ReVerthex Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I am jumping on this thread with a request as well if I may. Could the Highlights & Shadows sliders in the develop persona affect their respective exposure instead of their levels? It's currently unusable for me if I try to recover the shadows detail and raising it just turns them all into a washed out grey. Thanks :) Hiker214 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hi ReVerthex as this is more of a general feature request than a bug I;m moving this to our feature requests section Quote Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff James Ritson Posted January 10, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 10, 2017 I am jumping on this thread with a request as well if I may. Could the Highlights & Shadows sliders in the develop persona affect their respective exposure instead of their levels? It's currently unusable for me if I try to recover the shadows detail and raising it just turns them all into a washed out grey. Thanks :) Hey, thanks for the suggestion - you are correct, the shadows and highlights adjustments tend to compress tones rather than boost/recover them. In the meantime, if you're interested I can suggest a couple of alternative approaches: 1) Use the Shadows / Highlights filter rather than the adjustment (in the Photo persona). See the Shadows/Highlights video for more info: 2) Remove the default tone curve and bring the highlights slider all the way to the left - this will recover a huge amount of highlight detail and allow you to craft your own tone curve. There's a video called Custom Tone Curve that covers this: Hope that helps! Hofnaar 1 Quote Product Expert (Affinity Photo) & Product Expert Team Leader @JamesR_Affinity for tutorial sneak peeks and more Official Affinity Photo tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReVerthex Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 Thanks James, I am still used to my Photoshop workflow where all detail recovery needs to be done in ACR before tweaking in photoshop, I am not sure how AP handles the raw file after develop so I treat swapping back into the develop persona the same as with Photoshop, where the file is no longer a raw and detail recovery is not as good. For that reason I assumed using the shadows and highlights filter would not yield as good a result as the one in develop. I am glad my finding has been noted though, looking forward to the new beta :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shojtsy Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 I have the same request. Please make the shadows/highlight adjustment in develop recover detail like in many raw processors instead of producing a washed out gray which is unusable. The filter in photo persona can no longer work with the raw data, so it is inferior in any case. I am forced to continue using LR on raw files to have proper shadow/highlight recovery. Krustysimplex, Alexandru Cojocaru and lepr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo_de Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Hi, just to remind: Affinity Designer also suffers from this shadows/highlight adjustment thingy. Guess the same module as in Photo is used ... But thanks for the suggested workaround! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inrumpo Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 +1 for a change. As of now, I need to use another program just for developing raw-files. On 10.1.2017 at 0:11 PM, ReVerthex said: Could the Highlights & Shadows sliders in the develop persona affect their respective exposure instead of their levels? Thanks for your input. I've been asking myself what's "wrong" there. Now I finally know what's going on. And thanks @James Ritson for your workaround. I'm hoping to see some progress here soon (9 months passed by now). Zenon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhh Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Any news or updates on that topic? It would be a huge improvement - because just now it is not possible to use shadows in the raw converter. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenon Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 +1 - I have the same problem and sadly I need to use another program for developing raw-files.. Here you can see a comparison video that makes it clear ... : Problem with Affinity RAW-Converter Hope you guys from Affinity may treat this issue in a future update! Also I noticed that dark images tend to look MUCH DARKER in Affinity Develop than in other RAW converters. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhh Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Any updates on that issue? Affinity Photo is such an impressing piece of software - that is the only thing missing for me. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoMoon Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Yes, there are significant improvments in the latest betas. Check them out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhh Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Thanks! Great news. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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