[Leica] Anybody heard of Affinity!

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

One of the things that I find much easier to do in Lightroom than 
Photoshop is a gradient dodge. You can define a gradient and specify the 
amount of dodging/burning along that gradient. You can do it in PS, but 
it's much much more tedious. I often need to do a gradient dodge 
whenever I take portraits in a situation where I don't control the light.

One of the things that I find much easier to do in Photoshop than 
Lightroom is graceful removal of skin blemishes in close-up portraits. 
Photoshop has more tools for noise and blemish removal and they are less 
automatic, so I have more control over them.

I really really really hate the Lightroom printer interface. When I am 
ready to print an image I typically export it to Photoshop and print 
from there. I would also like to garrote the person who designed the 
Lightroom cropping rectangle user interface.

I keep all of my images in Lightroom and go out to Photoshop when I 
think I need to. The way that I will try out Affinity will be to call it 
from Lightroom.

Brian Reid