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I qualified “for photographers” because it seems many digital artists prefer Krita not only because it’s free (in either or both senses of the word) but because it meets their needs better.įrom my perspective, from the point of view of my own workflow using GIMP as my primary image editor:
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As a stupid example, I looked at Cinepaint feature list a long time ago and thought “Oh, great, that can replace PhotoShop and in the process avoid some issues with PhotoShop processing”, but that turned out to be laughably wrong.Īs far as free/libre software not having an all-in-one generic software that’s as convenient as for example PhotoShop creative suite for photographers, IMHO this is a true statement. So feature lists are nice, but not definitive. Actually using the software and seeing what it’s really capable of doing is quite another, sadly.

We currently do not have a all-in-one generic purpose software that are on the level of 3-4 commercial-grade softwares and if you look at features of Affinity Photo, it is clear that it is much better than any generic image editors offered by open source softwares Krita lacks lch support, and a good amount of filters. GIMP has the bonus of lch support, but still missing some super interesting features found in Krita and pro-grade softwares. Krita do offer features that are only usually seen in Photoshop and Affinity Photo and with the bonus of supporting clone layers (Non-destructive editing (Adjustment layer, adjustment mask (This is like adjustment layers, but in the form of smart filter), transform mask, smart objects, clone layers), LAB support, CMYK support, proper color management.
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The best you can have is a combination of GIMP, Krita, and RawTherapee to match the power of Affinity Photo, but even so, GIMP and Krita has their series of issues. We currently do not have a all-in-one generic purpose software that are on the level of 3-4 commercial-grade softwares and if you look at features of Affinity Photo, it is clear that it is much better than any generic image editors offered by open source softwares, and Affinity Photo does not suffer from speed issues compared with any generic image editors found in open source. Non-destructive editing in the form of adjustment masks, and adjustment layers do exist in Affinity Photo along with non-destructive RAW layers+non-destructive transformation masks, and smart object. RAW editing softwares naturally have non-destructive editing, so we’ll be looking at generic image editing software. There are tons of Affinity videos on Vimeo. They’re written by artists and they take you step-by-step through a project so that you can learn the basic concepts of workflow in the app.

One of the best things that helped me understand the power of the software was reading Affinity’s Workbooks. And what I found from using Affinity Designer was that at first I was making direct comparisons between Designer and other vector software before I understood how the app worked. Like all software, there is a learning curve. The program work well on computers with lighter-weight specks.

The developers had a goal from the beginning to create a robust experience while also keeping the app light weight. Where Affinity Photo excels is that it’s built from scratch and was originally slated to be an iOS app. I have started to use other software like Gimp and Affinity Photo. I’ve always liked to use Photoshop for compositing and complex editing. Dark Table is outstanding for image correction. I’ve been switching between multiple programs based on what processes are required for the work. Hey Thomas! Like you, I prefer to use FOSS software whenever possible.
