AFFINITY PHOTO: STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOW BY BATCH PROCESSING RAW FILES AND USING MACROS

[@stevejacob4375]

just a reminder, switch back to PIXCEL LAYER in OUTPUT when completed for continued normal post processing, hope this helps. thanks again for the tutorial.

[@williamtravers4822]

I followed your video to day. After opening the raw file in affinity, I checked that the raw embedded option was active. I then checked the Develop button and went directly to the photo persona. I open the macro and pressed record. I then clicked on the Develop persona and got the alert ‘Please end your macro recording session before using Develop’. In your video, you want seamlessly to the develop persona. How is this possible? Please point out where I might have gone astray.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

You seemed to have done things correctly. Not sure why the error is still showing. Are you using Affinity Photo 2?

[@brianleeming8895]

Me too. I'm running Affinity Photo version 2.4.2 on Windows

[@jamesmhango2619]

The problem remains unresolved. Ontop of that my output is grey out to pixel layer

[@brianleeming8895]

I had a similar problem. By chance I discovered that Trent's method worked if I double clicked on the small image icon on the Background layer. I am running v 2.4.2 on a Windows PC.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thanks for the tip

[@bryanvaldez1]

This is awesome. I've been looking for this for some time now. Also, thanks to the people in the comments, I was able to fix the issue when moving back to the develop persona.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

yes didn't know affinity had this. Glad it was useful!

[@stevejacob7158]

Thanks again, I have successfully followed your tutorial step by step and found that it works perfectly and does exactly what I wanted. This will be really useful.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

You're welcome!

[@smbishop63]

Thank you, is exactly what I was looking for! I also had to double click the photo to get back to the Develop persona.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Glad it was helpful!. A bit quirky implementation.

[@stevejacob7158]

Thank you, that is so useful. Also thank you for delivering your tutorial in such an easy pace to follow. I have been wanting to do this for some time now and you have showed us how.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Glad it was helpful! I think Affinity is unique in having this type of functionality

[@LeeRaldar]

Since I discover burst mode I have been looking for this for a couple of years, thanks so much 😉✌

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Yes dealing with all these brackets is truly a challenge!

[@galkaruslan]

Thank you! Affinity should pay you for this video, if not I will be using the other solution

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Your welcome! Yes they should make more tutorials on these less prominent but still useful topics

[@rbphotographychannel]

great one!

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Glad it helped!

[@need2chill]

thank you

[@takebetterphotos8132]

You're welcome

[@buenavidaproject]

Please help me understand where to find "Photo Library" is this a third party extension?

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Hello I'm not sure what photo library you are referring to. But I never used any third party plugin. Let me rewatch the video.

[@justalittledaf]

great job

[@takebetterphotos8132]

thanks!

[@MK-ni6gs]

Excellent tutorial!

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thank you!

[@AS-rk5vb]

Does Macro work in Affinity Photo 2 for IPad?

[@takebetterphotos8132]

iPad doesn't have macro as far as I'm aware

[@AS-rk5vb]

@@takebetterphotos8132 You’re correct. It’s too bad. Would have saved users a lot of time.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

I think apple would prevent this functionality for security and performance reasons unfortunately

[@user-rq3cc2td8r]

I shoot macrophotography. Can I next batch export the .afphoto files into a file format that I could then focus stack? What would be the easiest way to do that?

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Hello, didn't really get the question...however for macrophotography, my understanding is batch processing, would be useful if you shoot RAW and want to perform RAW tone adjustments on all your brackets before you actually focus stack. If you are already shooting jpegs, don't think there is any benefit in batch processing.

[@user-rq3cc2td8r]

@@takebetterphotos8132 Yes, that’s right 🙂 But Affinity won’t recognize AF files for focus stacking. So after I have batch processed them, can i also batch convert or export to a file type (.tiff, for example) that i can later stack with? Just to save time in exporting them individually.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

I see. Actually in the video I demonstrated it exporting to BOTH AF files and jpeg. I believe it can export to tiff as well. So it will save time exporting individually.

[@user-rq3cc2td8r]

@@takebetterphotos8132 THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@user-rq3cc2td8r]

@@takebetterphotos8132Yep, you just saved me a lot of time and my final stacked photo looks better now! Thanks again. =8^)>