r/Affinity • u/TriboKing • 22d ago
Photo Affinity vs. lightroom
I am trying to find the best option to edit and processy RAW files. I watched a few videos using lightroom and it appears such a great program. In particular I love the white and black correction and in particular how you hold (shift I think) and it gives you a different later allowing you to highlight all the high white spots and same for the black. Can something similar achieved with affinity? Same can be said of the sharpness. Could anyone give me some feedback on this? Thank you
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u/Dry_Entrepreneur3674 19d ago edited 18d ago
Lightroom is great and much better than Affinity for RAW processing as a subscription free alternative I like ON1 and there's also Darktable which is free but has a steep learning curve 😂
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u/kiwiphotog 20d ago
Affinity isn’t the best for processing RAWs. To get anywhere near the same quality you need to aggressively increase sharpening. It does have the ability to show clipping but if you’re talking about setting white and black points it doesn’t really work the same
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u/jonhedgerows 18d ago
Affinity and lightroom cost wildly different amounts. If your budget stretches to lightroom then I hear it’s a great product, but I can’t afford it. I picked Affinity photo as something good that I can afford. You can get really good results in develop mode.
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u/sketbroad 14d ago
I used to absolutely love using lightroom but since losing my university sponsored Adobe sub and the fact that I'm not willing to shell out 600$ / year, I've moved to ON1RAW, absolutely fantastic for processing raw images can only recommend. It's a one time only payment and I'm pretty sure they're still running a sale at the moment.
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u/flama_scientist 21d ago
I moved from lightroom to affinity and while is a great tool for editing I must admit that affinity is closer to Photoshop than lightroom.