In Develop, you can adjust your white balance using a dropper, from the White Balance icon on the left of the screen, or you can play with the sliders. The crop tool doesn’t provide you with the same number of aspect ratio profiles as you might get on Lightroom, but it’s self explanatory, and the straighten tool is perfectly simple. I started in the Develop persona that is, after all, where your Raw photo lands when it’s imported into Affinity. Instinct told me that making people jump from one persona to the other isn’t efficient, but neither does remaining in a single persona to complete an edit feel in the best interests of the image. As an exercise in comparison, I evaluated the merits of both personae by editing a single image from start to finish in either Develop or Photo.
This semi-duplication of tasks feels like an oversight, especially when neither persona is comprehensive in its offerings. Alternatively, I could bounce between the two, but that felt unsatisfactory, too. At this point, I found myself having to make a choice did I want to remain in the Develop persona, which offers a split or mirror screen view that enables you to compare your edits against the original, or to head straight to the Photo persona where this dual view is only possible when making certain adjustments? The Develop persona offers most of the tools that I need for the majority of my edits, but the Photo persona can be slightly more user-friendly for others. Uploading a Raw image means that you’ll be taken to the Develop persona first. While I can cope without a cataloguing facility–my images are carefully logged and stored anyway–not being able to upload an entire shoot or holiday of photos for processing does make it time-consuming operation to select, upload, and process a series of photos. My first observation was that, unlike Lightroom, Affinity Photo doesn’t offer any cataloguing support and neither does it provide for the import of multiple images. And Export does the obvious and acts as a export hub for your photos. Develop is where your Raw images will first be processed. The Liquify persona is an advanced warping option that can distort, pinch, compress, and move pixels at a stroke.
Photo is a pixel editor, along the lines of Photoshop that affords an impressive number of layer-based editing options. Affinity Photo is based around four ‘personae’, or work modules: Photo, Liquify, Develop, and Export.
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