Speed Comparison: Affinity Photo - Photoshop CS6

I really couldnt believe the hype about speed of Affinity Photo - until I directly compared a huge 16,000 pixel layered map file that virtually comes to a standstill on my 13" Macbook Air when editing on Photoshop CS6.

I really considered that the issue had to be my underpowered computer - and so I came up with all kinds of flattening and resizing combinations of the file - so that I could get done what I needed to get done.

Well astonishment is all I can say. When I opened the file in Affinity Photo, there were no hesitations. I have no idea how this company has managed to move huge files around without hiccups - - - but they have succeeded. Hats off.

I knew nothing about the Beta version that has been available for a while now. I was doing some updates on my Macbook and when I opened the App Store, noticed the Editors choice being Affinity Photo. It is now a legit product out of Beta stage.

On further investigation, I found many of the tools that I use in Photoshop to be more intuative and easier to find. While I use Adobe Lightroom for 80% of my image processing - I like being able to send the file to an external editor like Photoshop, when needing features not available in LR. I found that Affinity Photo integrates just fine into the Lightroom Edit In: concept menu. Only shortcoming is not being able to send a group of files out as layers or have a PSD return layers from Photo.

At $49.95, there is no way this was going to be much of a product. Well - I have to eat my words so far anyway. It does everything I have been using CS6 for and in some cases more easily.

I actually got an additional 20% off - making it a very good value.

robertwatcher about Affinity Photo, v1.3.1