As far as I can tell, things are pretty spot on, visually, though some layers or layer filters do get altered in PSDs. I’ve made the commitment to solely use Photo and Designer, though I do also have copies of Photoshop and Illustrator installed just to double check the compatibility and quality of files they create. There is a learning curve with each app, especially for a seasoned designer used to Photoshop and Illustrator. They each have their own specific toolsets, but they also each have a menu item allowing you to edit the current file in the other application. Processĭesigner and Photo have nearly seamless integration. While I have not had the same amount of experience with Designer as I have with Photo, things are promising in its capabilities. Designer also has the same quirks in that things look the same, act the same, but feel different with different keyboard shortcuts. Affinity DesignerĪs one would assume, Affinity’s Illustrator competitor, Designer, shares the same UI as Photo. Neither file had been saved prior to this crash. When I forced quit and restarted, it offered to reopen the sample files at their last edited state. While I’ve never experienced anything bad between Photo/Photoshop, the biggest difference I have seen is Layer organization.īonus: when writing this post, Photo crashed. In my time using Photo and exporting to PSD, I’ve checked my work in Photoshop to ensure compatibility. A liquify persona is shown in the video above a Develop Persona allows you to edit photos much like in Adobe Lightroom and Export Persona is essentially Photo’s Save for Web. Most editing will be done in the default Photo Persona. Photo uses Personas for some of its photo editing capabilities. It does pretty much everything Photoshop can do, but it excels in doing things Photoshop can’t, or can’t do as easily. The tools are familiar, but the shortcuts are different or lacking, making this a bit disorienting compared to Photoshop. Out of the box, the UI is fairly similar to Photoshop. Since their launch, I’ve kept an eye on them to see where they take their products, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. The more I saw, the more I liked.Īfter realizing Photoshop was so bloated for the needs of an average web designer, I decided to purchase a copy of Affinity Photo, the competitor to Photoshop, and test things out for myself. Then came Serif’s Affinity a couple years ago. When Macromedia was acquired, Adobe became the only provider around for professional-grade design software for years. Veteran designers might remember Macromedia, an Adobe competitor. Since making the switch, I’ve wondered what else was out there in the world beyond Adobe. A couple years ago, we at Jackrabbit made the bold move of ditching Photoshop and moving to Sketch for our web designing needs, and we haven’t looked back aside from the occasional photo edit.Īfter working with Sketch for a while, we soon realized how much of a behemoth Photoshop was and how it was the wrong tool for the specific type of work we do.
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