Originally Posted by
martiansea
Another satisfied Affinity user here! Totally replaces PS for trifling things like retouching. I do my retouching on a separate layer, always.
Can export to PS files as well, if you're in a situation where you need to send out to a printer or whoever that's still in the throes of Adobe slavery. Also, I've had no big troubles with opening my old PS files, though I found that having functions like Levels as live filters on separate layers often won't have the settings you previously used. Whether this matters to you depends on your workflow, I suppose. Not a big deal to me, because with levels it's easy to re-find the settings, since it's a largely mechanical function to set the black and white points of the scan (this is pretty much the only time I use Levels). And you lose the "Smart Object" if you had been working in PS that way, which is kind of a bummer, but no huge loss to me, since I relied on that for being able to go back and tweak Camera Raw settings, but since I now use Dxo PhotoLab for raw, that's not an issue. If you did all your PS editing work destructively, opening your old files should be painless.
I had some big big PS files of photomontage with hundreds of raster layers, and they opened just fine in Affinity.
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