One-off payment photo editing software

[Greybeard]

I'm looking for a good photo editing software that isn't cloud-based and doesn't require a monthly subscription. In other words, one payment and I get the whole thing on my PC and/or mac.
Any recommendations?

 

[Ferrum]

Affinity is my choice. Available for PC, Mac and iPad/iOS.

 

[CjH]

I use open source software.
Gimp (=photoshop) (no comments about the name ‍♂️)
Rawtherapee (=light room)
Both completely free.

 

[Greybeard]

Affinity is my choice. Available for PC, Mac and iPad/iOS.

Just looked at that and it does look good!

 

[Greybeard]

I use open source software.
Gimp (=photoshop) (no comments about the name ‍♂)
Rawtherapee (=light room)
Both completely free.

Interesting...I think I'll try these before forking out actual dosh

 

[Jenks]

I use open source software.
Gimp (=photoshop) (no comments about the name ‍♂)
Rawtherapee (=light room)
Both completely free.

+1 on GIMP

 

[Ferrum]

Just looked at that and it does look good!

It has RAW editing and developing support, and I use it for two types of Leica files and Olympus ORFs. I also use Gimp and a couple of others, but personally I find them best for post-PP i.e making further edits, often much later.

 

[Greybeard]

Thanks for the great suggestions guys...I've downloaded Gimp and Rawtherapee...the interfaces look a little daunting but I'll get to understand some of the basics pretty quickly.

 

[riverrun]

GIMP
It's free. It runs on macOS and Linux (and elsewhere) and it has a built-in HTML image map editor. Not that anyone except me needs one.

 

[FrankieG]

Another GIMP user here

 

[mcgruff]

Yep. All Gimped up here too.

If you also need a vector drawing app take a look at Inkscape.

 

[wooky114]

Affinty Photo user here and if anyone is looking for a Serif discount, access the Photography Show offer for any of the Affinity desktop apps or the official Workbooks for £25 each until Sunday (27/09), just go to https://store.serif.com/checkout?code=Photo-Show-2020-VPS and remove the items they don't want.

For £25 Affinty is a bargain

 

[wooky114]

And as an example to show you power of Affinty Photo, this is worth a look

 

[Greybeard]

Affinty Photo user here and if anyone is looking for a Serif discount, access the Photography Show offer for any of the Affinity desktop apps or the official Workbooks for £25 each until Sunday (27/09), just go to https://store.serif.com/checkout?code=Photo-Show-2020-VPS and remove the items they don't want.

For £25 Affinty is a bargain

I just took your advice...that link is excellent...£25 for Affinity is far less than I was expecting to pay for a good photo editor package. Yesterday I had none and today I have 3. Thanks for the tip wooky

 

[Palmolive fox]

Gimp & Fotor cover all my photo editing needs.

 

[Ferrum]

I just took your advice...that link is excellent...£25 for Affinity is far less than I was expecting to pay for a good photo editor package. Yesterday I had none and today I have 3. Thanks for the tip wooky

I think you will find Affinity excellent, and at that price it's less than I paid for the very first release. All my photographs are RAW, or RAW+JPEG, and the RAW facilities in Affinity are very good, and I can work directly with RAW files before developing them and then saving them in the Affinity .afphoto format for further editing, and subsequent conversion to JPG, PNG or any one of the other 10 formats offered. Another newer and useful thing in Affinity is a reasonably wide-ranging set of lens profiles.

I have previously used Lightroom and Photoshop, and have tried some others like ON1, but, like yourself, I wanted something non-subscription, non-cloud/online and reasonably priced, but powerful, and fortunately Affinity launched at the time I intended to make the change. Anyway, have fun with your choices.