![]() ![]() Affinity Photo is just as capable as Photoshop for a fraction of the price. But a new tool is gaining a foothold in the astrophotography world– Affinity Photo. That’s where tools like Photoshop, PixInsight, Astro Pixel Processor, Siril, and even the Gimp would traditionally be put to work. Equally important is the task of combining and processing the captured images to produce your final astrophotograph. I pretty much do that automatically so it won't be too hard to extend to NIK.In astrophotography, using thousands of dollars of equipment to capture images of deep sky objects as you carefully track them across the sky is only part of the imaging process. Not so with Affinity, so you'd be well-advised to duplicate a layer before applying a NIK filter. One difference: in Photoshop, most filters automatically apply to a new layer. If anyone has the NIK Collection, it's possible to use those filters with Affinity Photo, though the installation is a little strange. One of these days, my Photoshop CS5 is going to stop working. I've been using Affinity Photo off and on, and am pushing myself to use it more. Thanks for posting, Bob I think we're a small community (Affinity users) compared to the LR/PS behemoth and your post is a welcome input to our knowledge base. All the images in this tutorial were produced in Affinity Photo, with no editing in any other program.If anyone is looking for a backup (or replacement). I hope this little foray will help you to decide if it's a program you might wish to add to your toolbox. All the images in this tutorial were produced in Affinity Photo, with no editing in any other program.Īffinity Photo has over 200 video tutorials one can access via the Help>Tutorials menu, that will explain everything in much more detail than here. The final image: displayed as a jpg file (having started the journey as a RAW file).Īffinity Photo has over 200 video tutorials one can access via the Help>Tutorials menu, that will explain everything in much more detail than here. When ready to save the file as another graphical image, one clicks File>Export and can then save the files as tif, jpg, png, gif or a host of others.ħ. That image was later sent back to Affinity Photo.Ħ. I made some modifications within Anthropics Smart Photo Editor. Affinity Photo has fully functional layers and masks.ĥ. Although it's not part of this tutorial, one could create a new layer to blend in the changes later. All of these will open in their own interface, allow you to make changes, and then will return you to Affinity photo with changes intact. As you can see, if you click on the Downloaded image for figure 4., you can see there is a rather extensive list of plugins that can be incorporated into Affinity Photo. I decided to use a plugin for some further changes to the processed image. The interface and icons are similar to Photoshop and were very familiar to me.Ĥ. The Photo Persona offers many more editing tools and access to filters and plugins. Affinity Photo will then move the image into the Photo persona for continued editing (much like LR moves a photo into PS CC). At the completion of using the Develop panels, one clicks a button that says Develop. Like Lightroom, the Develop persona is good for making universal changes to exposure, tone, detail and noise reduction.ģ. If one imports any of the various RAW files, Affinity Photo will open in the "Develop" personaĢ. File>Open and chose a dng file from my photo archives. One can do everything within Affinity Photo, without having to leave the program, save a file, then reopen again to finish processing. I wrote this tutorial just to give a brief overview of the steps to convert a RAW (dng) image to a processed. At a one time cost of $49.99, it's almost impossible to beat for a quality photo editor. It will process RAW images all the way through to a processed image file (most standard formats included), and allow one to incorporate Photoshop Plugins from within the program. If anyone is looking for a backup (or replacement) program to the Adobe LR/PS CC Subscription, I highly recommend Affinity Photo by Serif. ![]()
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