Best Open Source or Free Photo Editing Software?

[Ysarex]

Affinity is an very reasonably priced Photoshop clone and very capable as a pixel-level editor. One caveat: there's an issue with raw files. Affinity's raw file processing is forced destructive and any work you do with the Develop module in Affinity is discarded as soon as you convert the image to RGB. As such would not recommend it for use with raw files.

Joe

What if we made a copy first, and worked on that?

No matter. Affinity doesn't hurt the raw file. What it does unfortunately is fail to save any of the work you do in the raw conversion module. It's destructive in that it destroys the work you do. If you return to the image later and decide you want to tweak something like WB you're screwed and have to do all of your work over. Every time you open a raw file in Affinity you start from scratch.

Joe

 

[Designer]

Thank you! I've seen mixed reviews on this, so that helps!