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I switched to Affinity Photo as an alternative [1] and quite happy with it. It's similar enough to Photoshop that I'm not lost, more polished than Gimp, and onl

I switched to Affinity Photo as an alternative [1] and quite happy with it. It's similar enough to Photoshop that I'm not lost, more polished than Gimp, and only a fraction of the price. Their forum is also quite good for support. 1: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

sbarre 6y ago
I'll second this. Affinity Photo and Designer are great tools, they are cross-platform (although you have to purchase them separately), and regularly go on sale (I bought both for 70$ total). I have yet to find a task I used to use Photoshop or Illustrator for that I can't do with these. I am not a hardcore or super advanced user, but that's why it works for me.
- Cullinet 6y ago
  Nikon have just published a complete free and quite sophisticated photo software suite, most useful summary of which here : https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.html https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.htm... Ed; "Everything is there: stills, video, image browsing, NEF processing, Lightroom-like capabilities, cloud integration, image ingest,and much more."
  - kyriakos 6y ago
    nice trying this out. i have a nikon camera :)
- StavrosK 6y ago
  (They aren't cross-platform if they don't run on Linux)
  - sbarre 6y ago
    Tomato, tomato edit: we are talking about replacements for Adobe products here, so context matters. Adobe products _also_ don't run on Linux.
    - StavrosK 6y ago
      I wouldn't call Adobe products "cross-platform" either, though.
      - criley2 6y ago
        With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their job to support the OS's that their users use. And their users are about 99% Windows/Mac it seems. When you cover about 98-99% of your users platforms, I think you're cross platform. Otherwise, we could define a cross-platform slippery slope such that no software has ever achieved it. There's always another platform you didn't support.
        StavrosK 6y ago
        Then "cross-platform" now means "Windows and MacOS" and Linux stops making the "platform" list?
        macintux 6y ago
        In the commercial desktop software realm, that's what cross-platform has always meant.
        wtetzner 6y ago
        I always thought cross-platform meant "more than one platform", but I guess I don't really know if that's how it's typically used.
        Shared404 6y ago
        I almost exclusively use Linux, and I would call any Windows + Mac app cross-platform. Does it run on more than one platform? If yes, it's cross platform. Otherwise, where do you draw the line? Linux? BSD? Haiku? Minix?
  - jermaustin1 6y ago
    It is cross platform if they run aCross multiple platforms. Be that 2 or 3 or 15.
  - jordache 6y ago
    These arguments really needs to be in the context of the real world. No one values an academic/technical point. The intersection of artists, who are heavy users of the Adobe suite of products, and linux aficionados is essentially zero. You do realize this, do you not?

sbarre 6y ago

I'll second this. Affinity Photo and Designer are great tools, they are cross-platform (although you have to purchase them separately), and regularly go on sale (I bought both for 70$ total). I have yet to find a task I used to use Photoshop or Illustrator for that I can't do with these. I am not a hardcore or super advanced user, but that's why it works for me.

Cullinet 6y ago
Nikon have just published a complete free and quite sophisticated photo software suite, most useful summary of which here : https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.html https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.htm... Ed; "Everything is there: stills, video, image browsing, NEF processing, Lightroom-like capabilities, cloud integration, image ingest,and much more."
- kyriakos 6y ago
  nice trying this out. i have a nikon camera :)
StavrosK 6y ago
(They aren't cross-platform if they don't run on Linux)
- sbarre 6y ago
  Tomato, tomato edit: we are talking about replacements for Adobe products here, so context matters. Adobe products _also_ don't run on Linux.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    I wouldn't call Adobe products "cross-platform" either, though.
    - criley2 6y ago
      With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their job to support the OS's that their users use. And their users are about 99% Windows/Mac it seems. When you cover about 98-99% of your users platforms, I think you're cross platform. Otherwise, we could define a cross-platform slippery slope such that no software has ever achieved it. There's always another platform you didn't support.
      - StavrosK 6y ago
        Then "cross-platform" now means "Windows and MacOS" and Linux stops making the "platform" list?
        macintux 6y ago
        In the commercial desktop software realm, that's what cross-platform has always meant.
        wtetzner 6y ago
        I always thought cross-platform meant "more than one platform", but I guess I don't really know if that's how it's typically used.
        Shared404 6y ago
        I almost exclusively use Linux, and I would call any Windows + Mac app cross-platform. Does it run on more than one platform? If yes, it's cross platform. Otherwise, where do you draw the line? Linux? BSD? Haiku? Minix?
- jermaustin1 6y ago
  It is cross platform if they run aCross multiple platforms. Be that 2 or 3 or 15.
- jordache 6y ago
  These arguments really needs to be in the context of the real world. No one values an academic/technical point. The intersection of artists, who are heavy users of the Adobe suite of products, and linux aficionados is essentially zero. You do realize this, do you not?