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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
Just to advise Mac users that Serif has updated/upgraded Affinity Photo
from 1.4.3 to 1.5 with a whole bunch of added features. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/new-features/ For Mac users who are looking for good Adobe Alternatives we now have Affinity Photo 1.5, Pixelmator, and Luminar. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/ https://macphun.com/luminar -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
On 09/12/2016 04:24, Savageduck wrote:
Just to advise Mac users that Serif has updated/upgraded Affinity Photo from 1.4.3 to 1.5 with a whole bunch of added features. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/new-features/ For Mac users who are looking for good Adobe Alternatives we now have Affinity Photo 1.5, Pixelmator, and Luminar. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/ https://macphun.com/luminar .... and there's a reduced price introductory offer for Windows users too, including some macros: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ GBP £30. Makes Adobe look /very/ expensive..... -- Cheers, David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
In article , David Taylor
wrote: ... and there's a reduced price introductory offer for Windows users too, including some macros: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ GBP £30. Makes Adobe look /very/ expensive..... nonsense. the difference is negligible. photoshop elements, which is what that app competes with, is typically $50 usd street price, and as of right now, is ~40 gbp. in other words, photoshop is only *slightly* more expensive, a whole 10 gbp. |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
On 2016-12-09 15:29:02 +0000, nospam said:
In article , David Taylor wrote: ... and there's a reduced price introductory offer for Windows users too, including some macros: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ GBP £30. Makes Adobe look /very/ expensive..... nonsense. the difference is negligible. photoshop elements, which is what that app competes with, is typically $50 usd street price, and as of right now, is ~40 gbp. in other words, photoshop is only *slightly* more expensive, a whole 10 gbp. Affinity Photo is far more capable than PSE. Also PSE is not in the same league as PS CC, but Affinity Photo is. You should give it a try sometime, I have. I have also bought and tested and use Pixelmator, and Luminar, and they are also far more capable than PSE. Lately I have added Luminar to my Lightroom workflow with some interesting and surprising results. The digital photography post processing world is no longer all Adobe. I say that with the disclaimer that my preferred workflow is Lightroom CC + Photoshop CC. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
In article 2016120907531324712-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
Savageduck wrote: ... and there's a reduced price introductory offer for Windows users too, including some macros: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ GBP £30. Makes Adobe look /very/ expensive..... nonsense. the difference is negligible. photoshop elements, which is what that app competes with, is typically $50 usd street price, and as of right now, is ~40 gbp. in other words, photoshop is only *slightly* more expensive, a whole 10 gbp. Affinity Photo is far more capable than PSE. not really. it's a consumer level app and priced accordingly. Also PSE is not in the same league as PS CC, but Affinity Photo is. no it isn't. a proper comparison is with elements, not the full photoshop. You should give it a try sometime, I have. so have i. the point is that the prices are similar, almost the same, in fact. I have also bought and tested and use Pixelmator, and Luminar, and they are also far more capable than PSE. Lately I have added Luminar to my Lightroom workflow with some interesting and surprising results. again, they're all consumer apps, with overlapping feature sets. The digital photography post processing world is no longer all Adobe. I say that with the disclaimer that my preferred workflow is Lightroom CC + Photoshop CC. it never was all adobe. |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
On 09/12/2016 15:53, Savageduck wrote:
[] Affinity Photo is far more capable than PSE. Also PSE is not in the same league as PS CC, but Affinity Photo is. You should give it a try sometime, I have. I have also bought and tested and use Pixelmator, and Luminar, and they are also far more capable than PSE. Lately I have added Luminar to my Lightroom workflow with some interesting and surprising results. The digital photography post processing world is no longer all Adobe. I say that with the disclaimer that my preferred workflow is Lightroom CC + Photoshop CC. Thanks for providing that update! Always best to speak from experience rather than guesswork. I'm looking forward to finding out more about my copy of Affinity Photo. -- Cheers, David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
On 2016-12-09 19:47:21 +0000, David Taylor
said: On 09/12/2016 15:53, Savageduck wrote: [] Affinity Photo is far more capable than PSE. Also PSE is not in the same league as PS CC, but Affinity Photo is. You should give it a try sometime, I have. I have also bought and tested and use Pixelmator, and Luminar, and they are also far more capable than PSE. Lately I have added Luminar to my Lightroom workflow with some interesting and surprising results. The digital photography post processing world is no longer all Adobe. I say that with the disclaimer that my preferred workflow is Lightroom CC + Photoshop CC. Thanks for providing that update! Always best to speak from experience rather than guesswork. I'm looking forward to finding out more about my copy of Affinity Photo. Affinity has a fully non-destructive editing workflow and just takes a little time to understand just how it works with their "Persona" concept. The "Develop Persona" is their RAW processor, and much like ACR once you have completed your adjustments to the RAW file you exit to the "Photo Persona". There you make adjustments with layers and the same tools you would have available with PS. If you go through the set up in preferences, you can also use most of the plug-ins available to Photoshop. I have set up Affinity Photo to use the NIK Collection and ExposureX. You can save the layered, adjusted file in their file format ".afphoto", your original is unmolested. If you need PNG, JPEG, GIF, PSD, TIFF, PDF, SVG, EXR, or HDR you have to use the "Export" dialog from the menu, or the "Export Persona", much the same as one would using Lightroom or even PS. Even though Tony finds them minimal and not detailed enough, I recommend taking a look at some of the tutorial videos Serif provides. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For Mac Users - Affinity Photo Update
On 2016-12-09 22:11:24 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-12-09 19:47:21 +0000, David Taylor said: On 09/12/2016 15:53, Savageduck wrote: [] Affinity Photo is far more capable than PSE. Also PSE is not in the same league as PS CC, but Affinity Photo is. You should give it a try sometime, I have. I have also bought and tested and use Pixelmator, and Luminar, and they are also far more capable than PSE. Lately I have added Luminar to my Lightroom workflow with some interesting and surprising results. The digital photography post processing world is no longer all Adobe. I say that with the disclaimer that my preferred workflow is Lightroom CC + Photoshop CC. Thanks for providing that update! Always best to speak from experience rather than guesswork. I'm looking forward to finding out more about my copy of Affinity Photo. Affinity has a fully non-destructive editing workflow and just takes a little time to understand just how it works with their "Persona" concept. The "Develop Persona" is their RAW processor, and much like ACR once you have completed your adjustments to the RAW file you exit to the "Photo Persona". There you make adjustments with layers and the same tools you would have available with PS. If you go through the set up in preferences, you can also use most of the plug-ins available to Photoshop. I have set up Affinity Photo to use the NIK Collection and ExposureX. You can save the layered, adjusted file in their file format ".afphoto", your original is unmolested. If you need PNG, JPEG, GIF, PSD, TIFF, PDF, SVG, EXR, or HDR you have to use the "Export" dialog from the menu, or the "Export Persona", much the same as one would using Lightroom or even PS. Even though Tony finds them minimal and not detailed enough, I recommend taking a look at some of the tutorial videos Serif provides. BTW; this is what the export dialog from the File menu looks like: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_333.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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