After painting over said mark, or object, Affinity Photo collects the best pixel info from around it and replaces the object with said pixels.īrush Selection tool - Much like a Magic Wand, you can paint over an area to select it in pin point detail - though this may take a bit of adjusting, adding and removing bits as you go. Inpainting Brush Tool - A simple and effective way to remove objects and blemishes. Once familiar with the UI and layout, and you’ve explored the Personas, the tools are pretty easy to get used to, and surprisingly smart. Affinity Photo review: toolsĭevelop from RAW files (Image credit: Serif) With a full choice of export formats you can export parts, or 'slices' of your document from layers to isolate them for sharing and reviewing. With the Export Persona, continuous export means you can re-export files and layers whilst still editing an original doc. This is not my area of expertise, but it sounds very useful! The Tone Mapping Persona gives you the ability to translate high bit rate (32/16) colour depth, and range, into smaller files or jpegs, without losing too much info. You can open pixel files here too, if you just want quick intuitive adjustments with the slides provided. Open a Raw file and it will open here, so you can make initial adjustments before ‘developing’ for more involved editing. You can pull and push elements around, freeze and thaw certain areas, as a way of masking/unmasking, and generally smooth surfaces and lines to your liking.Īnyone a bit more familiar with the practice of photography will appreciate the Develop Persona. The Liquify Persona allows your image and its pixels to be distorted and edited in a liquid-esque fashion. It’s here you perform the majority of your work. The Photo Persona is for general editing, applying adjustments, layer manipulation, cropping, resizing etc. At least they let you use the Lanczos formula.The Liquify Persona (Image credit: Serif) ![]() psd from LR or RT to work on it in the Photo Persona, preferably using either Topaz Detail or Nik Sharpeners.Īdditionally, what size do you output from both LR and AP? If you downsize, then AP doesn't offer an automatic output sharpening option like LR does, so that can also affect the final sharpness. I've made a sharpening preset for my Coolpix A (radius 10%, amount 40%), but I think I'll be outputting an unsharpened. Mind you, LR sets a default value of sharpening, whereas the sharpening defaults in AP are at zero, so you need to apply it manually. Plus you can add sharpness locally (unlike in the Develop Persona of the AP). ![]() Second, the Detail Refinement algorithm is probably just a regular USM (with no threshold values) - in LR there are additionally the Detail and the Masking sliders (the former having a mixture of USM and deconvolution sharpening), so you get more at your disposal. Hopefully they'll add something like the AMAZE demosaicing in the future. At full screen it's hard to tell but it'd be nice to know I could get the same IQ from Photo that I routinely do from LR6.įirst of all, the demosaicing in AP for Windows (there's just one engine here, as opposed to the version for Mac) is probably worse than in LR. It's just at 100% I can see that the Photo rendition is "soft" for lack of a better word.
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