I Turbocharged my Editing with this New Affinity Photo Workflow!

A few weeks ago I reviewed Affinity Photo 2.6 and described the relationship between the Develop and Photo Personas as being broadly similar to the relationship between Lightroom and Photoshop.

That holds in the broad sense, but diving deeper into Affinity photo and taking into consideration Adobe's development of Masks in Lightroom, I decided to adjust my workflow in order to take advantage of the fact that the Affinity Photo persona is much more flexible than the Develop persona.

The major change I made was to treat the Develop persona as a preprocessing stage, preparing the image for editing in the Photo persona. This apparently simple change had the effect of unleashing the real power of the photo persona. By concentrating the Develop persona on delivering a technically perfect file to the photo persona, much more choice is available.

This video takes us through the process. Diifferent photos may require different actions in the Photo persona, but as a basis to get the most power out of Affinity and to move on to effective use of Masks with Layers, this workflow is excellent.

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0:00 Intro
1:58 Workflow from RAW to Layers
4:08 Develop Persona - Choosing the Right Output
05:58 Develop Persona - Cropping
08:13 Develop Persona - Choosing Color Profile
08:45 Develop Persona - RAW Assistant Presets
09:47 Develop Persona - Exposure, Black Point & Brightness
11:22 Develop Persona - Apply Lens Correction
12:01 Develop Persona - Remove Chromatic Aberration
12:34 Develop Persona - Pre-Sharpening & Noise reduction
14:17 Commit Changes and Send to Photo Persona
15:07 Photo Persona - Adding and Fine Tuning a Levels Layer
17:15 Photo Persona - Adding a Selective Color Layer and Fine Tuning
21:07 Photo Persona - Adding contrast with a Curves Layer