Affinity Photo Does What Photoshop Can’t
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Affinity Photo offers an exceedingly powerful feature that doesn’t even exist in Photoshop: Live Filters. For those of you who imagine Affinity Photo as something like Photoshop Lite, Live Filters are a legitimate heavyweight.
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I switched to Affinity a couple of months ago and love it. Can't believe I didn't switch earlier.
Best wishes on your new journey!
One of the coolest features with Affinity (all apps) are that you can save your history along with the affinity photo file as well. So if you decide you may want to revert you have an option to save your history too even after you have closed and reopened the file. I wish Photoshop had that option too!
I agree! History even survives recovery after a crash, which has already saved my 🦋 several times!
i didn't know that. coooool
@@dekeNow begs the question, how stable is Affinity Photo?
@@betterpixsvery 👍
I remember a program 25 years ago that did the same: picture publisher.
One of the coolest features of Affinity Photo is that it doesn't have the Adobe logo anywhere, not even on startup!
Okay, that’s funny 😅
This is the best Affinity Photo tutorial I’ve seen by a considerable margin. Immediate subscription!
Wow, nice! Thx!
I switched to Affinity after decades of Adobe products, and I don't regret it.
Yay!
I think that Affinity is definitely the way forward for me and for so many folks who can make their own decisions. Just finished my first professional gig using Affinity suite and the incredible studio link that allows jumping in between all three apps, which is a massive game changer in terms of creativity and productivity. Also overall it was a fairly smooth ride without any major breakdowns from design to print. So very much looking forward to more of your explorations and teachings in Affinity.
Oh, wow, @juurstudio, that’s exciting news! I have a review of Designer (vs. Illustrator) coming up soon, so please let me know what you think!
I'm new to Affinity after almost 20 years with Adobe. I'll never go back 😊
Wow, that’s big!
@@melindawolfUS I am taking a serious look at Affinity now too.
Ooooh your comment just gave me the motivation to dive in! 😮 well eff you adobe then
Deke I'm really glad you broke out of the Adobe Box and feel free to explore anything you want. As always thanks for sharing!
I’m glad that you’re glad 😁! And my pleasure!
As I understand it, to do non-destructive filters in Photoshop, you have to convert the layer to a Smart Object. In Affinity Photo, that's not required. You just apply a Live Filter.
I don't understand why Photoshop just doesn't make every object a Smart Object by default, with a Preferences setting to disable that if you insist.
Which is exactly what AP does, sans the disabling option (rasterizing the layer will do the trick though).
You’re understanding is correct. But even then, Ps is not as flexible, and the files grow by leaps and bounds (where Affinity’s Live Filters add almost nothing).
RAM requirements will be crazy, check for yourself how big a PSD file is made up of smart object layers.
I've switched to Affinity a few weeks ago. Loving the whole suite so far!
Excellent news. You’ll have to let me know what you think of my upcoming review of Designer vs. Illustrator!
Awesome video! Please consider making more Affinity Photo videos! This is so useful!
More are definitely on the way!
It is now a 6 MONTH free trial now, really going for adobe switchers now.
Here's an EASIER way to revert to compare before and after: Once you get your original image in final format (before mods), group all the layers, then duplicate the group. Apply all your modifications within the top group, then to compare, close the top group so you only see the two groups, then turn the visibility of the top group on and off. Easy-peasy. Thanks for the video.
Sounds good. Another one I’ve discovered for Affinity programs is to save a snapshot (in the Snapshots panel). It truly reverts, but with multiple points in time and more flexibility.
@@dekeNow I haven't learned about that one yet. Might be worth some study ... or possibly another video showing us about it? 😄
Love the Affinity stuff! I'm still trying to make the switch.
6 months free trial and without having to giver credit card details! Good luck and hope to welcome you to the Affinity community. 😊
Go for it. You won't regret it
Excellent. More ideas on the way!
