I've been Photoshop user since, hmm, 2000? Gave up couple of years ago, and spent some time comparing Affinity Designer and Pixelmator Pro. For me personally, Pixelmator won, and it's been my editor of choice:
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#12Exciting - might really want to get these!
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#13Serif's Affinity suite has probably the greatest value for money in the whole software industry. I mean 119 bucks ONE-TIME for three pretty comprehensive graphics apps which are polished and get constant updates is very hard to beat.
For people making their living with graphical work (designers, photographers, etc.) Adobe is probably still the way to go (even if just to keep using the muscle memory). However for the many people who only need something like Photoshop or InDesign a couple of times a year, Affinity is just great.
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#14I've been using Affinity Designer 1 and that's a great product! Glad to see version 2 coming.
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#15I migrated to Affinity after Adobe put the last nail in the coffin for me. I have to admit that even with some experience, Affinity doesn't get close to Photoshop in terms of shortcuts and ease of use ("getting in the flow"). Sometimes I even resort to using photopea web, rather than open affinity. That said, I really appreciate their pricing model and hope they stick to their guns.
I'm in the same situation. I used the Photography subscription for LR + PS, as I don't care about any other tools (RIP Fireworks). I've been using Adobe Products since 1999. I just feel like supporting them is unethical.
Figma + Procreate replaced Photoshop for me for design/game dev workflows, but I'm still missing the right tools for Photography and image processing.
The OSS LR replacements feel too clunky, CaptureOne is fantastic but a bit pricey. I'll have to bite the bullet eventually and choose between convenience and cost.
Two questions:
1. Is Affinity desktop better than its iPad version?
2. What's your use case for Affinity as a replacement of PS?
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#16Wow, first class JPEG XL support! :)
Google / Chromium developers, please take note!
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#17DWG/DXF import is what I was missing from Illustrator.
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#18I've just bought this without even looking at what's new or different. That's how much I love their software.
Hopefully the performance in isometric grid mode is better in v2. My only issue with v1.
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#19I migrated to Affinity after Adobe put the last nail in the coffin for me. I have to admit that even with some experience, Affinity doesn't get close to Photoshop in terms of shortcuts and ease of use ("getting in the flow"). Sometimes I even resort to using photopea web, rather than open affinity. That said, I really appreciate their pricing model and hope they stick to their guns.
I'm in the same situation. I used the Photography subscription for LR + PS, as I don't care about any other tools (RIP Fireworks). I've been using Adobe Products since 1999. I just feel like supporting them is unethical. Figma + Procreate replaced Photoshop for me for design/game dev workflows, but I'm still missing the right tools for Photography and image processing. The OSS LR replacements feel too clunky, Capture…
Too bad you're still supporting Adobe, since they purchased Figma.
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#20Affinity is great but... weird.
- Designer and Photo keep asking me to download and install a new version manually every time I open it, rather than just taking care of their own updates.
- Pasting if there's no document open doesn't work. You have to do 'new from clipboard'.