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 p.2 #6 · Affinity Photo - m43 user experience? | |
To the OP galenapass and anyone interested, in reference to your original post; I don't see Affinity Photo as a program tailored to address especifically m43 needs or files, terrific tool yes. Sharpening for me is mostly used as to output sharpening depending on my media, since I am a printer and always print my files, I use different sharpening for K7 fine art B&W printing as I do for outputing to continuous tone Metallic or Archival Matte Fuji or for film recording, same for noise reduction techniques, I mostly prefer DeNoise from Alien Slin in RGB, I don't see a one program do it all solution. Files are all process differently according to media to be reproduced, color contrast tonality is very different for printing in Kodak Metallic and acrylic face mounted than from inkjet.
Cataloguing and initial file development and treatment is very easy in Lightroom for myself, and so is stitching, having a RAW file, right clicking and opening directly to PS or any external editor I'd like to use.
The last 2 days I went through all Affinity and for what I could comprehend, it is a very hefty program with a huge amount of tools that would take a very long time to be prolific or even comfortable with. The panorama, HDR, tonemaping, exposure blending, stacking, bracketing astools and combinations are endless so are the different forms of doing each and the amount of tools, rendering intents in each action...to reach the level of the presenter Miguel Boto would take a long time and specific dedication, and I will be doing this as I like very much everything that I just went through; my suggestion would be to open the link which can also be accessed from Affinity also, and go through the methodical disclosure of the full program which is perfectly desclosed and outlined, each with concise, well explained videos, by the time I was in panoramas, HDR, bracketing you do understand the full scope and magnitud of Affinity growing at every instance. I just received from Affinity their current 1.6 version update, I have bought the program as the test trial for 10 days only would not give me time to test much, this is the link I've been using http://www.miguelboto.com/affinity/photo/video-tutorials/ ; in other forums some consider Affinity an overkill because they have no such needs, easy to understand, I also found this post from Pentax forums in reference to luminosity masks https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/32-digital-processing-software-printing/327632-no-need-traditional-luminosity-masks-affinity-photo.html
It seems many users are experimenting with Affinity so growing fast and well, good development and very good support and documentation. Since no browser involved and folders need to be created to open RAW files to stitch, HDR, blend, stack or further combinations, I will continue to do so in LR, I also will choose files to test as currently I am incapable of any sustained and efficient workflow; so it would be impossible for me to go out and shoot a combination of stitches or images to stack, stich or blend, as I must start as a beginner and not as someone prolific with Affinity. Today I will shoot a series of 2-3-4 row pano stitches, simple ones, will develop in Affinity and as soon as finished will upload the results in Prodibi for 100% viewing so all my errors can be seen ghosting, failures in perfect stitching due to breeze with leaves, but I will try hard to use all the tools as presented in the tutorials at 100-120 megapixels. Regards, takomaru
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Just to see what has been changed!