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Now the two images are perfectly lined up with each other.Įven if you used a tripod, I still recommend you put both images into a stack, because a tripod can sometimes shake a little while you’re taking a photo.Īfter stacking photos, Affinity puts them inside of a group. Then press Add, and select the two images. Just come to File, and then down to New Stack. To do, we can use Affinity’s stack feature. To begin editing our Flambient photo, we need to bring the two exported JPEGs into Affinity Photo, and make sure they’re lined up with each other. If you want, you can skip all of this and get the JPEGs here. We won’t be covering the Develop Persona here, but if you’re interested in learning more about it, we have an entire chapter dedicated to this persona in our beginner’s guide to Affinity Photo.Īfter you’re done editing the images in the Develop Persona, press Develop, and then export them as JPEGs.


Then you can open the RAW images in Affinity Photo, and edit them from the Develop Persona. For this example, we’ll use this sample image with a flash, and this sample image without a flash. This is best done while using a tripod, to make sure the photos are in the same position. To make a Flambient photo, you first need to take two pictures of the room, first with flash, then without.
