(there by creating a reasonable path from Adobe)

I would love for Serif to partner with Capture One to recreate the tight LR/PS linking and to create a proper DAM. Photographers that are using the LR/PS pairing don't have a reasonable path out of the Adobe ecosystem. So, Serif will have to create, 1) a lightroom clone, or 3) a DAM that works with most of the RAW Developers apps out there.

(That is not what Affinity Photo was designed to do) There is absolutely no way that a photographer shooting hundreds or sometimes thousands of images during a shoot can use Affinity Photo as a primary RAW developer. I use C1P to develop the majority of my RAW images and when I need to do more to photo or group of photos, then I will add Affinity Photo to the mix. If I had a much more comprehensive list of file types I was using then a proper DAM would be sorely needed.

My digital asset library is 99.9% photos so managing them in C1P and Finder is not a major issue. I ditched Adobe years ago for Affinity Products and Capture One Pro, and I am quite happy with with the transition. I seriously doubt that Serif is going to produce the two products necessary to replace LR, 1) a DAM, and 2) a RAW Photo Developer. At any rate, some acknowledgement from Affinity management would be a proper courtesy to its customers and fan base. It would be nice to have the entire photo workflow go through Affinity software as it would be a seamless process instead of using software from multiple manufacturers. I agree with some of the comments on here that the lack of a DAM prevents many from committing entirely to Affinity products. Many people, including myself, have postponed investments in other DAM software in the hopes that Affinity would produce something, but people cannot wait forever. I understand that Affinity would like to avoid being tied to a release date, but it would be nice to get updates on occasion as to what they are doing. However, after five years and no product, one has to wonder how committed they are to making a DAM. Then they announced that they definitely were making a DAM. Then they recanted and said they were not. Affinity announced about five or six years ago that they were making a DAM.

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