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Krita
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Easy to use layout
All the most used and useful tools are easy to find in Krita's UI and are often just one click away. They are not hidden behind menus or dropdowns.
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New features are not tested thoroughly
Since releases are so often and with little time between them, usually new features are not tested a lot and this can bring a lot of bugs with them. Which fortunately are quickly patched in the next release.
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Constantly updated
Krita is getting constant releases with updates and bug fixes. New features are added at a pace that far surpasses the other alternatives.
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Documentation is lacking
Krita's official documentation is incomplete in some areas, especially for new features that are constantly added. But this is compensated with it's great design and usability which makes it easier to understand how things work.
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Free and open source
Krita is completely free and open source. They have raised a couple of successful Kickstarters in the past to get the initial financing and now they are accepting donations.
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Poor touch controls
They are still pretty much a WIP. But they are getting there.
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Developed in part by KDE, which has a great community and therefore great support.
KDE has a long history of making solid applications.
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Working with text is not that pleasant
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Amazing support for displaying brushes
Krita's preset brushes are one of the default dockers. Each brush has a preview on mouseover that shows a detailed view of the type of brush involved. All the brushes also have useful and descriptive names such as "HP Pencil" or "Textured Fuzzy".
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Very customizable
Although the UI is rather busy, Krita is very customizable. The editing window can be themed and the sidebar can be customized extensively throw many dockers or panes.
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Easy editing in a tiled view
Tiled view that shows your image tiled in the editor, and permits you to edit it as you are seeing it tiled. If the brush passes out of your texture, it will just automatically wrap back the painting to the other side of the original texture, while permitting you to paint and see the results on any of the tiled "clones" (the shortcut key to activate this is w by default).
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Android
License:
Open source
Technology:
C++, Qt
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GIMP
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7
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Unintuitive interface
GIMP doesn't embrace OS X application design, thus Mac users might have a hard time wrapping their heads around GIMP's interface.
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Free, open source and cross-platform
GIMP is completely free and open source, meaning you can use GIMP and all of its features without spending a penny. This makes it an excellent case for artists or designers who may not have the budget to spend over 700 USD on Photoshop. It is also available for free on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It's licensed under GPL with source code available here.
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Less features than other programs
Being a free program, it shouldn't be surprising that it has limited features. For those needing more advanced features for something more professional, GIMP just isn't for you.
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Powerful
GIMP is the most feature rich free image editing tool. It has most image manipulation and workflow tools that you would expect from an image editing software and what it lacks it makes up with plugins.
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Lacks adjustment layers
Adjustment layers offer a non-destructive way of combining different photo manipulations. Without adjustment layers the only way to see changes is by irreversibly editing the image. They are promised in future updates.
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Content-aware tools with a plugin
There's a content-aware fill plugin available for GIMP.
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Poor performance
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Modular & single-window interface options
By default GIMP splits out each window, but you can check to use the one screen mode in options if you prefer.
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Lightweight
Compared to to other photo editing software, GIMP is very light weight. In addition it isn't very resource-intensive, meaning you can put it on a flash drive and have it with you to load up on just about any computer.
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Beginner-friendly
Gimp has less features than programs like Photoshop, but for a beginner, or someone not needing complicated options, Gimp is the perfect choice. It allows you to quickly do basic photo manipulation so you can easily get the product you need without having to worry about complicated features getting in the way.
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Full channel support
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Platforms:
Windows 10/8/7; Linux; MacOS
License:
GPLv3+
Tethered capture:
No
Non-Distructive Editing:
No, Feature in development with GEGL
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Darktable
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Feature rich
There are a lot of different modules.
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Can be overwhelming
There are a lot of different modules. You're going to need some time watching tutorials to understand how to get the best out of it.
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Fast and Flexible
A very well considered UI makes edits fast and fluid. You can redo or undo any step without disturbing any other part of your edit. The UI doesn't get in the way.
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For tethered capture on Linux you may need additional software installed that is not a dependency for Darktable
First make sure you have gphoto2 and libgphoto2.
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Good batch editing capabilities
Darktable allows applying the same set of operations to multiple images and saving your history stack as a style (you can pick exactly which modules).
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No official Windows version
Whilst official builds exist for Linux and OSX, this isn't the case for Windows (though unofficial versions do exist).
