Affinity Photo 2

[rpcrowe]

My wife had an altercation with Adobe regarding the credit card she was using and decided to cancel her membership to Adobe Photoshop.

She has downloaded Affinity Photo 2 and likes it quite a bit. I have played with it also and, since I am not doing very much photography these days (due to age and health concerns) - So I am considering cancelling my Adobe subscription and Affiity Photo 2 for my photo editing.

I learned that I can link my subscription to NIK Software to Affinity. I do a lot of my processing with NIK Software and would not have switched to Affinity Photo 2 if I could not use NIK software.

I also enjoy using Portrait Professional as a plug-in with Photoshop and was happy to learn that I could also use that plug-in with Affinity Photo 2.

The Photoshop subscription is costing me about ten U.S. Dollars per month and I can get Affinity Photo 2 for a one-time cost of seventy U.S. Dollars. That is a decent savings in the long run.

EVEN BETTER - I just learned that Judy can install Affinity Photo 2 on a second computer (mine) at the base price.

[billtils]

Richard, I was an early and long time user of Affinity Photo (from version 1.2), but have moved to the "Dark Side" and now subscribe to Adobe Photo. Like anything else, AP has its good and not so good points. The main ones on the "good" side are exactly those you mention, the not so good are no integrated library function and the limited number of worthwhile "how to" support videos compared to the Adobe offerings. The crunch for me was the release of V2 which I had to delete and reinstall several times due to crashes, and yes, I know, I should have been more patient and let the team sort things out. Bottom line - if you want to exit Adobe land for whatever reason, download the free trial version of AP, give it a go, and make up your own mind

[rpcrowe]

I have been a bit surprised at the plethora of instructional videos regarding Affinity Photo 2. I certainly did not expect this many videos. Some of them seem to be rather good.

However - using the NIK Software (which I have been using or years) will make the transition a bit smoother. I actually do the majority of my selections using the NIK system I absolutely LOVE the NIK Software U-Point technology.

We originally found Affinity Photo 2 when we were searching for a program which would allow my wife to open the images which she had saved in PSD format after she dumped Photoshop!

I have never had any problems with Photoshop but, I have always detested having to communicate with the Adobe Corporation. This began early on. My wife is a professor emeritus from a local college. The Adobe site states that she should be eligible for an educational discount even if she s no longer an active professor. The was impossible to obtain.