How do you like Affinity Designer?

ByronK wrote on 8/30/2016, 8:28 PM

I just downloaded and installed the beta. 

So far It seems like a purely graphic program not really designed for enhancing or fixing photos. More along the lines of a nice, high end Microsoft Paint w/ lots of features. 

I was hoping it would be a replacement for Corel's Paintshop Pro because I'm getting tired of al the adware that keeps popping up on my desktop to buy the latest version or purchase another one of their programs.

Has anyone else used Affinity? How do you like it? What do you use it for?

Sorry, I would have added this to the original thread but since I cant find the SEARCH on this forum...

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/30/2016, 8:53 PM

Yeah, I was under the impression it was a photo program as well, but apparently it is not. so I uninstalled it. Seemed alright for its design.

ddm wrote on 8/30/2016, 8:55 PM

The Photo app beta is not out yet. The Designer program is more of an Adobe Illustrator type graphics program.

 

JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/30/2016, 9:03 PM

The Photo app beta is not out yet. The Designer program is more of an Adobe Illustrator type graphics program.

+1

Affinity Designer is an Adobe Illustrator competitor. It is for creating vector graphics not for photos. You want to wait for Affinity Photo to get a Photoshop / Paintshop Pro replacement. I use Affinity Photo all the time on my Mac. It's awesome! I no longer use any Adobe products.

~jr

Former user wrote on 8/30/2016, 9:20 PM

Maybe that is where I got confused. I remember a post of somebody all excited about the photo program so I signed up for the beta. Got an email saying it was ready for windows and I downloaded the program, which turned out to be Affinity. so I guess the photo program is not ready yet.

PeterDuke wrote on 9/1/2016, 3:45 AM

Something else to consider is Corel Photo-Paint which comes with CorelDraw package. I have used it for many years (since version 5). I now have PhotoShop which I use to import and correct my RAW files, but I find myself exporting the output as a BMP file into Photo-Paint to do many routine things involving masks (painting, drawing, removing holes, expanding/shrinking, etc.) I expect these things can be done in PS, but it is not obvious to me.