![]() These things alone make it worth the small price Serif is charging. It offers no photo management, but it does offer HDR, focus stacking, a generic stacking tool, and panorama stitching. If you can live with some instability, and a sense that Serif NEEDS you to report any weird findings you encounter, Affinity can be a lot of fun to use. OTOH, Affinity Photo is VERY MUCH a first generation product, albeit one with great potential. ![]() It also has a full fledged automation scripting language similar to the basic computer language, a basic level photo manager module, an HDR module (which is pretty good, IMO), and a super simplified touch up editor tab in addition to the full featured editor it is well known for. Even it's raw development is good enough for many (if they are willing to live with a non standard user interface.) If you NEED stability and a predictably stable environment, its the product to select. PSP X8 is in a much better "tested ready" state. Oh, and I seem to recall Glen Barrington is working on a full review of Affinity I'm sure he'll be much more thorough than my brief impressions. Overall, I'd say if there's any feature in Affinity but not PSP you'd like to have, or just investigate, Affinity sure is cheap for what it does.īut if PSP does everything you want, it's easy to wait and see the early-bird discount is only $10, and I think a free trial is on the way. Still, it's early in Affinity's life, and Serif seems to be committed to rapidly fixing its bugs and tweaking it the first 'customer beta' is already out. And PSP seems to have more configurability in its user interface, at least for the things I want. OTOH, Affinity's toolbar doesn't seem to allow me to have the various one-click zooming options of PSP, which is a minor annoyance. are sized larger than PSP X8's, which is nice on a UHD monitor, but PSP X8's are usable (at least on a 40"). Many of them I still haven't investigated. I've only played with Affinity for a few days, and for the price the number of functions you get is pretty amazing. So far, all the edits I've wanted to do on a test image have been easily doable on both Affinity and PSP X8. My per-pixel editing needs are simple image resizing and cropping, occasional object removal, etc., seldom anything complex or difficult. Most everything that affects the whole image, I'll do in DxO. My situation is similar, except I'm not as up-to-date. I'm using DxO Optics Pro 11 for files from my main cameras and RawTherapee for files from cameras that DxO doesn't support. Note that I don't need a solution for RAW. I use the latest version (X9) and like it, but the buzz around Affinity makes me think that I may be missing out on something better. The DAM & raw developer is the same wherever they are found, so Ultimate will also give you a good idea how they will work for you.My main interest in Affinity is as an alternative to the (similarly priced) PaintShop Pro. The 10% discount ends today, if anyone is interested. When it finished downloading, then it gave me the option of a Ultimate or Pro trial. So I downloaded the free trail for Edition 11. Look at their site and you'll see the free trail for Ultimate and Pro versions are greyed out. The problem with 30 day free trials is that it takes me 30 days just to learn how to use the program. To be fair, I've not had any problem in getting ACDSee and Affinity to synch up their tonality and color, but for some, it might be a consideration.ĭO NOT buy ACDSee without downloading the free trial and testing it for yourself. It's big advantage over AP is that the same color management is used in an all ACDSee workflow. And if you want to use Affinity's raw developer you need to send it an unedited raw file or be willing to not use the ACDSee raw edits.ĪCDSee Ultimate has a bit mapped editor almost, not quite, as powerful as AP. So, if you want to use ACDSee's raw developer, you need to export/save it as a tif or some other bitmapped format before sending it to AP. Now, ACDSee's raw developer is incompatible with Affinity Photo's raw developer. The user can set up Affinity Photo as an external editor within ACDSee and send the raw image to Affinity Photo, or send a Tif, jpg, etc to AP. I have both ACDSee Ultimate and Affinity Photo (I'm a software nerd, I have ALL the Affinity software).ĪCDSee Home (DAM only) and ACDSee Pro (DAM and Raw Development) would make excellent front-end packages for Affinity.
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