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| Mac and Windows Adobe CC, Lightroom, Affinity, Sketch, iOS, Desktop PC, Modbook, Surface Pro, Wacom, iPad support | |
Lightroom Replacement Mac
Today is the day you can replace Lightroom, and cancel your Adobe subscription once and for all. For years, the Affinity community has asked for a way to replace Lightroom, and in this course, I am going to help you do just that. I will show you how to use an incredible program called Darktable. Still, with the mix of the digital asset management and A.I.-based tools that you can’t really find anywhere else, Luminar is an excellent Lightroom alternative. The program costs about seven. Lightroom is also coupled with Photoshop, a mobile app, and cloud storage. DxO PhotoLab doesn’t require a subscription, however, and lists for $129 to $199. Best Lightroom and Photoshop.
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High-end Color Correction thatauto-works with any type of imagery |
Keep precise contrast of the original Add professional look to your work | ||||
| Full version | Limited trial version | ||||
Bring multiple images/layers to the same color and aesthetics all in one pass! | Adds watermark on corrected images | ||||
Export LUT. Apply to video, 3D, anything! .cube & .png | no | ||||
Quickly apply 1000's of color combinations and iterate through moods, matte color spaces and ideas | yes | ||||
| Compareto other software | yes | ||||
Superfast gigapixel color matching! Supports GPU | yes | ||||
Seamless panel for Adobe CC software: Store and organize color references in groups, apply new colors in 1 click | no | ||||
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Importantfeaturesin single place Simply click Apply to match image with reference colors | Add reference color images, create/delete groups, change thumbnail size, image history Group images together, change label colors, link group to current document | yes | |||
| ...oh, you can specifypreciseprimarycolors! Without MagicTintsrequires 10's ofadjustmentlayers | yes | ||||
Quickly color grade using Keyboard Shortcuts | no | ||||
| Available as plugins and standalone converter Supports: | Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD CC 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021+ Lightroom Classic CC Affinity Photo, Sketch, Mobile: iOS, Android, Standalone Desktop: macOS, Windows LUT support: DaVinci Resolve, Unity, Unreal Engine, Premiere Pro, Final Cut etc. | ||||
Store Settings in the Cloud and sync between computers and platforms | yes | ||||
| Updates & Support | 24/7 free technical support by email Free updates for all buyers! (within major version) | no | |||
See all features of MagicTints panel for Adobe Photoshop CC & other software >> | |||||
This page is made with the great help from Ilya Gotfryd. | Free download of 15-day demo: CC | ||||
Photoshop has been the undisputed leader when it comes to photo editing software for well over 20 years. It has come a long way in that time and cemented its self as an essential program for any photographer. Much to every amateur photographers disappointment, nothing has really presented itself as much of a competitor to Photoshop. Until now, in 2015 Serif began to change the scene with their new Affinity range of creative software including Affinity Photo.
Affinity Photo was built for the Mac from the ground up, unlike Photoshop that has legacy code in new versions. Affinity Photo is very much targeted at photographers. Whereas Photoshop has become a tool for creatives in many different fields, not just photography. So I will be looking at how I replaced Photoshop with Affinity in my photography workflow.
There are a few different reasons why I decided to switch over to Affinity Photo and ditch Photoshop for photography, here are a few of the main reasons.
- Much quicker processing
- Better RAW development
- Intuitive interface for Photography editing
- Quick and powerful removal of objects with the inpainting tool
- Cost. Affinity Photo cost just £30ish (one off), compared to the current Adobe CC subscription you can pay around £16 per month for Photoshop. Technically you are renting Photoshop with the Adobe CC subscription model
Break up your workflow with Persona Workspaces
Opening a raw image into Affinity you will start off in Development persona, there are 4 personas in Affinity. Personas in Affinity Photo are different work areas for performing different processes. I like how Affinity give you a work area for each process so you aren’t stumbling around menus trying to find what should be right at your disposal.
In Development mode, you can make powerful adjustments to your RAW image before moving onto the Photo Persona. Development is what I love the most about Affinity Photo, you can perform almost all edits here such as basic edits, lens corrections, tone adjustments, detail refinement and my favourite is the use of overlays for controlled adjustment of the part of the image. The overlays are particularly useful for landscape where you want to adjust the exposure or contrast in the sky without effective the foreground or landscape of the picture.
Lightroom Vs Affinity Photo
After you have finished developing your RAW image you can move along to the Photo persona to make further adjustments and access more powerful tools for manipulation of your image. With this image, I just used the inpainting brush and the burn brush. The Inpainting brush was used to remove the power lines in the image, inpainting allows for much quicker removal of unwanted elements and works extremely well in most cases as you can see in the example below. Removing elements is a much quicker process in Affinity than in Photoshop.
You can see in the examples below the difference between the original and the effects of just 10 minutes of editing. How far you go with your edits is entirely up to you but with Affinity, you can achieve just about anything you want with your editing.
Conclusion
Give Affinity Photo a try, it won’t replace Photoshop for everything but it can certainly replace Photoshop for editing photography. Affinity is due to release Affinity Photo 1.5 which will bring a load of new features such as a dedicated HDR persona and 360 image editing capabilities.
When comparing the £39.99 price for Affinity Photo to even Adobe’s Photographers subscription it still works our much cheaper and you can use it on as many machines as you want.