Affinity Photo vs Adobe After Effects

Affinity Photo is a raster graphics editor developed by Serif (now owned by Canva) for professional photo editing, retouching, and compositing. Originally sold as a one-time purchase alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Affinity became completely free in 2025 following Canva's acquisition of Serif. The application supports RAW editing, HDR merge, focus stacking, and non-destructive adjustment layers.

Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics and visual effects application developed by Adobe Inc. for film, television, video, and web content production. It provides tools for compositing, animation, and creating visual effects including particle systems, 3D camera tracking, and rotoscoping. After Effects integrates with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications and supports third-party plugins.