![]() I do prefer Adobe’s Workspaces to Affinity’s Personas. I agree that there’s great replacements and have played with Affinity Products which, as was said, can do some really cool things Adobe Can’t. If you’re looking for a powerful graphics program, download the free trial and see why Affinity Photo is an Apple Mac App of the Year winner, an App Store Editor’s Choice, and my new personal favorite image editor. ![]() I’ve only scratched the surface of this powerful graphics program but am learning more every day from the more than 200 video tutorials online and the excellent built-in help. I also like its non-destructive filters and effects, and layer management. Removing the big brown dog was as easy as painting over it with the Inpainting brush. With Affinity Photo’s Inpainting tool, I just paint over that thing and it disappears like magic. With the other contenders, I had to spend much more time cleaning up after I removed an object. All of the contenders include tools for this, but I think Affinity Photo’s Inpainting tool does the best job in the least time. Whether it’s a zit on a face or a telephone pole sticking out of a car’s roof, I spend a good deal of time trying to make things in my photos disappear without a trace. One thing I do a lot is remove unwanted objects from photos. While Affinity Photo’s user interface differs from Photoshop in many ways and took some getting used to, I’m finding it even better-suited to the handful of things I do again and again. Affinity Photo makes those tasks fast and easy. My work consists mostly of improving images, adding text, cropping and recomposing, and combining multiple images with text. Which is to say I don’t need a lot of fancy features. I’m also responsible for editing my photos and screenshots for books, articles, and online posts. But I am a solopreneur, which means I’m responsible for ads, flyers, business cards, signs, and typesetting, and everything else. To reiterate, I’m not a graphic artist in any way, shape, or form. Then I tried Affinity Photo, which has all that and more. It Was Close…įor a while, I was favoring Pixelmator Pro, which is an awesome graphics app that has all the features I need, a slick user interface, a great online community, and plenty of tutorials. But, after trying them all, I’ve decided the app that best suits my needs is Affinity Photo. I could probably replace Photoshop with any of the five contenders and be relatively happy. Put another way, I’m looking for an app that can serve all of my image-editing needs, but without monthly payments.Īfter months testing five contenders - Affinity Photo, Acorn, GraphicConverter, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator Pro - I’ve made the decision to terminate my Photoshop subscription, and save $119.88 a year. That being said, I’ve begun a search for a reasonably-priced image editing app I can buy (not lease). I’ve used nothing else for my image editing needs for as long as I can remember. I like Photoshop a lot and have become proficient. In a February Rants & Raves column I explained my dilemma with Photoshop’s subscription pricing:
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