With people stuck indoors some Photo Editing Software providers are currently offering versions of their programs free or at discount rates to entice new users to their platform, perhaps also recognising customers disenchantment with Adobe's move to a subscription/rental model. I've just taken advantage of the following offers from a couple of well known providers :

1) Luminar 3 by Skylum ( Free). The current version is 4 and comments on the photography forum I'm on seem to show a preference for the free version 3.

2) Aurora HDR 2018 by Skylum ( Free). Link is through UK Amateur Photographer as follows - www.skylum.com/ap-aurora.

3) Affinity Photo by Serif ( 50% off to $25).

All the above are available for Windows and Mac. Whilst no one can argue Photoshop is the most fully featured software it comes at a hefty ongoing price, and these should satisfy most enthusiastic amateurs needs. Plenty of short youtube videos giving an overview of each one if yoh are interested.

Cheers for that can any of the applications you linked do be used for something like this ? I know that photoshop can but as you say it is expensive and has for more bells and whistles than i need,

^^ Aurora HDR for extra Hi Viz Fuzz.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:35 pm
PS; doubt any of those free versions allow you to work in layers

Indeed they do.

can any of them do something like this ?