I was not aware integrating visual modifications was a non-standard practice as metadata are already embedded in my RAW files anyway. The same would obviously be true for PSD files being imported into Affinity you for these precious bits of information. Note that there are limits on how effective these imports are: in particular, as adjustments are done using different algorithms and different features are available in the different products, the adjustments made in Lightroom can at best be approximated by the other products, so they are unlikely to come out looking exactly the same in these other programs as they would have looked in Lightroom and may require some tweaking after the fact. In the meantime, DAM-like products I am aware of which offer functionality for importing a Lightroom catalog include On1 Photo RAW (which I believe requires Lightroom to be available during the import) and Capture One (which might not require Lightroom to be installed?). When programs do non-standard things to include adjustments and edits into XMP files, this is not likely to be compatible with any other programs than the one that wrote them, so I would not expect this to be a suitable way to transport data from Lightroom into another product. While there has been much discussion about the possibility of Serif releasing a separate DAM application (which might be more comparable to Lightroom) into the Affinity range, this has not happened yet, and we don't know what it will be capable of if it does happen.Īlso, XMP is mainly for the transport of metadata (keywords/tags/ratings) between programs, not of adjustments or edits. If you need to re-develop the photo you would start over with the RAW file in a new Affinity Photo document.
In Affinity Photo, after the images are developed in the Develop persona of Photo there is no benefit to using the RAW file again anyway for that photo, so you aren't really losing anything for already-processed photos to be in PSD format rather than working off the RAW image. You would probably be better off exporting PSD (Photoshop) files from Lightroom to import into Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo is more comparable to Photoshop than to Lightroom they are two completely different types of products and I would not expect that this will ever work.
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