I am trying not to look a fool at posting this comment, but I have only just joined the Affinity Forum today! Not sure what to put in Topic Tags, so left it blank.
From reading other recent user comments about the new, fantastic "Photo", I take some comfort in seeing a fair number of comments having the same theme - help for newbies.
I believe this generally means people who have never used PS (and didn't want to spend a significant portion of their lives trying to understand it). I now have a Canon 6D (formerly a confirmed film-generation luddite), and determined to shoot all images in RAW. Very happy with the thousands of images taken over past year (yes, I know they need weeding down to just a hundred or two... give me time - I have only just retired last month).
So this brings me to the point: I am getting my head around Lightroom 5, and having good success in general RAW manipulation. I like the potential of the new Affinity "Photo", as evidenced by viewing some of the brief training videos on Vimeo. Superb voiceover, professional presentation, obvious vast experience, - BUT as others have commented, they tend to be a bit on the short side, and some of the quick clicks, tool selection moves, etc are done so quickly that they are hard to follow. The most recent video for beginners (29/7) runs about 10 minutes, and great to see. However it could run to 30 minutes for my likes, and point out details that I think are "assumed knowledge". Why not a half hour presentation - taking a RAW image from Lightroom, developing it, then applying the sort of "dodging and burning" techniques that seem to win in photo competitions, and outputting to a personal web page for final viewing.
Fully understand the vast amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes already to produce such superb products as Designer and now Photo, and appreciate that it is still early days regarding production of training material. I just want to add my voice the the audience of amateurs who are still slightly frightened. The pros (and glad to know that so many former PS types are jumping ship) are able to read between the lines of your videos. In the fullness of time please realise that there is a bigger commercial audience out there (types like me...) who long to progress in their photography but want to: avoid cons like Adobe CC, limited usefulness of Lightroom 6.xxxxxxxx, and instead go with Affinity, but do need a bit of hand-holding. Sad I know, but just look at the popularity of the lengthy Adobe training videos for earlier versions of LR, PS.
I will probably soon exceed my allocation of word count for this posting, so will close out for now and hope I have not offended too many people. :)
Hi profiler,
Just from Affinity Photo:
Open, Media, Photo, then you see "Aperture" icon, you choose your project you see all images (with file name), you clik ...
