One thing to note is that when you open a RAW file you will start up in the Develop persona, which is similar to Adobe Camera Raw if you are familiar that.

Even though you might have used it for some time, there might still be doubt or confusion about certain features.

If you still havent downloaded Affinity Photo, you can do it here.

Affinity Photo Editing How To Get Started

Use These 15 Affinity Photo Tips To Get Started In this article, you will get 15 quick tips on how to get started with using Affinity Photo.

Hopefully, this will help you get a grip on some of the features or concepts in the Affinity Photo.

However, these tips should give you a good starting point for becoming comfortable with how to use Affinity Photo.

If you are ready to go beyond the tips in this tutorial, I suggest you take a look my Affinity Photo Workflow video course, that helps you to use Affinity Photo like a PRO.

Finding Your Way Around The Affinity Photo User Interface The user interface in Affinity Photo is divided into different workspaces or personas that are targeted to different editing needs.

This also means that while doing one kind of editing a lot of unnecessary featured are hidden.

The Photo Persona is used for image editing, applying adjustments, filters and creating selections, dodge and burning and so on.

Here you can change basic exposure settings and control lens corrections.

This is equivalent to Adobe Camera Raw The Tone Mapping Persona is used for remapping the tones in your images to create HDR images.

The Export Persona is used to create output from your image to various image file formats.

Buttons for the accessing the different Personas in Affinity Photo You will probably spend the most time in the Photo persona.

Once you select one of the tools, a context menu will appear at the top giving you further options to modify how the tool will work.

At the top, right under the menus, you have the top bar, which gives you access to the other personas.

The top bar is highly customizable if you want it to show extra options.

This is where you find the adjustment layers that you use to adjust the look of your image.

This is also where you will find the palette panel, histograms and the macro panel (if enabled).

At the bottom of the right side, you will likely find the layers panel along with a channel panel and the history panel.

If you are used to Photoshop, the Photo persona interface in Affinity Photo should actually be very familiar to you.

Should I Open An image In The Photo Persona Or In The Develop Persona Opening an image is quite straightforward.

You can open an image directly from with Affinity Photo by going to File Open.

Affinity Photo Editing Software Like Lightroom

You can also open your image from software like Lightroom or Adobe Bridge.