Photoshop undoubtedly has the edge over Affinity Photo with more tools, features and functionality for performing a range of advanced editing tasks. These include AI-powered tools, more Layer controls, masking options, 3D image creation and video support to name but a few.
And this sentiment is echoed by a wide range of opinions further down the search results.
It may be a competitor in the technival sense, but not in the practical one, where a photoshop user would realistically be able to switch to it.
Since I haven’t used Affinity Photo myself - I can only rely on the opinions from the internet. I have read a handful, inclusing reddit, but only quoted the one that conveyed my general findings in a concise way.
If Affinity lacks features that photoshop users commonly use, my argument holds, no matter where the info comes from.
You basically quoted thin air: “more features […] for a wide range of advanced editing tasks”. You probably know more than what’s written there, but from my perspective I haven’t learned one concrete feature that PS offers over Affinity. It’s typical SEO spam, which rewards swaths of text with little to zero information density.
I am pretty sure it would run in the same wine setup, but nobody bothered to set it up as an install script yet, so you’d need to do some manual dirtywork.
Just run photoshop on linux.
Linux just needs more competition in the image manipulation space.
There isn’t even a real photoshop competitor in the broader market, but you want to further split the hobbyist devs effort on linux as well?
Affinity Photo
Can run on Linux via Bottles! I do not have much experience with it, but I got it running with this guide from 2022:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/166159-affinity-photo-running-on-linux-with-bottles/
First google search result:
And this sentiment is echoed by a wide range of opinions further down the search results.
It may be a competitor in the technival sense, but not in the practical one, where a photoshop user would realistically be able to switch to it.
I use affinity photo and it’s an acceptable replacement.
if you agree with the opinion that’s fine, but why would you admit to posting SEO spam? XD
This person still uses Google too haha.
Is anything I quoted untrue?
Since I haven’t used Affinity Photo myself - I can only rely on the opinions from the internet. I have read a handful, inclusing reddit, but only quoted the one that conveyed my general findings in a concise way.
If Affinity lacks features that photoshop users commonly use, my argument holds, no matter where the info comes from.
You basically quoted thin air: “more features […] for a wide range of advanced editing tasks”. You probably know more than what’s written there, but from my perspective I haven’t learned one concrete feature that PS offers over Affinity. It’s typical SEO spam, which rewards swaths of text with little to zero information density.
Is there an equivalent for lightroom?
I am pretty sure it would run in the same wine setup, but nobody bothered to set it up as an install script yet, so you’d need to do some manual dirtywork.
Tried a few times to run it but with no avail, however il try to give this a go.
Darktable
Sorry not looking for a replacement, just how to run it :)