@@arale1402 I’ve owned the Affinity suite for ages. I’ve just been neck deep in Adobe for nearly 30 years. That’s a lot of muscle memory! For most of my clients, I need to use Adobe as per their instructions. I’m determined to learn Affinity anyway and use it where I can.
Really enjoying your takes on Affinity. I am a big fan of the software as PS has sadly been priced outside of my comfort zone
I find $12/month for the Adobe Photography bundle not overpriced (this cheaper option still exists, but is often hidden, like so many things Adobe hides ;-)). But if you don't need Bridge, Camera Raw and Lightroom, you are better off with Affinity Photo.
@@c.augustin The photo price it's not so cheap in Mexico, and also it's hinted, you would have to go full years subscription instead of just independent month if you are short on budget.
@@GJoseeph Yeah, Adobe does play games with regional pricing. And yes, it needs a yearly subscription. Still reasonably priced, at least here in Germany.
Photoshop, two versions of lightroom and Adobe Express for the price of a cup of coffee every week ... Amazing value 😊
@@martinlennon4673 You forgot Adobe Camera Raw (the engine behind Photoshop and Lightroom) and Adobe Bridge.
Thanks, Deke. I learned much from your Photoshop book over 20 years ago. Been teaching college PS work for 17 years and really looking for my school to switch to Affinity in near future.
That’s awesome! My wife teaches the Creative Cloud at our local university. We’ve been talking about the same thing.
@@dekeNow our big hold back has been for several years is the design and photos program being looked at as illegitimate by many if we don't use Adobe. That stigma maybe changing this summer for sure. Exciting times.
@@betterpixs That will most certainly change.
Thank you!!! Super!!! MORE AFFINITY PLEASE! 💜
Will do!
I never Knew you can move the life filter effects in the screen :o
Great video Deke!!
I know, right?!
Great video, just subbed! I changed to Affinity a few weeks ago and LOVE it. For the first time since 1991 my computer has zero Adobe programs. I have it figured that I’ve dished out $6,600 to Adobe since they started the subscription only option, which I believe was 2013. That’s just insane 😂
That is awesome news all around!
Deke, I’m going to save this video in my favorites bc I may switch over sooner than I thought. Adobe just doubled my monthly rent to $60. I had all apps at a special deal for 2 yrs when they begged me to stay, but I don’t earn enough to justify $60/month. Your content is great, thanks!
Excellent news! And yes, I keep hearing these Comcast-y stories. A subscription plan that works for a top ad team doesn’t make much sense for a work-a-day designer.
@@dekeNowI switched to the $30 LR/Pshop plan for now, but I was working on a project using dynamic charts in After Effects, which I’m now converting to PowerPoint. What pain in the rear, after spending weeks trying to master AE!
@@BenSussmanpro OK, that sounds horrible. 🤨
It is, but the animations in ppt aren’t half-bad, especially after a few…🥃🥃 lol!
@@BenSussmanpro 😂
Thanks Deke, great tutorial. I've just got me a free half year subscription for Affinity Photo (and Designer) and I'm trying out the software. Sure, there are quite a few things missing compared to Photoshop, but it has many advantages. Please keep on creating these tutorials on Affinity.
I will. I am looking into Affinity Designer as we speak. Step 1. Press Ctrl-J, not Ctrl-D. 🤔
Funny enough, this video taugh things I didn't know I could do on Photoshop 😂
That’s awesome!
Very cool. I tried Affinity a few years ago but there were some things it couldn't do, like dodge/burning a mask. I believe you can do this now?
Um, no, I can’t get dodge or burn to work on a mask. In which case, what an odd, arbitrary oversight.
I think that you can now do that in GIMP, as well. GIMP also has more blending modes than either Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo. Each program has relative strengths and weaknesses, l guess.
@@SeanRiley-s2f Ah, GIMP. One day, GIMP, one day!
