But just what does the program have to offer?įrom the very start, Affinity Photos makes it clear that it is a serious tool designed with professional photographers - or anyone who demands a lot of their image editor. Not only is Affinity Photo a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, you need only make a one-time purchase of a license: there's no need to worry about an on-going subscription. The vast majority of editors fall well short of Photoshop in any one of a number of areas, but with Affinity Photo, Serif seems to have been able to strike an amazing balance between offering professional-level editing tools and producing a piece of software that it not only approachable in terms of ease of use, but also in terms of price. It is natural for any photo editing program to be compared with Photoshop Adobe's stalwart is the benchmark by which other tools are measured.