First time editing RAWs in Affinity Photo. Shot in early May: a Woodberry Coffee bag on the kitchen table, one window, afternoon light already doing most of the work. All four at f/2.8, ISO 200.
The edit direction was warm and moody. Temperature pushed to 5400K, shadows pulled into amber rather than black, green channel walked back so the bag stopped reading neon. The lesson was mostly about restraint. Every slider that felt like an improvement had a second move that broke something else.
