I've had Affinity Photo on my iPad Pro for a year or so, only started using it recently. It's quite a good raw converter and, overall, a good replacement for the Photoshop clan of image manipulation tools. The iOS version has some image management capabilities, but it's no competition for Lightroom in that sphere. The UI is a little busy for the iPad (the SnapSeed UI is much more user friendly, for instance) but it works well.
I binned Photoshop CS5.1 on my desktop Mac mini when I upgraded to macOS Mojave, so purchased Affinity Photo for macOS as well. Here the UI works better and the tools seem more natural. I did some comparisons between LR 6.14 and Affinity Photo raw output, at the defaults, using raw files from the Leica CL, M-D, and SL. All the LR renderings were using the Adobe Standard ccp for the specific camera, and the first image was an exposure test target and an Xrite Color Checker. The image files were about as close to identical as I've ever seen out of two different raw converters with respect to color rendering. Second image was a continuous tone landscape image with some significant contrast, but lots of details both near the highlight and dark point thresholds. Very close on the defaults again, but here I think Affinity Photo has very slightly better sharpness and tonal separation. Of course, I'm still a novice at AP use, and I'm reasonably proficient with LR use. And I didn't want to prejudice the case in either direction by trying to see what replicating some of my more pathological LR edits might be with AP at this point. But overall, I'm pretty happy that it's a very usable app on both iPad and Mac, and can easily do more than I need to replace Photoshop entirely. I haven't used PS very much for years, and I did find the AP UI much easier to pick up and learn new (once a couple of key concepts were gathered) than trying to remember how PS worked. For LR's image management, and the way I can create templates for printing, etc, I haven't found anything inexpensive that does as good a job yet. But I haven't really looked that hard just yet either. G — "Simplify, simplify, simplify.” ~ Henry David Thoreau "One 'simplify' would have sufficed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson > On Oct 26, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Jostein <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: > > After a harddrive replacement a good year ago, Photoshop CS6 has kept nagging > me for its license key every time I open the program. All online suggestions > for fixing have been tried to no avail. > > So, now I'm thinking it's time to move on. CS6 is getting old, and the UI > does not scale well on larger screen resolutions. But a CC subscription is > not an option. > > Anyone on the list using Corel Paintshop Pro or Affinity Photo? > - I'd love to hear your experiences. :-) > > Jostein > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
