Affinity Photo Windows first look

[Interlace625]

I use currently use Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements. I am looking for an editor to do the things that I have to leave Lightroom to achieve, mainly complex selections and layers.

 

A first look at Affinity Photo is very interesting. Here are a few observations.

 

1.  On a 24 inch 1920x1080 display the icons and text are a bit small, better at 1600x900.

2.  The files generated on 24 Megapixel images are absolutely ginormous when saved as .afphoto.

3.  In the Develop persona, clicking on a topic such as exposure, both expands the topic to reveal the controls and makes them active. Closing down the topic turns off their effect. Shouldn't the effect be controlled by the tick box?

4.  The last overlay used stays active even when the tool is deselected.

 

 

5. In the Photo persona, when I want to add a Live Effect such as Unsharp Mask, to the top of the layers stack,  it becomes a sublayer of the top layer and has to be "released" to become a layer on it's own. Am I not understanding something?

6.  The Exposure Adjustment has a massive range and it is difficult to make small adjustments.

7.  The Shadows Adjustment just doesn't seem to allow me to expand shadow detail the way Lightroom does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TEcHNOpls]

Hi,

 

take a look at this short video, it should answer most of your questions: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/28434-affinity-photo-windows-example-editing-videos/