Opening RAW pictures from Apple Photos

[Haeckse]

Hello all,

When I right-click on a RAW picture in Apple Photos and choose "Edit with Affinity Photo" it opens in Affinity's Photo Persona instead of the Developer Persona, where it then appears as a *.tiff file.

Is there a way to get Apple Photos to pass unprocessed RAW files to the Developer Persona instead of converting them into TIFF?

Cheers,
Andrea

[markw]

Open the RAW file in Apple Photos as if you were going to Edit it in Apple Photos.
At the top right of Apple Photos’s Edit window is an ‘…’ click this and choose; ‘Edit In Affinity Photo’.
That should bring it directly into Affinity Photo’s Develop Persona.

[Haeckse]

@markw, yay, that's the trick. Thank you! 😊 

[Nick Read]

I've a slightly different experience - I've just treated myself to the new iPhone 15 Pro Max. The 48 mp raw camera setting is very impressive - until, that is, you  open it in Affinity Photo where it presents as lacklustre and muddy upon opening. Open it as a Tiff and you've got the same rich colours and sharpness as the original DNG. The obvious answer is: well leave it at that then - but I'm curious as to why the expected better setting in Raw is so disappointing. I'm running a Mac mini M2 pro with 32gb  Mac OS Sonoma 14.1.2 + the Studio Monitor - on paper this shouldn't give me any problems at all.

 

Cheers

 

Nick

[Haeckse]

Hi @Nick Read,

Maybe this is due to "Apply tone curve" and/or "Exposure correction" is not enabled in the assistant's settings of the RAW persona, which would result in a rather flat picture then.

Cheers,

Andrea

 

[Haeckse]

I just checked with the manual, as it seems, the "automatic exposure adjustment" setting has actually no impact on the pictures exposure, but rather it is more about setting ranges derrived from EXIF data:

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Exposure bias: Choose whether to apply exposure bias value if stored in the raw image's EXIF data. Like Histogram stretch, both 'default' and 'initial' give the same results but reports zeroed or actual values, respectively. The 'Take no action' option ignores the exposure bias value.

So, the most important thing is the "automatic tonal adjustment (curves)" which effectively changes the tonal distribution of the picture.

Cheers,

Andrea