Thanks. Ended my Adobe sub, so Affinity here I come. Now we just need a verb for something done with Affinity, similar to 'photoshoped'. Perhaps Affinize, Affinify, Affinate, Affinuate or Affiniate 🧐
Affinifestoon! 😁
Never thought to see the day. Wondrous. Suggested/Requested future topic: Layer Effects comparison. Affinity is definitely using different math under the hood which is making certain operations challenging.
Are you saying that Affinity’s math makes it harder to apply Ps-like layer effects? That is on my list, including an examination of the GBlur and 3D effects + blend modes.
@@dekeNow Precisely that. It first came to Our attention trying an "operation for operation" comparison with this how-to by Chris Spooner: ruclips.net/video/gww-Vl7FjV8/видео.html
The inner/outer glow and shadow effects in particular were giving noticeably different results. Glad to hear you're on it because no one is really talking about it, and don't get Us started on Channel operations.
@@FlameForgedSoul Roger that! And what an innovative way of asking me, who are Our/Us/We? After watching the Spooner video, I’m guessing the answer is Space Entity. 🌌
One filter I miss from Photoshop is the Oil Paint filter. I have not yet found an alternative with equally good options. I used it to 'invisibly' ease up ugly high frequency areas. Do you know about anything close?
There are additional filters that are available as static options in the Filters menu. Bilateral Blur comes to mind. There may also be plug-ins?
Of course i wait way too long to realize I want to buy one. Congrats on sell out!
Hello Deke,
considering to buy Affinity, so
is there a way in Affinity to add logo watermark as in Lr on the photo?
Affinity Photo seems to be arranged around graphic design as opposed to photography. I will admit, I don’t know if watermarks are possible, but AF does not compete with Lightroom.
Adobe has systematically raised prices, gone to a subscription model and assumed they could invade our privacy even to taking our work.
Enough is enough.
The photography bundle has been 11,99€ for years.
My impression is that most people complaining about Adobe don't even use it or are too stupid to look for the subscription they really need.
Yours and other similar opinions are what’s making me cast a wider net!
@@raytreat6599 ditto
very cool video deke... hopefully this incentivizes adobe to start adding some of these cool features to photoshop 💪
I’m hoping so, too!
Live Filters are great. I'm waiting for AI inpaint/outpaint features and how Canva will go about the perpetual licensing. I still do believe it's gonna turn out for the better, against all odds.
How they handle integrating AI, and keeping the cost down, will be an interesting trick.
When Affinity has free generative fill I'll use it. Krita does via plugin.
Does Krita do actual generative fill (select and retouch within context of active multi-layered composition) or OpenAI-style image generation?
@@dekeNow Krita does generative fill yes. You can either configure it to use a comfy ui based local fill or connect to their cloud but that does require credits. I use the local option which is free and gives you more freedom as it has no filters. It's very handy. It's called Krita AI Diffusion. Totally free. I cancelled my photoshop subscription :)
I am still waiting for dds support. Why is it still not integrated?
Is DDS support native to Photoshop? That’s outside my day-to-day, so just curious.
@@dekeNow No. It's just that NVIDIA\Intel created plugins for photoshop\coral\gimp etc but there is not one for AF. AF themselves stated they are considering it but it seems as today there are no plans and since AF (i could be wrong) only have plugins for effects and not file formats NVIDIA and the others can't create the DDS plugin. The amount of people requesting it should make it a no brainer for AF to support it natively which would give them an advantage of PS but i guess it's not that important to them.
@@GoldenTeeTV Thx for the info!
For less than the cost of a tank of gas? I'm in!
Free for a whole six months. That’s a long enough time to turn pro. I’m already in and soaking up the tutorials.
Right now, it’s less than a bike tire of air!
Also in 8 years of its existence there was only one big update that users had to pay for, otherwise free patches. And ofc there was a big discount for existing users.
@@n9o Thanks for confirming!
Looking Good Master Deke
Thank you!
I'm so use to the UI in photoshop. It does the job. I have enough work that can justify the 10 per month cost.
