Development Affinity Photo began as a raster graphics editor solely for macOS. It was Serif's second macOS app, and (like Affinity Designer) was built from the ground up to leverage core native technologies, including Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics, OpenGL and Metal 2 hardware acceleration. Affinity Photo for desktop tutorials Watch tutorial and quick tip videos for the fastest, smoothest and most precise creative software. RAW advanced development Duration: 05:59 See how to tackle trickier RAW images, using features like lens distortion correction, highlight recovery, shadow boosting.
Working in Develop Persona
Affinity Photo Raw Development Tool
If a supported raw file format is opened in Affinity Photo, it will automatically display in Develop Persona. You can then process the image using the dedicated adjustments, panels and tools.
Develop Persona gives you access to the following:
- Develop Assistant to choose a RAW engine for RAW processing, 16-bit or 32-bit output, and to enable/disable automatic tonal and/or exposure adjustments on loading the RAW image.
- Develop Assistant to enable/disable automatic tonal and/or exposure adjustments on loading the RAW image.
- Tonal adjustments using the Basic and Tones panels.
- Sharpening and Noise adjustments using the Details panel.
- Lens correction adjustments using the Lens panel.
- Overlays for applying adjustments to specific brushed image regions.
- Crop tool for cropping your image.
- Blemish Removal tool for correcting image imperfections.
- Focus panel.
- Scope Panel.
- Rotate image options for correcting image orientation.
At any point while working with an image or any selected pixel layer, you can switch to Develop Persona to make use of its unique features.
Split view options
There are a variety of split view options available in Develop Persona which give you the opportunity of seeing how your processed image compares to the original raw data.
Syncing
Affinity Photo Raw Support
While applying adjustments, you can update the 'Before' and 'After' view to give you a more focused representation of the applied changes. Rather than comparing the processed image with the original raw data, you can sync the views so 'Before' adopts the current applied adjustments. The 'After' view continues to update as more adjustments are made.
Show Clipping
An incorrect level of exposure within an image can lead to pixels 'falling out' of the viewable intensity range. This results in the loss of detail in areas of shadow, highlights, or midtones and is known as clipping.
Affinity Photo Raw Development
In Develop Persona, you have the ability to display Clipped Shadows, Clipped Highlights and/or Clipped Tones directly on the image. This can help you identify areas which need correcting as well as preventing overenthusiastic modifications which result in clipping. The Develop Persona remembers your choices for these options from the last time you used it, even when editing a different photo.
