Now if you want to carry this discussion one step further Serif also desperately needs to create a tool to effectively manage: brushes, macros, styles, overlays, presets, etc.
If Serif wants the Affinity apps to be truly usable by pros, then a full featured DAM is the price of entry. There are a number of 3rd party DAMs for graphics elements that don't play well with Affinity's tools. There is no way to manage that many photos without a DAM, the same is true of graphics elements. I personally have several hundred thousand photographic images and untold numbers of graphic elements, my collection(s) are not large by any stretch. Affinity's DAM "Affinity Asset" would be a welcome addition to the Affinity family of apps.
I would be happy with a Studio Link DAM for graphic assets used by all of the affinity apps (I have not changed my position on that subject). Neither LR nor C1P would not be usable without the DAM functionality.
Adobe Camera Raw is shared by both PS and LR and it is what makes round tripping between the two application far superior to AP and other Raw Converters. First of all Lightroom is NOT a DAM, it is RAW Converter/Developer (with built in DAM functionality, just like C1P) and it is a wildly popular application. So which is it? Do you want a separate DAM program with Studio Link or not? Heck, why is it that Photoshop is vastly more popular than Lightroom despite the latter being a DAM? I rest my case.īesides, first you said you agreed that a separate program using Studio Link would be sufficient for a DAM program in the Affinity Suite, but now you try to argue against that very thing which harrym supported. You just have to check the vast majority of Photoshop tutorials to see that the focus is not about using Camera Raw which is Photoshop's equivalent of the Develop Persona in Photo. I won't deny that it it is very important to have the feature and that it remains well supported for photography use, but don't go on and assume that the majority uses it when that frankly isn't true at all. It's as absurd as saying Camera Raw is the core of Photoshop. Heck, even a lot of photographers likely use the Photo Persona more than the Develop Persona. The vast majority of editing work is done there for the vast majority of users who are not photographers, but photo manipulators and artists. So if it is selfish or not is quite frankly inconsequential.įunny, I always thought the Photo Persona was the core of Photo. However, it really doesn't matter if any of us here are selfish since it is frankly natural to have your own best interests at heart. You can argue as much as you like if it is selfish or not, but that argument could be applied to you just as well by wanting to force something on to people that they don't want. So which is it? Do you want a separate DAM program with StudioLink or not? Heck, why is it that Photoshop is vastly more popular than Lightroom despite the latter being a DAM? I rest my case.īesides, first you said you agreed that a separate program using StudioLink would be sufficient for a DAM program in the Affinity Suite, but now you try to argue against that very thing which harrym supported. You just have to check the vast majority of Photoshop tutorials to see that the focus is not about using Camera Raw which is Photoshop's equivalent to the Develop Persona in Photo.
A small fraction of users not wanting this functionality because they don’t use the “Develop” module, the core component of AP, is frankly selfish and inconsequential.įunny, I always thought the Photo Persona was the core of Photo. ^^^ The fact remains that the majority of users would benefit tremendously from a DAM.