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OntheRez wrote:
Thanks for the link. I didn't dig hard enough. Still teetering on the edge.
I'll probably jump though I'm looking at Affinity Photo. It seems to quite competent. The challenge of learning a new interface is real. Also, a key issue for me, is the number of actions, add ons, and other 3rd party tools for Ps. I think Affinity would do much better if it defined an open way to plug into their software. Suspect there would be more tools available if they did so.
Robert
Try to put a number on the challenge of learning a new interface.
Adobe CC will cost you $120 a year at current prices. Lets assume the pricing will stay fairly steady (i.e. no huge above inflation price hikes), then that is $600 over 5 years (not really worth trying to guess much further ahead than that).
Affinity photo will cost you $50 now. It is not totally clear yet how Serif will finance Affinity photo, but they say every full version upgrade will be paid, with point versions coming for free. The initial release was 2 years ago, and we're still on v1.6, so lets assume an upgrade cost of $50 every 2 years. That would give a difference of around $450 over a 5 year period for PS over Affinity Photo.
If you want to still use LR, then you also need to factor in the cost of a LR 6 license to the Affinity photo cost, which lowers the difference to $300, ignoring any paid upgrades to LR over that period.
So the question is: Is that enough money for you to learn a new interface? Only you can decide that.
Also consider longevity - Adobe is almost certainly going to be around in 5 years, selling some form of Photoshop. Affinity photo, if it fails to carve out a reasonable market niche, probably won't be supported.
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