Anyone using Affinity Photo with C1?
I think today is the last day to get Affinity Photo at a discounted price. Has anyone here bought a copy and successfully and joyfully used it with C1? I'm thinking about it for myself but I haven't read too many user experiences of it at all.
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'Edit With' and 'Open With' are working just like they should with CR2 files. What more to say?
Affinity Photo is not yet a full replacement for PS, but pretty close for me. I am only waiting for an interactive macro persona similar to PS's interactive actions.
Regards,
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Until today Photo only supports saving of flattened TIF, so all layers etc. will get lost saving.
For me a job stopper, but afaik they are working on it.0 -
[quote="JohannesR" wrote:
Until today Photo only supports saving of flattened TIF, so all layers etc. will get lost saving.
True.
But besides saving layered to it's own format, AP loads and exports layered PSDs with adjustment layers and masks. They open correctly in PS (for as far as I tried it), but I don't switch back and forth between PS and AP when editing.
CO has a problem with layered tiffs. It doesn't accept alpha channels at all. For trouble-free 'Edit With' in CO I save them back flat. And for fine-art printing, I am exporting flattened tiff because the rendering result might depend on software. Therefore I can live with not saving layered tiff. I would prefer to be able to do so, of course. 😄
Regards,
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[quote="6BQ5" wrote:
I think today is the last day to get Affinity Photo at a discounted price. Has anyone here bought a copy and successfully and joyfully used it with C1? I'm thinking about it for myself but I haven't read too many user experiences of it at all.
I, personally, have been very happy with Affinity Photo. I started using it during the beta testing and bought it the day it was available at the Apple Store. It works properly with C1 and I have found it to be functionally complete enough for me to stop using Photoshop.
The one concern I have about it is that it does not yet run all of my Topaz plugins directly. Adjust, Detail and DeNoise run properly but Clarity and ReMask do not (I do not have all of the Topaz plugins). However I have been able to work around the issue by using the Topaz plugin platform photoFXlab. I launch that plugin from Affinity Photo and it does run all of my Topaz plugins properly. I am sure the AP people will get the direct plugin functionality working soon, but it is not yet there.
This is new software so there are some open bugs, but the same is true for Photoshop. Some of these items are a bit annoying but none have been a real problem for me, especially considering that I use AP as an external editor and not as my mail editing software.
Everything else in AP is just super and there is nothing that I did with Photoshop that I can not also do with Affinity Photo. I have stopped my Photography subscription and the savings more than paid for Affinity Photo. I, for one, am a very happy AP user.0 -
does Affinity Photo support luminosity masks? I am not sure I could live without them. Love my TK panel in PS 0 -
[quote="Josh Bailey" wrote:
does Affinity Photo support luminosity masks? I am not sure I could live without them. Love my TK panel in PS
https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index. ... sks-in-ap/0 -
i now that this forum is only for Phase one Capture one and media Pro product but
now is the direction changed ! we are talking really hear about the alternative to Apple Aperture that i was missing
Long time bevor , i was hopping that Phase one looks with there conception what we write, the developer from Affinity Photo are really do grade job, the App is cheap to by and faster and give all in One . the only missing thing now to me a good DAM mode to build inside it is a killer for all high nose vendors, Media Pro is dead C1 is still slowly and smooth to work with it but not bad
i wisch for Phase one to give intresse for my feedback.0 -
[quote="Josh Bailey" wrote:
does Affinity Photo support luminosity masks? I am not sure I could live without them. Love my TK panel in PS
As the link posted earlier indicates AP does handle luminosity masks. The process is actually a single step as the selection is created using a single keystroke and that can either then be used directly or transferred to a mask with a single command. Indeed there was an entire thread concerning how to adjust the amount of the selection that is used to create the LM after it is first created by the keystroke (Cmd-Shift-Click).
The product is in its first release and, as should be expected, it still has bugs. As to whether these are serious or not, I guess it depends upon how you use the product. I know there are dozens of issues still open but I can not think of a single one that actually affects my ability to use the product and, as with all newly released software, the developers are working hard to fix whatever still needs to be addressed. Serif is a well-known company and it appears that it is serious about this market and I expect Affinity Photo (AP) to continue developing and growing.0 -
Affinity photo is great companion for C1 imho, customers have already access to a new beta build which solves most of the known bugs. 0 -
[quote="Horseoncowboy " wrote:
Affinity photo is great companion for C1 imho, customers have already access to a new beta build which solves most of the known bugs.
I guess I think that is a pretty optimistic statement.
I am still getting crashes using one of my Topaz plugins and am still unable to launch another one. There are still very many open defects and, as far as I know, AP will still not run all of the NIK plugins. I can not launch PerfectlyClear or Dxo View Point 2.
