True HDR Monitor support?

[Maxbe]

Recently Lightroom introduced the support for tue HDR monitors.

This feature has been quite well explained in the video below

Now the queston is: what about AP? Is this mode already supported in some way? If not, will it be supported  in next releases?
 

[Xzenor]

I'm not sure I follow..... Affinity Photo has had support for HDR quite a while now but I cannot imagine that Lightroom did not have that support yet..

[Maxbe]

3 minutes ago, Xzenor said:

I'm not sure I follow..... Affinity Photo has had support for HDR quite a while now but I cannot imagine that Lightroom did not have that support yet..

I understand that this argument may be a little confusing: the support to build HDR images (i.e. using differently exposed images), which of course is well already supported by AP,  and supporting HDR monitors are two totally different things (take a look at the video).

[Xzenor]

I know.. but Affinity does support HDR monitors..

If you enable the 32Bit preview panel you can just tag the EDR (Mac) or HDR (Windows) checkbox to enable HDR view and make use of the HDR capabilities of your display.

EDIT: Sidenote.. On windows you have to enable HDR in your windows settings first before the checkbox becomes available. Kind of annoying but that's just how it works.. Windows itself looks off in HDR mode so it's not something you want to have turned on constantly.

[Maxbe]

2 minutes ago, Xzenor said:

I know.. but Affinity does support HDR monitors..

If you enable the 32Bit preview panel you can just tag the EDR (Mac) or HDR (Windows) checkbox to enable HDR view and make use of the HDR capabilities of your display.

Perfect! Thanks!

This is exactly what I was seraching for

Have a nice day!

Maxbe

[Xzenor]

You're welcome.

Here's an Affinity video for working with HDR.

 

[James Ritson]

Hey @Maxbe, the Affinity apps have had EDR/HDR display support for quite a while, since 2017/2018 if memory serves. It may be worth watching this tutorial (available in HDR of course 😉) as it will cover the different scenarios for authoring HDR images, e.g. bracketed exposure merging, single exposure processing and other non-photographic workflows: