hedrickbk Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I hate to compare Affinity Photo to Photoshop, but I have found a couple of issues that need more flexibility: 1. The chromatic aberration tool in develop is very weak. This needs to be developed further to allow user input to adjust the strength of the application of chromatic aberration reduction. I have a number of photos of the supermoon where the tool makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. If there is another tool or layer that can correct chromatic aberration, I have not found it. Photoshop is able to remove almost all of the very strong chromatic aberration from these files. 2. Is appears that Affinity Photo does not recognize the same dynamic range in my Canon 70D RAW files as Photoshop does. I can tease a lot more dynamic range out of RAW files using the highlights/shadows sliders in Photoshop than I can in Affinity. I have also tried using curves, and can still get more from Photoshop. While some of this may be attributable to my greater experience with PS, when I have tried to do direct comparisons with just the sliders, I can still get more out of PS. I still think Affinity has tremendous promise and is more powerful in some ways than PS. I'm still learning a lot about Affinity Photo and am finding a lot that I like, I particularly like that I can work in different color spaces in separate layers. I do a lot of work in Lab, but often need to go back to RGB for finishing touches. PS makes me flatten the image when moving between color spaces, and therefore locking in my Lab adjustments. Great work so far! Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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