How could a forty-dollar app compete with a powerhouse like Photoshop? The skepticism didn’t last long. I launched the new software with a skeptical mindset.

It was coincidentally on-sale so I purchased and installed it. Your Lightroom edits stay in Lightroom.I had looked at Serif’s Affinity Photo in the Microsoft Store before. But again the RAWs are provided as they were imported from the camera. You just cannot change your Lightroom edits afterwards and reapply the external editor's changes.Ģ) If an external editor has to use the RAWs directly instead of generated TIFFs, then a Lightroom plugin must be provided by the external tool, which passes the selected RAWs to the external tool. Additionally your image manipulation process becomes destructive at this point. What this means is:ġ) If you use 'Edit In' you automatically generate large additional files, which consume up your disc space.

Another tool just does not understand the Lightroom language and even if it understands it, it has not the code to reproduce the same results. This is the reason why Lightroom produces a 'pre developed' TIFF when it transferes the image to another tool via 'Edit In'. There are parts like star ratings or embedded previews which can be reused by other tools, but the other settings like 'Clarity' or your local adjustments cannot be used by other tools 1 to 1 because the underlying RAW engines are different. However the information in such a file has only a meaning to the tool which produced it, at least in full extent. As in any RAW development tool the non destructive edit operations are stored only in the catalog of the tool or in a XMP or similar sidecar file next to the RAW on disc. How does Affinity Photo handle Adobe Lightroom edits?

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