While Photoshop and Capture One are still the most popular choices for retouching work, in the past few years, several alternative programs have made major advancements, giving photographers quite a few viable alternatives. One such program is Affinity Photo, and this excellent video tutorial will show you a complete portrait retouching workflow in the application.
Coming to you from Kayleigh June, this awesome video tutorial will show you a complete portrait retouching workflow in Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo was one of the first major challengers to Photoshop, and it has evolved into an impressively full-featured application in the last few years. When I got tired of waiting for a decently complete version of Photoshop for iPad a few years ago, I bought a copy, and I have not looked back since. It is a powerful editor and is intuitively constructed and easy to use, and having it allows me to leave my laptop at home and edit on my iPad wherever and whenever I please. And of course, the thing Adobe users will love most is that it is a one-time purchase instead of a subscription. It has served my needs quite well. Check out the video above for the full rundown from June.
I originally bought affinity photo because it went on sale and I wanted to see if I could have a secondary software to use for retouching. I gave Affinity photo a couple tries over the course of a year or so and it never really clicked until I finally put in the effort to learn the program because i had gotten fed up with how slow photoshop and lightroom became. I never thought any one would release a software that could match let alone exceed photoshops retouching capabilities but affinity photo did it. I have capture one as well but i feel like it's retouching tools are kind of clunky and not as effective so i primarily use it for editing color and exposure at the raw level of an image. Affinity photo far outshines photo shop with how i use it to retouch. Retouching is so much easier and faster for me in affinity photo. Now I just need to learn affinity designer so I can drop illustrator.
So nice to see a tutorial, done in another program than Photoshop or Lightroom.
You should show more of them.