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By Eva Williams 13 days ago, Software Reviews. Are you choosing between Affinity Photo vs Pixelmator for your image editing purposes?

Then you must read my article with the detailed comparison of their features. Affinity Photo is a photo editing program that will make your photos look professional.

The one big advantage is its ease of use, and the number of custom photo effects that are available with the software. Pixelmator is an outstanding digital photo editing tool that allows you to retouch photos using a variety of tools and settings which are only available on the Mac platform.

The main reason why it is so effective is due to the fact that it allows you to manage your digital photo work by organizing your workflow under three distinct but interconnected layers.

The three layers of functionality are: your application workspace, your collage maker, and your layers. Such structure is very convenient for everyone involved in image processing. Affinity Photo is an effective non-destructive photo editor with a similar structure and application to Adobe Photoshop, which focuses on photo editing. The main advantage when used for photo retouching purposes is that you can save and restore your work in just one click. Affinity Photo has an application called Layers Panel for quick access to tool tips and layer palette.

One of the major advantages of using layers is that you can merge multiple images into one and change their colors without disturbing the other ones.

This functionality makes it ideal for retouching photos of people who have different skin tones and colors. You can also perform multiple actions in Affinity Photo such as renaming layers, adding new images to the canvas, applying masks to photos, editing and using filters. All in all, the program definitely deserves a special note in Affinity Photo vs Photoshop stand-off. Like most graphic editing tools, Pixelmator has some amazing features and powerful apps, which make it useful for both amateurs and professionals alike.

Basically, you can adjust the background intensity, size, shape, or remove red eye effect. Plus, you can even make your photos white or black and brighten or darken them depending on your preference. You can also crop your images to specific shapes or sizes or make the background opaque or transparent depending on your needs.

Another cool feature that you'll find in Pixelmator is the "save to disk" option, which lets you save images directly onto disk instead of saving them in your photo library. Affinity Photo is among the greatest kept secrets in the digital photo editing world.

It is powerful, comes included with several advanced tools that you would expect to see in image editing software. All the features provided by Pixelmator, in combination with easy to use, drag-and-drop simplicity, will surely give your images, paintings, graphics, and illustrations for a whole new look.

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I am someone who isn't a absolute beginner but someone who has done photography as a hobby on and off for years. I am now looking to improve this significantly and doing it a lot more regularly of I can. My question is relating to the post processing side of things.

I'm not a fan of the monthly subscription of Adobe and want to try and stay clear of those programs so have been looking at Pixelmator Pro and Affinity Photo. Does anyone have any experiences with these?

Affinity is supposed to be very close to Photoshop. Corel's Paint Shop Pro is too. Other options might be On1 Photo Raw or Luminar. All of them very affordable and have a ton of tutorials on YouTube. There are more, but like Pixelmator I'm just not familiar with them. I'm intentionally avoiding RAW editors there is a ton so as not to add confusion and they are usually more limited than the Photoshop alternatives.

I have researched this to the max. I am getting a new laptop or I was getting one 3 weeks ago but my living situation changed and I needed to move. I want the 1 and done payment. I have watched a couple dozen videos on Youtube on AP and I am confident it will fit my needs. Yes, Affinity looks really good, I've just heard a few things about it being complicated and wondered whether Pixelmator Pro will be a bit more straightforward but I'm unsure whether it has all the main features needed?

If you're thinking of getting an iPad Pro, you may be better off waiting until about mid June. There are very strong rumours Apple are going to refresh the iPad Pro line up. I'm bothered about the learning curve of Affinity as I've heard it is more complex to learn? Does anybody have any experiences with them?

See if it looks difficult or not. Look at the " how to do something you might do with Affinity ". You should be able to get an idea. Affinity Photo is the only image editing software program whose learning curve seemed compatable with my limited level of brain power, lol. Affinity's user interface just works better for me than the others, due to the program's features being laid out as separate Personas rather than dozens of menus crammed into one cluttered workspace.

Thank You, Chaplain Mark 'Tis better to have a camera and not need one than to need a camera and not have one. I use Affinity Photo and have no complaints. It did have a steep learning curve, though. I bought the workbook and that has helped a lot. I think it's been a great "trainer" program to learn to edit but I am thinking in the spring to try Capture One. One thing I have no tried, maybe you have, are you able to edit numerous pics at the same time.