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Edits are saved to a separate file
Original files are untouched by any edits. No worries on what was done before or if an accidental save occurs. All work is separate from the originals.
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Customizable
Darktable allows favoriting modules and remapping hotkeys.
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Allows for local adjustments
Most modules, by default, affect the whole image, but have the option to only be applied to masked-off areas (be those drawn masks, parametric ones, or a combination of the two).
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Supports tethered capture
On the camera set it to use USB Remote. Open Darktable, on the left side under Import, click scan for devices. The camera should appear. Click on tethered shoot. Next on the right side look for the gear icon above the battery n/a and click it. go to the session options tab, and change the base directory to the location you want to save photos. close that settings window and try taking a picture. It should come right up.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Technology:
C
Tethered capture:
Yes
Non-Distructive Editing:
Yes
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Affinity Designer
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12
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One-time purchase
Rather than a monthly subscription based model, Affinity Designer instead has a one-time fee ($49.99).
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No plug-in architecture, so can't be tailored to specific purposes
Some applications (e.g. Sketch) have an open plug-in framework, by which the software can be extended by independent/third-party developers according to popular trends.
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Intuitive user interface
The user interface of many graphic editing software programs can often be discouraging for beginners. Affinity Designer, however, has a very well laid out and intuitive user interface with a small learning curve.
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Treats all objects as filled
You can't select objects on the canvas by clicking on them, if they're surrounded by another object (like a rectangle or a frame). Designer treats all objects as filled, so if you've drawn a frame or outline or an object with a hole in it, you can't select objects within that hole directly. You have to laboriously iterate through all objects in a list until you get to the one you want. This is an extremely common situation, which cripples the entire product. Very surprising and unfortunate defect.
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Powerful artistic tools
Extensively tweakable brush types, color options...
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Extended slicing and export possibilities
An object can easily be transformed into a slice that can then be exported in various sizes end formats in 1 go. E.g. Export slice A as PNG 1x, 2x and 3x AND GIF 1x AND SVG.
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Powerful symbol managemment
Symbols can get individual property changes (color, shape, layer effects, fonts text...) while the other properties stay linked with the base symbol.
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Sketch Alternative (Great for Mixed OS Teams)
For those working in mixed environments that aren't 100% MacOS, you'll find devoting yourself to Sketch.app brings with it...pain. If this fits the bill for what you need feature-wise and you're in a mixed OS environment, it's a very capable replacement for Sketch.app. Note that it doesn't have all the same features, but then again it doesn't need all the same features. Short of organization differences inside the document you're working on, there shouldn't be anything you can't do with Affinity Designer that you could have with Sketch.
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Cross platform
Available on both Windows and MacOS
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SVG Support
In the era of "retina" displays, 4k UHD, 5k, and even 8k, Scalar Vector Graphics - independent vector images that can scale to any resolution without any display quality loss - are more important now than ever. And this tool is quite capable of rendering true SVG output suitable for consumption at any display resolution (not a big bunch of rasterized bits in the document, actual paths, points, etc.).
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Focused vector graphics tool
Unlike some design tools, Affinity Designer isn't trying to be all things to all people. It's focused on its main area of expertise: vector graphics. That's not to say you can't use a raster image (think a photo in *.jpeg format for example), but it's not built to do much with that other than using it somewhere amidst the layers and that's about it.
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Integrates well with Affinity Photo
These are companion apps & switching between them is built in - Photo is a very powerful raster tool with a feature set close/better to Photoshop, it will also use some Photoshop plugins. This allows you to add-on powerful raster capabilities if you want them - put doesn't force you to.
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Excellent Photoshop/Illustrator import & export
Best I have seen in a non Adobe app, you can use most of the Photoshop mock-ups and templates easily. Opens most Adobe files to a level to be able to effectively use the content. Allows cross team collaboration across tool-chains.
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Powerful
The new version 1.5 has a very powerful feature set such as support for symbols and asset windows, as well as constraints controls and improved export options. This all adds up to an interesting alternative to Adobe Illustrator.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, IOS
Export image formats:
PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, EPS, EPS, EXR, HDR
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MediBang Paint Pro
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Multi-platform support
Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
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Displays a dialog with some ads at the start
When starting up the app, there is a dialog that pops up containing advertisements, this can simply be closed, but will happen every time when opening the app. Sadly there is no way to remove these ads currently.
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Has a lot of options for editing photos
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Free
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Photopea
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Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
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Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!
