For those who use the Affinity Photo and other Affinity apps

[AlaskaMoose]

By the way, I don't have any association with the Affinity apps company other than being an Affinity Photo user. Well...I am a learning how to use Affinity Photo since I am migrating from Adobe CS6 once this company stopped supporting it a few years ago, and I don't want to pay monthly fees for using Adobe CC because it would be too expensive for me. I prefer standalone apps such as CS6, which is not longer supported. I paid dearly for CS5 and then CS6 years ago, thus my reasons for not switching to apps the require monthly fees.

I have also been using DXO Photo Lab and the DXO's NIK software package, which by the way I find a lot easier to learn than Affinity Photo, although Vivesa 3 is not longer compatible with CS5 and CS6 (only Vivesa 2 is). But once I started using the NIK software bundle years ago, I never looked back. There is so much one can do with it!

Anyway, this post is directed to Affinity Photo users only:

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[mollyc]

I don't use Affinity Photos, but I have used Publisher briefly and will be using it again this summer as I write a class. These apps are bargains for what they do. I'm too invested in LR/PS to switch away from them at this point, but I used Adobe PageMaker in the 90s and InDesign in the 00s and I can't justify the price of ID right now as a hobbyist. But Publisher was pretty easy to figure out for what I needed and for that 50% off you just can't beat it.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I've used Affinity Photo on-and-off for years, and the iPad app is hard to beat. It does just about everything the desktop program does, so both do a lot. For the current price, it's in impulse buy territory. And they supported M1 right out of the gate!

 

[Macshroomer]

I’m using it right now on my new 11” iPad Pro and as a user of Photoshop since 1992, Affinit’s is phenomenal on this platform. I can see this replacing photoshop for me on the iPad.

 

[Janichsan]

I've been using the Affinity apps in general and Affinity Photo in particular for my editing needs exclusively for a couple of years now. They do everything I need them to do and then some.

In comparison to the Adobe Creative Suite, they certainly are lacking a bunch of more sophisticated features (e.g. 3D objects in Photoshop, content aware scaling, certain editing tools in Illustrator), but I myself rarely miss these. For a bunch of things which Adobe offers, there are somewhat more cumbersome workarounds in Affinity, which give you at least very similar results, though. But considering the price of the Affinity suite, that's more than excuseable.

The only thing annoying me about the Affinity apps is the glacial pace of their development. New features and bug fixes usually take ages before they aer released. I guess Serif's development team is fairly stretched thin.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

I use Affinity Photo to a limited extent. If I have a huge complaint it is the lack of the 'Select Similar' command which I find so indispensable that I still do the vast majority of my editing in an ancient version of PhotoShop Elements on my Snow Leopard partition.

I find Preview very useful when compensating for the slight Cyanish shift my little Fuji camera tends to add. Also much prefer the Preview sharpening filter when working with smaller resolution images.

I also find Graphic Converter a useful alternative, and have always considered it money well spent. If only for renaming batches of photos after the big cull.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

I use Affinity Photo to a limited extent. If I have a huge complaint it is the lack of the 'Select Similar' command which I find so indispensable that I still do the vast majority of my editing in an ancient version of PhotoShop Elements on my Snow Leopard partition.

I find Preview very useful when compensating for the slight Cyanish shift my little Fuji camera tends to add. Also much prefer the Preview sharpening filter when working with smaller resolution images.

I also find Graphic Converter a useful alternative, and have always considered it money well spent. If only for renaming batches of photos after the big cull.

Graphic Converter is a great photo-editing app, and Lemke has keep it going for a long time now. A lot of people don't know how much one can do with this app, specially the latest version of it

 

[Fravin]

I'm running Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher as core apps in my Advertising Agency. I replaced everything from Adobe.

 

[MBAir2010]

switching to Affinity for my graphic design art and needs is great so far and will replace photoshop in July.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

One thing I really like with Infinity is the excellent job it does of auto stitching panoramas. Usually completely seamless, despite my tendency to not have a tripod at hand when I shoot the originals.

Graphic Converter is the go to app when displaying my slideshows on the computers at home.