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I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought
I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! -- best regards, Neil |
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On 2016-11-14 19:24:50 +0000, Neil said:
I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! I am glad you took the time to explore Affinity Photo and discovered the geat functionality of this app. It is a powerful app which will meet the needs of many folks looking for a Photoshop replacement without much compromise. I understand that there is a resistance against much of what Adobe has done in recent years with the subscription model, even though for many of us Adobe CC is currently our preferred choice. For the last three years I have explored many of the options for a PS replacement and maintained my Adobe CC subscription. Through this period I have found two Mac only apps, Acorn and Pixelmator, which are adequate PS replacements, and one which is probably the best, of the current PS replacement class, Affinity Photo. I have bought both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo (AP), putting my money where my mouth is, and I use both along with my normal Lightroom CC/PS CC workflow so that I can climb the AP learning curve and discover different results with different apps. Anyway, I have no doubt that Affinity Photo will meet your photo editing needs. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 11/14/2016 4:11 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-11-14 19:24:50 +0000, Neil said: I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! I am glad you took the time to explore Affinity Photo and discovered the geat functionality of this app. It is a powerful app which will meet the needs of many folks looking for a Photoshop replacement without much compromise. I understand that there is a resistance against much of what Adobe has done in recent years with the subscription model, even though for many of us Adobe CC is currently our preferred choice. For the last three years I have explored many of the options for a PS replacement and maintained my Adobe CC subscription. Through this period I have found two Mac only apps, Acorn and Pixelmator, which are adequate PS replacements, and one which is probably the best, of the current PS replacement class, Affinity Photo. I have bought both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo (AP), putting my money where my mouth is, and I use both along with my normal Lightroom CC/PS CC workflow so that I can climb the AP learning curve and discover different results with different apps. Anyway, I have no doubt that Affinity Photo will meet your photo editing needs. Yes, there will be a learning curve, but I can already see many correlative functions between AP and PhotoShop. Some of the tools have different and/or added functionality, some PS functions are made available in a different way, e.g. some selection tools and curve editors. But, the control appears to be there, and as I'm not a "pre-set" fan, I was glad to see macro capabilities. -- best regards, Neil |
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On 11/14/2016 8:12 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:24:50 -0500, Neil wrote: I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! What have you been using? Over the decades I've used several programs, of course. I still mainly use PhotoShop for image editing because it supports the formats I needs and integrates with Illustrator, FrameMaker and InDesign, which I also use. My review of trying out Affinity Photo was very luke-warm because I don't see any advantages to what I'm now using: Adobe's PS/LR subscription. At this point, I don't see an "advantage" over PS of the Affinity Photo Beta, but there are a few features that I may prefer for some uses. I also wonder how you are doing image management. My needs go beyond just image management. I have to manage the large, complex documents (~500 pages) that I create, so products like LR are inadequate solutions. So, I wrote my own document management software decades ago, a relatively simple relational database app (compared to some commercial programs I've written). -- best regards, Neil |
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Whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:12:43 UTC, Tony Cooper wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:24:50 -0500, Neil wrote: I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! What have you been using? My review of trying out Affinity Photo was very luke-warm because I don't see any advantages to what I'm now using: Adobe's PS/LR subscription. Although I have't looked into it I thought one of the advantages was that is £40 and you don't have to pay a subscription every month and people might prefere just a one off cost like buying a car rather than renting one etc... and I think it's free or a demo at the moment. I'm happy enough with pixelmator at the moment as are others I assume. I also wonder how you are doing image management. Not everyone needs image management . Photoline is free to try and €59 to buy: http://www.pl32.com/ -- teleportation kills |
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Whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:12:43 UTC, Tony Cooper wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:24:50 -0500, Neil wrote: I've downloaded and started getting familiar with this app, and thought I'd share a few first impressions; I will be buying this app! I mentioned in another thread that I used Serif software long ago, but that they faded into the background for me when Adobe started buying the better graphic app companies and subsequently dominated the market. Like their earlier products, Photo appears to be aimed at the professional user. The app handles all the essential formats including CMYK and LAB. The tool set is considerable, and I even found some creative ways that some of the "common" tools work to make editing photos easier and faster. Not only is this app a functional competitor to PhotoShop, there is no comparison to the "lesser" apps like GIMP. There may be something one can do in PS that can't be done with Affinity Photo, but it might take me some time to find it. Thanks, Duck, for the pointer! What have you been using? My review of trying out Affinity Photo was very luke-warm because I don't see any advantages to what I'm now using: Adobe's PS/LR subscription. Although I have't looked into it I thought one of the advantages was that is £40 and you don't have to pay a subscription every month and people might prefere just a one off cost like buying a car rather than renting one etc... and I think it's free or a demo at the moment. I'm happy enough with pixelmator at the moment as are others I assume. I also wonder how you are doing image management. Not everyone needs image management . Photoline is free to try and e59 to buy: http://www.pl32.com/ -- teleportation kills |
