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How does Affinity Photo compare to LightRoom? I've tried everything from Luminar, to CaptureOne and nothing really works quite as well as LightRoom for various
by packetlost 6y ago
How does Affinity Photo compare to LightRoom? I've tried everything from Luminar, to CaptureOne and nothing really works quite as well as LightRoom for various reasons.
- alexdeloy 6y agoI love all the Affinity products so far but the RAW part of Affinity Photo is where the suite falls a bit short in my opinion. Things I miss most when compared to Lightroom are: - the ability to quickly create circular and gradient masks and apply a set of setting to them - Edits are not saved into a .xmp file like Lightroom does. Once you developed your image and closed the Raw editor, there is no way to apply the exact same settings again if you want to tweak something later.
- prox 6y agoI think a Lightroom competitor was on their list (but for a while now, hope it arrives soon!)
- geerlingguy 6y agoApple used to have Aperture, and until they stopped development, it was miles beyond LR for the core "RAW library" workflow. I hate that Apple killed it.
- prox 6y agoIt has a special workspace for editing RAW and can do most things Lightroom does. However it isn’t a streamlined experience, so I usually use one program to star and sort in directories and Photo to do the final edits. Darktable is what I use for sorting.
- matwood 6y agoI don’t think there is a competitor that matches both editing and DAM capabilities of LR.