These are all features that Affinity Photo has and Photoshop doesn’t. A fully-featured iPad app that offers everything it does on the desktop.Saving history states out to the PSD file so you can shut down, come back the next day and undo if you want to.

A better brushes system with colour image brushes.A better gradient tool with real-time previews.But that’s not the only thing on her list.

She wants real-time previews when making things like gradients – which have no preview option whatsoever in Photoshop. You don’t slide the slider, let go and then wait for the preview to be generated as you often do with Photoshop (for things that even have a preview option).Īnd that’s sort of the first one in Abbey’s list. As in, they literally update as you’re sliding the sliders. The biggest of which being its real-time previews for almost all of its filters and effects. I have both Photoshop and Affinity Photo, and while I admit that I still go into Photoshop the majority of the time, Affinity Photo definitely has a few advantages.

Is affinity photo as good as photoshop