Affinity Photo 1.5 thoughts as Photoshop alternative

[robfilms]

bik wrote:
[quote=robfilms]
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i wonder if the affinity photo saved format can be opened by adobe products if i ever needed to share my workflow with an adobe user.

anyone have any thoughts?
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The native Affinity Photo .afphoto format cannot be opened by Photoshop CC.

But Affinity does open and export to PSD, so there's that. I'm not sure if you lose any Affinity features when you export to PSD, but all the basics certainly come across.
bik-

knowing that affinity can export to psd is very helpful.

i am almost sold

thumbs up ;-)

be well.

rob

[JoeM]

jdc wrote:
[quote=JoeM]
[quote=jdc]
...And CMYK is outdated, no one should be doing that anymore.

jdc, can you explain further? We still regularly get specs for ad submission and trade show banners and graphics that require submission in CMYK. I realize RGB can be converted, is that what you are referring to?
Maybe I should calrify, and say no one should be converting images in PS to CMYK

Assuming that like the rest of the world, you submit files via PDF -- the process (the algorithim?) used to make RGB photos to CMYK in Photoshop is the same as every other Adobe application.

So:
Photoshop file >> RGB to CMYK >> Save -- then place the file in ID or AI to make your PDF

is the same as

ID/Ai filled with RGB images >> export to CMYK PDF >> where ID/Ai handles the RGB to CMYK conversion

I design 11 "luxury home" magazines across the country with hundreds of photos -- if I saved them as CMYK tiffs i would need TBs and TBs of storage. But as RGB high quality Jpgs its fraction of the space. And we print with 400 DPI line screens -- never an isseu..
Ah, gotcha. Good point. In the case of my trade show walls and signage, my vendor asks for my layered .PSD in CMYK rather than a PDF so conversion is still required in those cases.