Not too impressed (split)

[bob embleton]

i only use  affinity for enhancing my photos , i think affinity   is more for being  creative than for photo editing , not too impressed with it 

[Dave.Kelly]

I think that AF is a pixel editor like photoshop, sounds like you need a raw processor like Capture 1 Lightroom or ON1photoraw.

[bob embleton]

51 minutes ago, Dave.Kelly said:

I think that AF is a pixel editor like photoshop, sounds like you need a raw processor like Capture 1 Lightroom or ON1photoraw.

I bought this by mistake then , photoshop and others too expensive 

[loukash]

27 minutes ago, bob embleton said:

I bought this by mistake then

If only there were a 30-days trial version where one could find out if the software fulfills one's needs before having to pay for it… 

Oh, wait!

affinity.serif.com/affinity-2-faq

[Dave.Kelly]

I think the price for On1 PhotoRAW is about £85 for a new customer after a 20% discount available from a lot of youtube content creators. It might seem expensive but you get a lot of tools with it and a 30 day money back deal Look for Scott Davenport on Youtube.

[fde101]

A dedicated RAW developer / DAM tool / organizer such as Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, or On1 Photo RAW is a good place to start when you are working with your photos.  For culling, initial RAW development, organization and basic image enhancements, they will generally provide a much better workflow than what is possible using a single-image-editor such as Affinity Photo / PhotoShop.

However, you will eventually run into a few images here and there which will require more careful or direct editing than is realistically feasible in those programs.  Then you would use the developer/DAM to do the basic enhancements it does well, and open the resulting image in an actual editor such as Affinity Photo to take care of the finer detail work that programs of this nature excel at.

In spite of some apparent overlap, they are complimentary tools - neither is a particularly suitable replacement for the other.

[MaartenTummers]

I use it for editing my photography too. It's actually pretty decent. I started with trying to recreate whatever I made in Photoshop in Affinity Photo and it took some trial and error but eventually I got it. 

All of these are edited in Affinity Photo:

www.maartentummers.nl

[bob embleton]

I wont uninstall it  but to be fair I cant afford  anything else , i might just try and learn gimp 

[fde101]

4 minutes ago, bob embleton said:

i might just try and learn gimp 

That is unlikely to help - gimp is in the same category of software as Photoshop and Affinity Photo and will have the same workflow issues if you are looking for something else.

Nothing wrong with gimp, just as there is nothing inherently wrong with Affinity Photo, but from what you are describing it is not what you are looking for.

Try RawTherapee or DarkTable instead.  Those are both free/open source and are more likely along the lines of the type of software you are trying to find.

https://www.rawtherapee.com

https://www.darktable.org