For $25 I purchased it. I haven’t even opened it. Maybe once after getting just to take a look at it.
For $25 I also purchased it this past Friday. I currently am able to accomplish almost everything I want with the four DXO products, PhotoLab Elite, ViewPoint, FilmPack, and the DXO Nik Collection. However, Affinity has a number of features and tools that are not available in any of the DXO offerings, and I hope they will fill in those gaps.
I am currently watching Anthony Morganti's 11 part Youtube series on Affinity to familiarize myself with it. He is using the Mac version and I'm on Windows. I believe its the same version of Affinity but there seems to be a few differences between the versions.
So far the one thing that in my opinion is truly mediocre is the Develop Persona, Affinity's raw processor. Its lacks the features, tools and quality one would expect from a top of the line raw processor like Lightroom, ACR, Capture One, PhotoLab, and others. I already knew this from an earlier trial I did last year, but reaffirmed it using the latest version this weekend. Among many other more serious issues with Develop, I just noticed that the slider adjustment range is too small. Often a just a small amount of slider movement results in too great a setting change. This can sometimes make precise adjustments more difficult. I would strongly suggest processing raw files in a better quality processor and then passing the image to Affinity as a tiff file. In the Photo Persona I just tried Affinity's perspective tools for the first time and found them more difficult to use effectively compared to Lightroom's Transform and PhotoLab's ViewPoint. However those points aside, there are still a lot of great features in Affinity and I'm hoping to make good use of them. One of them is the excellent color wheel which is similar in many respects to the one implemented in PhotoLab 3.
