Affinity Photo

Pros

• Affinity Photo is brilliant if you're willing to make a one off payment and get regular updates. It's Photoshop with raw processing essentially, I don't consider it worse quality than Photoshop in any significant way having used both reg...
• For a Photoshop replacement I've been using Affinity Photo for the past few years. There are some things it doesn't do, but for photo editing I actually like it better than Photoshop.
• I moved away from Adobe software for my personal use and use Affinity Photo for editing and Capture One for my catalogue. ... I honestly don't consider either of these a downgrade from Adobe software.
• Parent context: It does 10% of what Adobe does Reply: If by "it" you're referring to Photo, it does much more than 10%. If you don't use any of the AI stuff (which I don't) then it's probably close to 90%. Plus it's got some features tha...
• I switched to Affinity Photo several years ago and I'm very happy with it. Doesn't quite do 100% of what Photoshop does, but does some it doesn't.

Cons

• GIMP and Affinity Photo are not Lightroom replacements.
• Affinity Photo didn't feel instinctive at all.
• unfortunately Affinity photo doesn't officially work on Linux. I found some guides to tweak settings to maybe get it to work, but at the same time, if there is a better offering out there, I'd be more inclined to use it than to brute for...
• Affinity is a Photoshop replacement, not a Lightroom replacement.
• Affinity photo is a photoshop clone with raw editor. It looks and feels like PS but it's AI tools aren't up to PS standards. But it's priced at 70 bucks for a one time fee.