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I bought Affinity and have tried to use it but really don’t find it anything like equivalent to the Adobe products unfortunately.

For color correction of photographs, PhotoPea does a much better job than Affinity I feel.

After wasting 15 or 30 minutes trying to get Affinity to work for a photo touchup and color correction, I give up and use PhotoPea.

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Affinity has really sophisticated colour editing controls.

For example you can apply adjustment layers and then use a blend curve (not just blend ranges) to moderate it. So if you want warmer shadows, it's as easy as using a colour temperature adjustment to warm up your image and then adjusting the curve so that it doesn't apply where you don't want it.

And you have cross-model curves: you can apply Lab curves to RGB model images without converting.

It has a Capture-One-style HSL wheel. It supports LUTs (and LUT inference!)

I can think of some things Photoshop does that Affinity Photo does not, but I've been using it nine years now for my photography and web work (along with Designer). I think for almost every normal Photoshop user[0] there's no reason not to use Affinity Photo instead.

[0] Unless you're particularly wedded to Lightroom, for which there is no Affinity alternative.