MGBJAY Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 I am curious to know if there are many of you experienced AP users that begin your RAW image editing in the DEVELOP persona ... and often find no need to go any further into the software for additional enhancements. Also: Wouldn't it be useful if whilst in the DEVELOP persona - it'd be possible to have the ability to SAVE an image "under development" without having to hit the DEVELOP button and as a result of having to stop at some point for whatever reason, thereby lose your steps up to the point where you have to stop? In other words - edit an image in develop up to a point, then stop right where you are and save it ... then come back tomorrow and pick up right where you left off, with everything in place? If this is already possible, please enlighten me and accept my apology for entirely missing how to do that. MGBJAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 In APh the Develop persona (the RAW file converter module) so far isn't really designed the way to store any made adjustments on a RAW file in such a RAW develop reusable only manner, it doesn't store any sidecar format files with all applied RAW file manipulations. And since it doesn't create or has the ability to store any to an RAW image made develop steps into an associated sidecar file, you can't reuse and continue in the same manner as, let's say with other RAW converters, where you leaved on it's RAW develop module. In APh you can only take it over to the Photo persona (module) in order then to store it's actual state as a APh file, or abort the whole develop process. So actually AFAIK the only way to reuse any made so far manipluations on the Develop Persona side are probably presets, which can be seen as a sort of workaround to the missing sidecar file handling. Meaning, you do the RAW image manipulations and before abandon you store the whole so far made steps as a preset, next time you reopen the RAW and reapply the preset, trying this way to continue where you stopped before on developing a RAW file. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Another workaround would be to develop the RAW file then save it as a .tiff or an .afphoto file in the Photo persona. You can later load this file and move back to the Develop persona by clicking the Develop icon at the top left. Not a perfect solution, but it should work. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 36 minutes ago, John Rostron said: Another workaround would be to develop the RAW file then save it as a .tiff or an .afphoto file in the Photo persona. You can later load this file and move back to the Develop persona by clicking the Develop icon at the top left. Not a perfect solution, but it should work. Would probably work even better if one sets the Assistant Manager (Develop Assistant) to output in RGB (32-bit HDR), and one's 32-bit RGB color preference (Preferences, Color) to a wide-range linear gamut (Adobe RGB, perhaps). That way the TIFF and/or .afphoto file won't lose as much information during the development procss. John Rostron 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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