The most obvious alternative to Affinity Photo is Photoshop. What Affinity 2 doesn’t get is the update it has been crying out for for years: an image-management tool to rival Lightroom’s Library or Adobe Bridge.Īffinity Photo 2 review: Price and competition A licence for the full suite of Affinity v2 applications – Photo, Designer and Publisher – will set you back a mere £90 across all platforms, which means you can install all three apps on Windows, Mac and iPad.Įven at full price, Affinity Photo 2 is £60 – or around three months worth of a subscription to Photoshop – so it won’t take long to pay for itself.Īnd there’s quite a selection of major new features to justify upgrading, including non-destructive RAW editing and new masking tools, not to mention a complete redesign of the user interface. You can get hold of Affinity Photo 2 itself on Mac or Windows for 40% off the usual price at £36 or the iPad version for a shockingly low £9.99. And, to be fair, it is softening the blow with a series of tempting offers.īest iPad 2023: Which Apple tablet should you choose? Still, with the original launching seven years ago, it’s perhaps a bit much to ask Serif to continue to update its image-editing software forever. READ NEXT: The best photo-editing applications to buy Affinity Photo 2 review: What you need to know It isn’t exactly the swingeing monthly subscription prices Adobe charges, but it nonetheless means owners of the original Affinity Photo won’t receive new features in future. The appeal of using Affinity over Photoshop is the low price and the fact that you don’t need to pay a monthly subscription to access the software – you pay once and you get to use the software in perpetuity.Įxcept that, cap in hand, the developer Serif is now asking users to pay up in order to access new features.

New versions usually come with big new features and potentially new ways of working with images. When Affinity announced version 2 a few months back, however, I experienced mixed emotions.

I’ve been using Affinity Photo on and off for a few years now, across Windows and Mac machines as well as my iPad, and I can honestly say I’d be happy using it if my work licence of Adobe Photoshop expired tomorrow.

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