Great presentation, Robin. Thank you for switching to a different RAW converter (Affinity Photo), as I was a bit confused in the first Mini-Series with Capture One (which I'm not familiar with). In this video I more easily understood your overall strategies of RAW conversion and onward to B&W. I benefit from seeing different RAW converters, so if you want to change again in the third series, that might be beneficial to those who don't use Capture One or Affinity Photo RAW. You might want to point out strategies that could be used in previous RAW converters to make it cogent to those of us who don't use the other RAW converters. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I'm aware that each person has their own preferences and it's sometimes difficult to switch. I will be doing some more mini-series in the future and will look at other tools. Good to know you liked this one and found it helpful though.
One question is why do you not use the mouse wheel over the percentage box to give more of an accurate adjustment,rather than moving the slider with the mouse pointer?Otherwise great editing tutorials,keep them coming!!!!
While I use other RAW converters (that’s fine they are all pretty much the same re basic adjustment controls), I would have liked to see a histogram during your presentation. That would be helpful to follow along. Good job describing why you did what you did.
In all honesty, I don;t seem to use the histogram much when in Affinity Photo. I much prefer to work from the view of the monitor. I've also found the Affinity Histogram a bit of a pain recently since they changed it. It nolonger shows the RGB combined channel in white but as a dull blue and its hard to see.
Thanks for this Robin - very interesting - I do like Affinity Photo! BTW - bit off topic but I've just bought a Samyang 12mm for my X-T2 - you're so right, it's really great!! Many thanks for the heads up about the lens on your Lightweightphotographer
The Samyang is an excellent lens and a pleasure to use. I've had other Samyang lenses and they have always been good quality and sharp. Even then I was taken by surprise at how good the 12mm is on the Fuji camera.
Another great tutorial. I see you also have made a lot of tutorials for Lightroom. How do Affinity in Develop Persona compare to Lightroom or DxO? All of my RAW editing is done in Lightroom or DxO PL
The tools in the Develop Persona are similar to Lightroom but not quite so advanced (in my opinion). This is mainly in the area of creating selections. I also think there are a few bugs in the Develop Persona that need to be ironed out. Despite this, the quality of the RAW conversions from the Develop Persona are excellent, especially when editing Fuji RAW files. That's something Lightroom still struggles with and DxO doesn't support. In truth, Affinity is more of a replacement for Photoshop. Think of the Develop Persona as being a slightly more limited version of Adobe Camera RAW. That said, Affinity is always developing and advancing.
Yes I've seen some of your Lightroom - masking - videos , and don't think Affinity can do that for the moment ( haven't used develop persona since 1.65 ) I just love the Range mask in LR. DxO is another story. Sometimes it just outclass Lightroom.
No, Affinity Develop Persona isn't as capable as Lightroom. I would also place DxO well ahead of Lightroom for a number of reasons but it's not as easy to use. It also doesn't support Fuji X-Trans RAW files which is now my main camera.
Great work Robin, thanks for sharing the video. Top work mate.
Thanks. You're very welcome.
Excellent end result! I never knew there would be so many steps involved! Thanks for going through them all so painstakingly.
No problem and great that it's helping people.
Brilliant Robin - just what I needed! Thanks for your excellent tutorial.
Thank you. I'm pleased it was helpful.
Excellent tutorial Robin , thank you.
Thanks. Great to hear you liked it.
Great presentation, Robin. Thank you for switching to a different RAW converter (Affinity Photo), as I was a bit confused in the first Mini-Series with Capture One (which I'm not familiar with). In this video I more easily understood your overall strategies of RAW conversion and onward to B&W. I benefit from seeing different RAW converters, so if you want to change again in the third series, that might be beneficial to those who don't use Capture One or Affinity Photo RAW. You might want to point out strategies that could be used in previous RAW converters to make it cogent to those of us who don't use the other RAW converters. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I'm aware that each person has their own preferences and it's sometimes difficult to switch. I will be doing some more mini-series in the future and will look at other tools. Good to know you liked this one and found it helpful though.
One question is why do you not use the mouse wheel over the percentage box to give more of an accurate adjustment,rather than moving the slider with the mouse pointer?Otherwise great editing tutorials,keep them coming!!!!
Good question. The answer is very simple - I don't have a mouse wheel. I'm using a Mac with a Magic Mouse.
While I use other RAW converters (that’s fine they are all pretty much the same re basic adjustment controls), I would have liked to see a histogram during your presentation. That would be helpful to follow along. Good job describing why you did what you did.
In all honesty, I don;t seem to use the histogram much when in Affinity Photo. I much prefer to work from the view of the monitor. I've also found the Affinity Histogram a bit of a pain recently since they changed it. It nolonger shows the RGB combined channel in white but as a dull blue and its hard to see.
Thanks for this Robin - very interesting - I do like Affinity Photo! BTW - bit off topic but I've just bought a Samyang 12mm for my X-T2 - you're so right, it's really great!! Many thanks for the heads up about the lens on your Lightweightphotographer
The Samyang is an excellent lens and a pleasure to use. I've had other Samyang lenses and they have always been good quality and sharp. Even then I was taken by surprise at how good the 12mm is on the Fuji camera.
Another great tutorial.
I see you also have made a lot of tutorials for Lightroom.
How do Affinity in Develop Persona compare to Lightroom or DxO?
All of my RAW editing is done in Lightroom or DxO PL
The tools in the Develop Persona are similar to Lightroom but not quite so advanced (in my opinion). This is mainly in the area of creating selections. I also think there are a few bugs in the Develop Persona that need to be ironed out. Despite this, the quality of the RAW conversions from the Develop Persona are excellent, especially when editing Fuji RAW files. That's something Lightroom still struggles with and DxO doesn't support. In truth, Affinity is more of a replacement for Photoshop. Think of the Develop Persona as being a slightly more limited version of Adobe Camera RAW. That said, Affinity is always developing and advancing.
Yes I've seen some of your Lightroom - masking - videos , and don't think Affinity can do that for the moment ( haven't used develop persona since 1.65 )
I just love the Range mask in LR.
DxO is another story. Sometimes it just outclass Lightroom.
No, Affinity Develop Persona isn't as capable as Lightroom. I would also place DxO well ahead of Lightroom for a number of reasons but it's not as easy to use. It also doesn't support Fuji X-Trans RAW files which is now my main camera.