Standard raw processing toolsets include an HSL tool in one form or another for good reason.

Affinity is completely lacking and has no support at all for input profiles. Affinity doesn't even try.Īn ability to apply camera input profiles is a standard feature that we expect in a raw processor. Most raw processors at least attempt to do highlight reconstruction. First it does not save your work done in the Develop module (Persona) - YIKES!!! - and second it uses some raster layers in the main editor for certain tasks.Īffinity's raw Develop module has some other glaring weaknesses. Affinity monkey wrenches that with a forced destructive raw workflow in two ways. One of the common goals of a parametric editor like C1 or LR is a non-destructive raw workflow. Raw processing in Affinity is designed with the goal of moving an image into the raster editor so that using Affinity pretty much means choosing to use a raster editor. Click to expand.Affinity is a raster editor while C1 is a parametric editor.

Affinity photo raw editing