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This is where initial clarification would have helped if you see what l mean. Does the OP want a photo organiser, a RAW editor or something that does both like Lightroom?

I'd add LightZone and AfterShot Pro to that good list too assuming that the OP wants RAW editor + organiser. Both are cross platform as well. Links: https://lightzoneproject.org/ https://www.aftershotpro.com/en/ In addition, professional photographer Joe Cristina has used Exposure X software followed by Affinity Photo to get good final results. Link: https://exposure.software/

Thank you for your excellent and relevant comments. There is no sign yet that Serif will be developing versions of their rather good products for either of the Linux or Android operating systems. That is unfortunate and what we do over in the Affinity products for Linux thread is suggest viable alternatives to the three Affinity softwares. None of the softwares suggested are in any way competitors to any Affinity product precisely because Serif doesn't do any software products for either Android or Linux. Link - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/

Your best bet there might be to ask the developers of PhotoLine on their forums if they would consider bundling up PhotoLine with Wine as an Ubuntu Snap in the Snap Store.

Adobe Creative Cloud, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Mix are all available as Android apps and that's just from one competitor company. In addition, Serif Affinity has had greater priorities, one of which is making sure that all their profitable software products work well on Apple's range of M1 Macs. I can fully understand the wish for Affinity apps to be available on the Android platform but there's no sign yet that the company is interested in going down that route and we cannot do anything about that. Currently, their job vacancies are asking for people with experience of Windows, macOS or iOS so I'd suggest keeping a watch on their job vacancies to see if they start asking for people with "experience of Windows, macOS, iOS or Android", and then you'll know that something interesting might be about to happen.

The situation in the second paragraph already applies to the Android operating system - Serif Affinity's competitors are now already present in the Play Store in significant numbers.

That is based on a false understanding of the actual situation. When it came to serious, professional software, Affinity Photo, for example, only faced Adobe Photoshop and Corel PaintShop Pro on Windows and Adobe Photoshop and Pixelmator Pro on macOS and iPadOS. In contrast, the market is saturated with competent digital asset management and RAW editor software products so it would be much more of an uphill struggle for Serif Affinity to enter, and to try to compete in, those two markets.

Indeed, and one of the issues that they will face if they choose to try to produce an Android app is that that they will be entering an already crowded market that is full of existing and competent photo and image editors.

I fully agree with you and I am also not one of those 'must only be free to use and must only be able to read the source code' minority zealots (they do speak loudly though). I am fully in favour of paid applications being available on the Linux platform and I'm happy to pay for good software like Pixeluvo and SoftMaker Office, for example. While I cannot buy free software, I do contribute to projects like Gimp so that improvements can be made and in both cases the motivation is the same because developers should be rewarded for the work that they put in to provide us with useful software. Things are getting better all the while and we now have the Figma and Lunacy graphic editors and I have used Canva for a number of projects. Indeed, it is possible that we might get Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator as online apps some time in the future and that would be very welcome. In your case right now, why not try out PhotoLine with Wine? I do think though that Serif Affinity are doing exactly the right thing by making an iOS app because iPads are used for a lot of professional design work and that's bringing in quite a lot of money for Serif Affinity that in turn feeds into further improvements.

I think it would be really helpful here if many of us Linux users took part in these beta trials for Photoshop and Illustrator to help to ensure that the online web-based versions of these two softwares worked well with different Linux distributions and to provide bug reports so that issues could be fixed before the final online products are launched.

Serif Europe does not want to end up like Wise Acre Frozen Treats so not likely to happen.

Tbh, you would probably have to freely offer them £500,000 to employ staff to do the development work on a Linux version and that sum, or an even larger one, might just get them out of bed.

Some developers already have so you have the native Linux Pixeluvo ( = Photoshop Elements) and PhotoLine ( = full Photoshop equivalent) where the developers there make sure that this software works well with Wine.

