This saving in Affinity, Bruce... It reads to me like the problem has two components and I'm a little confused about what's what. For starters, you configured Affinity as an external editor in LR, right? Then you invoked Affinity from LR, which makes LR create a TIFF that is opened in Affinity. Hope I'm still on track. Then, when you finished the edit in Affinity, I imagine you saved the TIFF as is.
Here are the things I haven't quite figured out yet... Did the the saved edit of the TIFF then show in LR? If not, could the preview be refreshed to show it? And about the layers... Did Affinity preserve layers in the saved file? Jostein the slow learner... Den 4. november 2018 02.54.04 CET, skrev Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: >No, no. I was evaluating AP as a possible substitute for Photoshop. So >Edit-in-Affinity must be able to accept a TIFF file, edit that into a >layered TIFF, then write it back to Lightroom, just like Photoshop >does. Ie: the workflow expected by your regular Lightroom user. > >It can't do that. So ... /next/. > >On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 6:16 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi ><godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: >> >> 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. 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