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One of the coolest features of Affinity Photo is that it doesn't have the Adobe logo anywhere, not even on startup!

Thought you were going to say “…adamant that you all switch to Affinity Photo”

Thanks, Deke. I learned much from your Photoshop book over 20 years ago. Been teaching college PS work for 17 years and really looking for my school to switch to Affinity in near future.

still going back to PS, PS is still better in object selection, so currently Affinity Designer and PS for me

Deke I'm really glad you broke out of the Adobe Box and feel free to explore anything you want. As always thanks for sharing!

this is very cool, I like it... going to be using them more.. thanks! but it's hardly a Photoshop killer.. Still I am forced to use both as photoshop still has many features that Affinity doesn't have or doesn't have as robust versions. ie content aware, AI fills, or robust panoramic etc I really dislike all of the painful legacy crap in photoshop that works like it was a few decades old.. but the new features, the few very robust features, And the ridiculous amount of content for it makes it really hard to drop entirely. I Don't see that changing soon.

Affinity Photo looks very outdated with boring ancient filters from last century. But Photoshop doesn't do anything better. Crazy.

This is the end for sure. Adobe is for ai slobs and ai dependants. Nice Dall-e image 🤮

One filter I miss from Photoshop is the Oil Paint filter. I have not yet found an alternative with equally good options. I used it to 'invisibly' ease up ugly high frequency areas. Do you know about anything close?

I am still waiting for dds support. Why is it still not integrated?

I've switched to Affinity a few weeks ago. Loving the whole suite so far!

There is a lot Affinity can do Adobe does not offer - a lot!

Sorry. I have Affinity. I dropped all current Adobe products because of their attitudes BUT.......... Affinity can't do a whole range of basic things needed. Right now I reloaded - in an old Mac - a 24 year old version of Photoshop and it blows Affinity away with what I have to do with my photos. I need to get jobs done, a crap load of them, and this old software just spit them out perfectly while it was impossible for Affinity to do the simplest function I needed.......

Do have Affinity Photo AI generative fill, AI background removal and other AI tools that are not 3rd party plugins?

I love Affinity

"Is this the end?" I rely on you for all things Photoshop. Pleast stop the clickbait. I know you're not switching. You've only just started the new Photoshop One-on-One course.

Thanks Deke, great tutorial. I've just got me a free half year subscription for Affinity Photo (and Designer) and I'm trying out the software. Sure, there are quite a few things missing compared to Photoshop, but it has many advantages. Please keep on creating these tutorials on Affinity.

Awesome features.

Of course i wait way too long to realize I want to buy one. Congrats on sell out!

1 affinity is not a competitor. 2. You still need a raw developer 3. Both have trouble handling huge files 4 photoshop interprets colors better than affinity-at least on raw So photoshop still wins. I wish we had a good non subscription photo editor

Nice video. Might be worth taking a look at Document Snapshots as an alternative to revert.

It be nice if Affinity had a proper opacity brush slider/mechanic, like every other artist program.

Affinity Photo is clutch.❤

Great video, and I myself am switching to Affinity due to ... being broke. But! Just an FYI: Photoshop does have filter layers like you're showing off! For awhile, maybe a couple years at least. Thanks for the vid!

Deke, I’m going to save this video in my favorites bc I may switch over sooner than I thought. Adobe just doubled my monthly rent to $60. I had all apps at a special deal for 2 yrs when they begged me to stay, but I don’t earn enough to justify $60/month. Your content is great, thanks!

Hello Deke. I have been dealing with a problem... that cant make it work neither in photoshop or affinity. Maybe you can enlighten us with you wisdom! Many actions we Make have s STOP function to for example use the erase tool to remove undesired object like for example a tripod from a 360 image. But when we want to apply this action to multiple files Using Batch automation or Image Processor (from scripts), the presence of this STOP function in the action messes up everything and the batch or image processing stops. Do you by any means know the answer to this issue? Would be a huge time saver for so many of us! Thanks a lot

Would I like if I could do that in Photoshop? Only if they have a perpetual licence version

I’m interested

Can you “edit in” from LR like PS?

One can only hope this channel is on Serif's radar.

you can do all these in Ps

Never thought to see the day. Wondrous. Suggested/Requested future topic: Layer Effects comparison. Affinity is definitely using different math under the hood which is making certain operations challenging.

Make more tutorials for Affinity please❤

I switched to Affinity after decades of Adobe products, and I don't regret it.

I never Knew you can move the life filter effects in the screen :o Great video Deke!!

Awesome video! Please consider making more Affinity Photo videos! This is so useful!

Not just affinity but even krita has this filter layer feature.

Deke I can see you coming over to the dark side and switching to Affinity

I downloaded the update, expecting to find the brush I have always been asking for. Instead I get a wholly pointless brush that is worse than using a regular brush in quick mask, because in quick mask you can adjust flow rate which is way better than opacity for my money - so there's a step backward. BUT I really expected it to have an edge detect option like we see in lightroom/CR. Otherwise what's the point?? I hate the quick selection brush because it will jump out to areas I never asked for, I don't see why the developers cant see that an edge detecting brush that wont go where you don't tell it to would be the perfect selection tool. Its not like they cant do it - it exists in two of their other programs for god's sake!

Looking Good Master Deke

Only one feature dont make software better. I dont defend adobe but come on !!!

I'm new to Affinity after almost 20 years with Adobe. I'll never go back 😊

I've been using Affinity for a month since ditching PS and I have to say . . ,where have you been al my life? I really like Affinity group and they're are so many tutorials on CZcams. Never mind how reasonable the pricing is, these programs are real power houses in their own right. And they don't steal your projects ! Imagine that.

There's no way i got an Adobe Photoshop ad before the video started. 💀

Adobe has systematically raised prices, gone to a subscription model and assumed they could invade our privacy even to taking our work. Enough is enough.

After watching a couple of your videos on Affinity photo, I downloaded the trial to see how it was. I can't even use it though. The font and icons are so tiny that I have to lean forward and squint, to read the menu text, and that's with my glasses on! I couldn't find a way to scale the UI in the "settings"/preferences, so I googled it and read a lot of posts on affinity's site, and on Reddit and some other places, where people have been begging them for years for that option. It seems they have it in the mac version but not for Windows. People have been begging them for years and years to fix that but they just ignore them. One guy got a reply from them telling them to just "deal with it". I was hoping it would be good programs and I was considering buying the whole package before the sale ends on August 15'th. But I can't even get a descent feel for it because of the tiny font in the UI, and I'm not willing to lean forward and squint every time I need to read a menu item. I just can't see spending money for a product that the company is so arrogant that they deliberately ignore people pleading with them for years to fix something to make it more usable.

This is the best Affinity Photo tutorial I’ve seen by a considerable margin. Immediate subscription!

I switched to Affinity a couple of months ago and love it. Can't believe I didn't switch earlier.

It’s things like this that annoy me to no end with Adobe. There are comments that are years old in their forums (and feature request forms, which Adobe doesn’t read) where graphic designers (like me) have been asking for real tools that we NEED to do our jobs. One is batch image processing updates. You CANNOT batch process images to PNGs in Photoshop unless you install some 3rd party script or create some finagled Action with dialog boxes and other craziness. WHY?????!!! Photoshop should be able to batch process any image that it can open, allow me to resize them to my specified dimensions, and then export them to any format PS can export to. But you CAN’T!!!! This is a huge part of my workflow at my job. We are paying Adobe to use their software and they are spending time on features like this instead of things that people who do WORK actually need.

Can Affinity import and align several images for painting in flashed areas? I. E. real estate editing? No.