If that’s not enough reason to get it, then the low one-time cost should seal the deal. Affinity Photo makes me look good, and I have no hair. And the website I’ve been working on since November of last year: all page images come from composites made with Affinity Photo, and my site couldn’t look any better. It’s become the primary reason my book covers look any good now.

It has also effectively replaced Corel’s PaintShop Pro as my go-to for inexpensive photo compositing. It’s so easy to use, yet has so many tutorials available that even those who find it difficult at first can figure it out soon enough. And now I use it more than any other tool in my development library. But that only mattered if I’d actually bought Photo. Having the ability to use Photo’s tools within an app for designing publishing interiors seemed like a no-brainer for me. In my search for an alternative to Adobe InDesign, I found Affinity Publisher, and that search also led me to its two siblings, Photo and Designer. I’m a writer, and I develop my own books, and I wanted a tool that could help me make them without a costly subscription. To echo what I wrote in the pros section of my review for Affinity Designer, the main reason I bought this was for its integration with Affinity Publisher. Love this app, love this brand, and I happily support any product they make, including and especially Affinity Photo. But with as much as I use Affinity Photo these days, I’m starting to wonder if that statement is still true. But to expand on my glowification of this software and this brand, I love having access to a competent photo design tool that gives me unlimited use of layers, effects, fancy brushes, useful warping tools, filters, filters, and more filters, connections to free stock photo sites (even if they did end integration with Unsplash to save on costs), and even smart images for mock-up designs, all without having to pay for it twice, three times, four times, or whatever the going price is for other premium design tools made by companies that start with the letter A. I’ve already said plenty in my review for Affinity Designer that I’d repeat here, and to clarify, I have many good things to say.

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