Excellent thankyou

Which video of yours do you recommend for working in hdr in affinity photo? I know in DaVinci resolve, I have my images come in as linear raw, then I adjust exposure, then switch to log, do other modifications, then switch it back to linear gamma. I'm not sure how to do a similar type of workflow in affinity. Thanks!

What did you use to create your calibrated light frames? How do you stack mono data shot over several nights with each channel with their own flats?

I'm using this video to learn and understand V18 of Jame's macros. Some macros in this video are no longer used in V18 and there are some new macros not mentioned in this video. I'm new to Affinity with very little experience in image editing . It would be nice to have some updated videos. Learning these macros isn't that cut and dry. I'm finding I need to find other Affinity videos from other content providers to explain basic features, like masking, levels , curves etc that help me understand the macros. I'm trying to figure out what macro to use and when in the workflow and when to stop working on the image. My only other processing experience is with Siril. I'm just using a OSC. Some of the macros are for mono. I can use the Extract OSC Layer to Mono RDB macro and maybe learn some of this other macros. I don't know what the acquisition of Affinity by Canva means for the astrophotography feature for Affinity. I hope Jame can come back and resume making astrophotography content.

Hi there, I have recently purchased Affinity and am trying to download the Macros, I'm completely computer illiterate 😢 can you provide a link, those that I selected don't seem to work as you described by dragging it onto Affinity, it says it's done but don't see a library in the window drop-down. Thanks for your help

After a catastrophic visit to a computer shop for a memory/hard drive upgrade resulting in a major "program" data loss, I ended up considering a different approach from Photoshop and perhaps a package that leant itself more towards astrophotography. At this point, "Google was my friend", I found your macros, watched your videos and have literally just gone and bought affinity photo. Above video was exceptional, lots of information to refer back to - I have just bought a Vaonis Vespera II smart telescope complete with a full compliment of filters (all 3) so there is lots of opportunities over the winter months to have a play. Again, thank you so much for your macros and also the tutorial - happy times ahead :)

hello. I can't find where to download the macros for affinity photo on your site. can you tell me where to go? thank you for your help

Thank you so much!

thanks for this video. Is there a keyboard shortcut to click the "Develop" button?

Hey James, really apriciate your content and your work. I have a question that has been bothering me for the past few days. I've read that Affinity can not display anything above 8-bit unless you have an HDR monitor, and you work with 32-bit HDR image. But those discussions on forums are dated by 2020-2022. Right now I'm using latest 2.5.3 version of Affinity. Question is, is there any way to see and work with 10-bits that my monitor supports? I'm just rendering products using blender and a lot of times there some soft gradients. They look disgusting in affinity, while blender compositor handles them well. My biggest dream is to edit my 16-32 bit .exr renders, without seeing those ugly gradients.

I don't have adjust brightness setting on mine bit looks totally different to yours... Sonoma 14.5

James describes how to take the bias and the dark frames, but he seems to breeze by how to take the flat frames. Anyone?

What system was used to take the original photo? telescope or tele lens?

Are these macros free to download

If 2 nights data are out of line similar to a mosaic, can I adjust the size of the output image or will it crop to the size of the first set of images?

WOW! This is brilliant... do the folks buying Pixinsight + Adobe know this? This is a powerful combination in Affinity. Its a no brainer switching and getting that one time purchase. Off to buy it.

Cant understand why in win 11 when pure raw4 passes the completed dng over to linked affinity on my system it doesnt actually open it like your showing.. I have to manually file-open .. Which seems to defeat the point

I just discovered this software. It looks really powerfull and may be good for me who is trying to live adobe.

Thanks James. I'm just starting on my Affinity journey, and loved compositing in photoshop. Your tutorial gives me hope

Great tutorial. Having an issue with selectively applying a mask after inverting and painting white color all I get is white I don't get the mask. Any ideas ?

Dear James, Thanks to your video I now have objective observable evidence that all the stars in the galaxy revolve around POLARIS as opposed to the NASA narrative that we're endlessly spinning around the sun. Thank you!

Thank you!!!! I had to disable true tone as well on my mac, but now no more lagging!

I find sharpening in PureRaw a lot more natural than Affinity.

I admire your technical knowledge and skill but It is just a bit too advanced for me!

This video cements the fact that I've only been using 1% of 1% of affinitys potential.

