So it is easy to go from your photo library manager to Affinity Photo. Once Affinity Photo is installed, you can open it from any photo library app, like Lightroom. But these differences are easy to get used to as you can view the effect of the sliders right away. For some features, you get more or less control with Affinity Photo compared to Photoshop. You will find that the main difference is in the underlying sliders that come with an adjustment layer. In this way, they function in the same way. However, you get control over the scale and shape of the vignette to a higher degree than you do in Photoshop.īoth Photoshop and Affinity Photo let’s you create a vignette manually using a marquee tool and invert the selection and then applying i.e. if you use the Vignette Filter in Affinity Photo, you cannot change the midpoint of the vignette as you can with Photoshop’s Lens Correction Tool. With some features, you can do more in Affinity Photo than in Photoshop, and in other areas, it is the other way around. Affinity Photo is a little simpler and user-friendly, but very powerful. If you just get to know the personas and know which things you can do where much of the underlying feature options will look very similar to Photoshop. The Tonemapping persona is where you create your HDR photo (unless you prefer to blend the exposures manually). The Export persona give you all the option for exporting, slicing and resizing your photos in one single workspace. If you open a raw file in Affinity Photo you are initially taken to the Develop persona, so you can tell Affinity Photo how it should interpret the raw-file. The Develop persona is the same as Adobe Camera Raw. The Liquify persona is where you have the advanced transform tools that allow you to make a model look slimmer and so on. The Photo persona (default) is where you do most of your photo editing. Here a short explanation of each persona or workspace: Understanding the Personas in Affinity Photo Photoshop also has workspaces, but from a normal user’s point of view, you don’t switch between them as part of your standard workflow in Photoshop.

You also don’t need to see all the export settings, unless you are at that stage in your workflow. you don’t need to see the tone-mapping features or the liquify tools unless you switch to these workspaces. The benefit of dividing the user interface into several workspaces is that you to a greater extent is only shown features when you need them.

The main difference in the user interface is that Affinity Photo is divided into four workspaces called personas. You got the layer and channel panels, history panel, adjustments panel and all the other things you already know from Photoshop. Keep on reading to find out how your workflow will change, what you will miss and what you will gain when switching to Affinity Photo.Ī Different Interface But Almost The SameĪt a glance, the interface in Affinity Photo might look very much different, but when you take a closer look, it is very much like Photoshop. And how will just a tiny loss in features (for a big drop in price) affect your options for photo editing? If you are considering the switch from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, you might wonder how it will affect your photo editing workflow.

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