Exploring Photoshop Alternatives, with Aaron Nace of Phlearn.com

Never before have we had as many amazing photo processing software choices as we have today. Photoshop remains the 300-pound gorilla, and very much the industry standard. However, many photographers simply do not like Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription model and have been searching for alternatives.

In this interview, Aaron Nace, founder of the amazing Photoshop training site Phlearn joins us to discuss some Photoshop alternatives. Aaron also demonstrates how he would accomplish the same photo editing task, in different applications.

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[judywright]

Thank you for a fair and balanced comparison of the two programs. I realize this could be a whole series, but for a quick look, I think it will be helpful for someone trying to decide between the two programs. In the last year I have changed over from LR/PS to Capture One and Affinity Photo, mostly because I disliked being forced into renting my software.


As always, kudos to Aaron, who is a phenomenal instructor!

[CultureAgent]

You can customise the program to have two rows of tools with colour tool underneath, then you have more or less the same user interface as Photoshop. Affinity's blending tools are incredibly good too. Blend If in the form of graphs.

[Teguvas]

A combo of Affinity Photo and DXO Photolab does it for me

[stevenmuncy]

Great show. It would be great to have Aaron compare some of the open source programs to photoshop.

[chepo]

Hello. Affinity Designer is Illustrator's doppelganger. Affinity Publisher is what Adobe InDesign is for.

[ItsWillLee]

If an image was developed / processed by any of the modern programs available today, such as C1 / Affinity Photo / DxO Photolab /etc, nobody would be able to distinguish which was used. Any of these software programs can do all and some of them even "better" than what PS/LR can.
I use Affinity Photo, DxO PhotoLab + Nik Collection, each has its own strong points and they all work well with each other. DxO PhotoLab optics correction is probably the industry best and they have a very good RAW processing workspace, I can then send it to Nik or Affinity depending on my intent, or sometime I'll Develop my RAW file in Affinity first, depending on what mood I'm in LOL.
I like this workflow, as I can do everything I need & want with any image using very powerful and purpose intent software like Nik Collection...which IMHO is probably the most powerful yet underrated or appreciated photo editing program today...and Nik has been around for quite some time.