Stein Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 I have been a Lightroom user for several years, but since I now shoot more and more equirectangular 360 panoramas, I have found the software seriously limited. So, yesterday I bought Affinity Photo after seeing some of the great instructional videos on their Youtube channel. Many of my 360 images are part of virtual tours, which means a lot of images will require exactly the same edits. In Lightroom, I can synchronise the settings of selected images or copy the settings of the previously opened image to the next by the click of a button. Are there any similar functions in Affinity Photo? Thanks for taking time to read this! http://steinarnejensen.blogspot.no/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 You can create Presets for Adjustments and just apply the Preset to each Image. Stein 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein Posted May 27, 2018 Author Share Posted May 27, 2018 (edited) Thanks for your reply firstdefence. Am I right if I assume you have to make separate presets for white balance (your first screenshot), then similar presets for each other adjustment - or can I (this is what I am hoping for!) make a single preset that includes absolutely everything that has been done to the image, or even better - let me choose which edits to include in the preset? If yes to the last option, is there a video somewhere showing how to do it? Again, thanks a lot for your time and effort! Stein Edited May 27, 2018 by Stein typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 The best way to make a group of adjustments is to use the Develop Persona. You can make several adjustments at once (including White Balance) and save them as a single preset. Use the Basic panel for most adjustments. Once done, use the burger menu on the Basic panel and "Add Preset" to create a preset with all those adjustments. It will prompt you for a name. Select that from the Preset: menu to apply. Edit. I also like having all the sliders in one panel. Stein and firstdefence 1 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 But, correct me if I'm wrong, what if you have also made LENS, DETAIL, TONAL adjustments! Then a separate preset must be defined for each panel! For JPEG shots ,in Photo Persona, once all adjustments are made you could group them en copy/paste that group onto an other image !!! firstdefence 1 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...
toltec Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 19 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said: But, correct me if I'm wrong, what if you have also made LENS, DETAIL, TONAL adjustments! Then a separate preset must be defined for each panel! For JPEG shots ,in Photo Persona, once all adjustments are made you could group them en copy/paste that group onto an other image !!! Yes, I did say "a group of adjustments". You might have to make two or three presets, but it's still very fast to apply. If you did that from several adjustments in the Photo Persona, there would be a huge bunch of unwieldy layers to copy and paste. Lots of layers is not always good. In addition, there are distortion and rotation adjustments in the Develop Persona that are much better (or much easier to achieve) than in the Photo Persona. I'm a big fan of the Develop Persona. A very fast way of making 95% of initial adjustments. The other good thing is, all the adjustment sliders are in one place for easy "tweaking". How long would it take to work through several adjustment layers in a group of layers ? Stein 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 It seems I can't do everything I want in Develop Persona (incl. dehaze) and recorded Macros doesn't allow Develop Persona sets to be included. So - would it, after all, be better to start to record every setting in Photo persona and then to continue to add filters etc. while still recording, in order to get as close to a "click one button" solution as possible? ... or am I right to assume that Affinity Photo maybe isn't a straightforward Lightroom replacement for making equal edits to large series of photos? http://steinarnejensen.blogspot.no/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Affinity Photo isn't a Lightroom replacement Period! Lightroom is a Digital Asset Manager (DAM), Affinity Photo is not, so you can't really compare them. Stein 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 30, 2018 Hi Stein, Welcome to Affinity Forums Please see my reply here regarding Lightroom. Stein 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 Thanks a lot. What a pity! I am definitely more of a Lightroom than a Photoshop user. Still - to me, just to be able to edit the nadir of a 360 image in equirectangular projection more than makes up for the price of the software! http://steinarnejensen.blogspot.no/ firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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