Affinity software
I went from PS CC to Affinity, and for my needs it works very well. The raw developer is a bit more basic than ACR was, but more than adequate for my way of working.
I've been using Affinity for a couple of weeks; I got it to upgrade from my old version of Photoshop Elements 12. I've never used Lightroom so I cannot compare the two properly but I'm very pleased with Affinity so far. There are quite a few video tutorials for it and it seems well organised. My quandry with it at present is whether or not to continue with the Elements Organiser (that came with Elements) to keep track of my images or move to Adobe Bridge or something else. There are rumours of an organiser (digital asset manager) from Affinity but nothing concrete.
Quote:My quandry with it at present is whether or not to continue with the Elements Organiser (that came with Elements) to keep track of my images or move to Adobe Bridge or something else.
When I migrated from Adobe, I kept Bridge as it is free and independent of their subscriptions. It has its own image downloaded built in.
One thing I have found is that Affinity's own file format is not very economical on disk space. For instance, I just processed a DNG file of 40MB and then, on closing, the system offered me the chance to save changes, which it did in a AFPHOTO file which was 207MB. I've just done the same thing in Photoshop Elements and saved as a PSD file which came out as 70MB.
Quote:One thing I have found is that Affinity's own file format is not very economical on disk space. For instance, I just processed a DNG file of 40MB and then, on closing, the system offered me the chance to save changes, which it did in a AFPHOTO file which was 207MB. I've just done the same thing in Photoshop Elements and saved as a PSD file which came out as 70MB.
Not total sure but I think it saves the edit history as well so you can back track to original, hence the file size.
Bridge is part of the CC system but is free. https://creativecloud.adobe.com/apps/all/desktop
Quote:However if I were to take advantage of the free ersion of Adobe Bridge do I have to be signed up for Adobe CC? David
No, as I said in my comment above, when I stopped subscribing to CC I kept Bridge as it was free and independent of the subscription package.
I stopped my subscription to Adobe about six weeks ago. And got Affinity, I find it’s very very similar to photoshop. So I ver quickly got to grips with it and find it does all I need. Like I said I cancelled my Adobe package, but found I can still use Adobe RAW converter and bridge. So I use them all, but all for free so to speak, Affinity I bought through an offer on EPZ all it cost was £23
