You know Photoshop’s in my blood (and vice versa), but wow, it looks like they’ve got some solid competition on their hands. Check out the new features in Affinity Photo 1.5 (including 32-bit HDR creation and editing, spherical photo editing (which has actually been in Photoshop for 8 years—though I guarantee that no one knows that), focus stacking (ditto), and more.
I’m so excited to see this application evolving from what was already a great start. It looks like they’re taking all the requests and ideas we’ve been begging Adobe to implement over the past 15 years and actually making them work. Between this and the on1 raw app, Adobe is finally getting some much needed competition.
I was hooked until: “Has just got brighter”
Regardless of the editor’s mishap, the software does look great. I’ve been looking at both Photo and Designer as replacements for my CS6 apps; good to know you’re looking with approval, too.
*I* know that Photoshop has had spherical photo editing for 8 years…
Hah! That makes two of us (three, counting Pete). 🙂