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Re: Affinity 2

#81

Post by netr0ute »

drcongo wrote: post #71
dr_faustus wrote: post #13

Serif'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…

Amazingly there's people moaning at them about the price in their Twitter announcement.

$119 is only affordable if you're got a high-income job, which billions of people on planet Earth don't.

Re: Affinity 2

#82

Post by shp0ngle »

rcarmo wrote: post #8

Kudos for not having a subscription. That is _so_ refreshing these days.

On the other hand, once the previous version stops working, it stops working. With Apple and their constant changes and bad backward portability, you can end up with broken app.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by g_p »

marban wrote: post #7
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is at least partly to blame here for stubbornly refusing to add paid upgrades to the app stores, despite developers calling for it for years.

Yes but devs usually leave the old version on the MAS and don't remove it entirely.

The risk here would presumably be people unwittingly purchasing an old version?

Neither way seems ideal though. I've seen some devs create a bundle as a way to do upgrade prices, but that's not perfect either.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by mortenjorck »

It's great to see Serif finally offering a paid upgrade for the Affinity suite. Serif is a tiny company, and their size versus the incredible ambition of their products has resulted in some often frustratingly slow development ever since the first release of Affinity Designer back in 2014.

Even in the long-awaited V2, there are still popular features Adobe Illustrator had twenty years ago that Affinity has yet to offer an alternative to, such as vector pattern brushes, auto-trace, and even shape blends, something Illustrator has had for closer to 30 years. I really hope the infusion of cash from this new release allows them to staff up and further realize the potential of this excellent alternative to the Adobe hegemony.

Re: Affinity 2

#85

Post by achow »

dr_faustus wrote: post #13

Serif'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…

I have developed new muscles with dedication and effort, I had Adobe logo in front of me all the while, I was falling down and crying with pain but one look at Adobe logo would make me get up and get going with newly found vigor - just to kick Adobe's bucket and to embrace loving comfort of Affinity Suite.

Nah.. it was pretty easy to jump. Life is beautiful.

Re: Affinity 2

#86

Post by azalemeth »

laurieg wrote: post #66

I'd love to switch to Affinity from Adobe Illustrator, but there's one feature I just can't live without: In illustrator you can make a dashed line that nicely lines up with the corners of a square (putting one dash in each corner). Nothing else seems to handle this case. [1] I use Illustrator to make stitching patterns and lining up the corners in this way is absolutely essential, otherwise the stitches come out loo…

The other thing I really miss is the simple artboard tool to effectively crop pdfs. Designer does have this, but it's not quite as "nice", iirc.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by hoistbypetard »

vladstudio wrote: post #11

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: https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

How did it come down to those two? I'd have expected Affinity Photo to be more comparable to Pixelmator. Isn't Designer more similar to Sketch?

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by ketzu »

nailer wrote: post #20

Affinity 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'.

> 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.

It's super annoying to upgrade, too. If they added an auto updater I would instantly buy v2. But right now I don't really see a reason yet.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by GlacierFox »

netr0ute wrote: post #81
drcongo wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazingly there's people moaning at them about the price in their Twitter announcement.

$119 is only affordable if you're got a high-income job, which billions of people on planet Earth don't.

$119 perpetual is an insanely good price for three absolutely fantastic applications. What are you smoking? What's a fair price to you? $10?

On one side you've got people complaining about these anti-consumer software subscriptions from the likes of adobe. Then on the other side you've got people like yourself that are for some reason complaining that there's still a company offering fantastic software on par with Illustrator for a fantastic perpetual price.

Affinity Designer is £35 right now. That's insane.

The mind boggles.

Re: Affinity 2

#90

Post by melling »

netr0ute wrote: post #81
drcongo wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazingly there's people moaning at them about the price in their Twitter announcement.

$119 is only affordable if you're got a high-income job, which billions of people on planet Earth don't.

There’s always GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape. Imagine if a few million of those billion people worked on them.

I get that people can’t because they have to earn a living, but so do software developers.

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