The one thing that would get their attention is a huge rise in desktop Linux market share so that, for example, the market share figures for Linux broadly equal those of macOS.

Serif Affinity is 100x smaller than Adobe Corporation so just who is going to provide all the annual salaries for all the extra developers who will be required in any attempt to provide an Android version of Affinity Photo?

It is still early days yet but these two developments might have implications for Linux users: Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. However, by using various new standardized web technologies, Adobe has now brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web. https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/ https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-web-faq.html At its annual Max conference, the creative software giant reveals online versions of its flagship apps...Few people thought an app as complex and compute-intensive as Photoshop would be possible on the web. But Adobe today launched a web version of not just Photoshop, but also Illustrator, along with several new online experiences. https://www.pcmag.com/news/adobe-launches-beta-versions-of-photoshop-illustrator-for-the-web

The ultimate fault here lies entirely with Google who introduced yet another completely pointless and unnecessary graphic image format standard which adds nothing to all the existing formats that are already out there.

I am afraid there is little chance of that happening in the short to medium term. Using the example of Photoshop, Pixeluvo is a native Linux equivalent of Photoshop Elements and PhotoLine is a full Photoshop equivalent that works very well with Wine. For finding native Linux options for other Windows softwares then I would suggest using https://alternativeto.net If a Linux user really has to use Affinity products (or any other Windows software) then WinApps is a useful virtual machine option and there's more about is here https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps plus there are tutorials on Youtube about how to set up WinApps on a Linux computer. That said, I personally would not even try that option with less than 16GB of RAM.

Grüß Gott! Leider ist keine Linux-Version eines der Affinity-Produkte geplant. Alternativ können Sie Inkscape, VivaDesigner und PhotoLine + Wine ausprobieren. Da PhotoLine seinen Sitz in Deutschland hat, könnten Sie sie bitten, PhotoLine + Wine wie PhotoScape als Ubuntu Snap zu erstellen.

As far as I can see, all those other Lightroom equivalents that offer a monthly subscription also offer a one off purchase option albeit at a significantly greater cost. I guess you're after a DAM + RAW editor and there are products out there that still do that, e.g. AfterShot Pro and the rest. In case it's of use, I have found that the alternativeto.net site is very good in finding substitute equivalents and you can narrow it down further for the operating system that you use, either Windows or macOS.

What might help there is if your company, similar companies and the relevant industry association groups can join together to approach Serif Europe and point out that there really is a substantial professional market out there and could they please provide native Linux versions of their Affinity softwares or at least make them Wine-compatible, that kind of thing. In the event that none of the above is possible, there is another alternative. That is for those same industry association groups to get together to fund longer term professional developer posts for existing open source software projects that already have Linux versions such as Inkscape, Krita and Gimp in particular and that would bring those softwares up to professional creative industry standard. In the case of Gimp, it is an issue for them to both keep and recruit voluntary part time developers which is why the progress isn't as fast as everyone would like. I know for a fact that Microsoft is now throwing money at the Blender Foundation's Development Fund and that is in turn helping to speed up improvements to Blender. That is an excellent example to follow.

^ I fully 100% agree with you about this - thank you!

I fully agree with you and one option would, for example, be to report the vexatious poster and ask that the off topic argument posts are removed. Who's going to do that - you or me?

There are plenty of us who would like to see Affinity Photo and the two other Affinity softwares made available in native Linux format or via Wine. Notwithstanding hostile contrarian forces, there is something constructive that we can do right now and that we can ask our contacts to do as well. That is to go over to WineHQ, join it, and then use your 3 casting votes (yes, you get 3!) to vote up Affinity Photo so that it moves up the ranking list to better attract the attention of Wine developers. The required link is here - https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311

My own experience is that Pixeluvo can open both PSD and DNG files. Pixeluvo can be tested as a trial application and it can be used together with other native Linux softwares like Fotoxx and Hugin to achieve the desired result. This is only my own personal view but I also find that Fotoxx is much easier to use than Gimp.