James I am new to astrophotography trying to find some help on debayring my tif files from my zwo camera 585 but getting no colour trying all options on pattern in raw files would you be able to help thank you

Do you have a tutorial how not to burn the center of the galaxy?? I have a session with andromeda, and every time I burn the center of the galaxy.

How did you link DxO PureRaw4 with Affinity Photo 2? I tried and I get an error saying the system can't access the file (AffinityPhoto2.exe).

I bought your macros simply for image stretching. I had no idea it could do all this other stuff as well! Thank you!

Awesome video! I purchased Affinity Photo specifically to edit my astro images - even before I purchased my astro gear. Because EVERYONE had tutorials using that OTHER software I just played around and experimented until I "fell" into a work flow that worked for me. BUT I never knew about the stacking and astro features until I upgraded to Affinity Photo 2 recently. Apart from my image acquisition, I do everything else in Affinity now. And now that I moved from a DSLR to OSC cooled Im on another learning curve. So I was so glad to see this and other astro tutorials you have done and new tools and ideas from this video I can practice with - THANK YOU

Brilliant video. Zero to hero

James, is there an "easy" way to create a mosaic in Affinity Photo? I find myself creating images in Pixinsight, stacking them and creating mosaics and then retouching the images in Affinity Photo. I would be nice to use one or the other. Thx, Dale.

Very interesting please could you do one on portraits.

James please, can you do a live stream on how to edit black & white street photography in different ways and for best results!

Many thanks. This is a great way of learning your methods, macros etc. The group stacking is really wonderful. I wish there was a FB AF astro group. The forum is ok but not so active.

Are you able to use this program for stacking with only light and dark frames, just light frames or do you need to have all of the above!

Question .... i have about 6 hours of data of the orion nebula taken using just my DSLR and 600mm lens (no filters) they are just straight photos in RAW from the camera /// can you tell me how i would go about creating the hubble pallet look using your macros please , huge thanks good sir :)

I have a camera with a 850nm filter fitted, is there a suggested B&W Workflow I can use?

Any tips on why my stacking keeps failing (Can't align images) only happens when flat files are included, yet I did once manage to use the very same flat files?

Bugga ; I need antidepressants after watching most of your videos James 😄 ---- why didn't I know THAT sort of thing? ! I couldn't keep track of so many macros !! Dodge and Burn ; one of the oldest tools from the darkroom and a tool not mentioned enough imo . I have always (from PS7) used a white or black or even colour ;) light soft (10% give or take) brush on a 100% opacity softlight layer and use multiple stroke to paint in the effect . I guess it's very similar to as I do in my old Lr5 ( so grad I didn't move past Version 5 --- I beatya there Adobe 🥳) Apart from maybe being "the younger" way , is your way greatly different in the final results ? I also add/have in macros a mask to make easier reductions I find using colour brushes is great for colour toning B+W files or even adding selective a colour to a colour file . For me; it just seems simpler than some of the "have to have/use" newer ways .

How do you download that plugin for affinity 😊

I love you videos with the lack of waffle. Thank you

This is a game changer! New to astrophotography and struggling with less user friendly options for stacking and processing, Affinity looks like the perfect solution, and it's great to have advice from someone who has so much experience with the programme. Thanks!

Brilliant, thank you!

Again an awesome video! To me it is almost imposible to apply such a bunch of techniques but I am really happy to grasp a couple of them and also be challenged by different sequences and steps to apply those live filters and move away from my confort zone!! Thank you.

I am new to Astrophotography and i have just dove into the rabbit hole of image processing, Your macro's have been a tremendous help along with your tutorial videos. Many thanks James.

What a great video, @JamesReston!! It has so many good tips and techniques, I’m going to have to watch it again. Are the “Scope Panel” and the “HSV” adjustment available in the iPad version of Affinity Photo 2? I did not see either of them.

Your streams are so interesting and I learn so much from you. On top of that you absolutely have very good skills as a teacher! I am also very happy with all the work you put in making great macro’s that I can use with my iPad. Biggest thanks!

Hi James, I found that interesting and very helpful. I like the style of repeating the techniques to reinforce the learning. Only a great tutorial keeps us engaged for nearly 2 hours. Thank you

Hi James, are you reducing the stars before running macros etc...? Thanks