zedrone Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Hi again, When i work with raw file, i usually open a lot of file, to choose the best photo to edit, this part of the process of developing raw is actually very painful in affinity photo (or i don't use it the way it should be used). If you open multiple (let say 50 photos from a shoot) raw files, each one is a different document in the develop persona, and if you choose to not use 40 of them, you need to close each file with TWO actions, "canceling" the develop persona and confirming it. When you edit a lot of photos it's really annoying. I understand that the develop persona is not a catalog software like capture one, darktable or Lightroom but if i open multiple raw file in camera raw (photoshop) it's not a catalog too, but i have a film strip that can help me scroll and reject photo easily and i don't need multiple action to close a photo. Am i using the develop persona wrong ? any way to quickly close without multiple action a photo in develop persona ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikerofoto Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Kind of yes for answer, AP is not a DAM and you have some few options to help with culling your images. With some search on this forum you can come to fastrawviewer or camera bits or you can even use bridge from adobe to be way faster than opening them all one by one in AP, there is also other program too! They go from free to expensive, yours to choose what fit your workflow. https://www.fastrawviewer.com/about-and-features https://home.camerabits.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Photo Mechanic is amazingly fast. You can go through your images at lightning speed even in RAW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I have Windows setup so that Windows File Explorer can show the RAW thumbnails, and I use that for first pass sorting. Then I use Affinity Photo to examine the smaller number of photos that are really of interest for that session. Or Fast Raw Viewer if I need more detail than Windows File Explorer can show. Definitely I would not try to load a large number of raw files into Affinity Photo at one time. 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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