Affinity Software?

[BoomerD]

I've never done any serious post-processing, played with photoshop about 20 years ago when I was taking some architecture classes, but that's it. Is the Affinity stuff worth delving into for a noob?

"The Australian design platform Canva bought Affinity's developer Serif last year, but it didn't change anything until this October. The Affinity website stopped sales, leading to a lot of speculation about what was coming.
Canva surprised a lot of people by making Adobe alternative Affinity free for all this week, and it quickly caused a stir among artists and designers. While some celebrate the appearance of a new free Photoshop alternative, others are wary and wonder what the catch is.

The new Affinity app combine the main tools and features from the previously separate programs Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. Those three apps used to cost up to as much as $70 each. The new desktop app combines their pixel, vector and layout tools in one place, and it's completely free. Has Christmas come early, or is it too good to be true?

The best Photoshop alternative just became 100% free

The new Affinity sounds too good to be true.

www.creativebloq.com

 

[IronWing]

I’ve used Affinity Photo and Designer on the PC for some time. I’m by no means an expert but they work and I prefer Affinity’s tool layout to Photoshop and Gimp. Affinity comes with HEIF file handling which is a bonus. I used Designer for a large poster layout project and it was the easiest layout program I’ve encountered.

 

[IronWing]

Also: my largest project in Designer was a 756MB file (118 megapixel layout) that I could have open alongside two 500 MB files and move objects between files with no issues. Designer is very memory efficient.

 

[manly]

(wrong forum! )
The new launch is a freemium product, with a significant subscription cost if you want all the bells and whistles. Enshittification incoming?


HOWEVER, you might be able to get perpetual licenses of the old iPad apps (this was working as of last week). These older 2.x versions will never be updated, but you also don't need to worry about Affinity trying to monetize you down the road. Good luck.


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