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Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If they had library management even close to what lightroom offers, I'd be there.

I may yet jump ship for photoshop.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think it's only a good thing they're not trying to shoehorn DAM features into their existing apps. If they made a DAM software it'd have to be an external app anyway.

I did perfectly fine with digiKam in the past, and nowadays I'm perfectly happy with ACDSee. ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DAM DAM?

ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files

You're telling me there's an image managing program out there, that works with Affinity, and for some reason people aren't talking about it?????????

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

DAM as in digital asset management. Fancy word for "image library organiser".

Oh, everything works with Affinity. Thing is, Adobe is pretty much the only software ecosystem that is subtly (or not so subtly) making people think inwards. "I'd love to try that piece of software, but if it's not running as a Photoshop/Lightroom plug in, is it even worth trying?" Whereas when people who use other software are more likely to go "Well my favourite software package doesn't do thing X, but I have this other piece of software that does that, it's not even a hassle."

Also, when I switched from digiKam to ACDSee, at no point did I have to go "but what about my Adobe-locked-in catalogue, oh no!"...

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