[Designing music CD cover - do I need Photoshop after all?]

Hey, thank you ALL for the thoughtful, helpful replies!  I'm going to purchase Designer this eve and then revisit this thread to re-read in a couple of days when my schedule clears again.  Am definitely feeling better about investing time and $ into the program now, looking forward to learning more.  Thanks much for the templates and suggestions; I'll post back after I get a little deeper in.  Cheers!

[Designing music CD cover - do I need Photoshop after all?]

I’m just wrapping up recording an album of music, purchased Affinity Photo perhaps too hastily for the artwork.  I don’t want to only create images for upload to streaming services; I also need to do full 4 panel layout of CD jacket.  Most duplication houses provide templates for this, compatible with Photoshop, Quark, Coreldraw, etc.  I like the way Affinity is laid out, would like to do the project with it, but I also want to be able to work with a template that is optimized to the task.  All my net searches about this yeild mostly a few other people wanting to do the same thing with Affinity and getting very little actionable assistance.  So now I’m thinking I should have looked more thoroughly before I leaped... I need to just bite the bullet and buy Photoshop, right?