Image editing

Pixero

What is the difference between Affinity photo and designer? or why need both?

Designer is more like illustrator but have also pixel painting and editing. They are also working on a competitor to Adobe InDesign so then they will have a full suite of tools all sharing the same file format.
Another very cool thing is that Photo supports most photoshop plugins and can open and save psd files.
My only problem is that I have been working with Photoshop for so long that it will take a while to adapt to the differences.
We recently upgraded from CS6 to CC at work so it will be a mix of apps for me when working from home or the office.

JQL

@samnorth said:

@jql said:

Hit Relight before your render and save as EXR with all channels...

Sweet indeed - presumably this is just TR1/2??

nay,

you can use presto too, it's even more intuitive, go to channels and enable "pass per light" along with all the plaethora of other useful channels you'll need.

The beauty is that later, you can turn off all lighting and only re-render the lights you need. You can then replace your light channels on the final image. A single light pass is very fast to render and works very well with denoising too.

Take a look at this:

pilou

Price between them is like day / night! ( Aff / Toshop )