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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…
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$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.
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$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.
These are not selfie correction software.
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.
So does version 2 of Affinity Photo add support for AVIF? Can't find it listed on https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ (rather hard to search, since sections have to be uncollapsed one by one). Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount.
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…
I'm stuck on LR 5 myself as I'm too lazy to move my library.
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$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.
So does version 2 of Affinity Photo add support for AVIF? Can't find it listed on https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ (rather hard to search, since sections have to be uncollapsed one by one). Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount.
Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount. I'm an existing customer, and I look at it as 40% off for existing customers to upgrade, and also 40% off for people upgrading from Adobe.
Longtime GIMP user, never spent much time on any alternatives. This hit all my checkboxes: - No arbitration clause in the ToS - Rest of the ToS, PP is a breath of fresh air (comparatively speaking.) - One-time payment, not subscription based - License across all platforms is surprising and good, and is what made this an instant purchase. It's nice to know I'll have Affinity 2 forever, even if Adobe (god forbid) purch…
The good news here is that Adobe suite is not really threatened by Affinity products, as they're ahead in terms of features and enterprise presence. They acquired Figma because Figma was quickly becoming the go-to collaborative UI design tool in the workplace, something Adobe did not have with AdobeXD. If they were to try to acquire another company in this space, it would likely be Canva, rather than a comparatively…
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