Affinity Photo
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- ESKEMA
Beta has landed. Haven't tried it yet but it looks good. Really glad to see great competition finally kicking in. As I said before, Affinity Designer is still rough around the edges but clearly in the right direction to become a great contender against Illustrator, let's see how this compares to Photoshop.
- _niko0
is this free or much cheaper than illustrator or PS? otherwise what's the point?
- ESKEMA0
Affinity Designer is 49.99€ so I'd say it's really cheaper than PS or Illy. Affinity Photo should probably get the same price range, though I'm just speculating here...
- not that much cheaper...and you get the entire adobe suite not just ps or illydoesnotexist
- not that cheaper? it's a one time payment, not a monthly subscription...ESKEMA
- Adobe software is $600/year +monospaced
- < which is still cheap for what you get.fadein11
- nobody said it was expensive, just more expensive than this. Are you trolling?ESKEMA
- dbloc0
pinteresting
- organicgrid2
Lazy-ass Adobe needs some good n competition, I'll give it try!
- oey0
I installed the Affinity Designer to play around but haven't had any time for it really.
I opened a few AI docs and played a around a little with the vector tool for two days and it was pretty okay.
But didn't do much more.Honestly would prefer to use Inkscape but...it's so fucking GRRRR!
Just that cursor with hand and arrow and the X11 shit...pisses me off!...
- lajj1
Let's see how quarkxpress handles those image files.
- Ianbolton0
Our studio are looking into this, but admittedly how much of a replacement can we expect for Creative Cloud. Adobe do seem to have pissed a lot of people off with their new price structure and lack of innovation. But what more do we want from photoshop and illy?
- Ianbolton1
Yeah, but the folks in the studio here prefer Quark. That maybe tells you how stuck I am.
- then you really should give affinity a go and see how it performs.ESKEMA
- set the studio on fire, or wipe the machines and throw it out the quark licenses. publisher?sted
- Early quark was great.... then they messed it up....vaxorcist
- they didn't mess it up, technology just evolved and they forgot to keep upIanbolton
- face_melter1
https://affinity.serif.com/blog/…
The Windows beta is available. Going to install it on my Windows tablet-thingy, see how it holds up as a sketching/painting alternative to Ps.
- wow thankssted
- A linux port would be cooool too.section_014
- cheers!klar
- monNom1
I tried the Affinity designer windows beta. I was pleasantly surprised. I think I could actually switch my workflow to it rather than Illustrator, as they've really managed to get pretty good feature parity with Illustrator, including the keyboard shortcuts. And then there's also a raster layer system that lets you work as though you're in photoshop while in the same document. It's actually a step ahead of Illustrator in that regard, and made me realize a previously unnoticed bugaboo of mine about needing to switch between apps.
I haven't spent too much time with it, but I'll be playing with it more to see what it can do and if there are any deal breakers, but first impressions have been really positive.
I'd encourage others to give it a shot. New tools can yield new results.
- i keep finding less and less reason to use illy. affinity designer very well thought out and fast compared to adobe products. will try affinity photo next.umbee54
- Photo is great as well. Very much a photography tool like PS+lightroom in one. Really easy to pick up.Text tool kinda sucks. I wouldn't recommend for UImonNom
- For UI you should use Designer, not Photo.ESKEMA
- I agree. Just wanted to make the point that it's not a quite a replacement for Photoshop, in that regardmonNom
- Right, but if we're honest, PS's text tool has never been *that* great, either, especially compared to Illustrator's or InDesign's.Continuity
- It only started improving with CC last year.Continuity
- freakpelican0
Anyone using the iPad Pro version? Saw a video that convinced me it was the first fully capable photo editor to take advantage of the iPad Pro. Definitely the most expensive piece of iOS software I've ever purchased and it's only 20bucks right now.
It's pretty strange geting out of the Adobe world and learning a completely new UI for the first time in years. Only a few days into owning it and im pretty impressed at the processing speed of most anything i've thrown at it so far.
- I have an ipad pro, but not the 9" which has the better color gamut—so I've been holding off pending color accuracy.jaylarson
- Had no idea there was an improvement from my 12" in the smaller form factorfreakpelican
- ToxicDesign0
If they add support for PS Action/Macros I'll defo consider it, have too many that I rely on.- Yeah, I use it a lot but always have to get back to PS for batch editing / actionsESKEMA
- Centigrade0
I own both Photo and Designer - hardly ever used them. But popped back into Designer to give it a try. First test I did was to try do a logo - and failed miserably - since Designer still has no distort or warp feature. Mind you Illustrator's are horrible also - but at least they exist.
Wishing Designer would go the FILTERiT 5 route on their version of these tool when they do build them. Since the warp tool was amazing. Not worth paying $130 though for a plugin that is dying.
- desmo0
bump
thinking about using this for home use.
have any of you been using this on a consistent basis?
- It's great and not so different than PS.nbq
- We looked into it as a cheap alternative to Ps - for architects to do quick edits instead of having a whole CC license...face_melter
- ...it played absolute merry hell with simple group masks and layer effects. Like, it fucking ruined existing Ps files to the point of being unsalvageable.face_melter