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Title: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: leaf on February 10, 2015, 05:54

Check it out.  If nothing else, it'll be nice to Photoshop to have some serious competition. 

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: Semmick Photo on February 10, 2015, 06:11

MAC only

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on February 10, 2015, 10:49

As soon as I get a bit of time to check it out I will. I hear their illustrator-like product is good (from someone else; I haven't looked at that either). It would do all of us a world of good if Adobe got a little nervous about their market status.

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: rimglow on February 10, 2015, 10:57

 I've spent a half hour with it just learning my way around.  Very impressive!  I do miss Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Merge Layers, so useful for stacking, which I use a lot. I put in a feature request.

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: sharpshot on May 10, 2016, 06:55

I signed up for the windows beta.  After seeing what its like on youtube, I think I will probably switch to this from photoshop elements when they have it working well on windows.

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: Difydave on May 10, 2016, 07:02

There's going to be a Windows version then?
Excellent! I'll happily pay £40 to buy a license to use something like this.
I'm still at "Only when it's a Cold day in Hell" for me to pay subs for software!

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: sharpshot on May 10, 2016, 07:13

Here's the link to get informed when the windows beta is out.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/windows/

I would think about an Adobe subscription if they made my portfolio on FT visible again :)

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: etudiante_rapide on May 10, 2016, 08:11

Quote from: sharpshot on May 10, 2016, 07:13

I would think about an Adobe subscription if they made my portfolio on FT visible again :)

confused,  why did they make your port invisible???

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: Difydave on May 10, 2016, 08:27

Quote from: sharpshot on May 10, 2016, 07:13

Here's the link to get informed when the windows beta is out.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/windows/ (https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/windows/)

I would think about an Adobe subscription if they made my portfolio on FT visible again :)

Signed up for the Beta. Thanks.  :)

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: skyfish on May 10, 2016, 09:33

Very impressive. Signed

Title: Re: New Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo
Post by: Difydave on May 10, 2016, 09:50

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on February 10, 2015, 10:49

As soon as I get a bit of time to check it out I will. I hear their illustrator-like product is good (from someone else; I haven't looked at that either). It would do all of us a world of good if Adobe got a little nervous about their market status.

Again, a good vector drawing program at a decent price would be welcome. Inkscape is OK as a free option, but Illustrator has always been expensive.


I don't like any of these big companies getting too comfortable with their market position. A bit of proper competition keeps things realistic for the users. Whatever the market.