If one has already decided that they are no using the industry-standard Photoshop, then what would be the advantage to using Affinity instead of Gimp, which has the price and community advantage?
Have you tried Gimp's single-window mode? I'm not familiar with Photoshop but I hated Gimp's old windowed interface. Single-window is what made it usable by me, and in fact I don't see how the UI could now be any better considering what it does.
As for commercial support, with the notable exceptions of Amazon and Rackspace, I cannot think of any commercial support that has been worth anything more than a good FAQ documentation would be. Can one really ask beginner questions on their commercial support, like one could do in a forum with a large user base?
According to Wikipedia, it has not been updated since 2006. Gimp has improved a lot since then.
Also, this:
>In a March 2014 discussion,[9] Moschella states:
>I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.
>I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity. Gimpshop was a fun little 'prank' that got bigger than I ever expected. Sad what it has become, though.
If one has already decided that they are no using the industry-standard Photoshop, then what would be the advantage to using Affinity instead of Gimp, which has the price and community advantage?