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Re: Affinity 2

#91

Post by drcongo » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

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.

These are pro level apps. Honestly can't think of a single bundle of 3 pro level apps that you can license on Windows, iPad and Mac for anywhere near that price.

Re: Affinity 2

#92

Post by c0nsumer » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

I use two Adobe apps routinely:

- Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom.

It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.)

But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any of you suggest a GOOD alternative? Something that can import my library from Lightroom Classic would be ideal, but I can work around it if not. I'm very much willing to pay, and would prefer well-supported closed-source to OSS.

Re: Affinity 2

#93

Post by Kye » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

c0nsumer wrote: post #92

I use two Adobe apps routinely: - Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom. It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.) But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any…

This is probably next on their list. I know they were at least thinking about one the last time I saw someone ask about it.

Re: Affinity 2

#94

Post by datalopers » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

c0nsumer wrote: post #92

I use two Adobe apps routinely: - Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom. It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.) But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any…

darktable

Re: Affinity 2

#95

Post by netr0ute » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:49 PM UTC

GlacierFox wrote: post #89

netr0ute wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$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 Il…

You haven't been to poorer countries where the equivalent of $10 is a lot, so good luck getting a market for $119 software there.

Re: Affinity 2

#96

Post by alpaca128 » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:50 PM UTC

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.

The number of people who cannot afford this but also own the required hardware and need the full package of all those licenses is probably not high.

Re: Affinity 2

#97

Post by highhedgehog » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:50 PM UTC

c0nsumer wrote: post #92

I use two Adobe apps routinely: - Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom. It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.) But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any…

Maybe RawTherapee?

Re: Affinity 2

#98

Post by t0bia_s » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:50 PM UTC

datalopers wrote: post #94

c0nsumer wrote: post #92

I use two Adobe apps routinely: - Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom. It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.) But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any…

darktable

Not a chance if you need it for professional editing. No clone tools, no camera profiles, probably lack of lens correction profiles as well. UI is prehistoric. RawTherapee is little bit less nerdy than darktable but still not suitable for serious photography work.

Re: Affinity 2

#99

Post by seanw444 » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

AtticHacker wrote: post #44

Darn I got excited for no reason. I first read "ALL PLATFORMS" and thought that version 2 would also work on Linux. But alas!

Supposedly they're a relatively small team. According to another comment (I don't use it personally), they're missing a lot of features Adobe has had for decades, so they would probably understandably prioritize porting to Linux under even that.

Re: Affinity 2

#100

Post by c0nsumer » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

johnymontana wrote: post #33

Is anyone using Affinity for cartography? I’m currently using ArcGIS —> Illustrator workflow but am curious if a QGIS —> Affinity workflow is feasible.

So, I've been using Illustrator for years with an OSM -> Illustrator workflow where I start with OSM XML, feed it to osm2ai.pl, and then wholly style it by hand. It's... fine... but Illustrator's cost is getting to me.

I gave QGIS -> Affinity a cursory look the other day and had no problem taking my results from an Overpass query and exporting it from QGIS as SVG and bringing it into Affinity. So, that gave me a ton of hope.

The opening of Illustrator files in Affinity Designer kinda sucks (my dashed paths for trails come in as tons of different objects, like it's actually only bringing in the PDF preview) but if I start anew on some of the maps I think it'll be fine.

I just bought the 2.0 package mentioned here and the next map I do I'll be doing in Affinity Designer to see how it goes. Fingers crossed!