Affinity Photo is a New Pro Photoshop Alternative for Mac Users: Get It for Free

PETAPIXEL ^ | 02/09/15 | Michael Zhang

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop for professional photographers and retouchers who work on a Mac.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I have Photoshop 7, CS-2, and Paintshop pro 7, use Photoshop 7 the most. Paintshop will open and convert some files Photoshop won't.

[Shimmer1]

Mac ping

[BreitbartSentMe]

PFL

[Yossarian]

What OS combinations work for me these days:

1) Mac OS X (for things like MS Office, which is needed for exact document compatibility, and Photoshop) and frankly, the full driver compatibility with well built laptop hardware (linux can be a hellish experience for that);

2) MacPorts to bring things like ImageMagick and other Linux tools (like Inkscape, and open source engineering tools) over to the Mac; and

3) Linux, in the form of VMs running on my Mac laptop, or older hardware sitting around the house. This way I can have compute jobs running to completion while my laptop is sitting securely in its backpack while I’m on the go.

As time goes by, I’m less reliant on any particular Mac app - but the Mac hardware, and using Mac OS X as the base, for driver support - becomes the boring but well-working foundation of the whole system.

[martin_fierro]

I love Paintshop Pro. Wish I could get it to run under WINE in Linux. < |:(~

[minnesota_bound]

#20 I use GIMP. Youtube has many videos on how to’s.
I own CorelDraw X3 and use that also.
I found that GIMP was able to do some things easier then Corel or Photoshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSmn-NeqBA

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

[Uri’el-2012]

Thanks for the heads up.

I've been using Aperture with plugins.

Since the demise of Aperture,
I have migrated to Capture One.for
for DAM and Raw editing

[Uri’el-2012]

Thanks for the ping.

[avenir]

As an update (3.26.20) Serif is offering all three of their AFFINITY design programs for $24.99 each. I bought all three.