Affinity photo alternative11/20/2023 While this is not as useful for managing images across directories, it means the directory itself is a stand-alone entity that can be moved around all by itself (archived, backedup, deleted, etc.) independent of a central database. In Capture One's other operating mode, called a session, you can just point Capture One at a directory of RAW files and it will automatically create a local database just for that directory where metadata edits are stored. They can remain where they are in the file system, but the catalog now knows where they are can be used to store metadata on your edits. To use either Capture One or Lightroom, you import RAW files into the catalog. In the catalog mode, metadata edits are saved in the catalog database and the catalog, along with it's various asset management tools (keywording, queries, smart albums, groups, projects, etc.) is used for keeping track of all your images and organizing them how you see fit. Very occasionally, I render to a 16bit TIFF and open that in Affinity Photo for pixel editing, save the changes back to the TIFF and that TIFF is then back in Capture One in my catalog.Ĭapture One has two operating modes (catalog and session). With Capture One I do 98% of my editing in Capture One as it's RAW editing tools are pretty powerful including layers and masks. And, if they did, they'd be guessing how they work (as they are all proprietary) and wouldn't be rendering them the same way anyway. As best I know, Affinity Photo does not read anyone else's RAW metadata edits. It still pretty much works the model of Photoshop (it's main competitor) where you open one image, edit it, save it. But, it's RAW editing is not generally considered first rate yet and it doesn't really have any tools built-in for organizational things you do with Bridge. Actually, I stand corrected, Affinity Photo can do a bit of RAW metadata editing (as of the most recent version) and is of course a full featured pixel editor. So, that pretty much means Bridge/Lightroom/Photoshop since no other vendors seem to do both RAW metadata editing and pixel editing. For those that store metadata somewhere, that metadata is all proprietary so only another program from the same vendor can read/render that metadata. RAW editors are all either parametric (they store editing metadata somewhere) or they convert to a separate RGB bitmap and edit that bitmap directly and then save a separate (non-RAW) bitmap. If you’re thinking about making the switch, there are a few similarities and differences between Photoshop and Affinity Photo worth bearing in mind.Nobody edits the RAW file image data directly. Handily, it works when painting layer masks too. Best of all is the Live Brush preview, which shows exactly how the brush will apply color, including any opacity or blend mode settings. Found within several tools, it gives you an idea of how an effect will look before you’ve added it, which saves on endless undoing and redoing. Another excellent feature is Live Previews. In Photoshop, layers must be converted to Smart Objects to do this, but in Affinity Photo it’s the default, so layers can be resized larger or smaller with no loss in quality. One neat touch is non-destructive resizing. There are a couple of places where Affinity Photo does defeat Photoshop. Click to download the project files (Image credit: James Paterson / Digital Camera World) Is Affinity Photo better than Photoshop?
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