Which is (sort of) a way of recording keystrokes and playing them back at will. The only automation in Affinity photo is actions. There is no super simplified 'touch up mode', Serif expects you to commit to learning how it works. These things alone make it worth the small price Serif is charging. It offers no photo management, but it does offer HDR, focus stacking, a generic stacking tool, and panorama stitching. ![]() If you can live with some instability, and a sense that Serif NEEDS you to report any weird findings you encounter, Affinity can be a lot of fun to use. OTOH, Affinity Photo is VERY MUCH a first generation product, albeit one with great potential. It also has a full fledged automation scripting language similar to the basic computer language, a basic level photo manager module, an HDR module (which is pretty good, IMO), and a super simplified touch up editor tab in addition to the full featured editor it is well known for. Even it's raw development is good enough for many (if they are willing to live with a non standard user interface.) If you NEED stability and a predictably stable environment, its the product to select. PSP X8 is in a much better "tested ready" state. ![]() Oh, and I seem to recall Glen Barrington is working on a full review of Affinity I'm sure he'll be much more thorough than my brief impressions. Overall, I'd say if there's any feature in Affinity but not PSP you'd like to have, or just investigate, Affinity sure is cheap for what it does.īut if PSP does everything you want, it's easy to wait and see the early-bird discount is only $10, and I think a free trial is on the way. Still, it's early in Affinity's life, and Serif seems to be committed to rapidly fixing its bugs and tweaking it the first 'customer beta' is already out. And PSP seems to have more configurability in its user interface, at least for the things I want. OTOH, Affinity's toolbar doesn't seem to allow me to have the various one-click zooming options of PSP, which is a minor annoyance. are sized larger than PSP X8's, which is nice on a UHD monitor, but PSP X8's are usable (at least on a 40"). Many of them I still haven't investigated. I've only played with Affinity for a few days, and for the price the number of functions you get is pretty amazing. So far, all the edits I've wanted to do on a test image have been easily doable on both Affinity and PSP X8. My per-pixel editing needs are simple image resizing and cropping, occasional object removal, etc., seldom anything complex or difficult. Most everything that affects the whole image, I'll do in DxO. My situation is similar, except I'm not as up-to-date. I'm using DxO Optics Pro 11 for files from my main cameras and RawTherapee for files from cameras that DxO doesn't support. Note that I don't need a solution for RAW. I use the latest version (X9) and like it, but the buzz around Affinity makes me think that I may be missing out on something better. ![]() My main interest in Affinity is as an alternative to the (similarly priced) PaintShop Pro.
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