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Fast to load
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Has only basic filters and operations
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Very reactive on feedbacks
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Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
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Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
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Has many features
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Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
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Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
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Platforms:
Web (in a browser)
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PencilSheep
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4
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Seems stable and light
This is an expectation though, since was not used/ tested long term.
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Snap only
For Linux, the choice seems to have been to offer PencilSheep as snap only, sorry, no .deb, no .rpm, no nothing. If you do not have/ use snap (for many, including valid reasons), PencilSheep is beyond your reach.
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Simple to use, initiative
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Project no longer supported?
Although it is offered widely (including Google), the devs website seems dead. Hence, it is unclear whether it is still developed and supported actively.
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Full set of image manipulation tools
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Cross platform
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PhotoFiltre 7
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Portable version
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Some PhotoFiltre functionality is locked behind a paywall
The following features are available in PhotoFiltre Studio X: Animated Gif Vectorial Path PhotoPNG RAW Format 8BF Filters Tool Nozzles Tool Deform Tool Retouch (red eye, ...) Advaced and Inverse Eraser Perspective correction Horizon correction Border effects for layers Transparent gradient in Alpha Chanel White Balance Adjust filter using curves Deform using curve
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Allows quick access to predefined folders
A toolbar at the top of the interface allows quick access to predefined folders that allow quick access to selections, masks, patterns.
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Allows adding to and substracting from selection
It's possible to add to or subtract from a selection using ctrl and alt keys.
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Supports masks
Masks (called PhotoMasque in PhotoFiltre) change the alpha channel based on the mask.
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Has an erase tool
The erase tool works like a brush revealing the bottom layer.
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Automatic stroke and fill option
Lets you fill in and draw an outline of a selection.
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Supports several layers types
PhotoFiltre supports bitmap, text, settings (gamma, contrast, hue) and color (transparency) vector types.
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Reasonable selection of brushes
PhotoFiltre has round, square and oblique line brushes of different sizes and allows custom shapes to be used as brushes. Gradient colors as well as effects such as 3D, pastels, charcoal can be used with brushes.
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Multiple selection methods
PhotoFiltre allows selecting via shapes such as rectangle (square and rounded), ellipse, triangle and rhombus, or in a free-form way. Selections can be saved to be used later.
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Good selection of filters available
Includes filters that allow adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma as well as stylize the image with watercolor, pastels, Indian ink, pointillism, puzzle effect filters.
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Picktorial
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Fast
Browsing and editing are very fast. Much better than lightroom and most other competitors.
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No image blending
You can't blend images, like in photoshop.
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Fun
This software makes editing fun.
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Single-space workflow
No need to move between different slow modules.
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Truly non-destructive edits
Every edit is non-destructive, no matter the order.
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No need to import
It's catalog free so no need with slow import and backup problems.
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Local adjustements
Has many options Lightroom doesn't, like HSL, curves and split tone within local adjustment.
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Great value for money
Much better than a subscription to pay every month and very affordable for what it does.
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Platforms:
Mac OS
Tethered capture:
No
Non-destructive:
Yes
Fuji Lens Correction:
Yes
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Axure
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Supports web and mobile prototyping 
Allows creation of interactive HTML mock-ups which is accessible for both websites and mobile applications.
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Moderate learning curve
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Lots of options for sharing your work
Great web options, but you can also save your wire frames out to Word and convert the notes to annotations.
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Expensive [$289-$589] 
There is a free trial to work with Axure, but there is a hefty price for the standard edition at $289. Even more so, the Pro edition will cost $589.
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Resuable components
You can create a component (widget) that you can use over and over again.
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Cross-platform 
Available for use on Windows and Mac.
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Collaboration tools
You can set up a project with SVN-like check-in/out system to work with others.
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Offers resources to help you get proficient with the software
There is a wealth of online training including videos for getting the basics down, a great community to mine, and support team to help assist with more technical details.
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Windows, Mac
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sK1
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Corel Draw compatible
sK1 tries to look and feel like Corel Draw, it has also an excellent *.cdr importer.
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Cross-platform
Its written in the cross-platform WxWidgets toolkit.
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Open-Source
Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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CMYK colorspace support
CMYK support is one of its main features.
