
Much of Affinity Photo mirrors the design of Photoshop.While some people reading this article may say “I don’t find Affinity Photo confusing” I suspect many will. But if you know Photoshop, it may speed up your learning, but also leave you a little frustrated at times. If you don’t know how to use Photoshop, you will probably find it slow to learn initially. Whilst many enthusiastic Affinity Photo users may tell you that it’s easier to learn than Photoshop, I would say that it’s probably similar in difficulty. That said, without this initial Photoshop knowledge I would probably have experienced a similarly steep learning curve as I did with Photoshop. Usually, things that I knew how to do in Photoshop didn’t seem to work as I thought they would in Affinity Photo. This allowed me to quickly understand many of the Affinity Photo tools, but at the same time it caused me lot of frustration.



When I first looked at Affinity Photo, I’d already been using Photoshop for some 15 years and I knew it inside out.
