Hi, I am a new Affinity Photo user who has decided to stop using a standalone Adobe CS6 application on my photo editing computer (an iMac), because Adobe no longer supports CS6 and earlier versions of it. And also because of the following reasons:
a. I can't upgrade OS-X to Catalina, nor to Big Sur-as long as I want to continue using CS6. Right now I have CS6 running under Mojave.
b. I am an amateur photographer, and only edit my photos occasionally. In this case, the Adobe's CC apps would be a big waste of money.
c. I don't want to depend on photo editing apps that require monthly payments and Internet service, since I often am at remote locations where there isn't Wi-Fi available. I prefer to pay up front, and dislike being tied-up to monthly fees. I already paid dearly for the Adobe CS5 and then CS6 apps.
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Affinity Photo, but my learning curve is steep without a guidebook. I ordered, Frank Walters' "The Affinity Photo Guidebook," not necessarily because it may help me learn about Affinity Photo, but because it is the only one that has been recently published. I have no idea if this guidebook will help me, but that's all I can do at the moment.
By the way, learning from reading printed instructions from a book for example, is a lot easier than learning from a screen (ebooks or videos). In the instruction videos I have watched, the host goes too fast through the mouse-click and keyboard commands. It is tiring for me having to pause or rewind the video to catch something that I missed.
