Affinity
Dec 30, 2018 09:48:53 #
whitehall
Loc: Canada
I recently purchased the Affinity programme as it seems more intuitive than Photoshop. However, I have a feeling that it has slowed down my Mac Pro. Any comments? Thanks
IGW
IGW
Dec 30, 2018 11:40:20 #
Linary
Loc: UK
whitehall wrote:
I recently purchased the Affinity programme as it seems more intuitive than Photoshop. However, I have a feeling that it has slowed down my Mac Pro. Any comments? Thanks
IGW
IGW
Affinity takes ages to open and is slow to open a raw file for the first time. (All sorts of things are going on in the background such as matching lens profiles and initial toning etc.) Once up and running and with the image open, everything speeds up. When you change to the Photo Persona, everything is good and the speed is governed more by your knowledge of the system than by the software slowing everything down.
The latest update helped to reduce the start up time a little, and the Develop Persona is also very slightly faster in its operations. Although the Inpainting tool is very fast when compared to Photoshop's content aware tools, I don't think it does the job quite as well.
Dec 30, 2018 12:12:56 #
whitehall
Loc: Canada
Thanks. I bought their book, so I will keep working on it - if all else fails I can go backtp Photoshop since it is part of the Adobe subscription.
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Dec 31, 2018 06:44:24 #
Affinity Photo is my main editor. It opens RAW files in a wink of an eye in my computer, it is fast and it works for me to perfection.
I bought the book and returned it. The videos in You Tube are much better than the book.
I bought the book and returned it. The videos in You Tube are much better than the book.
Dec 31, 2018 09:06:53 #
Dec 31, 2018 09:21:21 #
robertcbyrd
Loc: 28754
The GPU on your machine largely determines the time it takes to render a RAW file, and that goes for any machine, Windows or Apple or ...
A basic $500 laptop will render quite slowly. A "gaming" machine with a decent GPU will render significantly faster. Do some research on the latest graphics chips and look at hardware that uses those chips. They will start used at around $700 and go way up from there.
A basic $500 laptop will render quite slowly. A "gaming" machine with a decent GPU will render significantly faster. Do some research on the latest graphics chips and look at hardware that uses those chips. They will start used at around $700 and go way up from there.
Dec 31, 2018 09:40:02 #
whitehall
Loc: Canada
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Dec 31, 2018 10:43:10 #
I've had Affinity on my MacBook Air for 2 years and have not noticed any slowdown in my system. However, as others have noted, it is slow to come up but, once loaded, it works fine.
Dec 31, 2018 11:02:52 #
Dec 31, 2018 11:32:42 #
Affinity works fine on my computer, BUT I DO have an accelerated graphics card in my computer? Also do you have enough RAM on the PC that you're using?
Lastly, I also bought the Affinity book but do think the videos are much better for learning. They make it look simple, which it is with a little practice.
Lastly, I also bought the Affinity book but do think the videos are much better for learning. They make it look simple, which it is with a little practice.
Jan 1, 2019 09:05:52 #
I changed my hard drive to a SSD. Now my laptop boots in 30 seconds not several minutes it used to. I haven't loaded Affinity yet but will soon.
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Jan 1, 2019 10:11:50 #
Linary
Loc: UK
dennisob wrote:
I changed my hard drive to a SSD. Now my laptop boots in 30 seconds not several minutes it used to. I haven't loaded Affinity yet but will soon.
It will be interesting to hear just how long it takes for Affinity to boot up from the SSD.
Jan 1, 2019 12:59:12 #
N97972
Loc: Chelan County, Washington
Camerapapi,
I am curious how you set up your computer ( processor and ram) as I find my machine struggling a bit with Affinity Photo. I am currently doing research to keep my waiting time to a minimum.
Thanks,
Pete Karp
Cashmere, WA
I am curious how you set up your computer ( processor and ram) as I find my machine struggling a bit with Affinity Photo. I am currently doing research to keep my waiting time to a minimum.
Thanks,
Pete Karp
Cashmere, WA
Feb 8, 2019 17:40:14 #
Harry0
Loc: Gardena, Cal
N97972 wrote:
Camerapapi, I am curious how you set up your computer
Try all the basics first: 8gb ram minimum. 10% drive space clear minimum.
CLEAR your desktop! Make shortcuts of your folders, and move the folders to your drive.
Gotta lotta big pictures for your wallpaper? Desize them.
Quit every program you're not using. Like office, browsers, dvd and printer monitor apps, etc.
Another drive is real handy. Load Affinity on your boot drive, and use the other drive for your data files. Same with Adobe stuff. Especially "scratch" files.
GPU matters. Bigger faster newer beats old OEM fuddy. Do some large pictures load in stages? Watching 1080 action movies with a little stutter at the fast action parts? Sure clue.
Look up the "native" resolutions of your monitor, and match the video card output to it.
I have different user profiles for different jobs. I have almost nothing else running when I'm doing Adobe anything.
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