Affinity Photo vs Photoshop — The Best Photoshop Alternative 2020

So answer to the question: Is Affinity Photo  worth the switch from Photoshop in 2020? What's up everybody Rens here, back with yet another video.  In today's video I'll share my personal view and   experience helping you decide whether it's worth  it to switch from Photoshop to Affinity Photo in   2020. After uploading my last video in which I  show most Affinity Photo basics and essentials   in just 15 minutes, which you can view right over  here, many of you asked why I personally made the   switch from Photoshop to Affinity Photo so today  I'm gonna answer that exact question. This video   contains my personal opinion after intensively  using Affinity Photo for one year for both   personal and client work. It covers my experience  with both photo editing software's including why   I switched, features that I personally like in  Affinity Photo and features that I preferred in   Photoshop. Let the battle begin! So I want to start  off with my experience in both editing softwares   I've used Photoshop for about three years and  initially I wanted to do web design but then I   found out about photo manipulation. In these three  years I've used Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC 2018 so   I've never used the most recent versions. My main  reason to switch to Affinity Photo was my decision   to somehow monetize this photo manipulation  skill, so I wanted to work in licensed software. Photoshop is amazing but the pricing model made  me look for alternatives so I did some research   and Affinity Photo came out best. Here are the  reasons why I personally switched to Affinity   Photo. For serious users Affinity Photo simply  is a lot cheaper since it's a one-time purchase. You can buy it from affinity.serif.com for just  $50 compared to Photoshop for which you pay a monthly   subscription. Another great thing about Affinity  Photo is that it looks very similar to Photoshop. So for me it was relatively easy to make the  switch. I mean look at the interface it just   looks very similar. Another great thing is that  Affinity Photo can open Photoshop brushes. Also   Affinity Photo can save in .PSD which is Photoshops file document, so others who aren't using   Affinity Photo but Photoshop can also open the  files. The interface of Affinity Photo is fully   customizable so you can completely customize it to  your wants and needs. It's constantly improving and   updating for free, I started in first in 1.7.1  and one year later they are in 1.8.3 and   the changes have been amazing. Another cool  thing is that Affinity Photo offers a live   preview when using brushes blend modes etc. So you  can actually live see what you're doing before   you've actually done. There are also live filters  and adjustment layers which have a built-in mask so you can easily apply that adjustments to a  certain part of the image. Also in Photoshop you   have to make use of Smart Objects to not mess  with the original pixels. In affinity photo this   is not the case. Affinity Photo automatically  resizes its layers in a non-destructive manner   so you can resize and rescale your pixel layers  without actually messing with the original pixels. The last thing that I want to mention which is quite  useful and handy when doing photo manipulation, which I love doing, is the build in stock photos. From the built-in stock photos panel you can   simply search for any image on Unsplash, Pexels  and Pixabay. Once the results are loaded you can   simply click and drag the photo onto your  document to work with it. Now as mentioned   before I've personally used Photoshop for three  years and here are some things that I love about   Photoshop over Affinity Photo. Photoshop is part  of Adobe suite and this includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Adobe After Effects, Premiere  Pro etc. etc. This is an amazing package, however   you do have to pay their monthly subscription to  use all of the apps. Another thing that I really   loved about Photoshop is their powerful Camera Raw  filter. This is such a great tool to simply adjust   some colors, to tweak it, to give it a nice little  filter etc. Affinity Photo has their Develop Persona but in my opinion it's less developed than  the Camera Raw filter of Photoshop. Since I do a   lot of photo manipulation I love transforming and  reshaping objects. In Affinity Photo you have the   mesh warp tool and the deform tool, and the deform  tool is similar to the puppet warp tool in Photoshop. The deform tool works just a little different  and I think I personally like the puppet warp   tool better because you can rotate your anchor  points which you cannot really do in Affinity   Photo with the deform tool. And the last thing  that I really loved about Photoshop which is   not available yet in Affinity Photo, I'm not sure  if it will come, is Photoshop's video timeline to   create animations and layer build up videos. In  Photoshop it was really easy to create a nice   animation or a layer build up video from your  artwork so you can just show layer by layer and   build it up until you have the nice end result. In  Affinity Photo this unfortunately is not possible... And after using Affinity Photo for one year I  found there is still some room for improvement for Affinity Photo. There are some things  that are just still bugging. My Affinity   Photo regularly crashes when moving selections  in quick mask mode. Not many people know this   is actually possible in Affinity Photo, however  when doing it usually my Affinity Photo crashes.   There are some workarounds, but this just doesn't  work perfectly yet. Same thing for when rotating   large brushes. When I use larger brushes in large  document files often Affinity Photo crashes when   I start rotating my brushes. Also with some things  that I mentioned before already like the lacking   of the timeline and the pretty basic develop persona  that Affinity Photo offers compared to the Camera   Raw. And something I personally missed was the  lack of photo manipulation tutorials and courses. So this is where I jumped in and I'm actually  considering creating a full photo manipulation   course and since it's a lot of work it would  be extremely useful for me to know beforehand   if anybody of you would actually be interested in  buying it. So let me know in the comments if you   would be interested in following a full photo  manipulation course where you learn from A to   Z how to create amazing photo manipulations in  Affinity Photo. So all in all Affinity Photo is   a great Photoshop alternative. After using Photoshop  it was fairly easy for me to switch the Affinity   Photo. There's a lot of room for improvement as  I've mentioned before however I always find a   workaround to get the same or similar results  in Affinity Photo without it crashing. So answer   to the question: Is affinity photo worth the  switch from Photoshop in 2020? And my answer   definitely is 'YES'. One because of their pricing  model and two it's just an amazingly powerful   photo editing software just like Photoshop. And  that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed this video   and I hope you found it useful in your decision  making whether you should switch from Photoshop   to Affinity Photo. 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Length: 7min 21sec (441 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020

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