If you do your photo development and work in Affinity Photo and want to leverage the tools and effects in ON1, setup the plug-ins and you’ll have ready access to ON1 right from Affinity Photo. This workflow is for Affinity Photo centric editing. Changes made in Affinity Photo are “baked into” the PSD sent back to Photo RAW.Īffinity Photo With ON1 Photo RAW Plug-ins This is a destructive workflow, like most plug-in workflows. When you’re finished, there is a PSD file in the same folder as your original photo, with the edits from Affinity Photo. Photo RAW creates a new PSD file and sends it to Affinity Photo.Ĭlick Save in Affinity Photo, or exit Affinity Photo and save your work on the way out.

You may also expand the Copy Settings section and confirm the file format is PSD.Ĭlick Edit. Select Edit A Copy With Settings Applied to include any edits you have made in Photo RAW. Photo RAW adds the “Send To Affinity Photo” menu option for future use In the popup window, navigate to the Applications area (macOS) or Program Files (Windows) and find the Affinity Photo program. If you do not see an Affinity Photo option… Right-click and select Send To Affinity Photo, or use File > Send To Affinity Photo In the What To Edit section at the top, set the File Format to PSD. Open the Preferences and go to the Files tab. This option tells Affinity Photo to use PSD files as an intermediary file format, and that Affinity Photo can save its changes directly to PSD files it receives.

Launch Affinity Photo as a standalone application.Ĭheck the Enable “Save” over imported PSD files option.Ĭlick Close to dismiss the Preferences and exit Affinity Photo. There is a bit of prep work to do before your first round trip. If you’re using Photo RAW as your asset manager and primary editor, you can send selected photos to Affinity Photo for additional post-processing. This workflow is for Photo RAW centric editing. ON1 Photo RAW To Affinity Photo Round Trip

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