Well, there you go!
still going back to PS, PS is still better in object selection, so currently Affinity Designer and PS for me
Oh, wow, there’s a combo. (Have you tried the unexpected synergy of copying a few Designer objects and pasting them into Ps as a smart object?) You’ll have to let me know what you think of my upcoming Designer review!
Affinity is a great app and i wish it could replace my PS. But since i need to auto-remove the background of 200 or more images in a batch, i need PS. The KI remove of backgrounds is unbeatable atm. It´s not perfect, but with any update it seems to be more and more precise. Just as i write this, i had a batch of 195 images and only on 4 i had to correct the work by hand.
But i give Affinity a new chance, if i see some approvements in masking.
Of course it get better with every update ... it learns from uploaded content of its others paying (subscripted) users 😁
Wow, that’s impressive. (My guess is AF won’t be able to match this.)
@@dekeNow And that´s bad, because AF has so many potential. And the parallel multicore batchprocessing is much faster than the serial work in PS. But my guess is, they can´t implement AI recognition, because it needs a village, populated by servers.
@@M_B_80 Did you ever used it? It works with Warp 9, and i don´t think PS loads any content of a 150MB .tif in one second. It is just the info of changes in the environment around the pixels. For me it´s not a problem, because it saves hours of time for each of my photosets. But i can understand any concerns about it.
@@dekeNow They can get close to this, there are free AI-models out there (offline, no cloud crap), but all of them can not beat Adobe`s one, because of Adobe`s policy, they have have the best content to train their models with (and totally free for them)
Ok Now I'm interested
Excellent!
Hello Deke. I have been dealing with a problem... that cant make it work neither in photoshop or affinity. Maybe you can enlighten us with you wisdom! Many actions we Make have s STOP function to for example use the erase tool to remove undesired object like for example a tripod from a 360 image. But when we want to apply this action to multiple files Using Batch automation or Image Processor (from scripts), the presence of this STOP function in the action messes up everything and the batch or image processing stops. Do you by any means know the answer to this issue? Would be a huge time saver for so many of us! Thanks a lot
As things stand now, Stops and Conditionals are huge challenges to batch processing. So short answer, no. But I am interested in investigating scripting in more detail, which have a few hooks into Photoshop.
@@dekeNow Hey Deke. I guess RUclips deleted my reply, not sure why. Maybe because I mentioned another website (that famous coding platform). I did tried scripting and found one over there that worked great: "advanced Batch" It is great to automate multiple actions.
@@EnriqueLUrcia Outside Photoshop? Not built in?
@@dekeNow The script I dowloaded, it is called Advanced-batch-master, it is a .jsx file. in photoshop I created an action that will run the script (file>Scripts>browse...). An interface open in photoshop where you can chose folders which actions tu run, to set a STOP between actions and so on.
@@EnriqueLUrcia So you made it work?
Great video, and I myself am switching to Affinity due to ... being broke. But! Just an FYI: Photoshop does have filter layers like you're showing off! For awhile, maybe a couple years at least. Thanks for the vid!
Ps *does* have filter layers? I’d love to learn where they’re hiding!
@@dekeNow are the adjustment layers not very similar? Now I need to go look!
@@deadxmouth Adjustment layers drill down a stack of pixels, one pixel at a time (Levels, Curves, etc.), which is computationally simple. (Hence they’ve been around since the early 1990s.) Live Filters compare entire ranges of pixels across entire ranges of layers, for each and every pixel that they see (Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Shadows/Highlights), which is a much bigger undertaking. Ps accommodates filters dynamically with smart objects, but it cheats by applying them to the composite image which grows the file size and reduces flexibility. Still helpful, but AF Live Filters are better b/c they work so quickly and painlessly that even someone as seasoned as *you* thought they were adjustment layers!
@@dekeNow Thanks for looking into it! I got caught up last night. Great info. (Also, I really hope you don't think my comment was snarky! Was definitely meant with kindness and friendship. I know how the internet is: I really did/do love your video, and appreciate you!)
@@deadxmouth S’all good. No snark taken!
Can you “edit in” from LR like PS?
