I tried to edit some pictures and even found a lot of things that worked better than in Photoshop. Then I noticed that the missing tools were finally integrated. As I needed to do some graphics recently I also bought Affinity Designer and decided to also update Photo (which was sitting on my computer in a version that hadn’t been updated in a couple of years) because all three programs work together very well.

Therefore I bought Affinity Publisher a while back to edit my latest books. I have copies of Illustrator and InDesign, but these are old Mac versions and I’m using Windows for a couple of years now. Though the Photoshop/Lightroom combination is still fairly priced I think that single programs are much too expensive. The Church on the Mountain Top (Post Processing with Capture One) But in the early release versions I was also missing some tools. When Affinity Photo was introduced I was testing it very early on. Certainly there was Gimp, but I was missing too many features that I constantly use in Photoshop. But I didn’t really find anything to replace Photoshop. When Creative Cloud was introduced I already tested some software and found Capture One as the perfect replacement for Lightroom. But software usually is something that you continue to use. This might be fine if you only need it for a period of time, like renting a car on vacation that you won’t need anymore when you travel back home.

I don’t mind subscriptions when it comes to newspapers or streaming services because you pay for content, but a subscription for software is basically like renting it. Since Adobe introduced the Creative Cloud I have been looking to replace Photoshop and Lightroom. The Skyline of Frankfurt (Post Processing with Affinity Photo)

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