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Under GNU LGPL
So you don't have to fear the harsh copyleft of the GNU GPL license.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
License:
LGPL
Based On:
Skencil
Initial Release:
in the middle ages
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Chasys Draw
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HDR
Supports combining photo's for HDR or focus stacking.
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Photoshop support
Supports Photoshop native image format and filters.
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Image file support
Supports lots of formats.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Figma
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Works in the browser
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Inefficient workflow
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Allows for real time collaboration
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Live previews for mobile
Mirrors your designs to your phone in realtime.
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Has all the core functionality you'd expect from something like Sketch
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Integrates with Slack
Provides integration with Slack.
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Provides a free version
Does not require a paid subscription for use. Can be used freely with a lot of features. The free use allows very limited collaboration.
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Paint.NET
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Easy to learn and use
Unlike most photo editing software, Paint.NET is simple to learn and easy to use. This means less time is spent learning the in's and out's of Paint.NET and more time on photo editing. For those who only edit photos sporadically and don't have time to invest in learning complicated tools for editing, Paint.Net will suit your needs.
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Only available on Windows
Paint.NET is only available on Windows.
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Free software
There is no charge for this software; but donations are welcomed.
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No project-based interface
You can only edit a single image at a time in Paint.NET. For example, in other tools you can open 5 or a 100 images at the same time, and stack those windows in all directions. Furthermore, when you are editing in Paint.NET you can only "view" a single image at a time, even though you can have multiple images open. This limits your zooming ability, as the image will go fullscreen quite quickly, and hide parts of it behind the floating toolbars which can not be embedded anywhere on the screen.
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Lightweight
Paint.net provides a streamlined but effective core tool set. Support for advanced and niche features is provided through modular plugins, allowing the user to install only what's needed.
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Actively developed
The project is active and being continually expanded and refined.
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Active and friendly community
The forums are filled with tutorials, as well as people who are friendly and eager to help.
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Plugins allow extra functionality
Plugins can be made by anyone in the community, and are offered for download on the forum. They extend the capabilities of Paint.NET to cover most tasks.
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HiDPI support
Paint.NET supports fully HiDPI displays, with no scaling problems.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
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Photoshop
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Industry standard
Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere. It is taught in classes, used by artists and is even used by medical professionals. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop. The internet is full of tutorials and videos on how to use Photoshop. This fact, coupled with the trove of plugins available for Photoshop means you can use it it to make the professional looking or artistic images you need.
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Expensive
For a high-quality product, the price is high enough to match. With the new Adobe model, all Creative Suite Products are subscription based only. This means that for the complete "Creative Cloud" you are required to buy a year subscription for about 600 USD. In order to use just a single product, its a $20 monthly subscription. The cheapest option would be Photoshop Elements 12 which is a single time payment of less than 100 USD depending on where you look.
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Fully featured
Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation. On top of that it offers features beyond the realm of typical image editing software tools such as support for video editing, 3d elements and 3d printing among others.
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Only available as a subscription
Used to be a one time purchase. Now a monthly lease.
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Content-aware tools
Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it.
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Reasonable UI
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Creative Cloud Photography subscription includes Lightroom
Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images.
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A cheaper version called Photoshop Elements is available
A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100.
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Mobile companion apps available
There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.
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Lots of tutorials
There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet.
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Support for vector shapes
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Non-destructive blur
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Affinity Photo
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Lifetime updates
Pay once, get updates forever.
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Limited selection of plugins
Plugin support was only recently added to AP and not many plugins have been created for the program so far.
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Interface will be familiar to those coming from Photoshop
The interface, especially the Photo persona, is laid out in way that's very similar to Photoshop - a panel for icons for tools on the left, a panel for information and settings on the right.
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Can not import gimp or krita files
Free alternatives like GIMP (and Krita) are sort of "go to" apps you can always install and use for simple image editing or graphics on any computer. Affinity's support for Photoshop is great, but having support also for opening and editing GIMP and Krita files would make the versatility and use of this program absolutely superb.
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Compatible with Photoshop PSD files
Affinity Photo can import and export .psd files.
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Great performance
Uses the GPU extensively for fast speed on any platform.
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Supports layer styles
Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer.
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Personas allow separation of concerns
At a high level the interface is organized into broad groups of tools called Personas. Personas like Photo for in-depth image manipulation, Liquify for warping the image, Develop for basic RAW photo development and Export for exporting. Each persona displays only those tools that are needed for that task.