Nope. That is currently a big drawback that I’ll be investigating in a future week.
I just purchased the full license and videos like this are so helpful. Can't wait for more
Excellent!
It be nice if Affinity had a proper opacity brush slider/mechanic, like every other artist program.
Please explain!
Awesome features.
Agreed!
I switched to Affinity from Adobe last year and never looked back. Affinity Photo 2 is spectacular.
My only question (for now) is - why doesn't Affinity add Smart Objects to Photo?
I know about the PSD Smart Object import setting - so I can import PSD mockups - but what if I wanted to create my own mockups using smart objects from scratch within Affinity?
I saw a video workaround where you import another Affinity file and use it that way - is that the only way?
Photo offers several different layer types, including Image and Linked/Embedded, both of which behave a lot like smart objects in Ps. To my knowledge, you create both by choosing File > Place, as opposed to starting with an image and converting it as in Ps.
@@dekeNow thanks!
I wish Serif did a Lightroom/Capture One alternative too
Yeah, agreed. And Bridge. Adobe Bridge is the one program I rely on that I actively resent. Well, Word. And most of Windows. But those aren’t Adobe’s fault. Anyway, I’d welcome Affinity Bridge.
Please can someone tell me if there is a "ai generative fill"?
No sir
For Affinity Photo? Not built into the software. (Hence, I'm not leaving Ps, just swinging 🙂.) Some commenters are trumpeting Krita, but I don’t think that’s an integrated retouching solution.
Would I like if I could do that in Photoshop? Only if they have a perpetual licence version
Adobe has missed your boat?
@@dekeNow Yes, they have missed a point with they’re doing with subscription model
Can Affinity import and align several images for painting in flashed areas? I. E. real estate editing? No.
Do you mean the equivalent of Auto-Align Layers in Photoshop? In Affinity Photo, choose File > New Stack to select multiple images and set how you want them aligned. They become a Live Stack Group, and of course you can add a mask to any layers in the stack. Pretty cool!
@@brightboxstudio I need to check that out. I haven’t seen that feature mentioned in any tutorials, and I use that for my work with remodelers. That will help me to cut the chord with Adopey ! Thanks!
@@genegustafson715 Let me know how that fares!
@@dekeNow so far, no good. No feathering on bbrushes, no density adjustment on layers
@@genegustafson715 Are you talking about Feathering/Density on layer masks? If so, try out the editable Gaussian Blur layer effect, which you can apply to a mask. Plus combo masks on a single layer. Must admit, I’m still in discovery mode.
No subscription thats good a full buy out thats what we want
I’m hearing a lot of that.
I use both since decades
That’s the spirit! I now seem to be on the same path.
Big fan Deke
Thank you!
this is very cool, I like it... going to be using them more.. thanks!
but it's hardly a Photoshop killer..
Still I am forced to use both as photoshop still has many features that Affinity doesn't have or doesn't have as robust versions. ie content aware, AI fills, or robust panoramic etc
I really dislike all of the painful legacy crap in photoshop that works like it was a few decades old.. but the new features, the few very robust features, And the ridiculous amount of content for it makes it really hard to drop entirely.
I Don't see that changing soon.
All great points! And insofar as either application moving toward another-as in, one becomes the clear winner (or gets all stompy, as in the thumbnail)-seems unlikely. The very fact that AF is even capable of live filters suggests that it’s engineered differently than Ps.
Not just affinity but even krita has this filter layer feature.
Really? I gotta try this Krita thing (altho I think I’d need to upgrade my graphics card).
@@dekeNow yes,it is but don't expect it to as fast because kria is open-source and it takes time to optimize the features.
I love Affinity
I do not blame you. (Designer TK!)
Do have Affinity Photo AI generative fill, AI background removal and other AI tools that are not 3rd party plugins?
No. I don’t know what Affinity has planned for the future. But I imagine that adding AI features would require a cost increase and alienate Affinity’s fan base. Remote AI hosting is exceedingly spendy (unless you’re Nvidia 🙂).
