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[Radio]

I am looking to move from light room to affinity but it appears that I have to individually open singular files with lr I can see all the raw files at the bottom can this be don in APhoto?

 

[MEB]

Hi Radio,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

No, you can't display/view libraries within Affinity Photo (other than using the Media Browser on Mac the version only which is a basic browser not comparable to a full DAM app like Lightroom).

Lightroom is both a DAM (digital assets manager) and a RAW converter/developer while Affinity Photo is a RAW converter/developer and a photo editing app. It's more comparable to Adobe Camera RAW + Photoshop than Lightroom. As such It doesn't manage libraries (rating, tagging etc), photo sets or apply the same settings to multiples photos among other things as Lightroom does. We do intend to develop a DAM app later but it will still take quite some time until it's ready.

[Radio]

Thank for the reply I have just downloaded the free trial for 10 days so will keep playing and learning but I find it hard work and time consuming on single photos.  So I will probably stay with LR.

 

[John Rostron]

You can cofigure Lightroom to open your files as an external editor. Use te LR Preferences. Then you can use LR as your DAM, with your multiple files visible aong the bottom, whilst usinf AP to edit them. LR should give you the option of editing your original RAW file, or editing a copy with any changes that LR has made.

When you have finished your edit in AP, you can save as an .afphoto file or export as .png, .tif or .jpg. You will need to re-import these into LR should you wish. 

I do not think that LR will recognize the .afphoto file. Perhaps someone could update me on that.

 

John

[Radio]

I’m just testing this program but it’s not looking good is I don’t have the time for all these problems 

[IanSG]

4 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

You can cofigure Lightroom to open your files as an external editor. 

That should be "open your files with an external editor"

6 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

Then you can use LR as your DAM, with your multiple files visible aong the bottom, whilst usinf AP to edit them.

John

True, but get your copy of AP from the Affinity Store if you plan to do this - apps bought via the MS Store operate within a sandbox which (so far) prevents them being used in the way described.

[MEB]

15 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

I do not think that LR will recognize the .afphoto file. Perhaps someone could update me on that.

 

No, Lightroom (or any other app) doesn't recognise afphoto files (it's a closed format).

[Radio]

Then I may as well just stay with LR as buy another editor

[IanSG]

48 minutes ago, MEB said:

 

No, Lightroom (or any other app) doesn't recognise afphoto files (it's a closed format).

XnViewMP is able to display a reasonable sized thumbnail - is there an embedded JPEG?

[MEB]

Yes, it's just an embedded thumbnail/preview. A few other Mac apps are also able to display it.

[Wikinger]

10 minutes ago, IanSG said:

XnViewMP est capable d'afficher une miniature de taille raisonnable - y a-t-il un JPEG intégré?

Bonsoir.

J'utilise XnView ,  il est très complet. Les données exif sont très nombreuses.

On peut ouvrir Affinity depuis XnView.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, MEB said:

Yes, it's just an embedded thumbnail/preview. A few other Mac apps are also able to display it.

Is that dependent on this preference setting?