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Powerful effects
Dozens of visual effects available. All run extremely fast with live previews
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Non-destructive adjustment layers
Extensive adjustment layers are non-destructive.
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Everything is well organized
Easy to find and use tools.
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Runs faster than Photoshop's old code
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Lots and lots of undo
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The easiest, even easier than photoshop
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The perfect combination of Photoshop and Lightroom - all in one
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Supports Photoshop brushes, shapes, etc.
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Many tutorials
But still it does not actually matter which tutorial you're actually watching, Photoshop or Affinity's, they are pretty much the same.
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Very, very cheap for such an app
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Has an iPad app
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Decent functionality, 100% comparable with Photoshop
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Much more lightweight than photoshop
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RAW file editing
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HDR image editing
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Powerful, cheap and lightweight
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Very modern and intuitive interface
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Color correction
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Very fast to learn
Takes about 20 mins, it's that easy.
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Growing decently fast
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Panorama creation
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Imports free images from Unsplash
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Platforms:
OSX, iPad, Windows
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Pixelmator
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Beautiful, easy to use UI
Pixelmator's interface is pleasant to look at, easy to use and specifically optimized for OS X users, making it very intuitive for long-time Mac users.
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Feature rich
Not only does Piexelmator provide easy to use tools that you should expect in any image editor, it also has rare tools such as layer styles, liquify tools and OS X optimized, fast image manipulation engine among others.
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Supports layer styles
Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer.
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Powerful effects
Dozens of visual effects available, easily discovered from the visual Effects Browser, broken into categories. Effects have interactive dialogs and live preview.
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Multiple-display support
Pixelmator can be used across any number of monitors.
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Loads quickly
Gives you common image editing capabilities almost instantly.
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Great performance
Pixelmator's image engine is specifically optimized for use with Macs, providing one the best performance results available on OS X.
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Inexpensive
Pixelmator costs just $30 on the App Store. Additionally, it often comes bundled with other software that you might also find useful bringing the price down.
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Inkscape
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Free and open source
Inkscape is GPL-licensed and maintains public repositories.
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Very slow startup on some systems
Depending on factors like how many fonts you have installed, Inkscape can take upwards of 30 seconds to launch.
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Opens lots of file types
Inkscape supports many common formats for import (including SVG, Photoshop and Illustrator) and its plugin architecture allows more to be added.
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Uses its own SVG-format by default
Inkscape might use SVG as its default format, however this SVG's contains some additional SodiPodi/Inkscape additions that can be troublesome if you want to import the SVG into some other application.
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Export to different file types
Files can be exported and saved as a "normal" svg, png, jpg, bmp etc. file.
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1.0 is sluggish
Inkscape 1.0 uses GTK 3 which is sluggish and slow for low spec systems( eg. ARM, Celeron, Pentium, Core-i3, Ryzen 3 or Athlon ) compared to previous versions.
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Cross-platform
Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Inkscape can be built from source on additional platforms.
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Buggy
Application is often buggy so it happens from time to time that the popup / right-click menu won't close and stays open. It crashes also sometimes randomly. This makes it almost unusable for productive / business use.
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Integrates well into a X11-System
Its uses the X11 icon theme and desktop theme(GTK).
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Crashes very often
Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now - is one of its standard messages.
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It can do anything
A very powerful software that can do pretty match anything!
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Since 0.91 the gradient editor is gone
It is now only possible to edit a gradient on screen. but you can't set a stop to a specific percentage anymore.
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Measurement Tool
This tool is extremely handy and can not be found in any other vector graphics programs out there.
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Limited work with ICC CMYK color scheme
Support for ICC color profiles only in SVG files.
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Live Path Effects
Extremely powerful menu that offers more than 30 powerful Live Path Effects to apply to paths vastly enhancing the application functionality.
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Uses GTK
It looks an feels like an alien. It also uses now touch-based widgets instead of professional widgets.
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Guides, Grids, and Canvas Rotation
Extremely handy features when building complex graphics using Inkscape.
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Y-axis inverted
0,0 coordinates begin in lower left corner, not upper left corner as SVG standards define in Inkscape 0.92.x. It seems this is now fixed in the 1.0 beta 2 version of the program.
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Dark Theme Support
The new 1.0 beta 2 version finally got support for dark theme which normally is only available for commercial software like Affinity Serif, Adobe Illustrator.
