Digital editing for photographers and bitmap artists.
Affinity Photo - redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software for the Mac. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface with all the power and performance you need.
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I'll next have a look at Iridient, but I would still need a DAM app that could import my LR catalog (And I think Iridient has a LR plugin, but I don'k know if it can "communicate" with other apps)
Recently we had to look at our budgets because of tight economic reasons. We could easily choose to let go amazing talented people but we first made an exercise how we could keep budget lower at all level without losing integrity and the quality we deliver to our customers.
At some point we got in touch with Affinity Photo. It looked interesting and we settled for two licenses and put two people on it for 2 months to evaluate.
After the evaluation we were very excited about Affinity Photo that we now have chosen to make it available to all our people. They all loving it.
What’s in it for us? Adobe’s high yearly license cost has been lowered to only 1 license now. We are not going to renewal our other PS licenses anymore. That’s a HUGE yearly TCO saving for us. It perfectly matched our strict budget and we do not have to cut on quality for our customers.
Some highlights that our employees love:
- Does the same as PS
- Absolutely better working flow compared to PS. Everyone was very excited about the UI
- Plugin support
- MUCH faster compared to PS on the same hardware
- Smaller memory footprint
- The real-time history is awesome and much better and faster compared to PS
- Stepping up to Affinity Photo from PS is not difficult but needs some time
- It is available for Windows and Mac. Noted: Mac version is faster though. Still the Windows version is faster to PS CC on Windows.
- Unbelievable low price - in fact, we are astounded how low they kept the price. It would even sell masses for a higher price (+$300 would even be cheap).
The only question we have to Affinity, how did you produce such a high quality tool for such a low price?
Affinity Photo is a major contender for being the best image processing tool on planet earth. It is very professional, highly productive and a joy to use.
It is a bit difficult to learn though, but the online video tutorials are great and makes the steep learning curve bearable. Ones you now your way, all other comparable tools are obsolete :).
imo this is the best tool for macOS and Windows. And take a peek at the price ?!? ... $50 is a steal. Actually, let me rephrase that. It is a MUST HAVE BUY for everyone who needs to edit photo's/images.
5stars +1
Very highly recommended !!
The Affinity Team has a web store to sell their Windows version of Affinity Photo yet they refuse to sell Affinity Photo other than through the Apple App store. I wont use the app store so I am unwilling to try Affinity Photo. That is too bad as it seems promising. I am getting back into photography and I will likely have to reevaluate Lightroom as they are still selling a stand alone version.
The neanderthal thinking on the Affinity team about not allowing direct purchase of their products gives me pause, leaning towards caution about software companies that find that doing things their way is more important than listening to their customer base. I have seen it too many times where an otherwise good product is held too tightly by those too busy congratulating themselves to pay attention to their customer base.
If Affinity photo still has bugs but is basically a good product as many others have said, why should I trust them that they are going to continue to improve the product if they are already refusing customer input? And yes, if they allowed purchase though their web store I would probably still get a license.
I would still be using Pixelmator if they had not cut off existing customers by going app store only. I loved version one of Pixelmator. But then, Pixelmator did the same thing and only sold out of the App store. Now I use Acorn. C’est la vie.
consente un miglioramento automatico delle foto ad un livello veramente ottimo.
prezzo eccezionalmente basso per quello che offre
The GUI looks amazing cool, as Pixelmator but with a lot more options, features, buttons, windows, ... I immediately got the feeling this is a really powerful app for editing images/photos.
And that is where it failed for me. It was just too complex compared to Pixelmator. I struggled with a lot of things like the Repair tool. You first need to set a reference point using a key combination and after this it still didn't produced good results. I probably am using it the wrong way but it shows the difficulty and steep learning curve needed to get into Affinity Photo.
It does more resemble to PhotoShop and that cannot be a bad thing if you know how to use such tools.
In short:
If you need quick and easy ways to edit images, Pixelmator is for you. If you need very powerful editing, you need Affinity Photo.
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I see this sitting somewhere between Photoshop and Pixelmator (and others in that genre). Had a play with the Beta but can't see myself giving up Photoshop (not a big fan of Photo's and Designer's UI). Good luck to them though. There are a ton of people out there wanting to get off the Adobe subscription thing and this might be what they've been waiting for.