Thanks for the "tutorial". I have never been a Photoshop user because I am an amateur with a limited budget and have found Affinity photo just about perfect for my needs. I am glad you have tried the inbuilt tools to achieve the look you like without resorting to plug ins. They have their place I am sure, but using inbuilt tools does encourage experimentation! Nice picture as always.
I am always open to experimentation, thats why I decided to give Affinity Photo a try after years using Photoshop. There are a number of ways to do black and white conversions and each has their strong points and weaknesses, its good to have more tools int the tool box to get the job done, I still think the NIK plugin, SilverEfex pro, is one of the best black and white conversion tools I have ever used and it also works well with Affinity Photo so I'm sure I will keep that as an option if needed.
I've just started playing around with this conversion method, so far I like what i'm getting, it doesn't hurt to give it a try and see if it will work for you.
Nice edit David. Just my type of video 😀Affinity photo really is amazing value. I paid less than £50 for it and haven't had to pay anything extra for a couple of years. And now we have a new version which really is quicker and slicker. And the best part of it is that I have been Adobe free for all of that time.
Thanks Scott, I agree, Affinity Photo is an amazing value and when I'm using it, I don't feel I'm using a budget program, a lot of powerful features for the money. At this point I can't see any reason why I would ever go back to using Adobe products for my photo edits :)
Give it a try Steve, Affinity Photo is a pretty powerful, feature rich piece of editing software. It has worked pretty well for me for the last couple years but everyones needs are different, so the only way to find out if it will work for you is to give it a try.
I have the 1.5 version. Would I get an update price or have to purchase at full price ( not that its expensive ) but usually only use it to remove unwanted objects.
I'm still learning a lot from watching you edit. However, there are somethings I can't follow. Like resizing and adding a border. Might be that I'm not on an Apple computer. The instructional course I purchased through Affinity Resources also uses Apple. that being said I'm still picking up a very useful information. Thank you!
Hi James, here is a link to a video on how I add a boarder to my photos. When I add a boarder, I'm not resizing the picture, I am resizing the canvas, making it larger than the photo, the video goes step by step, hopefully it will help. ruclips.net/video/pGTCs5tGf1w/видео.html
A question I've been meaning to ask you: How do you deal with raw editing with Affinity Photo's broken histogram? I generally like Affinity Photo and when I first started with photography I tried to use it, but found it unusable for raw files because of this problem: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/70242-histogram-appears-incorrectly-when-developing-raw-images-in-the-develop-persona/ It's totally bizarre to me that this isn't a huge, emergency-level bug for Serif and the users of Affinity Photo, and that my bug report has sat unaddressed for so long. This was the reason that I finally gave up on Affinity Photo and begrudgingly shelled out the cash for an Adobe CC subscription. I was hoping the 1.7 update would fix this problem finally, but I can see in your video that the histogram is still broken. Do you just completely ignore the histogram and do it all by eyeballing? I guess I wouldn't be surprised given your many years of experience, but it's certainly not the norm for most photographers I've encountered online-the histogram is a critical part of the editing workflow. Edit: I should've let the video play a little longer before making this comment, because you address this right after the point where I paused it! It does look a bit improved but still doesn't match what it looks like visually to me, and doesn't correspond to the histograms I get in Lightroom, which seem correct.
Hi Jimmy, the broken histogram in Affinity Photo is a pain for sure, in the old version I just ignored it, I rarely use the histogram when making the image, so I am very comfortable not using it when processing my images. I do find in the 1.7 update the histogram seems to work better, it doesn't seem to work well if I am working with a 32 bit file after I develope the image. My goal when processing the raw file is not to clip the highlights and to make it balanced and usually a bit flat, I tend to bring up the contrast in the photo persona where I have a history and layers to work with. My goal is to take as much of the important information into the photo persona as I can, a well exposed raw file has way more information than can be used in a 16bit tiff and jpg. On my camera, I tend to use the blinking highlight feature to let me know at a quick glance that I have clipped the highlights after taking the image, I've been trained to work fast and we also only shot jpeg and I always did fine without histograms so for me it is not that big of a deal if I don't have access to a histogram. I can understand why someone would want the feature, it is nice to have the visual reference, I guess because I learned on film I never relied on it for making correct exposures. I will have to test it more in the 1.7 update but it did seem to work better but since I just don't pay that much attention to it I will have to play with it some more to be sure. So to answer your question, yes, I just completely ignore the histogram and do it all by eyeballing LOL There is nothing wrong with using Lightroom if that is working for you, and I've never considered myself that normal :) have a great day Jimmy!
Nice photo editing with Affinity Photo 1.7 and the photo is very nice, I like the tree, dirt driveway and the background, it is very nice.
Thank you Agnetha
Great tutorial! Great result! Thank you!
I'm glad you found something useful in this video!
Nicely done! Gives me a new idea to edit my photos. Thanks!
