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Nov 10, 2016 Affinity Photo was released over a year ago on Mac OS X. Its success on the App Store definitely shows how great the software truly is.
Affinity Photo was released over a year ago on Mac OS X. Its success on the App Store definitely shows how great the software truly is. It is also proof that people are looking at different options than the traditional Adobe workflow. Until now, one thing refrained many: Affinity Photo was available only on the Apple platform. But today is a new day and the software is now Windows compatible.
Affinity Photo is made available in beta version for Windows and includes all the features of the Mac build up to the 1.5 release. It makes it all the more interesting because a few very useful features were left out until now and made the transition from Photoshop quite difficult for professionals needing a fast workflow. The 1.5 version includes Macros (an equivalent to Photoshop’s actions), Focus Stacking, advanced HDR merging in 32 bits, batch processing, as well as a new way to edit 360-degree images. So the app is catching up on some features it was lacking and even adds new possibilities.
Personal Experience
You probably wonder how good the Windows version is, how it stacks up against Photoshop and the Mac app, or just how stable it is. Well, I have been lucky enough to have access to the beta for the past few days, and I must admit, it’s more than decent! It’s even better than many apps that are not described as beta or RC builds.
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The macro tool proves to be quite useful. It is something I was missing in previous Affinity Photo releases. I heavily rely on actions and scripts in Photoshop, and couldn’t live without them to keep my workflow as fast and efficient as possible. Macros are a good start, but it isn’t as powerful as Photoshop’s scripts or even actions. The tool was made very simple and accessible. No condition possible, no breakpoint, or anything like that. Hopefully, this will come down the road, but at least, now, there is a way of speeding things up.
The batch processing tool is very close to what is found in Photoshop. You can choose the output format, the color profile, and a macro that you want to apply. It makes exporting a list of files very easy and convenient.
Regarding the other new options, I will let you be the judge as these are not features that I am used to enough to say if they work well or not. The 360-degree image editing is surely something impressing, though!
In terms of stability and speed, the build I had was very decent like I said above. The speed is very much comparable to the Mac release that I am used to. Meaning it is incredibly fast. How fast? For most things, I would say faster than Photoshop even though CC 2017 is getting better in that regard. As far as stability goes, this is still a beta version. I didn’t find many bugs and the software didn’t crash on me more than once (which might actually be my fault), so it is usable and not just for testing purposes. Keep in mind it is a beta for now, and that stability may be an issue in some circumstances, so don’t get mad if the app freezes or loses some data.
Can it Replace Photoshop?
The interface is very intuitive and is close to enough to Photoshop that you don't have to learn a new software from the start. There are a few shortcuts that are not exactly similar, but it's not always a bad thing to change our customs. The app even offers a few functionalities that will simplify the life of many – the built-in frequency separation and the real-time blending modes are two of them. I have used Affinity Photo since its launch on a regular basis for specific tasks because for some jobs it just performs better and faster. I haven't made the switch yet because the scripts I heavily rely on cannot be used in Affinity, and the new macro feature is not powerful enough for me. However, for most users, Affinity Photo will be more than sufficient, for a price lower than Photoshop. So can it replace it? If you don't need all the fancy advanced features of Photoshop that only a few really use, then surely yes it can.
I am extremely happy to write this article today. We finally have an alternative to Photoshop, one that works on both OS X and Windows and that offers almost as many features as Adobe’s software. Best of all, the pricing makes it very attractive for beginners and amateurs that simply cannot justify a monthly fee. Affinity Photo is $49.99 for Mac and will cost the same on Windows. That is just a little over five months of subscriptions for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
What do you guys think about this news, are you as excited as I am? Every time I wrote about Affinity Photo on Fstoppers, people complained that there was no Windows version. Now that there is, I am curious to know how many of you will give this a try. With a possibly faster-growing community with this new market opening, the software will most likely evolve faster as well and thus bring even more exciting features. I cannot wait to see what the next releases will bring to the table and how it will compare to Photoshop in about a year.
For more information head over to Affinity Photo's website and if you'd like to give it a try on Windows, sign up for the beta.
How do you set processor affinity in Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro?I know in Windows you could just switch it in Task Manager.
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OS X has supported a thread affinity API since version 10.5. Here is some relevant material from the webpage I linked to.
Affinity Set
An affinity set is a collection of threads which share memory resources and wish to share an L2 cache. Distinct affinity sets represent separate affinities—that is, threads belonging to a different set should use a separate L2 cache and hence be run on a different logical processors.
An affinity set is identified by a 'tag'. Threads are assigned to a particular affinity set by assigning it the tag identifying that set. A thread can belong to at most one affinity set; that is, it has one affinity tag.
Effect of Setting Distinct Affinity Tags
For example, an application wanting to run 2 threads on separate L2 caches would set the threads with different affinity tags. On a dual core machine, this affinity will effectively be ignored. However, on a 4-core MacPro, the scheduler will try to run threads on separate packages. Similarly, on an 8-core MacPro, the scheduler will try to run these threads on separate dies (which may or may not be in the same physical CPU package).
Example Usage
An application that wants to place a thread on every available processor would do the following:
- Obtain the number of processors on the system using sysctl(3).
- Create that number of threads.
- Set each thread with a distinct affinity tag.
- Start all threads.
Threads with default affinity policy will be scheduled more freely on any processor. These threads will be preferentially migrated to run on an idle processor. Threads with affinity tags will tend to remain in place.
Consult the source for code listings, and information about the sharing of affinity tags between parent and child processes, obtaining the CPU cache configuration, and more.
Mac OS X does not export interfaces that identify processors or control thread placement—explicit thread to processor binding is not supported. Instead, the kernel manages all thread placement. Applications expect that the scheduler will, under most circumstances, run its threads using a good processor placement with respect to cache affinity.
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Until now, the XNU (1504.3.12) scheduler doesn't implement processor affinity for processes nor threads.
So MacOSX doesn't provide any means to do that.
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From http://images.apple.com/macosx/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Users_TB_July2011.pdf
• Efficient kernel threads. Each POSIX thread is queued onto a particular CPU, improving processor affinity and scalability while reducing lock contention. Threads conform to POSIX (1c), including support for cancellation and shared mutexes.
It looks like ad to me, my iMac running Lion looks to respect that most of the time, but it do not 'pin'a process to a core.
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I could not find any API to control process affinity for darwin anyway.