Donald Mayer Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I use Photoshop Elements ver 12 and am reasonably proficient but not expert. Is the Affinity Photo software able to be learned by someone not an expert editor with large photo editing experience? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted December 18, 2015 Hi Donald, I'd advise you to take a look at the Tutorials available from our site to get a feel for what's possible in Affinity Photo and how you'd go about things... Hopefully things will make sense and you could imagine using it :) Don't forget that this forum is full of very helpful souls who are popping in and out at all times of the day and usually someone would be more than happy to lend a hand if you can describe what you're trying to achieve :) Best of all, you could just download the Trial version and see for yourself if you like it enough to give it a whirl :) Thanks, Matt A_B_C and Oval 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Former Elements user here. I think the programme is excellent. Some things are a little different (ie. managing the layers) and for instance the inpainting brush is fantastic. If you managed to learn Elements, you will manage Affinity too. I was on the brink to "buy" Photoshop when I stumbled over Affinity. I bought both programmes and I'm quite busy trying to understand Designer. Vector work is new to me. ;) But learning new things is good for preventing dementia I'm told. ;) manu schwendener and MattP 2 Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Yes, just test the trial(s). It will be like a test drive with a new car that has an autopilot. ;) And tell us your (positive and negative) experiences. The Affinity team attend to user wishes and improves the apps every second. MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greendrake Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 If you used such features as layers, selection tools, brushes and masks in Elements, the transition to Affinity will be fairly easy. If all you used were the guided/automatic features in Elements the learning curve will be steeper, but no steeper than if you decided to use those features for the first time in Elements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvoth Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I have also used Photoshop Elements. Affinity Photo may seem a bit more complicated at first, but Photo is worth trying. The features in it I would say are more flexible. One thing is that in Affinity Photo many of the adjustments are non-destructive and a history is kept so you change things back if you need to. If you take some time anything you have learned with Photoshop Elements will help you. Try the program and see what you can do. Quote David Voth Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher ver. 2: macOS Sonoma and iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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