mthaler

I am a professional software engineer working for a small aerospace company. I use Linux both at work and at home. I am also an amateur photographer (here is a small selection of my photos: https://500px.com/michaelthaler).I use Lightroom and Photoshop on a Windows VM under Linux. I would be very interested in Affinity Photo for Linux. There is definitely a market for creativity software under Linux. Krita (https://krita.org) is used by artists. For example, Pepper & Carrot (https://www.peppercarrot.com/) is done using Krita & Blender. Krita runs a kickstarter every year to finance new features (Krita is not a photo editing application, but a painting application). Linux is obviously a very small market compared to Windows. But on the other hand, Linux might not be a very small market compared to Windows when taking into account that most Windows users that are interested in photo editing software are already using Adobe products. On Linux the competition at the moment is Gimp and maybe some of the more advanced RAW converters which I think also offer support for layers. Maybe it would be a good idea to start a Kickstarter campaign to see if there is enough interest in Affinity Photo for Linux?