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Amazing content aware tools with affinity photo

Robert Watcher

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Yes Photoshop has Content Aware tools - but I really like the Inpainting Brush and Inpainting Fill tools available with Affinity Photo.



I threw together this video where I show real images being drastically improved in only a few seconds. Electric lines are easily replaced with sky, content is created where there was none, and great images of musicians performing are dramatically improved with a touch of the Inpainting Brush.

For some reason I have just never caught on to the content replacement tools in Photoshop. I'm sure the results are similar to what is being accomplished in Affinity Photo. I just find this program to be effortless and gives me a great head start to retouching - - - quickly.
 
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Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Robert,

Yes Photoshop has Content Aware tools - but I really like the Inpainting Brush and Inpainting Fill tools available with Affinity Photo.


In threw together this video where I show real images being drastically improved in only a few seconds. Electric lines are easily replaced with sky, content is created where there was none, and great images of musicians performing are dramatically improved with a touch of the Inpainting Brush.

For some reason I have just never caught on to the content replacement tools in Photoshop. I'm sure the results are similar to what is being accomplished in Affinity Photo. I just find this program to be effortless and gives me a great head start to retouching - - - quickly.
Thank you so for this report.

I look forward eagerly to the arrival of the public beta version of Affinity Photo for Windows. (As you know, I recently got involved, by mistake, with the public beta version of Affinity Designer - the sister "illustration program" - for Windows!)

Best regards,

Doug
 

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
Hi, Robert,


Thank you so for this report.

I look forward eagerly to the arrival of the public beta version of Affinity Photo for Windows. (As you know, I recently got involved, by mistake, with the public beta version of Affinity Designer - the sister "illustration program" - for Windows!)

Best regards,

Doug


I do graphic design work on occassion and thinking about adding Affinity Designer to my arsenal in the future. Going back to the 1990's I was a heavy user of Corel Draw with my PC Workstation. I did a lot of design work for companies during those years.

Over the past 8 or 9 years however, I have increasingly relied on my Macbooks to handle all of my heavy work. I just never had the inclination to spend the huge amount of money on Adobe Illustrator or to invest the time needed to learn a new program. And so for any graphic designer work I have had - I just worked within the limitations of Photoshop.

But to have a full fledged dedicated Design application from Affinity - at such a reasonable price - for my Mac ---- is getting very tempting.

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Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Robert,

I do graphic design work on occassion and thinking about adding Affinity Designer to my arsenal in the future. Going back to the 1990's I was a heavy user of Corel Draw with my PC Workstation. I did a lot of design work for companies during those years.

Over the past 8 or 9 years however, I have increasingly relied on my Macbooks to handle all of my heavy work. I just never had the inclination to spend the huge amount of money on Adobe Illustrator or to invest the time needed to learn a new program. And so for any graphic designer work I have had - I just worked within the limitations of Photoshop.

But to have a full fledged dedicated Design application from Affinity - at such a reasonable price - for my Mac ---- is getting very tempting.

Yes, and now that I have the Windows beta version of Affinity Designer installed, I plan to see what I can learn about it.

I use Corel Draw (the slightly-lesser of Corel's two "illustration" programs) for my "vector drawing" work, which is mostly what I might call "technical sketches".

I had for many years used Micrografx Designer (which was eventually absorbed by Corel), but various functionalities would no longer work properly under modern versions of Windows so I had to move on.

Best regards,

Doug
 
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