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A lot of what I do is take images - jpg, png, etc and change them. Change colors, change a screen image to one that will print well. Etc.

I don't do a lot of high tech work. And I don't usually start from scratch drawing my own pictures.

My question is... would Photo be the app I should use or is Designer what I need?

Thanks for your help!

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Micki. :)

Affinity Photo sounds ideally suited to your use case. You can download the trial version from here:

https://affin.co/phototrial

Please note that the ten-day trial clock runs continuously from the moment you first launch the app.

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Thanks for your help!  I have it (thru Apple’s family sharing) so, I’ll focus on learning that one. I understand that the next MAC OS will shut out my Adobe cs6 stuff. Affinity looks like good replacement apps. I’m enjoying using the Publisher beta. But trying to learn both Photo and Designer - and figuring out which would work for me - was about to break my head!

Thanks again!

 

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10 hours ago, Micki said:

But trying to learn both Photo and Designer - and figuring out which would work for me - was about to break my head!

Keep in mind that the two apps share a common native file format, which means if you have both you can edit your .afphoto & .afdesign files in either one, & even switch between them on-the-fly via the File > Edit in Designer/Photo menu item while working on a project. (If you do this, it is a good idea to save your work before switching, just as a precaution.)

Because the format is the same, there is no need to convert anything, which means you won't lose anything created in one app if you work on it in the other.

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