Affinity Photo vs. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

For single-person teams or very small teams, I think Affinity Photo is great as it has a one-off cost and no ongoing subscriptions. If people are familiar with the Adobe products it might take a period of adjusting to Affinity Photo. It might also be overkill for some people's needs. But it does offer everything and room to grow. So weighing up what you need to do with photos and seeing if it fits is important.

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It is a perfect suite of applications to finish presentations and create beautiful layouts for design. It is very useful both for graphic design and for architecture design when you want to draw a realistic idea of a project without being a rendering or when you need to present both images and vectorial drawings.

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• It integrates with the other Affinity products really well.
• Able to edit files that have been made in photoshop.
• Good range of tools to touch up photos when needed.

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• Easy to learn - especially if you have experience with other graphic software. It is fairly intuitive which is helpful.
• Creating high resolution graphics is a breeze with this software - and it has the ability to export into a large variety of formats!
• I am able to import a wide variety of file formats. I have also had success with importing and editing PDF files which has been helpful.

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• Performance was a bit slow. But this seems to have been improved with updates.
• More video tutorials would be great.

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• The bitmap edit feature to edit images. The pop out is clunky and with it was a bit more integrated.
• Trace - Would love to see this strengthened. We love to scan in hand drawn things to turn to vector and would love to see the accuracy increased.

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Just like any design program or suite, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't do graphic design professionally. If you're not adept at learning a program or experience, it isn't a program you can just pick up and start using easily. Outside of the learning curve, it's a nice program with a decent user interface.

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Overall, CorelDRAW meets all my needs as a researcher and allows me to create beautiful and clear graphics to illustrate the main ideas for publications. It does not lack any functionality for my needs; however, it has some bugs that impact productivity, such as the color drag and drop that sometimes stops working and needs restarting, and crashes, especially when working with large bitmaps.

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I think Affinity Photo is on par with Adobe PhotoShop. They are very similar products with both bringing many features users need. The main reason I picked Affinity Photo was its pricing of it. I didn't require Adobe products all the time. And felt they weren't offering me as much value.

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Although other softwares are good in there field but CorelDRAW is very good when it come to ease of making the designs. We can create designs in it very quickly and efficiently and also it us Avery easy software to learn, anyone can pick it up at good pace. Also it is more widely used by vendors here for printing, so its a better choice.

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• It's been great knowing I have a tool ready to do intensive work if required on photos.
• Gives me the ability to be more creative with my photos.

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• Ease of use reflects on less time to train new users, a positive impact in investment and productivity.
• The practicality to make new designs results in less time needed to do them, again a positive impact.
• The integration with other graphic programs could be better if needed to finish a rendering using the design made in Corel Draw it's needed to export in formats that don't carry all information and the process is not that simple.

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