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(Existing owners can download the latest update free of charge.) Here are the release notes for Affinity Designer replace.me A free beta test version was released to the public on 9 February The initial stable release of Affinity Photo, version , launched on the Mac App. For additional information about Affinity Photo and to download a free trial, click here. Tags: affinity, performance, software-news, update.
 
 

 

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Patrick Connor Posted October 25, Posted October 25, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Moderators Featured Comment. Author Moderators Featured Comment. All Readers This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement. Studio97Visuals Posted October 25, I can adapt some PS tutorials to AP but it takes time and some things are just different.

AP is powerful. As for myself, I am a fan of PhotoLine which has some features that are just great but again they do not have the training material. Using Photoshop or Indesign feels like something form 20 years ago. Classic and good. It’s affinity that feels new and has features that just blow away Adobe at nearly every level.

Switched to all the Affinity apps from Adobe recently and am doing fine. Affinity does need a Bridge equivalent, or at least plugins for Explorer and Finder. Photo needs better Wacom support. The problem with most raw developers is the lens corrections. It looks like this uses Lensfun and from my experience they are slow and the number of profiles isn’t that great. Capture One has the ability to read Sony’s lens profile corrections directly from the RAW file so I never have to worry about a lens not being supported.

DXO has a vast library of corrections and Lightroom is pretty good about keeping up to date. I would say those are the big three. Capture One is missing a lot of Nikon lenses, unfortunately. I think I showed him 6 pairs. He picked one correctly. Not that it was necessarily improved or better but that it was lens corrected. It looks like Affinity Photo and Photoshop are equivalent competitors.

One may be more elaborate than the other, some functions may work better in one, and other functions in the other. There may be differences in speed, and there are definitely differences in price. Depending on your needs, personal preference, and the money you want to spend, you may choose for one or the other.

However, when it comes to the iPad version, any attempt to compare is superfluous. Photoshop lags hopelessly behind. Brilliant to see Affinity making core improvements to their software, something that Adobe does not have the competence or inclination to do – ever – while those monthly Cash Cow taxes keep rolling in.

As they are going get paid their rent regardless, why would they have any motivation to improve their software? They would rather buy other companies and kill the competition with their virtually unlimited subscription revenue.

Yes, for me this latest improvements on the core levels of the whole Affinity Suite is a strong indication that Affinity Serif is in for the long haul. Hopefully they have great things waiting in the wings for us users and this overhaul was a necessary first step in order to bring out new exciting features later?

Processing large amounts of images is not feasible with Affinity. You will quickly want to “develop” your RAW and continue editing in the actual Photo application, the Photoshop clone. It definitely could. As to library feature being absent, that is not entirely accurate, as you can download the free Bridge application, select a photo, and then select the “Open With” Affinity Pro.

I do this regularly without any problems. But be warned that as good as Affinity Pro is getting, loading Plugins into the application still remain a painful proposition. Possible, but with unnecessary difficulties. It depends on your workflow? Raw files will open in Affinity Photo develop module Persona for initial edits and with one click transport your image into the Photo app proper for further tweaks, should you want to. You can still get perpetual licenses with C1.

But the problem is they upgrade the software so often it’s not that much different from a subscription unless you’re ok not having the latest and greatest. I was using LR 5. For eg z RAW files are not supported not because they dont, but they purposely disable it. Thats spells bad consumer centric culture breeding in at C1. I would love it if its enabled and listed as not supported, instead of having users exif-ing the raw files as fuji or phase one.

To be honest you cannot compare the two, except for converting RAWs, but C1 is far superior in that respect. I’m more than happy to have left the subscription slavery Adobe has all of us pushed us into! Affinity Photo is as powerful and in some for me relevant processes even better and more intuitive than Photoshop. I use Pixelmator, now also Pixelmator Pro for all my modest imaging and even design needs for last years.

I used to work on Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker now discontinued , Indesign, but no longer use any of Adobe apps, even free ones. The only thing is that I still have not found ideal replacement for vector drawing. For video, Final Cut Pro, for audio Logic Pro X are my main apps, really need nothing to add, for some additional work Apple Motion though I still need to master it well.

I just love the integrated workflow Affinity have created between their apps! I’ve been photo and video editing for a long while, but I’ve learned more about post and photography in the 2 years I’ve used Affinity than all the years before with PS and other stuff. I once looked at the Adobe APIs as a developer, and it was obvious that their software was nasty bloat at that point, and I avoided them ever after.

