You can return and re-edit that as much as you like but that is not the same as returning to the raw data and you can't get the same result editing an RGB image that you can get working with the raw data. The afphoto file is the RGB image created from the raw file. C1 and LR are especially good at that but DarkTable does a respectable job and every commercial raw converter I know provides at least an attempt to do that except one. Highlight Reconstruction will use the data in the unclipped channels to extrapolate the missing data in the green channel. In DarkTable find the module called highlight reconstruction. So once in awhile you might nick the green raw channel but the blue and red channels are still unclipped. Don't clip the diffuse highlights but expose as much as possible. Of course there's that upper limit and you don't want to clip the high end. For example a basic principle of working with raw files is: More exposure in camera = better quality raw data. If you have an easy raw file AP will handle it. If the image is saved in as an afphoto you can return to that file as many times as you want and have those RAW changes there. Correct me if I am wrong but saving the file before before you begin other processing keeps all those saved changes? That is how I understand it. starting the process again from that data. Reason enough for me.ДЄffinity Photo does not alter the original RAW file in any way (it creates a new 'developed' image document in its native file format & does not erase or overwrite the original), so the only thing you lose is whatever work you have done in the Develop Persona to create an image from that raw data vs. You can't then return and tweak or change something. It applies the adjustments you set in the Develop Persona but in the process it then discards all those adjustments so that your work is not saved. How about not saving your work as a valid reason for not using AP's raw processing? When you click Develop in the Develop Persona Affinity converts your raw data to an RGB image. What am I missing? Is there a valid reason not to use AP for RAW processing? Do you use something different than AP to process your RAW's? If so, why? My own experience is that it seems fine to me? I have tried comparing RAW processing from darktable and AP and I see very little difference if any. Then, I see others who say just the opposite. I have been reading comments from AP users who say AP is not good for processing RAW images.

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