Affinity Photo - Develop Persona 

This is a superb tutorial on Affinity Photo RAW development and understanding of tools and slider capabilities. Thank you very much for your wonderful explanation, time and effort you put into this tutorial. I look to you and Scott Williams Photography for the very best in Affinity Photo tutorials... much appreciated!

Chris -- I have viewed almost every tutorial I could find on youtube and some done by other sources plus reading of much of the help files. I am learning and leaning toward Affinity after learning about it from the ON 1 RAW forums and must say that this tutorial is by far the BEST!!!!! tutorial I have found. There are some other good ones but you explain things much better than most, you don't skip steps, you take your time and point out more than once the steps you take and slowly show the student where and why you click on items and you explain the purpose behind both how and what a tool is to be used and why your own techniques may or may not use a particular tool or palette. Thanks so much for the effort. I certainly plan to try to create a Wordpad document with the information contained so that when learning that information is completely at hand in written form as it is easy to forget something said in a video tutorial as Walt so succinctly advised. All in all you are a superb instructor and what I as a student and former Community College instructor look for and I will certainly look for more of your Affinity tutorials having already Subscribed. Congratulations and many thanks.

I am new to Affinity and it scared me at first but I found your tutorials, watched them and then subscribed. I am looing forward to many more of your tutorials as you explain things so much better than the Affinity ones and in a step by step format which is great for newbies like me. Many thanks and please keep making your videos.

Thank you, Chris. As others have said, you are a good teacher, explaining it well.

Hi Chris. Just want to say I really appreciate the time you spend on making these turorials. Very easy to follow and understand. Keep up the good work sir.

Excellent!! this is the best explanation of the "develop persona" I have seen. Thank you.

Brilliant tutorial which covers all aspects of the development persona. I never thought I could learn so much. Thanks.

Thank you for making these excellent tutorials. After using Photoshop for 20 years I purchased Affinity Photo yesterday. At first it was strange and unfamiliar. I watched a few tutorials by other users but was left with questions. After watching a couple of your tutorials I am confident that the switch was a very good one. Subscribed to your channel and looking forward to more of your excellent tutorials!

Absolutely brilliant - distinctly explained - yet easy to understand - accomplished tutor - very well done Sir

Great tutorial, I like your systematic approach. Thank you.

this is the best one I've never seen before 👌🏾

Thank you very much for your skills at communicating in such a way that even an old bloke like me can understand and learn Affinity.. Thank you.. Neville....

Thank you. I enjoy learning from your different tutorials on Affinity.

A truly fantastic tutorial Chris and thank you for posting it. I'm only coming across it now and I have hit the subscribe button and the bell. I use Affinity Photo a lot and I must say, I find it absolutely brilliant for my type of photography. I am learning all the time and I think that is good, so thanks again.

Thanks Chris. Again, as others have said, your explainations are the best I've found. As a new user of Affinity, I have been struggling. I will seek out more of your tutorials. Thanks :-)

Superb tutorial Chris, ive been struggling with Affinity Photo but this has really helped me. All the best mate, Kevin

your videos are a pleasure to watch, listen to and learn. cheers from berlin

Hi Chris, the best edit I've seen so far using this software.

Nice overall look at the develop persona. Thank you.

July 2020 - many thanks. A very good tutorial.

Great tutorial, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

Your a good teacher i have affinity on my iMac, going to get it on Windows 10 soon.

Extremely well done tutorial.

Great Job Chris

thanks a lot for this great tutorial...you have explained everything in detail...best tutorial ....

Great detailed tutorial, thanks!

Thanks Chris. Is there an affinity photo equivalent to Lightroom's Radial Gradient tool? I've only seen people do masks and that's too slow compared to a real radial gradient tool.

Wow, great Video. Thank you so much, i learned a lot

Dear Chris, I discovered Affinity in a recent version of Practical Photography and hence your tutorials, I have just watched this one and found it excellent. You covered all the items clearly and calmly and you were very effective. In particular, it was possible to find out not only how the package works, but what is available. I shall certainly watch some more of your tutorials. I was looking at buying PSE 2019 as I have used various versions of the package for at least 10 years, but there is little that is new apart from what seem to be gimmicks. What I would have liked to see was a more complete set of tools for raw editing as items like Vibrance and Clarity are missing, as well as masking. However, Affinity seems to have these. I had considered Photoshop CC, but I am not a professional and I hate the subscription model. Moreover, for me CC is over the top in many areas. Thus, Adobe is in a bind because to provide more power for occasional non-professional enthusiasts they would risk to undermine their professional market. Affinity does not have that issue. I have >22'000 photos catalogued in PSE (I really like versions and stacks), but as the Editor and Organizer in PSE are actually separate programs, I expect I can use the PSE Organizer with Affinity for editing. Many thanks, David Myers.

Absolutely appreciate your tutorials! Thank you! Please turn up the volume, really hard to hear you.Thanks,Hasudi

Great tutorial. Thanks

Thanks for the tutorial, there is an issue with the audio from the 14:40 min till the end..the audio prior to that moment was sufficient.

Brilliant tutorial, thanks

Thanks for the indepth review of the whole process. Towards the end you mention you click "Develop" to commit the edits you did on the raw file, which generates a whole new file. Are you able to go back and change any of the adjustments you made (in the Develop persona) or are they no longer editable?

Great video, thanks!

Thank you!

Chris, can local (that is, non-global) adjustments be accomplished in the Develop Persona, like only sharpening and making other adjustments to the flower itself? Good work on the tutorial; thank you.

Brilliant....Thankyou. ( you’ve got my sub n like👍

Hi Chris, thanks for that. Question: what is your recommended method for saving an edit as work in progress in order to come back to it later - maybe even several times. Thanks for the video.

ASMR meets Affinity Photo Tutorials Zzzzzzzzzzzz Nice and relaxed Your very straight to the point though which makes the video watchable. Great work Keep uploading. *Question Chris P Williams* I'm editing a photo and it's got bright lights in it and the glare is quite a distraction can you please direct me to a video tutorial in how to decrease the brightness of these lights? Thanks, keep uploading your incredible tutorials.

I find that if I do not apply the Tone curve in Develop assistant I have more latitude with the exposure slider and am able to recover much more detail from highlight areas such as clouds

Thanks, Any idea how to do a batch process to set of RAW files. is there a way to record all adjustments and apply to series of RAW of files?

Thank you.

What happens to the sound around 14:30? It's only coming out of one ear, very weird :)

Brilliant!

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