Affinity

[Trevorb]

I'm pondering buying this and dumping the mighty Adobe.

However, the trial runs like a dog on my quite well spec'd machine - 16Gb Ram with an SSD and an i7.

Anyone else have this problem ?

My difficulty is only on opening the image, which can take up to 10 minutes !!! Afterwards, processing and saving is as quick as I expect.

Thoughts ?

[IanT]

Crikey. I can't image what might be wrong. Have you got loads of other stuff running concurrently, chewing up your RAM, mayhaps?

I have Affinity running and it's like lightning opening images. Shall I turn up early on Satdee and take a look?

[Trevorb]

No. It runs like this when the only process running....other than the background ms stuff. Satdi would be grand !

[BrianMet]

must be you,I use it on my ipad and pc works really good

[PhilC]

I sometimes use Affinity, still learning. Photoshop CS4 is a tiny bit quicker, but doesn’t support Luts, Affinity does. So far Affinity upgrades have been free... but some things are better in PS - stitching panoramas, etc.
My workflow is usually RAW convert and global tonal etc adjustments in DxO and then tidy up in Affinity, that also supports Nik plugins.
I think the cost of renting Adobe software is usury.

[beats]

I sometimes use Affinity, still learning. Photoshop CS4 is a tiny bit quicker, but doesn’t support Luts, Affinity does. So far Affinity upgrades have been free... but some things are better in PS - stitching panoramas, etc.

Strange, I found Affinity better than PS (CS6) for stitching panoramas, and a *LOT* better at focus stacking.
Both are useable and useful though, but neither is ideal for "serious" stitching or stacking. For that I'd recommend PTGui and Zerene Stacker respectively.