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 Post subject: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:05 am  (#1) 
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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:34 am  (#2) 
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Looks impressive; not for PC though. Some things, sort of, but not with the ease of this cool looking editor. GIMP cannot currently handle higher bit depth images either (beta version of GIMP can, but it's still beta). :)

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:44 am  (#3) 
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They have an About page at their web site, have you not compared features? I doubt anyone here would have experience with it. Why don't you download it and see what you think? It looks like it has features more comparable to Photoshop than Gimp.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:52 am  (#4) 
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okyl168 wrote:


Looks nice of course... but you also have to think about what Gimp does that it won't do. And by "Gimp" I mean "Gimp" and all the plugins/scripts out there.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:44 am  (#5) 
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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:06 am  (#6) 
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Unfortunately, I don't have Mac. Hair extraction seems pretty simple or just the video make it looks simple.


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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:48 am  (#7) 
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Well they did say other platforms will follow the mac suite so...

Doubt it will be free though.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:03 am  (#8) 
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It looks very nice. Of course, their demo made it look really easy.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:36 pm  (#9) 
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I like the lighting feature that was shown in the demo, but the demo makes it all look so easy as Oregonian has mentioned.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:58 pm  (#10) 
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looks like a great video but what I would like is a script that really does perfect hair extraction. The closest one I have ever seen was out in Gimp-2.6.7, I think it was. but it was never offered after that.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:42 pm  (#11) 
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Rod wrote:
Well they did say other platforms will follow the mac suite so...

Doubt it will be free though.


I made a post here about Affinity Designer viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11206&hilit=great+toy
and if remember correctly the devs had no plans to make it a cross-platform application.
Indirect evidence to this is the fact that it's being distributed through the apple stores only.
I don't think they ever sell anything for PC users (be it Win or Linux).

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okyl168 wrote:


Looks nice of course... but you also have to think about what Gimp does that it won't do. And by "Gimp" I mean "Gimp" and all the plugins/scripts out there.


Beside PSD docs support Affinity Photo allows installation of 3rd party PS plugins compatible with CS6-CC2014 versions.


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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:59 pm  (#12) 
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It's tempting. If I didn't have a 2/3 full hard drive, I would think about the free download.


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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:59 am  (#13) 
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I don't know where I came across Affinity Photo a few days ago but it piqued my interest enough that I watched a few videos and read user reviews. I purchased it and will play around with it and report back.

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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:27 am  (#14) 
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Dalia, thank you. I'm very curious.


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 Post subject: Re: Can Gimp do what Affinity Photo does?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:45 pm  (#15) 
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In keeping with Gimp Chat policy but wanting to give some feedback since I promised...

CONS: It's not free. Third-party plugins (not free) not all work at this time with the program(s); yes, two, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer depending on your need. Support is adequate at responding but no foreseeable solutions until next update.

PROS: Currently for us Mac folks. It had me at "Inpainting". Non-destructive: "Live Filter", Adjustments, Styles, et.al. Ability to save work with "History". It will be available for Windows (currently a Beta version available).

Having said all of the above, there are things that Gimp gives us that AP at the moment does not (not to mention that Gimp is thankfully free and we have our amazing script and plugin compilers).

There are many videos that show what AP and AD do... and would more adequately give an accurate picture (no pun intended) as to what they can do.

Hope this was helpful and if I've done something the Board disapproves of, my apologies.

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