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I'm a little confused about Affinity Photo, the name implies it's supposed to be an equivalent to Lightroom, but the program functions more like Photoshop. Is
by Saris 2y ago
I'm a little confused about Affinity Photo, the name implies it's supposed to be an equivalent to Lightroom, but the program functions more like Photoshop.
Is there a file browser with tagging, colors, flags, etc.. Or am I expected to manually open every RAW file as I go and use something else to manage them?
I did some test edits to a RAW file, closed it, and now looking at it again the history is blank and it seems to have reverted the changes. It looks like I have to destructively save the changes to the RAW file directly?
- parl_match 2y agoAffinity's suite isn't as "complete" as Adobe's. Much smaller company with much smaller product suite. They don't have cataloguing or photo management equivalent. But as for ND RAW editing.... yeah. I've been using Affinity for a while, and they have it, but it's not very obvious. FWIW they have a non-destructive editor function via the Develop Persona toolkit, it's not something that opens up by default. There are docs available on their site how to use it properly. I do think it's a miss to not bring that more forward, when opening a RAW, hopefully they'll see this feedback.
- nox101 2y agoWhy do you think the name implies it's similar to Lightroom instead of Photoshop? I'd expect a product named Affinity Light to be similar to Lightroom.
- Saris 2y agoNot sure to be honest, I guess they talk about it as a photo editing suite, I mean their tagline is "The photo editor you’ve been dreaming of" which makes me think of it as an alternative to Lightroom. I wouldn't call photoshop much of a photo editor as it was never very good at it either with the RAW workflow, more of a generalized drawing/editing tool I guess?
- Tagbert 2y agoIt is definitely more like Photoshop than Lightroom. You'll need to look elsewhere if you need file management.