John2755 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I have been a Lightroom user for years and am very new to Affinity, (less than 1 week). The first question that occurs to me is this. Will Affinity be able to recognise an Adobe DNG file and reproduce the imputted settings. As an open source format this should be possible? Also, can Affinity work with RAW files with XMP sidecar files to reproduce the settings from Lightroom. With years of work all backed up in these formats if Affinity were to become my main editing tool this becomes vitally important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelling Man Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Remember Affinity is not a good raw converter and it is not a DAM. It is not a replacement for LR an is not intended to be. It is much more akin to PS but with an inferior RAW converter. All that said, it is an amazing piece of software and especially so given that it is so young. It has a very bright future and when they bring out their own LR equivalent it will be brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John2755 Posted May 3, 2016 Author Share Posted May 3, 2016 Thankyou Travelling Man, I agree with all you say, I must admit, I must admit my first impressions are very favourable, I think I am still at the point of working out exactly where it fits into my workflow and maybe need to explore it further. I must admit I was first attracted to it as an alternative to PS rather than LR and in that respect it wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad2k Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I uses AP almost exclusively now, instead of Photoshops, to handle layers, compositing, and pixel level edits that LR can't handle. I use LR as the cataloguer and raw processor. Once I have done everything I can in LR, I use the "Edit in" function in LR to work on a TIF in Affinity. I then use the Document -> Flatten menu option, followed by File -> Save and File-> Close to get the changes to show in LR. My only wish is that Affinity could use an adobe psd format to pass back to LR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tstarlit Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I work just like Conrad2 describes above. However, when I return to LR, I don't see the updates I made in AP. On file level, the changes are visible, but I see no update in LR. LR seems to point to the right file (the xxx-edit.tif) but still shows the old, unedited version of the file. How do I get the update across? I have tried an LR restart. No change. I also tried going over all the settings, but I see nothing wrong. Thanks, Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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