Of course, they have huge resources and a very capable product, but I’m delighted to have such a capable alternative, one that challenges your thinking, which also – at least for me – alters how I see the photo acquisition process as well as post. I’m far more aware of the compositing and figure-and-ground aspects than I ever used to be, and that helps. Funny – I could care less about a programs “bloaty” API’s, so long as the functionality is good..

I’m glad there are other programs on the market for choice.. The API reveals the nature and quality of the code behind it – awful in this instance, and I avoided doing any development because it wasn’t worth the time. Of course, PS has the functionality, but it has huge money behind it – I’m delighted there’s an alternative.

I ask again – if the software has the functionality and performs well.. I think most folks just hate Adobe because it has “huge money behind it” There are fundamental issues, well reported by customers, that waste people’s time every day, but Adobe do nothing about it.

Their set response to most issues is to deny there’s an issue and then do nothing about it. I use freeware, where if you raise a bug it is often sorted by the next release, and if it’s critical it’s sorted in days.

Adobe’s priority is to earn as much money as possible while doing as little work as possible. Unfortunately, Cash Cow subscriptions keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Been using Photoshop and Indesign along with other Adobe “fringe apps” for over 20 years I’m thrilled paying a small subscription free each month for top level software that keeps my business running I suppose if I was an amateur or using software for non-business purposes, then alternatives that are cheaper or free would indeed be much more important!

I really like Affinity apps. But I think a hurdle they face is that Photoshop and InDesign are so fantastically complex that, having climbed the mountain with Adobe, a lot of people want to give themselves a break from “lifelong learning”.

There should be more to life than birth, tutorials, more tutorials, and death. No doubt the people who make the tutorials, disagree. Same for the page books and 9 page lists of “shortcuts”.

That’s a lot to learn all over again. Lightroom is a bit different. You can make it complicated if you wish, but the basics of what it does, and the need for them is pretty simple. You don’t need to know a lot to start using LR, which is atypical for Adobe. I wouldn’t dream of looking at any other software because I am way too invested in the knowledge that Indesign requires Same with Photoshop but a bit less so since so many of these other programs have borrowed the same function and shortcuts.

But, Indesign is a different level of knowledge altogther.. Where I work, we are working daily to convert all our documents out of Adobe’s proprietary closed formats. Once you look around to see how other large organizations are doing just this including Microsoft you soon realise the old-fashioned absurdity of being locked-in to Adobe’s heavy and expensive formats. Fuego6: Having said that I still went along and switched to Affinity Suite five years ago. I just felt I had to find out if staying with Adobe was starting to hamper the joy in what I was doing on a daily basis.

There is lot to be said for being completely familiar with the tools we use so we can concentrate on the more creative aspects of our work. But at some point we also need to try new avenues and inputs in order to broaden our creative abilities. A change of work environment, such as a new set of creative softwares can do that to our work-life. Karma – I am quite flexible when it comes to software choices but I just don’t see the need to switch from Adobe Indesign at this point.

It is completely familiar to me which means I get the job done faster and possibly better for the client. It is an industry standard – as such I can be assured exported PDF’s and ePub files are acceptable at the myriad of printing vendors and 3rd party aggregators my clients frequent for their work. Finally – it is forward compatible I so much want Affinity to succeed.

This is my only hope of dumping Adobe subscription but I find the Adobe photography package difficult to shake off. The LR availability is the main factor- the PS is a bonus. I too find PS to be the best out there, but not LR. Much prefer to use PS ACR after it received the incredible update that vastly improved the ergonomics and usability of the program.

LR’s ergonomics appear stuck in time, as Scott Kelby pointed out extensively in a recent program, amongst many other lacking features. Love the product but every release I report the same bug which for three 3 major versions and many minor versions the bug has not been fixed. So with this program you just have know where to step if there is a bug because it seems they are not eager to fix them.

Without naming the bug this comment does not mean much. Perhaps it is a low priority area that doesn’t affect many users? I use AP since now and love it after some initial learning.

Each time I have to select it. I don’t know what bugs you are affected by. For me, Affinity Photo on Windows crashes on various memory-intensive operations such as focus stacking or panorama-merging many images. But I’ve found that for these operations there are more specialised tools such as Helicon Focus that do a better job, faster. So I’ll live with it. Perhaps that is asian for Apple? What’s the story there? Joking aside, it doesn’t seem a major bug tho.