Thanks Eric, doesn't hurt to give it a try :)
Thanks for the "tutorial". I have never been a Photoshop user because I am an amateur with a limited budget and have found Affinity photo just about perfect for my needs. I am glad you have tried the inbuilt tools to achieve the look you like without resorting to plug ins. They have their place I am sure, but using inbuilt tools does encourage experimentation! Nice picture as always.
I am always open to experimentation, thats why I decided to give Affinity Photo a try after years using Photoshop. There are a number of ways to do black and white conversions and each has their strong points and weaknesses, its good to have more tools int the tool box to get the job done, I still think the NIK plugin, SilverEfex pro, is one of the best black and white conversion tools I have ever used and it also works well with Affinity Photo so I'm sure I will keep that as an option if needed.
Tnx for the tip. I will certainly use this method to boost my black/white pics.
I've just started playing around with this conversion method, so far I like what i'm getting, it doesn't hurt to give it a try and see if it will work for you.
Nice edit David. Just my type of video 😀Affinity photo really is amazing value. I paid less than £50 for it and haven't had to pay anything extra for a couple of years. And now we have a new version which really is quicker and slicker. And the best part of it is that I have been Adobe free for all of that time.
Thanks Scott, I agree, Affinity Photo is an amazing value and when I'm using it, I don't feel I'm using a budget program, a lot of powerful features for the money. At this point I can't see any reason why I would ever go back to using Adobe products for my photo edits :)
Interesting, will give this a go. Affinity Photo gets better and better.
Give it a try Steve, Affinity Photo is a pretty powerful, feature rich piece of editing software. It has worked pretty well for me for the last couple years but everyones needs are different, so the only way to find out if it will work for you is to give it a try.
Try te 1.7.1 update for the Mac. If you have the Nik collection, itworks great in 1.7.1
I have the 1.5 version. Would I get an update price or have to purchase at full price ( not that its expensive ) but usually only use it to remove unwanted objects.
@@thomastuorto9929 Updates are free!
Thanks.
I'm still learning a lot from watching you edit. However, there are somethings I can't follow. Like resizing and adding a border. Might be that I'm not on an Apple computer. The instructional course I purchased through Affinity Resources also uses Apple. that being said I'm still picking up a very useful information. Thank you!
Hi James, here is a link to a video on how I add a boarder to my photos.
When I add a boarder, I'm not resizing the picture, I am resizing the canvas, making it larger than the photo, the video goes step by step, hopefully it will help. ruclips.net/video/pGTCs5tGf1w/видео.html
A question I've been meaning to ask you: How do you deal with raw editing with Affinity Photo's broken histogram? I generally like Affinity Photo and when I first started with photography I tried to use it, but found it unusable for raw files because of this problem: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/70242-histogram-appears-incorrectly-when-developing-raw-images-in-the-develop-persona/ It's totally bizarre to me that this isn't a huge, emergency-level bug for Serif and the users of Affinity Photo, and that my bug report has sat unaddressed for so long. This was the reason that I finally gave up on Affinity Photo and begrudgingly shelled out the cash for an Adobe CC subscription. I was hoping the 1.7 update would fix this problem finally, but I can see in your video that the histogram is still broken. Do you just completely ignore the histogram and do it all by eyeballing? I guess I wouldn't be surprised given your many years of experience, but it's certainly not the norm for most photographers I've encountered online-the histogram is a critical part of the editing workflow.
Edit: I should've let the video play a little longer before making this comment, because you address this right after the point where I paused it! It does look a bit improved but still doesn't match what it looks like visually to me, and doesn't correspond to the histograms I get in Lightroom, which seem correct.
Hi Jimmy, the broken histogram in Affinity Photo is a pain for sure, in the old version I just ignored it, I rarely use the histogram when making the image, so I am very comfortable not using it when processing my images. I do find in the 1.7 update the histogram seems to work better, it doesn't seem to work well if I am working with a 32 bit file after I develope the image. My goal when processing the raw file is not to clip the highlights and to make it balanced and usually a bit flat, I tend to bring up the contrast in the photo persona where I have a history and layers to work with. My goal is to take as much of the important information into the photo persona as I can, a well exposed raw file has way more information than can be used in a 16bit tiff and jpg. On my camera, I tend to use the blinking highlight feature to let me know at a quick glance that I have clipped the highlights after taking the image, I've been trained to work fast and we also only shot jpeg and I always did fine without histograms so for me it is not that big of a deal if I don't have access to a histogram. I can understand why someone would want the feature, it is nice to have the visual reference, I guess because I learned on film I never relied on it for making correct exposures. I will have to test it more in the 1.7 update but it did seem to work better but since I just don't pay that much attention to it I will have to play with it some more to be sure. So to answer your question, yes, I just completely ignore the histogram and do it all by eyeballing LOL There is nothing wrong with using Lightroom if that is working for you, and I've never considered myself that normal :) have a great day Jimmy!