There is a lot Affinity can do Adobe does not offer - a lot!
I am increasingly discovering that. I started from the perspective of How does AF hold up to my expectations of Photoshop? But if you come at it from the other direction, Ps in many ways fares more poorly.
@@dekeNow Expand that to the full suite.
Adobe only gives you text background color in InDesign.
Photoshop still is the same Photoshop from the 90 when looking at the tools.
Only tools like healbrush and now AI makes it modern.
Affinity Photo has the same path tools.
All 3 apps use the same file to save into.
Layer masks work so much better in all 3 apps.
When having all 3 apps you can switch between photo designer and publisher tool inside Publisher.
The interface is truly unified and not this hack Adobe did.
Deke I can see you coming over to the dark side and switching to Affinity
A Photoshop lover like me? 🤔
I love it Affinity now!
Yay!
1 affinity is not a competitor.
2. You still need a raw developer
3. Both have trouble handling huge files
4 photoshop interprets colors better than affinity-at least on raw
So photoshop still wins.
I wish we had a good non subscription photo editor
Affinity does not hold up well in developing raw images, this is true. In fact, that is a deficit I’ll be addressing in a future week. But in many, many other respects, it competes better than anything else I’ve seen.
On the raw side of things I agree with you. But I actually turned to Affinity when I discovered how much better it handled really large files! The first save takes awhile, but after that each save (after having made changes) takes a fraction of what PS does.
Personally, I turned to Capture One for all my raw storage and development 10 years ago. I’ve been super happy with that change ever since! There are many things that I think are better than Lightroom: Dedicated layers with layer-masking capabilities. The ability to apply same adjustment tools over and over again. The overall colour control and rendering is superior, in my and many other photographers opinion. Even the fairly new Ai selection tools are many times more accurate than those in LR as well, if you’re into those kinds of things? Due to layers you get much better intersection control between different masks, always live and non-destructive to be tweaked later on, if you want. Each layers have an opacity control that give you more possibilities as well.
Capture One have given me much less need for a pixel editor such as Photoshop or Affinity when working with photography.
@@freetibet1000 This is all great news! Yay, I have more to look into...😄
Sadly i need dds support in affinity before i can really leave ps.
You’re the second person to mention this. I know I’m being hopelessly dense, but can you point me to a tut on Ps + DDS?
Affinity? I’d be happy if I were able to paste an image into a selection. I could do that in photoshop 2
For all it's advantages the Suite is missing a slew of little bits like that. Hopefully that Canva money can help change that.
It does *kinda* do it if you have a layer mask set up in advance. You know what’d be fun is to take 10 common Ps tasks and show how to make them work or shoehorn them in AffPh. Lemme know any others!
@@dekeNow thank you. I should very much like a step-by-step procedure on how to do that.
I’d like to see my dialog box when I have panels open on the screen. Dialogs and menus spawn behind panels. They refuse to fix it, it’s been years.
@@stickgarrote8582 Adobe or Affinity? (Not sure I’m tracking this one.)
Thanks for joining the revolution!
I’m doing my part!
aHA! Do it Live.
I didn’t realise people still used adobe ps 💁
Oh, you. Ya did, too!
The annual subscription will kill Adobe. People want to own software.
I wasted $$ on Affinity hoping it could replace Adobe but it just doesn't have the pro features - like indicating master pages, AI art generation, none of the publishers i work with support it, and i don't see a way of starting a new document using whatever is on my clipboard. It's a good program for beginners but I don't see enough pro features for me.
Sounds like you’re talking about Affinity Publisher? If so, I haven’t dug into that one yet. As for Affinity Photo, you have File > New from Clipboard.
@@dekeNow thanks I'll check again. I only saw ways of starting your documents of various sizes no reference to clipboard.
Content. Good. Thumbnail. Bad.
I thought the video looked interesting but the outdated, open mouth, clickbait thumbnail stopped me watching. It's an instant, 'don't recommend channel' click from me. So cringy.
