89 GBP vs 119 USD. Something is finally cheaper in GBP than it is in USD. Wow.
Affinity 2
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#42Love Affinity products. Absolute steal for the price.
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#43I was so convinced that they would have moved to a subscription model out of pure fear that it took me ages to even convince myself it was a one time payment even though it was on giant letters on the page
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#44Darn I got excited for no reason. I first read "ALL PLATFORMS" and thought that version 2 would also work on Linux. But alas!
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#45Spent £116 through the App Store on version 1 of this software not long ago and now I can't upgrade, but instead, have to buy it all again at a "discount". Downloading my versions means looking through the purchase history too. Not happy with that - would advise against it.
I purchased it directly from their site, and there is no upgrade option either.
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#46I love the Affinity Designer. Also bought the Photo suite.
But if you are a serious graphic designer, all the available jobs use Adobe tools. It is a factual thing.
Nowadays, I use mainly Figma (which is, again: Adobe) and wait for the next AI thing to remove me from my design job duties. :)
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#4789 GBP vs 119 USD. Something is finally cheaper in GBP than it is in USD. Wow.
Might be something to do with it being a British company!
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#48Spent £116 through the App Store on version 1 of this software not long ago and now I can't upgrade, but instead, have to buy it all again at a "discount". Downloading my versions means looking through the purchase history too. Not happy with that - would advise against it.
Hmm, I bought it about…a couple weeks ago? And they sent me an email with two discount codes: a free copy of Affinity Photo 2, and a heavy discount on the all-apps-all-platforms license.
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#49Has anyone switched to Affinity Designer from Illustrator for vector work (logos, svg, icons, etc) and liked it? I've been avoiding paying for Illustrator given the extreme monthly cost for my use-case, but found Inkspace and other alternatives pretty lacking. I pay for Photoshop since I'm so comfortable with it, but can't justify the extra $$$ to add Illustrator given I'd use it a handful of times a month max.
> Has anyone switched to Affinity Designer from Illustrator for vector work (logos, svg, icons, etc) and liked it?
I found v1 frustrating. They’ve been touting their “precision” from the get go, but in my experience it was anything but precise. And I mean going into the transform panel, inserting exact values by hand, and then the software moves it 0.1 points to the right.
Making separate shapes then connecting them was also a fool’s errand. When it works at all, it often leaves two connected points in the same location, as opposed to merging them. Even if you insert their locations manually and exactly. I’ve wasted many many hours due to their imprecision.
With all that out of the way, I’m trialing v2 and am cautiously optimistic. I haven’t been able to trigger any of the bugs so far. Doesn’t mean they’re not there, but maybe they’re fixed.
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#50No subscription is a big deal. Been using Affinity tools since Adobe introduced their cloud bloatware and subscription model.
I'm praying to the design gods that Adobe won't acquire Affinity - surely this must eat into their revenue.