Thank you! The Develop Persona works great for me (I use Nikon), but I'll watch out for the noise reduction bit you mention! So, with these three babies, I feel like I was able to pull the plug on Adobe. Hard to believe I get InDesign and Photoshop replacements for this money.įor the rest, I'm going with ACDSee, which hit the sweet spot between features, speedy workflow and price for me now (I fell for their current sale, ha).
It should work great with Affinity Publisher. Very rarely do I do layered editing, but those times I do, I can see Affinity Photo being my go-to, so I snatched it today. Most of the editing I do is simply pre-processing and developing plus lots of DAM and book editing. The RAW processing, however, works just okay (not sure quality-wise, but definitely workflow-wise), and the fact that adjustments aren't saved with the photo doesn't do it for me. I've been doing a lot of editing today with Affinity and loved it. It sure is useful, thanks a lot! I agree, I used the pano tool today and was amazed at the results.Īnd I think we're on the same boat.
So my question to you Affinity experts is: do you use Affinity Photo to develop RAW files? If so, what's your workflow like? How do you work around this on Affinity Photo, if you do at all? I really want AP to be my go-to software as I loved Publisher and have really enjoyed the trial, but this a hard one to crack. There's a big "but" here for me: with PS+Camera Raw, whenever I reopened a developed NEF file (Nikon's raw format), the developing settings I had applird would be there and I could revert them, tweak them, or simply retrieve the original negative. I've read many posts about Affinity Photo, and some, agree that, when it comes to Raw processing, Affinity Photos would be equivalent to Photoshop + Adobe Camera Raw. I've also found that XnView does everything I need as a DAM, so I felt like the combination of XnView + AP could be a winner.
My PC isn't great, but I find that Affinity Photo performs and looks fantastic. Rawtherapee, Darktable, Luminar, On1, Affinity Photo. I've been testing several photo editing and raw developing software for the last months. A monthly subscription is no longer doable for me. For the last couple years I had an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription going, but with the last increase in price and the fact that I lost my job, I decided to pull the plug and move out of Adobe. For a long time I used Adobe Bridge + Adobe Camera Raw to organise and develop raw files. I've been a hobbyist photographer for years and years.