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For color correction of photographs, PhotoPea does a much better job than Affinity I feel.
After wasting 15 or 30 minutes trying to get Affinity to work for a photo touchup and color correction, I give up and use PhotoPea.
> This discount, alongside the six-month free trial, is potentially geared at soothing concerns that Affinity would change its pricing model after being acquired by Canva earlier this year. This doesn't sooth my concerns. Why should it, when it's literally them switching to a subscription model. Nothing in the article says otherwise. Do we believe they'll build the infrastructure to support a SaaS, then turn it all o…
For what it’s worth, the current version and version one were both designed in a way that they could be switched to a subscription model. When you make purchases from their store they’re available within the app based on your account, if you sign out you’ll lose access to them. I know with V1 you could manually download your assets, I’m not sure what the status is for V2 on that. I share your scepticism since the Can…
Does anyone have insight on how this compares these days to Adobe's suite? Seems pretty competitive, but I'm not sure if you're getting 80% of the features for 30% of the cost or 50% of features for 50% of the cost.
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Some features are “missing” or don’t work in a similar way. For example, Affinity Designer doesn’t have shape replication tools like Illustrator, manual copy paste is required. You also can’t trace an image to turn it into vector outlines. Just two things off the top of my head that I noticed because I used them extensively in Adobe Illustrator. So if you’re only using a subset of features you’re probably fine, but w…
I am thinking I have seen tutorials on tracing to vector, like maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480dGcU6ce4&pp=ygUVYWZmaW5pd... Or perhaps you are describing something else I am unfamiliar with the terminology. I've been going back to several tutorials on youtube for doing things affinity - as it seems to have the capabilities I am used to with the old photoimpact, it's just finding where / how is not the same.
This is just for the Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps. When will some organization agree to support Gimp, Inkscape, and Libreoffice Writer in the same capacity? I would already prefer the free apps.
Especially in a professional setting as a designer, the tools I use are chosen to make my life easier and enable me to work more efficient, and these really don't yet. From what I see, they aren't build for this setting in mind and cannot keep up with paid tools that have significantly more of a financial backing.
The one open-source outlier for me is PenPot, but even they aren't there yet in my opinion, at least not for my needs (and preferences).
First time I've realised that affinity is made by the same people who did serif photoplus. How does affinity compare to lightroom?
Affinity doesn’t have a comparable program to Lightroom. Affinity Photo does have a development mode, but it’s single file focused and more akin to Photoshop’s raw import tool than an app like Lightroom or Bridge. I think RAW support is much lower than Adobe supports as well, at least with Fuji I’ve had issues and only a few programs handle Fuji compressed RAW. One of Affinity’s strengths is a single compatible file…
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For what it’s worth, the current version and version one were both designed in a way that they could be switched to a subscription model. When you make purchases from their store they’re available within the app based on your account, if you sign out you’ll lose access to them. I know with V1 you could manually download your assets, I’m not sure what the status is for V2 on that. I share your scepticism since the Can…
Are you referring to some sort of asset marketplace with in-app purchases, or something like that? If so, I've never used it. I can say that you don't need to be logged in to use Affinity Photo, Designer, or Publisher: I don't even have an Affinity account, let alone do I need to log in to use the software. My recollection of buying their products is: you pay them over the web, they send an email with an activation c…
Maybe I’m wrong, my upgrade path was I just signed into my account through the app and it validated my version and downloaded all my assets (from the asset store).
HIGHLY recommend giving Affinity a shot, I've edited thousands of images with Photo and I can't imagine using anything else now.
This is just for the Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps. When will some organization agree to support Gimp, Inkscape, and Libreoffice Writer in the same capacity? I would already prefer the free apps.
While I'd love to use free tools, these really don't compare to the paid tools like the Affinity suite or Figma for example. Especially in a professional setting as a designer, the tools I use are chosen to make my life easier and enable me to work more efficient, and these really don't yet. From what I see, they aren't build for this setting in mind and cannot keep up with paid tools that have significantly more of…
A RHEL workstation license will provide basic OS support for it; if you crash it, they might wrangle with the project for you.
I bought Affinity and have tried to use it but really don’t find it anything like equivalent to the Adobe products unfortunately. For color correction of photographs, PhotoPea does a much better job than Affinity I feel. After wasting 15 or 30 minutes trying to get Affinity to work for a photo touchup and color correction, I give up and use PhotoPea.
For example you can apply adjustment layers and then use a blend curve (not just blend ranges) to moderate it. So if you want warmer shadows, it's as easy as using a colour temperature adjustment to warm up your image and then adjusting the curve so that it doesn't apply where you don't want it.
And you have cross-model curves: you can apply Lab curves to RGB model images without converting.
It has a Capture-One-style HSL wheel. It supports LUTs (and LUT inference!)
I can think of some things Photoshop does that Affinity Photo does not, but I've been using it nine years now for my photography and web work (along with Designer). I think for almost every normal Photoshop user[0] there's no reason not to use Affinity Photo instead.
[0] Unless you're particularly wedded to Lightroom, for which there is no Affinity alternative.