What we need is native previews for smoother operation. In the video he describes a sort of workaround, but there are problems with this approach: a) it's too time intensive for a pro studio where you need an efficient and smooth workflow b) even if you establish the small JPEG at the top of the stack he describes, you won't necessarily know whether or not you've actually saved an AFPHOTO version of a given file without opening the stack. A huge reason for this in my opinion is the lack of thumbnail previews. For now, it IS the best FREE file manager available for its broad feature set. But to be honest, its still not satisfactory for use with Affinity products. I'm a pro photographer, and thus far, I stick with Adobe Bridge CC as my file manager pretty much 95% of the time. Here's a YouTube video about using it with AP I'm not a photographer so I'm not sure how well this solution will work, but apparently Adobe Bridge is (and always has been) free. But since this is also missing a lot of features, it's nowhere close to perfect for as long as it has been around. Since I'm paying for CC anyway, I'm currently using LR but I don't really care for it. One thing I do really like about it, which has nothing to do with the development process, is the ability to create an online gallery and have people vote, pick or download images. I've used Lightroom, Aperture and Capture One in the past and each one always felt like they were missing something. Of course this is not always possible, but being able to save most of the basic changes in the RAW file, XML or DAM database is a huge help. I do most of my image corrections on the RAW file itself, so that I don't need to create another psd/tif or whatever file. Mostly I'd love to be able to view, metatag and process batches of RAW files. The file browser of macOS is getting better at stuff like that, but still to change EXIF data, I'd love to be able to stay in the affinity environment. Usually, though, I can move through the images faster than I can Rate them.I just came on here to suggest some sort of DAM (actually image management and RAW processing) to be able to lose Lightroom - another missing link to avoid CC completely for a large number of people - and then I found this poll, so I chimed in. If you have a large number of large images in the folder you are culling/rating, IMatch can usually go through them pretty quickly, but as you've seen there it's possible to see some caching delays (look for the progression of green check marks when using the Viewer). Expect some improvements from DxO in the future, but managing metadata is much more easily and completely handled in IMatch.). This is much easier/simpler than trying to use DxO to select images for processing (DxO PL 3 does read Ratings, but as you've seen it doesn't yet store Ratings changes in a way that other applications can read. From there, I drag and drop selected Ratings images for processing onto a Favorite for (usually) DxO. There I do all my preliminary metadata entry including Rating, geocoding, renaming/etc. My workflow is similar to Mario's, except I usually directly drop images from a memory card directly into a camera|date based folder structure. others also follow a similar software path as you do. That workflow has suited me for many years. and this data and then available for any external software such as online galleries, stock photo databases, etc. I write all metadata back to the JPG images as well so they contain a full XMP record of my hard work. I rarely go back to my original RAW images so the database is now perfect. searching, exporting, viewing, sharing, etc. My IMatch database is then used for all Image related things moving forward. Import Finalized JPG's into Imatch to rate, keywords, Geo Tag, export to online galleries, etc.Import RAW files from disk to Capture One: Edit RAW images, further cull and Export full resolution JPG's to Mirrored Drive (same filename/paths).Import RAW images from multiple cameras SD cards using Photo Mechanic: Import, rename by date/camera model, file by Year/Month, Cull obvious bad shots.Having said that, my workflow involves only including finalized JPG images in my IMatch database so I do all my initial culling outside the software so I don't have to deal with extra RAW files and the processing of them. honestly! Culling can be done through the Viewer, via the preview panel as well as by using just very large thumbnails in the File Window. You will find lots of variety in workflows as there is no "one shoe fits all" for everyone. I would suggest doing a quick search on "workflow" as this topic has been discussed many, many times over the years.
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