Affinity Photo

Many features, light, clean interface, not expensive

I get it. You can do as many comparisons of Adobe Photoshop as you want. But, if you want Photoshop because of the copious amount of video tutorials and AI functionality, then get Photoshop.

That being said, if you want to level up you can't go wrong with Affinity Photo. Some functionality here is done better than Photoshop. Check out PiXimperfect's YouTube video as an example.

For my purposes I don't need to use AI and I don't need an inbuilt video editor to animate images.

Affinity Photo has a very polished interface, and, being similar to Photoshop, is easy to pick up. You can watch many Photoshop videos to get inspiration and apply it here.

What's also handy is the Personas feature where you can easily switch from one design environment to another. To be fair, I haven't used them aside from the Export Persona.

It's no slouch either, where Photo can take advantage of hardware acceleration from your graphics card without taxing the system.

Definitely worth a look at.

I want this to succeed, but it's screwed up color data before when I went to save to a file. Also puts functions behind keyboard shortcuts without listing them in the navigation menus. Super hard to work with.

I've worked a lot with Photoshop and find AP to be an improvement in several ways, eg. in brush editing, and just the overall design / feel.

Nice interface, more features than you might expect, and only major updates are paid. There's been one so far, and the first one is still supported. So no subscription and really low price compared to Adobe's.

Both desktop and iPad versions work very well. The iPad app is probably the most advanced touch app I've tried, in having pretty much (exactly?) the same feature set as for desktop (and it's a lot cheaper).

It utilizes the toch screen really well too, balancing desktop adjustment precision standards (unlike eg. Procreate) with intuitive gestures. One of my favorite toch specific features is the radial menu for function keys (cmd, shift, ctrl and option/alt) that work very much like in Adobe applications. That's an update in version 2, in the first one you accessed them with holding 1, 2,3 or 4(??) fingers of your secondary hand on the screen, which worked well, but could be awkward.

Works well with Apple Pencil too, and if your iPad supports hover, you get tooltips and amazing snapping suggestions for relevant tools!

Okay, so buy Affinity Photo if you can, and try Affinity Designer too (like Illustrator), which is also great. Affinity Publisher (like InDesign) seems to be of equal quality.

Just reviewed Affinity Designer so not re-writing that, but this is just as amazing. I think that you cannot go wrong with these products and it is a shame the Affinity range consists only of the three Designer, Photo and Publisher items....however, so far as I am concerned if you do not need the wider suite that Adobe offers or the really specialist features of stuff like GIMP and Inkspace, you should go with Affinity. Check out the YouTube videos from Serif if you want to be convinced!

A lot faster than Photoshop. Doesn't have the lag photoshop has (especially when using font tool), also doesn't have 11 additional programs running in the background like with PS (and CC) even after closing the app.

For me as a long time user of Photoshop since 1992 till 2018, Affinity Photo is the best application to replace Adobe Photoshop. The ease of use in this application cannot be compared to Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. Although GIMP is a bit difficult to use, but you can get used to it in the long run and I have no regrets switching from using this application apart from being free. Along with Krita which is the second one and GIMP the third one as my image editor of choice. And of course the best and first choice for me is Affinity Photo for editing images. Besides of being fast and lighter its tools from the toolbar is easy to familiarise due to the similarity of the tools in Photoshop. And besides Affinity Photo is an inexpensive and it has non-destructive editing tools wherever to drag right and left using with the hand tools is not hard to pull the image during the editing. I have stopped using Adobe Photoshop since 2018, due to that I have noticed every time I open Photoshop it speeds up the processor of my laptop. The chirpsing of the fan on the processor seemed to always accelerate it like a car constantly the accelerator being pressed by the foot. My laptop is getting hot when I touch it on the top side of the keyboard and on the bottom side. Recently, when Photoshop was updated in 2019 and so has the Illustrator these two Adobe products were so voracious of consuming memory. The problem of overheating and the constant acceleration of the processor of my PC was gone when I stop using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.