For example, products like Pixelmator Pro and Affinity Photo offer serious competition across the typical spectrum of photo editing tasks. They’ve also begun integrating ML (Machine Learning) algorithms into the ‘content-aware’ retouching features to make them better at predicting the type of change the user wants to make.īut Photoshop is no longer the only heavy hitter on the block. As Photoshop’s traditional photo-centric capabilities begin to reach their limits, Adobe started to refine existing features and address long-standing customer-requests, which is good. Later this week, you can learn about Affinity Designer and Publisher.įor photographers and hobbyists, the range of available desktop editing apps offer every type of color and tone correction and virtually every type of retouching capability they could need. But quite a few might find these new apps (or a mix of apps) to be exactly what they need. We know some artists are OK with Adobe’s subscription plans, and none of what you’ll read is to suggest that Adobe’s solutions are anything but capable. Saving roughly $10-30 per month is a big deal for many artists, especially in challenging times. Canceling a Creative Cloud subscription and/or subscribing to only one or two apps, can drive the cost down from the default $52.99/month (and counting) to $20.99/month for most apps or $41.98/month for two. Ultimately any switch has to benefit the user in terms of cost, efficiency, or both. It’s worth pointing out that these are not product reviews or how-to articles, but a general comparison between applications.

To do their part, Serif has temporarily reduced its prices by 50% for the entire suite. If you are a creative professional or an aspiring digital artist looking for alternatives to Adobe’s subscription plans, now is a great time to consider a switch. The Rocket Yard has readied a new series for our friends in the creative space, to introduce the Affinity suite of applications from Serif.

Many OWC customers are impacted, including creative professionals like photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers-and now Work From Home (WFH). COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way millions of people work.

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