Question about Affinity beta for Windows

[NJPhotog]

Hello,

 

I just downloaded what I thought was going to be the beta photo application and it is the designer application. Did I get or download the wrong file?

 

I see there is a "photo" window from the start screen but it seems that once it opens it looks like it is more geared to graphics than photos or at least from what I'm getting from the couple of videos that I watched which I know is for the Mac version of Affinity. I see under the layer drop down I can select an adjustment layer; I tried looking to see if I can pin the photo applications (adjustments) anywhere and I don't see anything.

 

Any thoughts or insight?

 

Thanks!

[R C-R]

The most current release is Affinity Designer Public Beta - 1.5.0.12 (Windows). It is the Windows counterpart to the Mac version of Affinity Designer. The Windows version of Affinity Photo is still in development & has not yet reached the beta stage.

[NJPhotog]

Thanks for that R C-R! 

 

Since I just downloaded it 2 days ago, I have the current version of Designer ... I'll wait until I see the Photo version hits beta release.

[R C-R]

It can be more than a little confusing, but it should help if you keep in mind that currently there are five different Affinity apps:

 

• Affinity Designer for Mac (a retail product for sale only in the Mac App Store)

• Affinity Photo for Mac (a retail product for sale only in the Mac App Store)

• Affinity Designer Beta for Mac (intended only for testing, a free download that requires the retail version be installed to run)

• Affinity Photo Beta for Mac (intended only for testing, a free download that requires the retail version be installed to run)

• Affinity Designer Beta for Windows (intended only for testing, a free download that will expire when the retail version is released)

[NJPhotog]

It seems like the Designer is the equivalent of Adobe Photoshop (I own CS 5) where it does both graphics and photos. I'm hearing a lot of good things about the Affinity software for MAC and thought I would try the Windows version out.

I do have a few photo programs and am leaning toward one in particular at this point but figured I'd try one more out!

 

Thanks again!

[R C-R]

Affinity Designer is closer to Illustrator than to Photoshop. It is primarily intended for creation & manipulation of vector objects, with a limited set of tools for bitmap/raster objects like photos.

 

Affinity Photo is more like Photoshop, & has a limited number of tools for vector object creation & manipulation.