That’s true. I guess I never need scripts when drawing / painting. But when I’m photo editing I need scripts all the time. I realize I sounded negative on Affinity Photo. But I own a license and I use it for a lot of print work. But when I batch export output I need still need Photoshop.
Affinity Photo is great, but it's really focused on photo editing and not really painting / drawing. Also, it feels like Affinity Designer, their Illustrator competitor, has most of their attention. Affinity's biggest weakness is lack of scripting support. Think of how many handy Photoshop scripts and plugins you've used.…
To be fair, CSP and the others are gonna have the same weakness. Krita's latest release, 4.0.1, is the one going in the scripting direction. It let's you use PyQT to do a lot of things like custom dockers, colour pickers, a comic book project manager etc.
i'd go with whatever alternative there is that feels best for sketching and for photo editing team it up with affinity which follows the old fashioned one-time license purchase (for major versions) and so far is very modestly priced. and the closest i've seen to photoshop in terms of workflow, interface, toolset. i've…