RAW Development (Affinity Photo)

Learn about Affinity Photo's Develop Persona, a workspace dedicated to processing RAW images.

Credits: Photography by James Ritson.

[VegasGuy]

This frankly beats the snot out of Lightroom. At least on an individual photo basis. Now creating batches to apply the same correction across a range of photos would make the Develop Persona beyond amazing.

[tomaswilde]

As usual, an excellent tutorial of this new Affinity photo version. THANK YOU JAMES.

[michaelknibbs]

I've been using Affinity for several years - poorly it turns out! Thanks so much - I'm headed towards any other videos you have produced.

[supermotofrank]

This is just the best, thank you for this video series! For an amateur only beginning to process RAW, this clear information guide is invaluable!😁

[ufurcju]

This is an excellent tutorial! Clear and concise. Affinity rocks!

[davidevalentiofficial]

Thank you for this tutorial. I was struggling with editing FUJI RAW on Mac: I finally found out that (for all FUJI shooters like me) you have to go under "DEVELOP ASSISTANT" and select "APPLE RAW ENGINE" and select 16 bit RAW output. This will result in a correct RAW preview in Affinity Photo. I dont know why this this does not happen with Canon RAW files. Hope this will help many other FUJI users :)

[joaomartinsdasilva]

Excellent tutorial of this new Affinity photo version. THANK YOU JAMES

[ArgnautA]

Excellent introduction to RAW development in Affinity Photo, thanks!

[gandolfred]

💡Make it possible to turn on/off/rename and invert the mask layer in "Develop Persona". These are rudimentary functions, but they don't exist yet... If you do a smart refinement of the mask around the edges of the object, it will be luxurious. 😉👍

[thomastuorto]

Looks good. Is there going to be a new updated hard copy workbook released any time soon? Ill probably be moving it a rural neck of the woods in 2023 & the internet or might not be available or options desired there. Thanks for any replies.

[javierrivero]

I congratulate you for the new tutorials where the image of the person who is explaining does not appear, since this image distracts and covers part of the program's interface. Congratulations!

[gizlas]

Quite nice to edit individual photos, but working on a collection of photos is not included?

[sashworth]

Awesome video! I am glad I went with Affinity over LR.

[ferhyunt]

Great explanation, thanks. I wonder if there is a way I can rename overlays?

[straypath]

Brilliant tutorial man, thanks so much

[NMalteC]

Despite the following rant I love Affinity Photo:
A major disappointment: RAW file opening takes even longer than before when it was already intolerably slow. 90-120 seconds to open 15 Sony ARW files (24 mpx each) with Affinity Photo being the only active program. And the loading process nearly hangs the entire Windows 11 16 GB system (SSD drives). I'm a retired programmer, and I have to say that this isn't good enough. Please don't suggest more RAM, 16 GB should be sufficient for this. Multitasking was invented in the 1990's and it's intolerable that Affinity Photo hangs the system. It's just poor programming practice. Furthermore I still want to be able to hit Esc on my keyboard to close an image in the develop persona. That's what the Esc button on the keyboard is for. I also want to be able to close Affinity Photo with a one-time dialog "Close all windows?" instead of having to kill it from the task manager or close all image tabs.

[charlesduffy]

Towards the beginning, the option as to whether to save a pixel layer or work nondestructively was available; I don't see it at the end. Why did it disappear?

[lionelestriga]

Still not possible to copy and paste RAW adjustments in multiple images like in Bridge or Lightroom?

[barankaypakoglu]

I can't believe I've wasted all that outrageous amount of money to Capture One..

[ultraprimez]

Hi i see that there's no camera profile for white balance as in Adobe Photoshop / Lightroom. Does Affinity photo works with xrite products like dng profile manager. I use a Adobe as you know now. In Photoshop i use AdobeRGB because my monitor gives AdobeRGB 99% (My Monitor Benq SW2700PT) So i use Xrite i1 Studio device for monitor color calibration and to create printer profile. All for these helps in working almost perfect colour management workflow.
So does new affinity ver. 2.2 has AdobeRGB for primary display colour and does it support camera profile created in xirite colorchecker pasport and can that be used in camera raw file edit. Can i use paper profile i create using i1 studio device for print to screen color match ?
I don't if I am asking too much but i want to know before i try this.