[xs]

Been using Affinity Photo for a year now. I love it. I feel confident with the tool and can make some pretty cool things. No other tool has made me feel that way. I've spent 10 years on and off using gimp and photoshop. Never could get it. I tried Krita and Pixlr. They were buggy and had shortcomings. Affinity Photo has a great price and absolutely rocks.

One thing I still think is clunky though is the Color Picker Tool. I have to select my paint brush, then click and drag the color picker to the color I want, then click the color I want again to get it on my paint brush. I think other tools simply let me hold alt+click on the color to get that color on my brush. But Affinity is like a 5 step deal which slows me down a lot.

[brianpgordon]

I'm a Photo (and Designer) user too, just for casual use. The only features I really miss from GIMP are animated gif editing, a "crop to selection" function, and to a lesser extent a click-and-drag perspective transform. The Affinity forums have helpful information for working around missing features, but it seems like some people there have a weirdly defensive attitude about how there are good reasons for every missing thing...

Designer was a bigger win for me because I've always found the Inkscape UI baffling.