ScottinPollock
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I was browsing their site and this is an easy approach to blend different exposures without the need of going HDR. It remains completely natural.
https://vimeo.com/135570308
https://vimeo.com/135570308
ScottinPollock
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Really liking the interface; I feel more productive than in PS (although I haven't used it in years). Here is a composite I did for one of the weeklys.
I still used an old version of PS up to some months ago but Affinity does feel easier to work with, at least for the majority of what I do.
What I can do with the layers and blending required smart objects and such in PS while here I simply apply all settings and that's it. It's as simple in its approach as can, or should be. The live-filters are pretty amazing too. It's great to be able to apply several filters and still be able to change something here or there and see all simply adapt to those changes. My brush preview is fantastic too and the fact I see everything directly applied and no longer need to either check a preview or wait until it applies before really seeing what I did.
All in all I'm impressed by this program.
What I can do with the layers and blending required smart objects and such in PS while here I simply apply all settings and that's it. It's as simple in its approach as can, or should be. The live-filters are pretty amazing too. It's great to be able to apply several filters and still be able to change something here or there and see all simply adapt to those changes. My brush preview is fantastic too and the fact I see everything directly applied and no longer need to either check a preview or wait until it applies before really seeing what I did.
All in all I'm impressed by this program.
A fixed part of my workflow has become the frequency separation filter. I mainly use it to do my final sharpening. I dislike doing this in RT because I don't have the tools to accurately control what I want sharpened and more important; what not.
This is my shot without final sharpening:
I then apply frequency separation at the absolute minimum; 0.1 and delete the low frequency layer. It then functions as a high-pass filter but suffers the same issue as unsharp mask; nasty fringing at high contrast areas:
In this case it is very visible at the feet. I simply fix that by erasing everything I don't want to sharpen or what suffers fringing. Some more tweaking and I'm done.
It works much better than trying to do this in RT or any other RAW editor. They're simply not equipped to do this decently.
The previews here suffer scaling issues; to see them without click the large versions.
This is my shot without final sharpening:
I then apply frequency separation at the absolute minimum; 0.1 and delete the low frequency layer. It then functions as a high-pass filter but suffers the same issue as unsharp mask; nasty fringing at high contrast areas:
In this case it is very visible at the feet. I simply fix that by erasing everything I don't want to sharpen or what suffers fringing. Some more tweaking and I'm done.
It works much better than trying to do this in RT or any other RAW editor. They're simply not equipped to do this decently.
The previews here suffer scaling issues; to see them without click the large versions.