Response. 😂 YT lets me test three thumbnails, and (surprise!) the extreme one came out the winner.
Affinity Photo looks very outdated with boring ancient filters from last century. But Photoshop doesn't do anything better. Crazy.
Or perhaps tried and true? But, hey, in case you’re curious, Ps Beta offers around 20 Parametric Filters that I covered a few months ago: studio.ruclips.net/user/video9W5Q7BZKE6k/edit
@@dekeNow The future holds limitless possibilities with AI and non-AI adjustment layers, all driven by custom workflows. ;)
@@flyingdogsoft No doubt!
Best f* deal.
"Is this the end?" I rely on you for all things Photoshop. Pleast stop the clickbait. I know you're not switching. You've only just started the new Photoshop One-on-One course.
😂 Sorry, but I gotta 😂! RUclips now lets me test 3 thumbnails each week. (And you gotta admit, that one’s hilarious.) So let me state, unequivocally, Ps is not literally getting trounced by a hulking AF against some kind of fiery apocalyptic background. *Except* where this week’s topic is concerned, Live Filters, which are indeed several times better than anything comparable in Ps. Adobe, if they have any sense, will get working on this feature immediately! Oh, and yes, I created that thumbnail in Photoshop. 😂 I’m dead.
Nah
In my experience, Affinity is a weird mix of great features and advantages on the one hand, but missing the most basic stuff on the other. For example, not even having workable mask overlays.
AF masking is a topic I hope to revisit in the future.
@@dekeNow Look for "How to show red overlay when masking" on the Affinity forum, if you're interested in what I'm referring to. Anyway, thanks for the video!
I have never come across such a remarkable software. I exclusively use Adobe for generative fill, and if Affinity were to incorporate AI capabilities, it would be an incredible development.
Krita with a plugin can do the generative fill ... for free
@@LV4EVR Krita runs on local hardware, yes? Thx! Plan to look into it in the future.
Yes, Krita is capable of doing that. However, I have a strong preference for Affinity. After watching Deke's videos, I gave Affinity a try and was impressed by its smoothness and lack of lag. If you're using a Wacom tablet, you'll find the experience to be very smooth. The only drawback of Affinity Photo is its lack of AI capabilities. I'm considering canceling my Creative Cloud subscription in the near future.
@@psdtouch In my research, Affinity Photo has been clear from the outset that its intention was quick response time. And it seems to be largely delivering.
Affinity raw file editor is awful!
This is true. Video on this very topic coming soon. AF is not prime time for photographers.
What are you talking about? Which filter is not in Photoshop?
It’s not a single filter. It’s the way the filters are implemented.
@@dekeNow So again, some invention to extract cash from people. PS is a well-thought-out programme, and all these "improvements" reduce the final quality of the effect because in the process people lose understanding of how the various filters work and what can really be achieved with them.
Once one gets capable in Affinity Photo it blows Photoshop out of the water.
that's what I've been thinking the last few weeks too.
Some features definitely do!
Except for CMYK support, GIF editing and export, 3D elements, UI consistency just off the top of my head. I gave it a good try, but it’s not replacing PS in a good while. I wish it did, Adobe sucks.
@@stickgarrote8582 Affinity Photo does have CMYK support.
Uhm… it does have CMYK support and UI consistency is definitely better in Affinity than Adobe. Ever tried creating a gradient in Ps then in Ai. Their suite is developed in chunks, and big chunks of Ps are left back in the 2000s. I guess GIFs, 3D and some sort of auto selection capability would be nice to have, but I’d take Affinity’s UI over Adobe’s any day of the week.
Let me stick to my Adobe, I am not impressed at all
Well, there you go!
You narrate like one of those god awful ads of a bro describing a video game actions.
Honestly makes me doubt the program.
Only one feature dont make software better. I dont defend adobe but come on !!!
Did I say it did? (Gee, I don’t think I said that.) But it’s a feature we should have in Photoshop!