

So, as a photographer, your preference should be determined by how and what you intend to shoot. Affinity Photo is much newer, developed by Serif in 2009 and launched in 2015. It’s color profile catalog also provides some additional perks that Ted addresses towards the end.

Lightroom is also a highly capable software but, it is apparently not designed with such a narrow focus.

That is to ask, what kinds of imagery is the software best suite to edit? This, in turn, determines the approach to how the software interprets the data in images.īoth Capture One and Lightroom have to utilize a point of reference for color rendition, however, Capture One seems to have a broader library of colors from which draw upon.Ĭapture one seems better suited to reproduce the gradual changes in color, which makes sense since it is a software developed for Phase One medium format cameras cameras used for highly detailed imagery. What it ultimately comes down to is the intended purpose of the software. There are three aspects of image creation process to consider when trying to understand this: That apps were comparing are Lightroom, Affinity Photo, Pixelmator Photo, RAW Power, and Darkroom, and in this video were looking at the features these.