If the bug impacts you then it is pretty relevant. I have had Affinity pretty well from the initial beta, but still find it mysterious compared to Photoshop that I have used since I have CS5 I buy Affinity because it is British and wish to support a British product, but I have problems even using curves or levels.

I use the the black, white and midtones pickers a lot in Photoshop, but cannot find them in Affinity. I must look up some tutorials! There is a picker in the Curve tool that can pick any tonal value in your image. The trick is to click once on your image with it and then move it up or down a tiny bit in order to show up as a point on the curve. Thanks I had found that earlier, but it is not very helpful.

Also it does not happen in the develop persona. The ability to find the black and white points as well as a auto mid tone would be more handy. The auto colour with a click seems good, but that is a different tool, white balance. There is no need for a white balance if the curves were more comprehensive and dare I say it more Ph.. I really can’t see the point of the persona changes either. I will still support it. But that needs to work on smartphones as well as tablets and up to high end desktops.

And of course such a solution would require a subscription! It needs to go beyond that to become useful. It needs to get a solid DAM component, especially if they persevere with their own storage format…. Photoshop has unrivaled capability and it’s designed for professional users.

Affinity’s products can be used by professionals, but it’s currently a better tool for hobbyists like myself who don’t need to sync across multiple platforms and are willing to use a different piece of software for a DAM. The thing is that Adobe really does not offer any kind of appealing sync even for professionals. Even if you were willing to go all-in and pay their crazy prices for enough cloud storage to keep your library, the version of Lightroom that works with that library is crippled and there are still too many odd workflow glitches involved in trying to use both versions of Lightroom with one library to make it appealing.

It boggles my mind that a company like Adobe ended up with such a disorganized product lineup. I look at Apple Photos and how seamlessly and quickly it works and wish Apple would just revive Aperture.

The smart previews are large enough for almost anything. The only downside is the inability to sync keywords. This cannot be done without impacting storage, and keeping this sequestered from the main library, while possible, is too fiddly for most people.

It is just not an experience that prioritizes the needs of the user. Having a more reasonable storage purchase plan would eliminate the issue – right now it is outright price gouging. Thanks for letting me know. I currently use Affinity Photo and Capture One. As a hobbyist it’s more than adequate. I don’t have clients and deadline pressures.

There may come a day when Adobe finds itself in hot water. The subscription model is really designed to benefit them — they don’t need to convince you to upgrade anymore. Photoshop is a mature product and every new feature they add is of less marginal importance. It’s simply getting harder and harder to come up with the next “must have” feature that will drive a consumer to upgrade.

With a mandatory subscription, they don’t have to worry about an upgrade path. This leaves an opportunity for Affinity to catch up, build out it’s ecosystem and eventually challenge them. I would really love to see that. It is amazing how slick and mature Affinity feels – it puts the Adobe products to shame, honestly.

They get closer and closer each year to being not only a viable alternative but a legitimately better product. Both are very good apps.

I had use photoshop since it’s first release so I got familiar with the GUI. Sure, many functions defied logic which was very frustrating. Once I got a grasp on the terminology it became better. I wouldn’t define my workflow as a power user though so I found myself constantly having to search, sometimes very deep into PS tutorials and spending hours to solve rather simple functions. I always thought Adobe intentionally incorporated complexity to justify the cost.

Affinity has done similar things but also changed some of the terminology which added yet another layer to the complexity.

With PS I guess they were entitled to developing the language used but seriously, I don’t understand why Affinity needed to change some of it.

After a couple years with AP I still don’t understand what most of the icons at top of window mean. People keep comparing it to Photoshop. Now, Photoshop is a graphics editor with some photo functionality, just like Gimp.

Not a photo editor, in spite of its name. Yes it is a photo editor, with many of the tools also found in photoshop, which is also a photo editor. Both develop raw files, accept photo editing plug-ins and have a high degree of ability to significantly develop photos, more so than lightroom, saying they’re not photo editors is simply incorrect, they do both photos and graphics.

To me it’s a photo editor with very good graphics functions. It has a lot of typical photo function, focus stacking, panorama, HDR, stacking in general, astro. I bought all 3. To me a photo editor is a tool that is optimized for enhancing photos. To me Lightroom is a photo editor.

To me a graphics editor is an image manipulation tool that either can create or modify images, graphics art or photos. Like PS. So, according to me, it seems like Affinity might be a graphics editor with photo support. Did I get that right? It is important for the work flow. In a photo editor you shall be able to enhance images at a rather high pace.

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