Can Affinity Photo dethrone Photoshop?
Added 2019-07-09 17:13:13 +0000 UTCIs Affinity Photo better than Photoshop? Which should you buy? Which should you use? Can Affinity Photo dethrone Adobe Photoshop? Here is my take on this. Let's talk about it :)
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Wow, i didn't know Serif has been around for that long :) Yes, Photoshop can be tedious with the extremely many functions they now have. Not to speak of Illustrator which always scared me off because of how complicated it looks. the Serif products are refreshingly simple and very focused on the marked i assume the target :)
Olivio Sarikas
2019-07-11 07:15:17 +0000 UTCI used a Serif image pixel/vector product 20 odd years ago. It was head and shoulders above other products around because even in those days it had vector as well as pixel editing in the same interface. I was not totally surprised then when the Affinity products were launched with the cross over between pixel and vector and now taken to extremes with Publisher. I have used Photoshop (and stil have a CS3 version of it on an older machine "just in case") but personally I find the user interface clunky and non-intuitive. The final nail in the coffin for Photoshop (for me) is the subscription model. I know that there will be a time when we all have to pay for a V2.0 of the Affinity trio, but luckily there are no rumours of that as yet. As a hobbyist these days, the Affinity trio suits me down to the ground.
Kevin Phillips
2019-07-10 09:27:35 +0000 UTCNice! Good job :) Fonts is actually a good point. I didn't even think about that. Not just the functions, but also that Adobe offers fonts for "free" with their subscription. But if you use them and then you cancel, you can't use them anymore. So customers might get really mad at loosing their projects, meaning your company is basically bound to say with adobe ;)
Olivio Sarikas
2019-07-09 22:35:09 +0000 UTCSunday afternoon, I very carefully deleted ALL Adobe software from my computer. I use the Affinity trio for almost everything. I also use Luminar, and for digital painting, I use Corel Painter. The ONLY things I will miss from Adobe are some of the font capabilities.
William H. Willis
2019-07-09 20:50:16 +0000 UTCyeah when you apply a perspective warp or a live perspective filter to an embedded document it automatically changes to a pixel layer - in other words, destructive. I'm watching a lot of your videos to learn how you do this or that in Photo - but this is the one I'm stuck on, and I bet you have a lot of artwork that uses Smart Objects and when you open in Photo everything gets flattened. Let's hope this gets implemented. For now I will use both Photoshop on its own for standalone compositing and Photo in connection with the other two as a powerful workflow. I love your videos (and your red beard!)
Alex Barkaloff
2019-07-09 20:25:01 +0000 UTCYes, i totally agree. The new Publisher integration is really amazing. I hope the other tools get that integration soon too. And i totally would love to see the ability to perspective bend embedded documents. That would make them soooo powerful and i could build mockups and such :)
Olivio Sarikas
2019-07-09 20:11:48 +0000 UTCThere are a lot of things that Affinity (Photo, Designer, Publisher) does much better than Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) even for a large design environment. Chief among this is the integrated workflow. But there are a few things that Affinity Photo is lacking and I'm struggling. The most challenging is the complete implementation of Smart Objects. I say "complete implementation" because Photo already does some of that - embedded objects. But you can't take a layer or a group and convert to an embedded object - you have to create a new document, bring in those layers, save externally, place again into your original document and presto (sort of?). I love everything you said in this video but it's not just global agencies that need this - I think in Smart Objects, not just for mockups but for compositing and my own design work and not having this prevents me from letting go. Other things are missing: mask properties (not just applying filters to masks), stamp fills, easily adding picker points on curves, etc etc. For me I have let go of Illustrator (Designer), InDesign (Publisher!), Premiere Pro (come on... Resolve!), After Effects (Fusion in Resolve), Audition (Resolve and Isotope)
Alex Barkaloff
2019-07-09 20:07:31 +0000 UTCI totally forgot my last video was a talking video too. Hope that's ok with you. Next video will be a tutorial again and a pretty large Affinity Designer Project is coming soon too :)
Olivio Sarikas
2019-07-09 19:12:27 +0000 UTC
