affected the Affinity app in this regard.

Therefore I'd like to request a screen recording showing the exact steps you're taking, and the issue you're reporting so that I can investigate this further. Can you please attach a copy of this recording here for me?

If you're unsure how to take a screen recording, please check out our FAQ linked below - 

Many thanks in advance

[STA11223344]

Hi Dan, Typically when i record it isn't quite as obvious. BUt i just did this as extreme changes of 100% detail refinement to try and make it clearer. After it saved, this time it had changed a bit, but all morning reverting to original. but still this time, not as crisp as the details i'd set using detail refinement.

[Dan C]

Thanks for providing that for me!

Affinity uses Mipmaps to display the canvas at zoom levels that are not 100% - which can sometimes change the way edits are perceived across the image, such as Sharpness.

In the Develop Persona, please view the image at 100% zoom (CTRL + 1) when applying your Sharpening. Then after developing the image, view the document again at 100% zoom and you should see the same amount of detail refinement is applied. When viewing the image at 100%, this will be rendered the same as the exported  image to JPEG, TIFF, PNG etc.

I hope this clears things up

[STA11223344]

Hi Dan, thanks for your help! Can i just check then. When I open a crisp photo into affinity photo direct from the sd card  it seems to have reduced the focus/details.
What is the correct protocol for getting the image to be nice and crisp again?
I usually make all the basic image edits in RAW, and then find that the image isn't crisp so go back into develop mode and play with the  detail refinement.

I know the original image is crisp on the camera, but when it  opens in affinity it's really flkuffy. I'm working on artwork reproduction so it needs to be super crisp and i feel like there's a missing part of teh puzzle somewhere i'm not getting.

[walt.farrell]

36 minutes ago, STA11223344 said:

When I open a crisp photo into affinity photo direct from the sd card  it seems to have reduced the focus/details.

When you're evaluating the Details in the Develop Persona, and changing those settings, are you at 100% Zoom as Dan suggested? That's really the key.

[STA11223344]

I guess what i mean is why do the images appear to be out of focus when then are in RAW? and what's the best way to correct this?

 

[NotMyFault]

RAW images contain an embedded jpeg for preview, generated by the Camera with default settings, thus applying sharpening, tone curves and other enhancements.

Develop Persona shows the actual RAW data, and depending on Development Assistant settings, only tone Curve and white balance, but never sharpening.

This explains most rendering differences.