If you've recently switched to Affinity Studio from Adobe Photoshop and require a reliable generative AI, then you may be disappointed in the current implementation by Canva. Whilst I have no doubts that it will improve, from my own personal testing, it is not ready yet. Well, at least on the generative fill side, the AI masking works well. For the meantime we need a stop gap solution now that the cord to Adobe Photoshop has been cut. This is where the free and open source

I've been a casual observor of Linux for quite a few years but it's problem for me has always been that it doesn't have any pro level publishing and photography software. Well there is some good software in Inkscape, Gimp or Darktable but they always seem to have an important feature missing or a clunky workflow. With that in mind, great strides have been taken the last few years by devs out there to get the Affinity suite working on Linux using a Windows compatibility layer.