Quote Originally Posted by mwenz View Post
XDP cannot hold a candle to PS for serious editing.
PS is still the best Bitmap editor and I use it for the most photo work I need. Affinity Photo is still a competitor to PS, but there are still missing functions. Gimp is a good tool but missis prof. colormanagement.
For Vektor-Things I use mostly Xara.
Logo-Development – Xara.
Vektor-Art - Xara, AI, SerifDraw, CDR, Inkscape and Affinity Designer.
Books and brochures – Indesign, PagePlus, TangoSolo or Viva-Designer and sometimes, if a client this wish, Scribus.
Flyer, banner and all other Print-Things where is no need for exact colors and masterpages is Xara my tool of choice.
Finaly not forget Acrobat Pro. Only with it is a softproofing for Print-Pdf possible.

All in all I use Xara cca. 60% for all my daily designer work. The most pleased with Xara I'm with it possibility to do the most work in one aplication.
Some little helpers like „replace Font with”, the „Styles” and many others are great time savers.