That’s great, but if you’re using AP as your external editor for LR, why are you using Photoshop to generate files?
G > On Nov 3, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Godfrey, then it must have been a year ago then. They were pushing the > impending release with a big social media and blogging sites campaign > and urging folks to give the beta a test as it was to be released > shortly. > > > You don't _make_ a layered file in Lightroom. You receive one back > into Lightroom from an external editor, like Photoshop. > > Example: starting in Lightroom with a DNG file in your library, you > invoke Edit-in Photoshop. That sends the file to Photoshop where it > appears as a single layer in a freshly opened file. > > You edit this. Create some adjustment layers. Now Save. > > That sends the edited copy of the file back to Lightroom as a layered > TIFF where it appears in the catalog as a new file. I stack that with > the original for less confusion. > > If you re-edit that edited TIFF you will find that the entire thing is > there intact with all layers, meta info, etc. > > Clear? > >> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:18 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> >> wrote: >> >> Since Affinity Photo was still in beta release in mid-spring of 2017 and >> didn't go final until after August 2017 far as I can tell, I doubt you were >> working with the "final beta" if it was a couple of years ago. >> >> I don't really understand the workflow that your comments propose. I'm not >> entirely sure how I make a "layered TIFF" or "layered PSD" file in Lightroom >> to begin with. Lightroom's use of layers is internal. ?? >> >> But for sure, if it's all of Photoshop that you want, just use Photoshop. >> >> G >> >> >>> On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm certainly willing to update my opinion about Affinity's >>> capabilities, but I was unable to complete a review of it myself when >>> I tested their final beta a couple of years ago. >>> >>> The first issue I had was completely wacky colour shifts when I >>> imported a file from Lightroom. I assume they have fixed that by now. >>> >>> But the utter deal-killer was that although you can configure it as an >>> external editor to Lightroom and it will import a layered TIFF, it >>> cannot write a layered TIFF (or a PSD) back to Lightroom. So if I used >>> it as an external editor I lost all my carefully constructed layers >>> when the file was flattened to save it back. That is 100% useless to >>> me as my files often make a few round trips to the external editor >>> while I make revisions, or in the case of long retouch, save >>> checkpoints or continue editing later on. >>> >>> This is till the case as far as I can tell from googling. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 11:31 AM Mark Roberts >>> <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Bruce Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 7:03 AM Jostein Øksne <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Other developers are improving their products too, so essentially, if >>>>>> they can do now what CS6 can do, it's what I need it for. >>>>> >>>>> I can say with assurance that they do not. The majority of these >>>>> products are going after the Lightroom market >>>> >>>> Affinity Photo is not going after Lightroom, it's definitely a >>>> Photoshop replacement. I have it and it's *very* good. Probably a step >>>> up from Photoshop CS6. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>>> www.robertstech.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
