LUMINAR 3 UPGRADE SOFTWARE
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if they want to take their time to fine tune their product range before looking into providing us with a DAM facility, I'll be more than happy to wait and will probably look into it (with the intention to purchase) when they do so.īought Luminar 3, another remarkable piece of software, which in several areas seems to be ahead of AP (in my opinion) AND it comes with a rather workable DAM. Would think of myself as a semi-professional photographer with several years experience and as mentioned, cannot believe how good AP really is. into this 'yearly license' malarkey, so however good their products may be. Really object to being manipulated by Messrs Adobe & Co. I have been a delighted Affinity user from the day it came into the UK market (and GIMP previously). Since their goal for the Affinity DAM app is to work seamlessly with the other apps in the suite, it would not have been very practical to work on it until all three of the others were production-ready & included the v1.7 improvements (which among other things requires changes to the native Affinity file format).

The 'under the hood' work has largely been completed & incorporated into the three beta apps, but there is still work to be done before any of them are ready for production use. (See the beta forums for more about that).

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They realized some time ago that they needed to refactor a considerable amount of the core 'under the hood' code to implement some of the improvements they already had planned to add to the apps (like the items on the roadmaps) & to optimize it for future improvements. It is just that they are currently focused on improvements to Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo, & bringing the much anticipated Affinity Publisher app to market, which is still in beta & needs more work before they say it will be suitable for production use. They seem to feel it's not something they want to tackle or the market is too crowded as to make it unable for them to compete. Good luck! Let us know if you found something worthy of consideration. They are from several segments of the market, in no particular order : I have not tried many of these, but my search continues.Ī few choices in this crowded group then would be sprinkled from one of the many current, feature-packed, standalone DAM apps, while keeping AP (Affinity Photo) as the image processor (as opposed to dumping it or starting over with the above) of choice.

There several web locations that you can review and narrow your search. Read expensive for smaller organizations.

LUMINAR 3 UPGRADE SOFTWARE

Some DAM software is open source, some is designed for large media management users - corporate, high volume users like media outlets (TV news) and other media banks. In some cases the library functions can be further defined as tools for data management, ingest control, preprocessors, media browsing. Maybe something to that as I discovered several worthy apps in both a combo and standalone app. I would have hoped that Affinity would have (should've?) done so by now. Luminar sounds like it's worth a look, perhaps similar to On which is also a combo (a la Adobe Lightroom CC) app.

It's been three years and no Library Management or DAM.

Affinity Photo - as far as I'm aware - will remain as a photo editing app primarily without library/management functions. There's plans to develop a DAM (digital assets management software) as an independent application that will work seamlessly with the rest of the Affinity Suite but we are still far away from there.

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