Opening Images from ON1 Photo RAW 2026 in Affinity Photo Studio

who herein is using ON1 Photo RAW 2026? Your thoughts/Reviews on why I should purchase this cool looking app?

I've been using ON1 Photo RAW for all my routine photo editing for a year or more after using Affinity Photo for about seven years.

OPR is great for tone and color adjustments both overall and for specific masked objects, for darkening backgrounds, emphasizing main subjects, and highlighting miscellaneous people or landscape features. I've also used it to improve some photos I edited years ago with Affinity including some very low light photos of an infant granddaughter that were very noisy.

OPR is much faster and easier for these simple, general tasks. It's intelligent masking has encouraged me to make enhancements I found not worth the time in Affinity.

However, OPR lacks vector shapes, clipping masks, and advanced tools like Scope,.

The stacking function is not nearly so robust as that in Affinity, which allows one to stack multiple shots taken while panning the camera to make an action sequence. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/top…-panned-photos/

Text in OPR is primitive compared to Affinity's capabilities.

I return to Affinity for doing collages.

I am disappointed that Affinity 3 does not offer a compelling reason to stop using Affinity 2. Perhaps that will eventually happen, though it appears more advanced features will require a Canva subscription. Intelligent masking is just part of OPR's one-time license fee.

There is nothing in the OPR universe to compare to the rich variety of tutorials available for Affinity Photo from dozens of good teachers. Many of the ON1 official tutorials are hidden behind a paywall, as is a community forum for users. That forum requires you to use your actual name instead of an alias that could protect your privacy. As a result, few people submit questions and even fewer reply.

Should you purchase OPR? Depends on whether you have a computer tool obsession, as I do to some extent, and whether you are dissatisfied with Affinity's lack of intelligent selecting, as I was. It was fun learning a new way of doing things as I learned what intelligent masking is all about.

Adapting to ON1's way of doing things was more difficult than I anticipated. Having gotten over that learning curve, I do find OPR easier and more effective for my routine editing. But on this very day I am using APhoto 2 to redo a collage I made in APhoto a couple of years ago. I'm enhancing the individual photos with OPR, then inserting them into the collage in APhoto 2.

People often require a compelling reason to try new software. I described Granddaddy's Principles of the Compelling Reason on the old Serif Affinity forums.

Canva?!????!

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Each document should remember export location

I frequently work on several projects over a period of time, and I might export a PDF from each one regularly. Whenever I export a PDF from Affinity Publisher,…

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I don't know why this forum substituted a large graphic for two of my URL's. I did not see an option for text only display of URLs.