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Steve Caplin

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Apr 28, 2026

8:03
You know, what is it we're here to talk about?
8:05
Okay.
8:06
Well, uh, there's a small, um, company in the UK called Serif who have been making design software for quite a long time, and about 10 years ago they came out with a product that they called Affinity Photo, which is to all intemp- all intents and purposes Photoshop.
8:24
It's extraordinary.
8:25
Um, it does maybe 80% of what Photoshop could do, but it does a lot of it very much better.
8:33
So Photoshop has been going for decades, and they have such a, a legacy of, of old code, they cannot simply rewrite everything.
8:46
Um, so a lot of the filters in Photoshop, particularly the, what used to be called the gallery effects filters, they came out in 2003 and have not been updated since.
11:44
Yeah.

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