I purchased this software and think its a great value for the money. I also purchased the training book that they developed, it is full of project designed to help you learn how to use the program.
I use an apple computer, a old 2012 MacBook pro that I added a 250gb ssd drive and 16gb of ram to improve performance , Affinity Photo is fast with this configuration. This program works on windows machines also but I have no input because I don't own a windows computer.
Just a input for people who may be tired of paying monthly fees for Lightroom and Photoshop.
gary8803 wrote:
I purchased this software and think its a great value for the money. I also purchased the training book that they developed, it is full of project designed to help you learn how to use the program.
I use an apple computer, a old 2012 MacBook pro that I added a 250gb ssd drive and 16gb of ram to improve performance , Affinity Photo is fast with this configuration. This program works on windows machines also but I have no input because I don't own a windows computer.
Just a input for people who may be tired of paying monthly fees for Lightroom and Photoshop.
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I will look into Affinity simply because I want to get off the Adobe bandwagon.
There are two editing software that are becoming popular, Affinity Photo and Luminar. I bought Affinity at a ridiculous price and I am learning how to use it. Looks very good for editing images.
I own both Affinity and Luminar. I do enjoy both but fine that Affinity is a little easier to use. Personally, I don't like having to pay a monthly fee and being held hostage by the software companies. Its like the printers. We used to pay a high price for them until the companies found they made more money by selling the printers cheaper and raising the price of ink. It's now like paying $1,200.00 for a gallon of ink. Thank you Epson for the big tank printers.
and of course you know I'm writing to tell you that I bought the Luminar 2018 at a ridiculous price and find the free video tutorials to be great and the software so intuitive.
Choose your poison as they say but yes like you I got annoyed about Adobe's $14 Can dig into my account every month.
camerapapi wrote:
There are two editing software that are becoming popular, Affinity Photo and Luminar. I bought Affinity at a ridiculous price and I am learning how to use it. Looks very good for editing images.
I recently downloaded free Topaz Studio. Quite a neat program with many presets. The initial program is free, but you need to purchase the plug in's. I had been using PSE12 which has become quite quirky and frustrating to use, so Topaz Studio has been great for me considering the cost and the fact I don't do much PP.
Luminar is well worth trying. The initial release had some issues on Windows, but those have been straightened out and the program is outstanding.
Dr J
Loc: NE Florida
I think Afinity is terrific.... and at $50... wow... very powerful. The free in-house tutorials cover virtually everything - and have been using it for about a year - gave up on Photoshop Elements after they “upgraded” so many times and charged me about a $100 a crack.
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