Lightroom alternatives?

One upgraded feature I want is the renewed colour wheel. The former one sucked. I use a third-party colour wheel.
 
bwana said:
I've downloaded the photo trial and they still insist on you saving (not exporting) in their own afphoto format so that's strike one against upgrading.

I need to buy Publisher so I'll probably do that while the sale is on, or wait until BF.
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Being able to vectorise bitmap images with a click would be enough to justify the upgrade to Designer but I'm not seeing it.

That's strike two against the upgrade.
 
airborne said:
I might have mistaken it with another piece of software but it was quite a convincing argument to avoid them, is there anything similar out there that's multi platform?
I'm sure it was Affinity though.
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So I checked my original order. In 2018 I paid R799 for Affinity Photo. Four years later there's an upgrade that costs R680. For something I use regularly I'm not going to complain about this. R799 for 4 years of continuous updates suits my pocket just fine and I don't mind paying that every 4 years if thats' what it comes down to.
 
saor said:
So I checked my original order. In 2018 I paid R799 for Affinity Photo. Four years later there's an upgrade that costs R680. For something I use regularly I'm not going to complain about this. R799 for 4 years of continuous updates suits my pocket just fine and I don't mind paying that every 4 years if thats' what it comes down to.
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And if you'd bought it six months ago? Would you still feel the same way?

EDIT: I bought photo and designer for £28 each, now they're £36.
 
bwana said:
And if you'd bought it six months ago? Would you still feel the same way?
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Ag I'm not even gonna bother. Sometimes it's difficult to please everyone and still make money etc. I've been the 6 month guy with other software and it didn't really bother me that much because again - great software that was well priced.
 
saor said:
Ag I'm not even gonna bother. Sometimes it's difficult to please everyone and still make money etc. I've been the 6 month guy with other software and it didn't really bother me that much because again - great software that was well priced.
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As I indicated in my edit, it's a 30% increase in price. TBH I'm not seeing enough in the value added column for me to justify it.
 
bwana said:
As I indicated in my edit, it's a 30% increase in price. TBH I'm not seeing enough in the value added column for me to justify it.
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Are you looking at Photo only? The universal license honestly looks like a great deal. But I suppose only if you have use for the other apps.
 
prod said:
Are you looking at Photo only? The universal license honestly looks like a great deal.
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That's how I purchased the two that I have - Photo and Designer - individually.

I do need to get publisher but at this stage I think I'm just going to get that one as a v2 and save the R1k.
 
bwana said:
As I indicated in my edit, it's a 30% increase in price. TBH I'm not seeing enough in the value added column for me to justify it.
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With the 40% discount Photo v2 costs less for me now than it did 4 years ago. If I have to think of it as a license I need to renew every 4 years I'm still fine with it considering the price. But ja - I don't really need the upgrade right now but in a few months it'll be nice to be keeping up with the updates.
 
bwana said:
That's how I purchased the two that I have - Photo and Designer - individually.

I do need to get publisher but at this stage I think I'm just going to get that one as a v2 and save the R1k.
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On the topic of the thread, have you tried Darkroom?

Interestingly it seems to work on top of your iCloud photo albums, which could be useful, for me at least.
 
prod said:
On the topic of the thread, have you tried Darkroom?

Interestingly it seems to work on top of your iCloud photo albums, which could be useful, for me at least.
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No, downloading it now. Thanks.

Also need to get around to trialing Exposure X7.
 
airborne said:
From what I have found reading reviews a few months back(though I hope I'm not confusing this with something else), this is one pretty significant issue with Affinity.
The price is cheap but once they release a new version the old one gets dumped, virtually no updates even for bugs so you are forced to update, some said it's like a subscription but just packaged differently. And on Windows at least new versions like V2 don't update the old version it just installs a whole new installation and moving your data/catalogue to the new install isn't so easy.
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Apologies, what I was thinking of was Skylum Luminar, these guys:
skylum.com

Skylum – Great Photography Differently

Complex photo editing made simple & fast for all Mac and PC users. Skylum photo apps have been honored by Apple as the ″Best of the Year″ for 5 straight years.
skylum.com skylum.com
 
At this stage my only hope is Affinity actually goes through all those tweets/comments and realises that people want a lightroom replacement.
 
bwana said:
At this stage my only hope is Affinity actually goes through all those tweets/comments and realises that people want a lightroom replacement.
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A LR replacement for R600 odd would be an amazing deal.
 
bwana said:
At this stage my only hope is Affinity actually goes through all those tweets/comments and realises that people want a lightroom replacement.
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I have long lurked on their discussion board, and they don’t tend to respond to recommendations and constructive criticism in improving their product are usually met with resistance. Now that they have a new version out and V1 is essentially obsolete, whether they will keep its support board since there will be no new updates? Odd way to start with a clean slate.

The LUT replacement request has been asked since 2018, and some other essentials have been dismissed as not needed by their community even though the community asked to have those essentials. Maybe they have their reasons, but some tools which they don’t have are available in open-source alternatives.

Yes, they did implement some things, but there are things long requested which still isn’t in V2.

Lol, checked now and their board is 503.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I have long lurked on their discussion board, and they don’t tend to respond to recommendations and constructive criticism in improving their product are usually met with resistance.
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Yeah - they get surly at times. I think 90%+ of their users just want Adobes replacements but they sure don't like to hear that.
 
So reading the list of V2 stuff I wasn't too impressed. However watching some of the new things there's some stuff that looks like a welcome workflow addition. Notably:

Non-Destructuve RAW editing
Live Masks
Layer States
Normals Adjustment
Live Mesh Warp

 
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