If you need video editing, go get the free version of DaVinci Resolve, it's better than anything Adobe, anyway.I‘m suffering here from the same problem.Īctually I’m completely trapped with my RAWs in Apple Photos on 15.6ġ) Saving from Apple Photos gives me a JPEG. In conclusion, it's really a trade-off on how the features work, rather than some bullet-list of features made by some corporate marketing guy who doesn't actually use the software. This is not to say that Photoshop doesn't have certain real advantages over Affinity Photo for other people, so, as always, YMMV. From a photographer's perspective, if I could only choose one, I'd choose Affinity Photo as I find it more productive to work in overall. I found nothing - in either program - that will turn what I consider an unacceptable photo into an acceptable one. Affinity's Stack More is almost instantaneous when Photoshop sometimes takes actual minutes to update. In Affinity, you either InPaint on a blank layer with its Blend Mode mode set to lighten, or bathe your dog.Īffinity's Stack Mode is simple and intuitive, whereas CS6 is clunky and takes more menu surfing to change modes, or edit a stacked image. Using either program's InPainting brush works OK, but if you set CS6's brush Blend Mode to Lighten, it will only alter the dark dirt pixels - so it's effectively self-masking. Here's why that's important: Say you've got a closeup of a dog with short white fur and it has lots of specks of dirt (or fleas), and you want to clean that up quickly. However, CS6 allows you to change Blend Modes. The border of the InPainting brush repair is less obvious than the over the Adobe equivalent (in my work). If you photograph animals with a shallow DoF, Affinity works better just running the Refine. The hair/fur thing only works if everything is in perfect focus, so I guess if you make cat memes you're in heaven. interface with AI □, it's really only effective on images that are already easy to mask, so it's kinda pointless. I VASTLY prefer Affinity's masking, and Refine. Much of the the vaunted built-in AI stuff was unusably slow and hardly worked better than their non-AI counterparts that have been around for ages like Unsharp Mask, a technique once used in darkrooms, on *gasp*film.ĬC has a motion blur sharpen thing which seems like it might be useful for some people, although my results were poor.įor RAW files, I prefer neither, although I haven't worked with V2 much yet. I was actually kinda shocked the last version (CC Trial a year or so ago) had a ton more "features", but virtually zero improvements from my perspective as a photographer. The one to export for Skyrim files, and Topaz Gigapixel don't work, however Topaz Sharpen and DeNoise work Perfectly. There's some plugins that won't work with Affinity that work in Photoshop. Although it makes for gargantuan files, it's extremely useful in certain circumstances. No, really.ĬS6 can't save image editing history, whereas Affinity can in it's native file format. Adobe New & Improved it in CS6 by removing core functionality to make it faster in demos and give them another feature bulletpoint.ĬS6's native file format can't handle > 4GB and makes you save in a different format. Liquify is non-destructive in Affinity, but CS5 had the best version of Liquify in any program, anywhere. It also lacks 3D and Video, so no animated. In a real-world use scenarios, not so much, even current Photoshop CC.Īffinity Photo V2 doesn't have Content Aware Scale as in CS6. More to the point, in a head-to-head "feature" list, CS6 destroys Affinity Photo. Does that count as a "feature"? (JK, they'd never do that. Especially because Serif is offering the Universal License that gives you all three apps (plus the same three for iPad) for both Mac and Windows at a really nice introductory price.Īffinity keeps working forever, whereas CS6 stops when Adobe shuts down the activation server. You might be interested in viewing those as well. At the end of that video, which demonstrates many of the new features in Photo 2, there will be links to corresponding videos regarding Affinity Designer 2 and Affinity Publisher 2. May I suggest that you go to YouTube, and enter "Affinity Photo 2" and perhaps watch the excellent video featuring James Ritson. Welcome to the Forums! There are so many people posting every few seconds that a complete answer probably couldn't come for some time. I do feel like I'm missing out on newer features and I'm wondering if I switch to Affinity 2, will I be doing an upgrade? Does Affinity have a lot of new features that CS6 does not have and what are they? I refuse to go any further with Adobe's subscription and been using CS6 for many years now.
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