Photoshop has slowed right down
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I've just bought Affinity. It is brilliant. The only problem is that when I should be working on an image I end up playing with it.
The interface is better looking and easy to use. I've got Photoshop as well and the transfer of skills takes a bit of effort and in the end I had to get rid of PS.
One off price.
The interface is better looking and easy to use. I've got Photoshop as well and the transfer of skills takes a bit of effort and in the end I had to get rid of PS.
One off price.
Derek Smith said:
I've just bought Affinity. It is brilliant. The only problem is that when I should be working on an image I end up playing with it.
The interface is better looking and easy to use. I've got Photoshop as well and the transfer of skills takes a bit of effort and in the end I had to get rid of PS.
One off price.
I had the PS slowing down issue a while back. Took quite a while to get to the bottom of it but in the end I think an update fixed it. The interface is better looking and easy to use. I've got Photoshop as well and the transfer of skills takes a bit of effort and in the end I had to get rid of PS.
One off price.
Adobe are complacent and arrogant. It's probably time I took a look at alternatives so i'm installing the Affinity trial now.
OP - make sure you're up to date with your version if you haven't already found the cause.
FurtiveFreddy said:
I had the PS slowing down issue a while back. Took quite a while to get to the bottom of it but in the end I think an update fixed it.
Adobe are complacent and arrogant. It's probably time I took a look at alternatives so i'm installing the Affinity trial now.
OP - make sure you're up to date with your version if you haven't already found the cause.
There's lots of good stuff on YT which describes the systems. Not that different to PS but I have to think, not my strong suit. Adobe are complacent and arrogant. It's probably time I took a look at alternatives so i'm installing the Affinity trial now.
OP - make sure you're up to date with your version if you haven't already found the cause.
I had problems with Photoshop, small irritations rather than anything that would make me throw the computer out of the window. This was on W7. I tried it on 8 and there was no problem. Now I've got W10 it's the same as it always was, but a few months ago I had an offer on Affinity as a regular Serif customert. I used PhotoPlus, no longer available, and was happy with that, but once I got the hang of Affinity I was sold on it.
But as I say, it's all too easy to end up playing with it.
I've just had a quick play (without looking at any tutorials or help) and it looks pretty good for the money I must admit.
Like the way a PS user will be familiar with the tools straight away. Very useful to me is being able to edit a layer in a projection view, as I had to do that earlier today with PS and it took me a while to find the correct plug-ins and workflow as I hadn't done it for a couple of years.
It's a bit of a no-brainer at £38.99, so i'll probably just end up buying it and use it in parallel for a few weeks to make sure it handles all the stuff I usually do in PS.
Will be quite happy to cancel my Adobe subscription TBH...
Like the way a PS user will be familiar with the tools straight away. Very useful to me is being able to edit a layer in a projection view, as I had to do that earlier today with PS and it took me a while to find the correct plug-ins and workflow as I hadn't done it for a couple of years.
It's a bit of a no-brainer at £38.99, so i'll probably just end up buying it and use it in parallel for a few weeks to make sure it handles all the stuff I usually do in PS.
Will be quite happy to cancel my Adobe subscription TBH...
Affinity's very good and the price is great. I also hate renting software.
One thing I did find to be a problem with Affinity is text - it doesn't handle text very well, and no doubt other "objects" too. Their view is that you use Affinity Designer for that, which is fair enough but unnecessary in PS. And even though the price for both is less than PS used to be, having to switch between the two would annoying.
May not be an issue for most people, but I often add text annotations, make text follow a path etc on images.
OP - might also be worth considering Elements. PS is one of those bits of software that most people will only use 10% of the power of. It also has 1,000 ways to do everything. I've yet to find anything Elements can't do that I tend to need, it's not that expensive and Adobe don't yet force a subscription payment model for it.
One thing I did find to be a problem with Affinity is text - it doesn't handle text very well, and no doubt other "objects" too. Their view is that you use Affinity Designer for that, which is fair enough but unnecessary in PS. And even though the price for both is less than PS used to be, having to switch between the two would annoying.
May not be an issue for most people, but I often add text annotations, make text follow a path etc on images.
OP - might also be worth considering Elements. PS is one of those bits of software that most people will only use 10% of the power of. It also has 1,000 ways to do everything. I've yet to find anything Elements can't do that I tend to need, it's not that expensive and Adobe don't yet force a subscription payment model for it.
ReaderScars said:
If you have that issue with PS again, you might want to look into the Scratch Disks settings in PS 'Performance' preferences - maybe a HD is getting full, or PS needs more memory allocated in those settings. Or maybe you're not using a decrepit old version like I am.
After several years of 'using' CS3 I am starting to get this problem, I run CCleaner & hey presto, good to go again (forma while). PS I have no idea how to use CS3, I just brighten the odd pic or play around with WB & crop things!
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