sailfree Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Read a review that auto adjustments in Affinity are destructive. If true, please provide more info. I currently use Lightroom and all adjustments are non destructive. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Welcome to the forum The Auto levels, Contrast, Colour or White Balance are destructive but they are not the only means for image adjustments. You don't have to use Auto adjustments, you can use the Layer Adjustments for fine tuning an image, personally I never use Auto levels, Contrast, Colour or White Balance. https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Adjustments/adjustment_applying.html 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...
Fixx Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I so wish layer adjustments had auto button. firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 35 minutes ago, Fixx said: I so wish layer adjustments had auto button. I think "auto" seldom gets it right and invariably you would end up tweaking the Auto adjustment but as a quick starting point I suppose it would help. I prefer the preset option but this can be very image specific, so what works for one image, may have a totally different affect on a similar image. 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...
R C-R Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I know of two ways to make the 4 auto enhancement adjustments more or less non-destructive: Duplicate the image before applying any of them & apply them only to the duplicate. That way, there is always a 'backup' of the unadjusted image, so you can delete the dup & return to it, or use the Erase Brush Tool on the dup layer to selectively 'undo' parts of it. Make a snapshot of the document before applying any adjustments (if needed -- there may already be one depending on the file type of the file you opened), & make others as needed after applying the different ones. That way, you can restore to any snapshot, or often even better, use the Undo Brush Tool & its opacity, hardness, etc. settings to selectively restore parts of the image to any previous 'snapshot' state. However, since either one can substantially increase file size when saved, as @firstdefence mentioned, using adjustment layers instead often is a better alternative, even though that means manual tweaking. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: "auto" seldom gets it right and invariably you would end up tweaking the Auto adjustment but as a quick starting point I suppose it would help. That is how I do it in PS; in Curves or Levels click "auto" and after that tweak back as needed. That way there is no need to wonder where is the clip point and process is very quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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