PaulhR Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 First-time poster, completely new to photo editing, totally new to AP, pretty new to photography. I really only processed this scene to see if I liked Affinity Photo and whether or not I could get my head around it. The video tutorials are excellent and laid out in a very logical manner. I must commend you guys on the work that has gone into them. I didn't use 'Develop Persona' for this as I hadn't done those tutorials then....I have since discovered how powerful 'develop' and overlays are though...amazing. The original photos (3 of them were bracketed +/- .6 ev) and were taken on a Nikon d90 with a 18-105mm lens. I used HDR merge, inpainted the tourists, bins, shoppers, bikes, benches and bollards, out of the foreground and mid ground. I used selective masks to retrieve blown out detail and saturate some of the brick tones, defringed and added a final adjustment to overall brightness contrast and a little overall adjustment to final exposure. I am not an artist, I am not even particularly creative...but I was amazed at this software. The export function was very slick too, processing a 230MB Affinity Photo down to 2.2mb with the slider set to 80%. Oh and it took me less than an hour on my iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017. I have now purchased Affinity Photo ... I just love it. Chris B, Monseg, stokerg and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Welcome to the forum PaulhR. The image looks great and it sounds like you did a lot of work on it. Would it be possible to show the original photos? They don't have to be high-res but something to show people what you've done. I'm not a digital artist myself but I like seeing what creative people can make out of other stuff. It often inspires me to try things for myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulhR Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Sure can...here is a jpg from the original mid-range exposure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Hi PaulhR and welcome to the forum. It's all a matter of taste. IMHO HDR software is too little used for what it is intended initially. And personally, I'm not a fan of that unnatural generated look. I took the liberty to process your mid-range exposure. And .. as I said it's just a matter of taste. This is the result .... Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulhR Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Hey Hubert, thanks for your comments... its funny looking at my original again, I found a colour casting on it I didn't like...unnatural and yellowish. I added a LUT adjustment (Fuji Velvia 50) and it seemed better. Had a look at your website at the link you included in your post...wow. Some amazing images there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 White balance and sky enhancements Just a few steps .... https://vimeo.com/241863843 Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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