![]() They are the kind of tools you use to manipulate the content of a photo, a classic example being "photoshopping" a person or making changes to elements like the background, masking out certain elements of the photo. And those tools make it easy to apply edits to multiple photos or save them as presets.Ī tool like Pixelmator, Photoshop or Affinity can do a lot of those things too, but it's really only intended for editing and manipulating a single photo at a time. These are very powerful tools for editing photos especially in terms of color, exposure, everything you need to do to make a photo look like you want it to look. You use it to catalog, sort, pick your favorites, apply styles, do all kinds of corrections that are usually necessary for any photo you take. ![]() At the end of the day if you decide later that Affinity was the right choice, buying that will still be cheaper than a year of Adobe so I wouldn’t put too much pressure on the decisionįor simply turning your raw files into something you like and can share I personally would recommend looking into a tool like Lightroom or Capture One first.Ĭapture One or Lightroom are the kind of tools you dump all your raw files into after a photo session. I’d say Pixelmator is the one to go with though because it has a nicer UI imo, integrates nicely with macOS features, and it’s cheaper rn. I think Affinity is better for specialized use cases since it supports things like image stacking (used in astrophotography), focus merging and panorama stitching (which can be done manually in Pixelmator but it is more tedious), and I don’t think Pixelmator has dedicated lens correction (it uses Apple’s Raw Engine which only does a little on its own). It’s capable of doing all the standard stuff like RAW editing, masking, supports LUTs, basically most of what a photographer would need. I do some photo editing and haven’t found the need for something like Affinity yet.
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