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"Tony Cooper" wrote
| I also wonder how you are doing image management. | | Not everyone needs image management . | | | Well, yes, they do. "Image management" is just a fancy term to | describe how images are stored and accessed. If you have a folder | named "Photos", and all photos you add to the computer are placed in | this folder, that's image management. I assumed he was talking about built-in find-your-pictures-for-dummies features, like Picasa made popular, for people who actually don't know how to use the file system. I have a partition named "Graphics" where I keep photos, general graphics and multimedia. I have folders there organized by topics. Sounds and Graphics have subfolders like Midi, Wav, Photos, and so on. I wouldn't call that "image management". It's just basic organization of my files. When I work on a photo I drag a copy to the Desktop, then eventually I might put one or more changed files into the Graphics storage. I know where my files are, so I don't need "image management". PSP16 has 3 tabs. One is Manage, to find files. The next is Adjust, to do one-click changes to images. The third is Edit. I have no use for the first two tabs, but PSP16 won't let me remove them. Worse, I can't change the default, which opens to the Manage tab. To me that's like buying a racing bike and then finding that it has training wheels that can't be removed. It all just adds to the bloat of PSP and shouldn't be part of a software program designed for advanced editing. If someone working with layers doesn't know where they keep their image files they need to take an adult ed course in computers. |
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"Mayayana" wrote: "Tony Cooper" wrote | I also wonder how you are doing image management. | | Not everyone needs image management . | | | Well, yes, they do. "Image management" is just a fancy term to | describe how images are stored and accessed. If you have a folder | named "Photos", and all photos you add to the computer are placed in | this folder, that's image management. I assumed he was talking about built-in find-your-pictures-for-dummies features, like Picasa made popular, for people who actually don't know how to use the file system. I have a partition named "Graphics" where I keep photos, general graphics and multimedia. I have folders there organized by topics. Sounds and Graphics have subfolders like Midi, Wav, Photos, and so on. I wouldn't call that "image management". It's just basic organization of my files. When I work on a photo I drag a copy to the Desktop, then eventually I might put one or more changed files into the Graphics storage. I know where my files are, so I don't need "image management". XNView is free for some users. "Non profit" is the magic term I think... http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ PSP16 has 3 tabs. One is Manage, to find files. The next is Adjust, to do one-click changes to images. The third is Edit. I have no use for the first two tabs, but PSP16 won't let me remove them. Worse, I can't change the default, which opens to the Manage tab. To me that's like buying a racing bike and then finding that it has training wheels that can't be removed. It all just adds to the bloat of PSP and shouldn't be part of a software program designed for advanced editing. If someone working with layers doesn't know where they keep their image files they need to take an adult ed course in computers. PaintShop Pro, the well known precursor to Photoshop has yet to get a Mac download... -- teleportation kills |
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In article , Tony Cooper
wrote: | I also wonder how you are doing image management. | | Not everyone needs image management . | | | Well, yes, they do. "Image management" is just a fancy term to | describe how images are stored and accessed. If you have a folder | named "Photos", and all photos you add to the computer are placed in | this folder, that's image management. I assumed he was talking about built-in find-your-pictures-for-dummies features, like Picasa made popular, for people who actually don't know how to use the file system. I have a partition named "Graphics" where I keep photos, general graphics and multimedia. I have folders there organized by topics. Sounds and Graphics have subfolders like Midi, Wav, Photos, and so on. I wouldn't call that "image management". It's just basic organization of my files. If you don't feel that organizing your photo files is a form of image management, that's a definition of the words that I can't agree with, but it's your choice. Adobe Elements, in fact, calls their image management module "Organizer". The find-your-pictures aspect can be part of your organization. You don't need keywords as used in LR and other image management apps to do this. If you have a subfolder labeled "Christmas2015", or name your photos "2015-12-25-001" (or similar), you have a find-your-pictures feature. A program like LR is more sophisticated than a file and folder system because it allows the use of keywords and more search functions. These additional features may not be needed by all, but some image management or organization is. yep. |
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Whisky-dave wrote: I also wonder how you are doing image management. Not everyone needs image management . yes they do. |
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