![]() ![]() Not only Affinity Photo works well as a Photoshop replacement, but I actually like the way it works better than Photoshop. I gave it a try for ten days and afterward I was so pleased that I stopped my Adobe subscription. In my opinion, just the selection tool and the frequency separation plugin of Affinity Photo are enough to justify the purchase, even if you decide to continue to use Photoshop.Īffinity Photo is sold at $49.95 for a permanent license. Every product should be documented this well. These tutorials are short, to the point, and very well narrated. Hundreds of video tutorialsĪdopting Affinity Photo has been made easy by the wealth of very-well produced video tutorials that the company has made available. Photo also provides a built-in Frequency Separation plugin that is fantastic for skin retouching. The exporting module, or “persona” as it is called, is extremely powerful, and the Liquify persona will please anybody who struggled with the Liquify filter of Photoshop. For example, the M keyboard cycles through the Marquee selections without requiring to press Shift. Affinity Photo provides a real non-destructive workflow and it has compatibility with the PSD format. Keyboard shortcuts are similar to PS but in several cases they work better. ![]() Adjustment layers can be easily applied to just one layer instead of all the layers underneath. I was able to isolate subjects with Affinity Photo that I was never able to select with Photoshop. Selection of complex subjects is many times better than in Photoshop. It has almost all the power of the Adobe product and it adds several improvements of its own. ![]() Photo is a image editor that is, in many ways, even better than Photoshop. Totall, by chance I found a program called Affinity Photo. They should also provide a more flexible subscription model.įortunately, I found an alternative. One more strike against the inefficiency and waste of the subscription model.Īdobe should provide a choice: permanent license with a paid upgrade for people who like that model, and a subscription for others who prefer that system. So, even the basic CC subscription was used only at 50%. I stopped using Lightroom in favor of Capture One, which has a much better tethered capture, layered non-destructive editing, and it’s much, much faster. It’s a lot of money for accessing software that I use sporadically (Premiere). At $50/month my cost per year is $600 just to have access to Premiere the few times that I need it. If I want to add Premiere to the bundle, I have to pay the highest subscription model, $50/month, which gives me access to a bunch of programs, like Acrobat, Illustrator and many others, that I don’t need. If I don’t need Lightroom I still have to pay for it because the smallest subscription includes both Photoshop and Lightroom. It’s a life sentence.īut the biggest problem with the subscription model is the lack of choice. The subscription model keeps you hooked forever with the threat of cutting you out of accessing your own artwork. With a permanent license, if you decided to not upgrade you would just be left with an outdated program but with the ability to edit your files. The problem is that the moment you stop paying you lose access to the program and you cannot edit your own files anymore. The subscription model seems nice on the surface, you pay $10/month and you get Photoshop and Lightroom and every update as long as you pay. ![]() Years ago Adobe removed the option to have a permanent license, forcing us all to switch to a subscription service in order to continue to use Photoshop and all the other programs they make. Import photos back into Lightroom as new versions/layers (lightroom automatically matches the photos up with the original and replaces the originals (original still available through history/layers), metadata is copied from the original to the new one, all flags/ratings are applied to the new one, it is placed in the same albums).Īnd no, plugins would not be a good enough solution.For years I used Adobe Photoshop, it’s a must-have program for photographers and visual artists. The end result is a mess and not really what I want.ģ. Remove pick flag from original photos (this is required to prevent doubles showing up in shared albums). Make sure the new photo is the top of the stack.Ĩ. Stack the photos with the original photo.ħ. And the workflow for using external editors is terrible.Ħ. However, sometimes I want to use external editors for some of my photos like Photolemur and Luminar. I really like the user interface and sync of the new Lightroom a lot. ![]()
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