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A toy for facebook-ist enthusiasts, not for professionals
It's a Linux niche mumbo-jumbo, same as GIMP for raster edit .
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The new version 1.1 is looks and feels fantastic
Inskape got UI update: new dockable dialogs.
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Based on the GTK widget toolkit
Software is based on GTK, so it might not integrate well in non-GTK environments. It also requires many dependencies on those non-GTK desktops. It also adds dependencies to GTK-environments since it is written in C++ which requires the gtkmm wrapper/interface.
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Interface is available in 29 languages
Basque, British English, Brazilian, Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (BokmĂ¥l), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Swedish.
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Mac version does not look as polished as its versions for Windows/Linux version for the 0.92.x version
It seems that Inkscape 1.0 beta 2 for Mac got some needed attention and it looks a lot better with dark theme support. native DMG installer and they got rid of X11 which is great.
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It's really easy and fun
Vector graphics can be created and edited with Inkscape.
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Incompatible with previous versions
Sometimes backward compatibility breaks. For example, pre 0.92 SVGs are incompatible with later releases (due different default resolutions).
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No support for large printing machine system
No support for large printing machine environment, except exporting the resulting artwork to PDF.
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Under GNU GPL
It is released under GNU GPL which one of the restricted open source license.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix
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GPL-2.0-or-later
Technology:
C++
Initial Release:
2003
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Industry standard
Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere in a wide variety of fields including photography, graphic design and digital art. It is the de facto standard for image manipulation. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop.
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Expensive
The standalone version of Photoshop costs $19.99/month, though it can be leased as part of the Creative Cloud Photography bundle that includes Lightroom for $9.99/month.
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Trove of plugins that extend functionality are available
A wide variety of plugins that add new effects, improve existing functionality and simplify workflow are available.
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Latest versions of Photoshop are subscription-only
While you can still buy CS6 from 2012 without needing a subscription by contacting Adobe support or the cut-down Photoshop Elements, any full-version version of Photoshop past CS6 requires a subscription.
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Lots of tutorials
There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet.
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Learning it can take some time
While you can relatively quickly learn how to perform a few basic image editing tasks, understanding Photoshop's ins and outs can be difficult. It's partially due to the sheer amount of functionality that Photoshop packs (and understanding that some of the advanced functionality can take a while to understand on its own), and partially due to it being aimed at professionals with little hand-holding for novice users.
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A cheaper, standalone version called Photoshop Elements is available
A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100.
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Very slow
It needs a very power CPU and GPU and many GBs of RAM and still it is so slow.
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Includes powerful content-aware tools
Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it.
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Stop paying, it vaporises
With Adobes adaptation of the "subscription world" PhotoShop too is available as subscription software only. This means it will never become yours. And if you stop paying, you won't have any PhotoShop any more. Whether you are OK with that or not, it also means that PhotoShop for a large part becomes software for those "who can afford it". Or "push cost to others". Like customers of professionals. Which is also a way to become an "industry standard".
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Packs a staggering amount of functionality
Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation. It has tools for RAW image adjustments, lens correction, retouching, image stitching, HDR, fixing framing. It supports most professional color modes and file formats. It includes extensive lists of filters, styles, effects, fonts as well as tools for painting, sketching and typography work. It understands both raster and vector graphics. It even includes tools for video editing, working with 3D objects and support for 3D printing.
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Affinity Photo is just as good at a fraciton of the price
Switching from Photoshop to Affinity Photo and it's hard to notice the difference quality of a professional's work. They say that PS is the industry standard, but so very few pros that tried Affinity Photo ever look back.
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Integrates with Creative Cloud
You can save all projects directly to the Creative Cloud allowing you to access them from any device and with any relevant Adobe software.
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Not good enough to be so expensive
Probably the only big advantage Photoshop has over the other free software is the adjustment layers. But still too expensive for just one feature.
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Creative Cloud Photography subscription includes Lightroom
Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images.
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Batch editing of images is not straightforward
Photoshop is designed to work extensively on one image at a time and while batch editing support exists, it's not that intuitive to use.
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Mobile companion apps available
There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.
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Asset management capabilities are lacking
In Photoshop asset management is done through a separate program called Bridge. As Bridge is supposed to be a file management tool for not just Photoshop's files, but for files generated by all of Adobe's applications it covers a breadth of capabilities, but not depth.
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