Exactly that, adjusting many images at the same time, often and quickly adding or subtracting some in the middle of the process depending on the results. I know this well and appreciate this quick way of making image adjustments. Once you get used to this kind of workflow, anything else becomes unaccaptably slow/clumsy. all with thumbnails and without opening/saving anything (until the final confirmation when it only generates XMP files with settings for every file) - Camera RAW allows me to do this. I need to be able to quickly switch between applying some parameters to all the photos, then selecting say 30 of them and tweak something, do some minor tweaking on just one photo, select/tweak couple dozen of them again, being able to quickly switch between files to check that their colour tone matches etc. Personally I prefer it this way: I use the RAW processors which are very good at what they do, to handle the culling and the initial development of the files, then for individual photos that require more detailed editing than the RAW processor can handle (most do not, a few often do), I then take the developed files and open then in Affinity Photo to do that extra work.Īffinity Photo is far from useless, it is simply not the complete picture - it is one piece of the workflow.Įxamples of apps to try as replacements for Camera RAW: There are numerous dedicated RAW processors on the market which offer what you are looking for. Affinity Photo is the equivalent of Photoshop, without Camera RAW (the Develop persona is more of a bonus for when you are messing around with an image or two rather than working on an entire project). The difference is that in your case, Camera RAW (which is separate from Photoshop) is bundled with it, while the Affinity suite simply doesn't bundle such a RAW development app. this has come up SO many times here on the forum, and this was such a waste of a thread.Īt least for now, that "alternative" is found in other apps - just as it is with Adobe. Sadly, I can't do any of this in Affinity Photo as of now which unfortunatelly renders it literally useless for my main photography needs.įingers crossed for this being addressed in V3 - until then, it's more of Affinity Single Bitmap Image Editor rather than an actual tool for photographers to me. When I'm done with tweaking the parameters of the whole album I'll just use Image Processor to batch convert the files it into JPEGs. My usual workflow is dropping a whole album (often hundreds of RAW files) into Photoshop (Camera RAW windows pops-up), applying some global adjustments to all the photos and then going through them one by one for more tweaking, yet often using the same settings on multiple files in a row (which you can select in the Camera RAW film strip). Being able to only develop / change parameters for one RAW file at a time really is a deal-breaker for anyone shooting into RAW format. I've bought the Universal License and I don't regret it (the price was worth it even for Publisher / InDesign replacement which I mainly wanted and I'm also glad to just support some much needed Adobe competition) but I'm unable to cancel my Photo Plan with Adobe until Affinity comes up with an alternative to Camera RAW (and most importantly, its film strip).
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