Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

I have used Affinity since it first became available for PCs. I had minimal previous PP experience and found Affinity easy to use. Their tutorials are excellent and I still go back to them for refreshers. I do my raw conversion 95% of the time in Affinity and I find it works very well. I think the capabilities of Affinity will meet the needs of almost my photographer.

It is true that it does not have a catalog feature but I, like many others, have my own system for storing images that works very well for me.

Ednsb Loc: Santa Barbara

For $25 it was a steal. I've been down the road of moving from Adobe for various reasons (more that Lightroom kept corrupting catalogs than pricing as I was a software exec and do know the complexities of stolen software, etc. Personally, I do not like SaaS-priced software because it is not going through the 'normal' QA process perpetual licenses go through so there is a greater chance of bugs going through) and I finally picked on1 as my base pp software. Affinity is not my raw processor but it does a great job on blending images for hdr, focus stacking, etc. I use it for that reason and really love it. All competitive software is always leapfrogging based on releases. On1 in my opinion needs to work on upgrading some of its features as an example so I've gone to other apps to get those features. In retrospect, Lightroom and PS as a solution are doing a great job of adding features like the new resizing feature they just announced which is way better than anything else I've seen. Anyway, steps off my soapbox.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

It certainly is, if only for the tools shown in the screen shot below:

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Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

its worth the $25
do not use it much
chuck

refilman Loc: California

Even if no one ever stole Adobe software, Adobe would have moved to the subscription model. The subscription model is stunningly more profitable; the stock market rewards subscription companies much more than ones that just sell things. If you want a more complete exposition of this point, try Scott Galloway's "Post Corona"

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

I was a long time user of Photoshop CS6 but never really grasped the many complexities of their layer structure. About 5 years ago I bought Affinity Photo when it was on sale and watched many YouTube Videos. Not only was it easier to learn but it helped me understand what I was missing about Photoshop. Now I only use Affinity Photo and am no longer intimidated with any postprocessing. Whatever you get you must make the effort to learn it well.

Dennis833 Loc: Australia

I used Photoshop for 20 years but switch to Affinity when it came out. I prefer the live brushes in Affinity because I often blend two exposures together.

DonVA Loc: British Columbia and New Mexico

I have been using Affinity for about three weeks now so I am still learning the finer points but I am delighted with it. I had been using CS5 but couldn't load it onto a new computer because the disks were ar our winter place to which I can't travel because of Covid restrictions. I don't like subscription based software so I bought PS Elements thinking that it would do most of what I wanted. Bad choice, buggy and underpowered, trying to cater to cellphone snappers and serious photographers at the same time while leaving out as much as possible so it doesn't compete with the main act.
I tried Affinity on advice in this forum and I don't think I'll turn back.
I think Affinity is the up and comer. I certainly haven't found anything it can't do better than CS5 (not a fair comparison I know) and these people are pushing hard. I think that in a few years Affinity will equal or surpass PS in every respect.
If you get it for $250 you will have your money's worth. If you get it for $25 you will feel like you bought it out of the back of a pickup truck in an alley somewhere.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I tried it and was impressed. You cannot beat it for the price. Its sister apps, Publisher and Designer, are great, too.

If I weren’t so heavily into the Adobe apps, I’d use Affinity apps.

MauiMoto Loc: Hawaii

Just buy it. Updates, improvements and new versions are free. I just bought it again for a new computer, even though it just updated to the newest version on my other computer.

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

Another thought. When I purchased my first Photoshop in 2002 (and it was $660), I was reminded that when Photoshop FIRST began, many years before that, it began is shareware (? where you send a contribution), so it was almost free. If that was true, and I have no reason to doubt my multiple sources, then the software grew along with the price until it became what it was in 2014 (?). So keep that in mind with Affinity Photo being $49, the price I paid, and happy about it. Five or ten years from now, it might very well grow in price ... and I believe they deserve every dollar, or pound, or euro they currently collect.

dandev Loc: Enumclaw, WA

I have used Affinity for a couple of years as a replacement for Photoshop. It's a good program that can deliver professional quality results. I also use Affinity Publisher.
I do not use the raw converter - but use Capture One instead. (As a Lightroom replacement and as cataloging software.) Capture One and Affinity play nice together. While I'm in Capture One, I can hit "edit in Affinity" and it opens the app - and saves the results back in Capture One.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Sounds good.