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… The news came from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney himself in a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023. …
… He claimed that the pricing model will not be “unusually expensive or unusually inexpensive,” and that its pricing structure will be similar to subscription services like Maya or Photoshop. …
Affinity Photo is $60 once and you own it forever, with free updates. It’s pretty much the only actually good Photoshop replacement.
GIMP is free and also doubles as a way to express just how much I hate myself!
Free minor updates. And if you buy it a month before a major version update, you get nothing. Ask me how I know :/.
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Photopea is free and in browser as well
Being a browser app is not a plus imo. I’ll take a snappy native app over easy portability every day.
They need to do a LR replacement, then I’ll just switch to Affinity.
Darktable is an excellent replacement
I’ll try it again, but several years ago when I tried it I didn’t find it as good.
There have been a few changes, but it is mostly the same I think.
Out of interest, what wasn’t as good?
Workflow just wasn’t as good, it didn’t have a lot of the little features (search was definitely not as nice to use), and as a Nikon shooter back then, it never nailed the Nikon colours the way I wanted without very heavy post-processing, which was time I didn’t want to spend.
Yep I use and love affinity photo. It works well for my needs.