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Re: Affinity 2

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Post by Vt71fcAqt7 »

bogwog wrote: post #120
rchaud wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Consumers/the free market told Adobe to fuck off, but Adobe ignored them and forced their way in by buying the competition. This is something they've consistently done throughout their history, and it doesn't seem like there's anything consumers can do about it. /end-lossely-related-rant

Can you give some examples? I'm thinking of flash, but that was bound to die anyway.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by corry »

latexr wrote: post #49
corry wrote: post #36

Has 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…

Thanks! I'll give it a try. V1 sounds frustrating since those use-cases are precisely what I do with Illustrator lol.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by vladstudio »

hoistbypetard wrote: post #87
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?

I actually use Pixelmator Pro vector tools a lot, for illustrating, not photo editing - they are quite basic (comparing to Illustrator) but for my specific needs it's quite enough.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by mirzap »

GlacierFox wrote: post #89
netr0ute wrote: post #81

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$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…

They must have PPP enabled, so price depends on the country. I see "regular price" as 169.99$, but now on sale 40off for $99. It really is great value for the money. I hope they stay on this path. I don't mind paying for the upgrades every couple of years.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by wlesieutre »

kmeisthax wrote: post #102
drcongo wrote: post #71

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

Is $100 for a universal suite license even that much of a price hike? Affinity v1 was $50 a pop with no universal license option - as in, you had to buy each platform's port of the app separately. I happen to have one foot in every tech ecosystem and bought all three apps, so I wound up spending more on Affinity v1 than I will on v2's universal license. And, of course, it's still hella cheap compared to subscription-…

Sales for v1 at $25 were pretty common, but even then if you want two pieces of software on two platforms that's $100 already.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by max51 »

chillfox wrote: post #27
yashg wrote: post #21

I had shifted to Affinity photo from Photoshop few years ago. I need to use it once in a while so Affinity photo does the job for me. It has its own quirks but I can live with them. There is still no real alternative for Lightroom unfortunately for bulk RAW photo processing.

What’s Capture One or DxO missing to replace Lightroom?

Last time I tried to completely switch to Capture One, there were major features missing. I currently use both because there are things that Capture One does a lot better than Lightroom (eg. skin tones, tethered shooting)

The biggest one for me is the fact that you can't manually remove chromatic aberration. If your lens is not in their database with a profile, you can't do it at all. The database is also very small; if you are using anything old or with no electronic, it's likely not gonna be there.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by michaelmrose »

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.

Open source software like Gimp and Linux are free and can be run on your $50 single board computer instead of paying $500 for a laptop that requires a $139 OS license and a $119 software license for Affinity.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by microtonal »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #4
marban wrote: post #3

So I bought all V1s back then and now they're gone from the Mac App Store. I see. Edit: Got it, have to download it from the purchase history (which was 2014), not the offical now-gone link.

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.

And if taking 30% wasn't enough of an offense, they are now also stuffing search results of people looking for Affinity products with all kinds of ad crap. I can fully understand why they yanked their products from the Mac App Store and will happily purchase the suite directly from them.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by least »

reaperducer wrote: post #67
sleepless wrote: post #56

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.

I bought Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer in May of this year, less than 6 months ago. Some companies that offer perpetual licenses would simply give me the upgrade to the next version for free since it came out within a year, and basically all of them would offer an upgrade discount that isn't simply a launch sale, into perpetuity.

The price is good for decent software but it's kind of discouraging me from wanting to upgrade, when their goal should be the exact opposite of that.

Re: Affinity 2

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Post by pier25 »

Interesting Affinity has removed their products from the Mac App store and only selling through their website now.
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