But, to avoid confusion, I should add that this is all for image editing and illustration, publication work. Otherwise, while there is a learning curve, I believe that Affinity Photo is the only editor that can replace Photoshop, and the fact that they have a feature parity app for iPad that uses the same files, and the Serif Affinity inter-app compatability, in my opinion, put them years ahead of the competition.
Even now I am paying for Lightroom, despite not installing it for four years now, because the Photoshop/Lightroom subscription is cheaper than Photoshop alone. If Affinity Photo can use this plugin, or use the Photoshop plugin at some point, I will stop my yearly Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom subscription. From both Capture One Pro and Photoshop, when I’m ready to export a JPEG, I just hit the JPEGmini button, or build it into my Capture One Pro export recipe, and it gives me a high-quality JPEG file with just the right amount of compression applied for web use, etc. I am using Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop for some things at the moment, but for me, it falls apart because there is no JPEGmini plugin for Affinity Photo and Affinity do not yet support these Photoshop plugins. I didn’t expect them to implement Luminosity Masking, so let’s keep our fingers crossed that I am. I have no inside information on the future of Capture One Pro, so this is purely my personal opinion, but at this point, based on the trends I’ve seen over the years, I don’t think we’ll see things like focus stacking and exposure blending any time soon, but I would love to be wrong. Capture One Pro tethering is one click to connect, and I’ve never known it to fail. It takes many more steps to set up and then can freeze the camera up etc. Even the Canon tethering software is clunky and not very stable. I don’t do it often enough, but when I do, it’s a solid feature that is in my opinion without rival.
Shooting tethered in Capture One Pro is a huge benefit, and one that I think is often overlooked. If your workflow is working for you, that’s all that matters, and I understand, because I did miss the ability to keep more images in a larger catalog when I used Lightroom, but I got used to working with my yearly folders and my separate Finals catalog for all of my selects from over the years. Often to my detriment, I’m either in, or out. I personally wouldn’t be able to work between two applications as you do, simply from a personal character/trait perspective.
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