![]() ![]() The default setup it ships with is… not good. While Affinity Photo includes a number of really good things, the overall workflow, bugs, stupid little limitations and missing options and odd quirky behaviour drive me away from it for anything but the aforementioned tasks.Īnd PhotoLine performs better with very large and complex files in my experience.Īnd I agree with you that PhotoLine’s GUI is in need of an overhaul. For professional print work that goes beyond simple CMYK, Photo is utterly unusable.lots of missing basic workflow options in various tools and areas.no option to export files with sidecar native file.G’MIC is supported this way, for example. In PL files can be sent to other apps, and even round-trip editing is often possible. limited interoperability with external apps.layer panel functionality is very limited (no filtering, no search function).layers rather limited: not possible to combine varying bit depths and image modes.no layer instances with realtime updating.no built-in image browser, or mini-DAM (Bridge) / image management.No control over which aspects of editing a layer should be protected. layers cannot be protected from editing.actions in Affinity are fragile and lack options.very limited sampling algorithm choice (PL offers Catmullom, MitchelNetravali and these can be controlled per layer).gradient editing is a chore compared to PL.Bitmap layer based gradients are destructive gradients and patterns are not exactly fun to work with.missing file formats: dxf, pcx, tga, emf, jpg xr, jpg2000, webp export, img, icns, ico, sbm, cur, paintshop, rawimg, sgi/bw/rgb/rgba/in, dds, bmp.not possible to place PDF files in passthrough mode (fonts are required).not possible to apply non-destructive adjustment layers to layer masks.no procedural textures without manual coding (PL offers simple to use procedural textures).Can’t even set white, gray, and black points. the Curves dialog is extremely limited compared to PL and PS.the bevel layer effect’s quality is unacceptable when using a custom bevel curve.no blend vector tool (designer, but PL has it and it is non-destructive).It even crops areas lying outside the work area when it is converted to a pixel layer. a placed image’s pixels cannot be edited without losing its non-destructive transform.no free transform option to drag one of the corner handles individually (I use this all the time).no option to turn off anti-aliasing (the coverage map is not a solution).It is however severely lacking in major areas: complex blending with curves is a nice option. ![]()
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