


I use it all the time now when I know I don't really need to keep a layered version. If you're making simple edits, there's a good chance that you will open the software, make your edits and save them again in the time it would have taken Photoshop to launch. Well, there's one really, but it's a big one: Speed. With that in mind you may be wondering what the advantages are to using Affinity Photo over Photoshop. Give the new preset a name, for example “Affinity Photo” and click the button labelled “Create”.Once you’ve set the necessary settings, you can save them as a new preset by clicking on the Preset pop up menu, and choosing: Save Current Settings as New Preset.For compression, it doesn’t really matter, but if you want to save some space set it to Zip.This won't actually scale the file, just set the DPI it would print at.

You can leave resolution at 240 or change it if you would prefer.If you want the maximum quality, you will want it to be 16 bit, however, if you’re short on disk space, you can leave it at 8 bit. I would suggest changing the bit depth to 16 bit.For colour space, I would suggest setting it to ProPhotoRGB or Adobe RGB.You need to leave the format as Tiff, although this should work just as well with Jpeg.You may want to change a few of these, but if you are happy with the way they are set, then skip ahead to step 13. The rest of the options should be set with the defaults.From the file dialog that opens, navigate to your applications folder if you’re not already there, and select the Affinity Photo application.Under the Additional External Editor section of the window, beside the entry for Application, click the button labelled “ Choose”.From the Lightroom Menu (on a Mac, or Edit on a PC) Choose: Preferences.If you've done this before for any other application then the process is the same. Setting up the Affinity Photo to work as an external editor is pretty straight forward. Setting up Affinity Photo to work as an External Editor In this post I'll show you how to set up Affinity Photo to work as an external editor, and I'll discuss some of the limitations and advantages of using Affinity Photo with Lightroom. However, there are significant advantages to using the software in lieu of Photoshop. This is pretty easy to set up but there are a few limitations unfortunately. I've been using it more and more lately, and that includes using it in conjunction with Lightroom as an external editor. I briefly covered Affinity Photo in a previous post, and it is an excellent Photoshop alternative.
