![]() Naturally, this £40 app doesn’t attempt to match all of Photoshop’s features – which extend into areas such as animation and 3D printing – but it does aim to provide a complete environment for image manipulation. Otherwise you’re probably just messing about. Then, when you’re combining your cutout elements in layers, you need a full range of blending, masking and grouping options. ![]() It’s no use just being able to select an area, for example you need automated assistance to follow the edges of features accurately, and manual controls to adjust the results. The trouble with ‘good enough’ image editing tools is that they aren’t. Trying to prepare, composite and polish commercial photos or digital art? Sure, you can. Designing apps or web graphics? Sketch has your core tools covered. Want adjustments and filters? Pixelmator puts them at your fingertips. Today’s trend in image editing apps, especially on the Mac, is stripped-back, pared-down, task-focused. Down the left are the tools a Photoshop user would expect – and in 2015, that’s more radical than it sounds. Everything is dark grey, of course, with a bunch of palettes docked neatly on the right. The user interface looks like a proper photo editing app, as opposed to the new kind where there are five icons that you click to get five sliders and that’s it. It’s just about capable of displaying and tagging your collection of pictures and making basic non-destructive tweaks, and it looks pretty, but Photoshop it ain’t.Īnd Affinity Photo? Well, I’ve been tweaking pics and reviewing image editing apps for two decades, and this is the first one I can remember that I might actually want to use. Still, you could get an image editing app for even less, and Apple already gives you one free – helpfully called Photos, just to make it impossible to Google any information about it. Ive used Corel products for about 15 years, and PaintShop Pro is still my go-to app for minor bitmap work, or sometimes, for a major project, depending on the type of work. This is an app for serious image manipulation and compositing, not just tweaking. The thing is, while Affinity is good, especially for 100, I can now upgrade to the next version of full CorelDraw suite for 99, if prepaid.
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