Affinity is the closest thing I've seen to Adobe. They've had a sale since the lockdown for half off their Photo, Designer, and Publisher. The 3 work well together. $75 one time price for a quality product. (Or just buy what you need for $25 each)
I'm using Affinity Photo right now, but I'm not happy with a few things -- namely it has no way to create paths from selections or crop to selection. Really, anything that has to do with selection by raster to vector is completely absent in it, and, bizarrely, for no discernable reason. On top of that, its masking system has some severe redundancies and notable exclusions to the norm.
I'm not happy having to bounce between Affinity Photo and Designer to do what I can in Photoshop alone. Unless they update to include something that is quite fundamental, I'm gonna keep looking.
Gimp is free.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer are $50 each and well worth it! No subscriptions neither!
Affinity is the closest thing I've seen to Adobe. They've had a sale since the lockdown for half off their Photo, Designer, and Publisher. The 3 work well together. $75 one time price for a quality product. (Or just buy what you need for $25 each)
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
I'm using Affinity Photo right now, but I'm not happy with a few things -- namely it has no way to create paths from selections or crop to selection. Really, anything that has to do with selection by raster to vector is completely absent in it, and, bizarrely, for no discernable reason. On top of that, its masking system has some severe redundancies and notable exclusions to the norm.
I'm not happy having to bounce between Affinity Photo and Designer to do what I can in Photoshop alone. Unless they update to include something that is quite fundamental, I'm gonna keep looking.