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I have an old DSLR which puts out CR2 raw files. I'm using an even older Nikkor.55 Macro. I'm usually shooting straight down on a object, and always horizontal. Sometimes my image comes into the develop persona horizontally and sometimes they come in vertically. It seems there isn't a way to rotate the image 90 degrees in the develop persona and this makes it difficult to work with the image. I like cropping in develop since I can go back and change it. I know I can rotate it in the photo persona, but that seems to then lose the connection with the raw state in develop. It seems the rotation and the cropping in the photo persona are destructive so when I go back to the develop persona, it appears I'm working on a different image even if I've done those things to a copy of the original.

I'm new at this program. I worked in lightroom until adobe killed my copy. I do lots of cropping and messing around with the photos until they look right. Then I'll go back and do it again if I want a different look. Affinity Photo 2 seems a perfect match if I can ever figure out how to keep from messing up my original file and keep the connection between what I've done in develop with what I've doe in photo.

 

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You can activate the document rotate tool in develop persona by customizing the toolbar. Unfortunately it is not visible by default. 

crop is non-destructive in all Personas. Rotating a document has absolutely no impact to file size or export quality, and rotation can be adjusted any time and as often as you want.

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30 minutes ago, kking said:

Affinity Photo 2 seems a perfect match if I can ever figure out how to keep from messing up my original file and keep the connection between what I've done in develop with what I've doe in photo.

Affinity never touches a RAW file. Everything is stored in a separate .afphoto file.

You have several choices before clicking „Develop“. Only using bitmap layers as target is destructive. Embedded or linked layers are non-destructive and can be re-edited any time later.

But when you start to add further edits in Photo, it might become impractical to re-edit in develop persona as both edits don’t match any more. E.g. if you add a layer and paint over an area with a matching color, changing exposure of RAW will produce different colors so both layers do not match in color any more.

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Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080

LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K

iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589

Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps.

I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.

 

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1 hour ago, kking said:

I have an old DSLR which puts out CR2 raw files. I'm using an even older Nikkor.55 Macro....

Same here, but I also have an up to date Canon Macro lens and get the same problem. Depending on your camera you may have the ability to set it to always have Landscape orientation. I had set that for my 60D and was frustrated by not being able to have portraits be oriented correctly anymore. So check your camera's settings, there is a flag for the orientation that gets set and is determined by the camera. If your camera is really old it may not be there.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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