While I personally think the editor is great and serves all of my purposes, even if I have to use some work-arounds for my plugins, I am sure some others have different needs and are having issues. AP is an initial release and I expect it will be another 3-6 months before the more serious issues are completely resolved, but I certainly think it is more than just "good enough" for most users. It has completely replaced Photoshop for me and I no longer even call photoLine, which was my prior attempt to replace Photoshop. I am a big supporter of AP but I would not suggest that most of the known bugs have been fixed yet.0 -
well not everybody needs an image editor just as a launch platform from his many ,fancy plugins, especially as c1 gets you already very far with great onboard tools ! i see the missing plugin support more as a not fully implemented feature rather than a bug and i´m sure it also needs some work on both sides to make them run flawless. so yes AP misses some features but it runs extrem stable and fast something i can not say about ps cc2015 i use daily and btw topaz plugins crash on ps regular. too.. 0 -
[quote="Horseoncowboy " wrote:
well not everybody needs an image editor just as a launch platform from his many ,fancy plugins, especially as c1 gets you already very far with great onboard tools ! i see the missing plugin support more as a not fully implemented feature rather than a bug and i´m sure it also needs some work on both sides to make them run flawless. so yes AP misses some features but it runs extrem stable and fast something i can not say about ps cc2015 i use daily and btw topaz plugins crash on ps regular. too..
I can not speak for others but I do not have "many fancy plugins". I have 5 Topaz plugins that take care of noise, masking and some other basic functionality. Some just do not work with AP, some do not even start and, since they are supposed to work based on statements from the developers and moderators, I certainly consider that to be a bug. I have never had one of my Topaz plugins crash with Photoshop or, for that matter, with photoLine.
I am relatively sure that Topaz will not make any changes for AP. They sell their plugins as Photoshop compatible and have not seemed interested in modifying them to work with other editors when I have mentioned that in a support request. Their response was that their plugin is for PS. Given that, I assume all of the compatibility work will have to be done by the AP developers. That is clearly do-able since photoLine works properly with just about all of my plugins, Topaz and other.
I am very happy with AP and I bought it the first day it was for sale. It has replaced PS on my machine and I have no thought about going back, but I do recognize bugs when I see them and that is what I see in some of the failing AP functionality. I am sure the developers will get it all working and I am not worried about it, but a bug is a bug, even when I really like the software.0 -
Affinity seems very promising. Hasn't won me over yet. PS is still growing too. 0 -
The extended interpretation of the OP's questions is "... and how have you found it". My short answers are "Yes I do use it" and "Very good indeed".
The longer answers are, I have been using AP since February, as a first step in the "What to do about Aperture" process. It has evolved and improved a lot in that time, to become an excellent editor.
Secondly, I am a new CaptureOne user, but find CO8 plus AP to be perfect for my needs - CO has the DAM functions I require, a RAW engine that is the best I have encountered of the many tried out since Apple's EOL Aperture announcement (including those from Adobe and Nikon), and a great set of basic editing tools. I mainly call AP nowadays for its B&W conversion, its excellent Haze filter, its Inpainting and Cloning tools, and as a gateway to a very limited set of Topaz plugins (mainly Detail, which does not exhibit the lack of stability that some others do, as mentioned by MikeFromMesa). I also tend to go there to export an image as AP has a more comprehensive set of options.
This is, of course, a personal perspective: others may have different needs and wants and history, and arrive at different conclusions - nothing wrong with that.0 -
how do you guys manage the roundtrip to ap? Do you safe your edits as flattened tiff or do you save an extra ap-native file side by side to the raw and the tif? For me it's a dealbreaker that i loose the option to further work on my pictures in ap without generating a third file. From my point of view only option would be to support saving of layered tif at the side of ap or support for generating a psd in the edit with... dialogue of c1.
Am I missing something? How is your workflow?
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[quote="JohannesR" wrote:
how do you guys manage the roundtrip to ap? ... How is your workflow?
I am currently using the round trip only as a reminder. My retouching works are native PS or native AP. I save flat tiffs for archiving, printing and showing, but not for working in CO.
My reasons:
- my workflow is 1st) shoot, 2nd) develop (CO), and, if necessary, 3rd) retouch (PS, AP, etc.).
- I don't want to mix my RAWs and my current edits if I don't absolutely need to.
- my catalogs are local, my RAWs external (referenced catalogs). I want my current editing works local.
- my retouched images have lots of layers. The pixel layers are no problem, but adjustment layers can be a different story. Not only in CO.
- CO cannot handle alpha layers.
- CO doesn't handle bright yellows (desaturated) and bright reds (shift towards orange) in tiffs and jpgs correctly. I cannot show them and I cannot continue adjusting them in CO with wrong colors after return.
(That's not only for the round trip to PS, AP, Gimp, etc, but for any tiff and jpg. PO support is aware of that, I'm waiting for a fix, because I would like to have a catalog for my final edits collections in CO.)
If PO fixes CO's tiff and jpeg color issue I might change my mind and save final, flat tiffs along with the corresponding RAWs.
Regards,
Hans0
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