That is your choice, but to my mind, regardless of your background, the Develop persona needs a lot of work to be competitive with the best raw processors available today. For you the Develop persons ia apparently more than adequate. Based on your comments you do minimal edits in the Develop persona and are happy with your results in the Photo persona. I own and use Affinity Photo and have had extensive experience for years with a number of raw processors including my current favorite, PhotoLab 4 Elite. You made some comments with which I strongly disagree and I responded to them.
Affinity photo raw workflow 32 bit#
I do minimal changes in the Develop Persona in 32 bit Unbounded color space and do the remainder in Photo and my results are far superior than anything I have achieved in any of the other programs, so I now am exclusive to Photo although I do like Deep Prime from PureRAW when I need it. In Affinity you can simply develop with no changes and go right to Photo where you can edit non destructively and solve your complaint. To make a statement like: (“For those of us raw shooters with a lot of experience with the premier raw processors”) You ASSume I have no Experience shooting RAW you are very mistaken! I have over 40 years in photography film and digital (The last 28 Professionally), I’ve used a dozen RAW processors including Lightroom, Capture One, Photolab, On 1, Rawtherapee, Darktable and Affinity etc... Each and everyone does basically the same thing and each and everyone can render different results based on each manufacturers RAW files so no one is perfect. You’ll find the ON1 plug-ins listed in the Detected Plugins list.Īccess the plug-ins while editing in Affinity Photo from the Filter > Plug-ins > ON1 menu.I’m not here for a pissing contest. Windows: \Program Files\ON1\ON1 Photo RAW 2021\Plug-in FilesĬlose the Preferences and when prompted, click Restart Now to restart affinity. MacOS: Applications/ON1 Photo RAW 2021/Plug-in Files The folders are different for macOS and Windows. Launch Affinity Photo and open the Photoshop Plugins area of the Preferences.Ĭheck the Allow “unknown” plug-ins to be used option in the lower left.įor macOS only, click the Authorize Global button and choose the root of your hard drive (usually Macintosh HD).Ĭlick the Add button beneath Plugin Search Folders and choose the folder with the ON1 plug-ins. If you do your photo development and work in Affinity Photo and want to leverage the tools and effects in ON1, setup the plug-ins and you’ll have ready access to ON1 right from Affinity Photo. This workflow is for Affinity Photo centric editing. Changes made in Affinity Photo are “baked into” the PSD sent back to Photo RAW.Īffinity Photo With ON1 Photo RAW Plug-ins This is a destructive workflow, like most plug-in workflows. When you’re finished, there is a PSD file in the same folder as your original photo, with the edits from Affinity Photo. Photo RAW creates a new PSD file and sends it to Affinity Photo.Ĭlick Save in Affinity Photo, or exit Affinity Photo and save your work on the way out. You may also expand the Copy Settings section and confirm the file format is PSD.Ĭlick Edit. Select Edit A Copy With Settings Applied to include any edits you have made in Photo RAW. Photo RAW adds the “Send To Affinity Photo” menu option for future use In the popup window, navigate to the Applications area (macOS) or Program Files (Windows) and find the Affinity Photo program. If you do not see an Affinity Photo option... Right-click and select Send To Affinity Photo, or use File > Send To Affinity Photo In the What To Edit section at the top, set the File Format to PSD. Open the Preferences and go to the Files tab. This option tells Affinity Photo to use PSD files as an intermediary file format, and that Affinity Photo can save its changes directly to PSD files it receives. Launch Affinity Photo as a standalone application.Ĭheck the Enable “Save” over imported PSD files option.Ĭlick Close to dismiss the Preferences and exit Affinity Photo. There is a bit of prep work to do before your first round trip. If you’re using Photo RAW as your asset manager and primary editor, you can send selected photos to Affinity Photo for additional post-processing. This workflow is for Photo RAW centric editing. ON1 Photo RAW To Affinity Photo Round Trip