I just did some work on my daughters dance performance and I had to repeat the same color change on 36 different pics. Would have been nice to select them and change ALL at the same time. You can record your editing steps on a chosen image as an action, then save that action, then apply that saved action to a batch job, the other images to edit being included in that batch job. Affinity will then execute that editing action on all the image files in the batch, and export each file to the destination you set up earlier in setting up the batch job.

It isn't a waste of time, because although the OP may have solved his problem, there are always newcomers with the same question. You can have multiple images open in the windows version. AP also does macros, as mentioned, and I think it can do batch processing. IvI' never tried either. Sony has just released a trio of impressively small, light, ultrawide lenses for APS-C.

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Yeah the Ipad Pro X is a The Macman wrote: I'm bothered about the learning curve of Affinity as I've heard it is more complex to learn? Thanks Watch some tutorial videos on the different products you're considering, on YouTube. If not too difficult looking, download a trial. Thanks Affinity Photo is the only image editing software program whose learning curve seemed compatable with my limited level of brain power, lol. Tried and gave up on a few other programs, prior to success with Affinity.

Chaplain Mark's gear list: Chaplain Mark's gear list. Macman wrote: Hi guys, New to this forum, hope to have some good discussions with you in the future. Thanks Both should have free trials so why not try both?

That was 7 months ago. He probably already made his decision. Jonsi wrote: bladerunner6 wrote: Macman wrote: Hi guys, New to this forum, hope to have some good discussions with you in the future.

Thank you for pointing this out. I make lots of mistakes when posting in the mywhen I am waking up or in a hurry over lunch hour. And it certainly was a waste of my time.

I too, failed to notice the op was months old We all do it. Chaplain Mark wrote: Macman wrote: I'm bothered about the learning curve of Affinity as I've heard it is more complex to learn? However, Affinity has a really cool batch editing option, and an action recording option.

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Aurelija Pixelmator Team. Pixelmator Community. Follow thread. Tue Jan 18, am Are both of these picture editors up to the task? Are their capacities different, or should I acquire one over the other, or both? I'm not a pro, and this is simply for fun. Tue Jan 18, am Hey bisky It depends on what you'll be using the app for.

The basic editing functionalities in both apps should be more or less the same. You can use them both to edit photos, work with shapes, paint, illustrate. But there may be some specific tools or features that one editor has and the other doesn't.

It would probably be best to simply give them both a trial run if you haven't done so already and see how you like them for yourself. The Pixelmator Pro trial is available to download right here. And you can also check out the list of Pixelmator Pro tech specs for all available features.

Wed Jan 19, pm by bisky42 Are both of these picture editors up to the task? Sun Jan 23, am If you are used to using mac "photo" then you will quickly get used to pixelmator pro because the logic is very close. When creating more complex images and adding various tools such as fine-tuning hsl, affinity photo can be more intuitive on the interface, and it will be easier to grasp what you have done than pixelmator pro.

But if you just expect simple retouching, pixelmator pro will be a better choice, Background Eraser is so convenient. Especially with mac "photo" to retouch photos is very, very convenient and easy to use. Mon Jan 24, pm Bisky I have been using them both mainly for editing photo's. For more than a decade I am not a user of Photoshop to complicated to my "logic".

Have been using Aperture in the past until it "stopped" So, Affinity has lots of high quality professional capabilities. However it has a steep learning curve for "none Photo-shopper's" like me.

Since about 8 months I am using Pixelmator Pro and Pixelmator Photo iPad Haven't used Affinity anymore In the past only for focus merging and photo stacking, which today I can handle "in camera". PP serves me better and easier. I love the way PP integrates with Apple Photo's. I love the the AI-tools and other intelligent functions that make life "easier" while still maintaining excellent quality, and of course it's comprehensive editing capabilities for photo's Still it has a "learning curve" certainly if, for instance, you are not used as I am to the concept of working with layers.

However much easier than Affinity in my opinion. So if you are "in", as you mention, for "fun", with the possibility for advanced photo editing as well and a tight integration with Apple Photo's PP would be my first choice.