About the Developing&photo persona and raw files

[cmb95]

Hello fellow affinity users,

 

I was using Capture One as a RAW Developer and since I am using Affinity Photo as well I was wondering about the following:

 

When using C1 it always used the raw data as you draw layers right on the raw output.

 

My question is, does affinity use any of the advantages of having a raw file once it has been developed and you left the develop persona and edit in photo persona?

Since I am usually not doing too much in the dev persona I might as well stop shooting raw and save tons of storage if there are no advantages beyond the developing persona.

 

Also, what exactly happens when going from the photo persona back to the developing persona and you redevelop it? will you start from scratch?

 

I hope my question aren't too dumb or answered anywhere else

 

Thanks in advance!

[stokerg]

Hi cmb95 and Welcome to the Forums,

 

There are a number of reasons to shoot in RAW and not JPG.  You'll normally find if you shoot in just JPG then the camera will carry out some of its own processing of the image which can then make further editing a little harder, as the image has already had some colour correction and other stuff done to it by the camera.  With RAW, you are catching and storing all of the data from the cameras senor which allows for much better editing results, as you are working with the what was actually captured by the camera and not working with a processed JPG.  @James Ritson has given a good insight to his workflow with the Develop Persona in this thread.  

 

As once you leave the Develop Persona any edits you've made are applied to the image.  So if you then go back to Develop you are passing the image back with the 1st set of Develop edits applied but the sliders in Develop will have been reset.