How does purchasing work?
How can you purchase from Affinity directly, and get the iPad version. How are they getting around Apple's restrictions?
Affinity 2
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that includes all platforms (Mac, iPad and Windows). Really great value.
Not really all platforms is it though. Linux not supported at all
That's not the context of the GP's statement. They're referring to the Universal License being offered by Serif, which provides you a "buy once use anywhere" on all of their supported platforms, not that they support all platforms.
As a Linux user myself and a former (and upcoming again) studio sysadmin, it's disappointing Serif doesn't offer native Linux support. But let's not twist the discussion here.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that includes all platforms (Mac, iPad and Windows). Really great value.
Not really all platforms is it though. Linux not supported at all
All supported platforms, as in you don't have to pay a separate license fee to run it on one of the other platforms they support.
Yeah, I'm not happy having to keep a copy of Windows for graphics software either, but that's a different issue. If you only have Linux or some toaster running NetBSD, then it's pretty simple: don't buy it.
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#174Is 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…
Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of osm2ai - looks helpful!
I'm starting a new project this week and will test out the QGIS -> Affinity workflow and write up any findings.
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#175I don't want to renew my (annual) subscription for Lightroom and Photoshop when it's up; ideally I would like to move this workflow Linux (it's one of the few things keeping me on macOS). Are there Linux alternatives besides Darktable and Gimp and are they really able to compete with the Adobe (or Affinity) offerings?
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#176I 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…
> All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any of you suggest a GOOD alternative?
Check out digikam. I'm using it as DAM only and Affinity Photo for RAW development and image manipulation (but digikam can handle that as well).
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#177I've just bought this without even looking at what's new or different. That's how much I love their software. Hopefully the performance in isometric grid mode is better in v2. My only issue with v1.
I did too. I had v1 licenses for Photo and Designer on my Windows laptop and on iPad. I've recently switched my daily driver to Mac, and was planning to get Mac licenses for those, but was holding out for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. This was a no-brainer for me.
(I'm not a professional user of these... but I find them super useful during game jams or while putting together ideas for web things.)
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#178Serif'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.
Yes, and I'm one of them. I'm not moaning at them about the price, but I think it's fair to consider what they are actually saying. They are telling users that v1 is now completely unsupported. That means, if you bought v1 last week, you cannot expect any compatibility support moving forward. The bugs that already exist? Those aren't getting taken care of either. People like to point out that they've owned Affinity products for a long time, and therefore have gotten their value out of them. I've owned all of the Affinity products for quite a while, so I've gotten plenty of value from them. I also have a (quite) expensive Adobe subscription. But at the end of the day, Affinity was marketed as the answer to subscription bloat. They aren't the first company to have to walk that back a bit with major version releases. They should have a deprecation plan in place for gradually winding down v1. Stopping all new features but still releasing compatibility and security fixes is incredibly common in software when major versions change. Instead, their answer is to cease all development an support immediately.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
$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.
While it's certainly nice that those options exist, they are also entirely unsuitable for any kind of professional work. I assume the target user you're thinking of is looking to do some occasional, light-weight editing. And even this user will be frustrated with the irritating UI and workflow of software like (and in particular) The Gimp.
For me, it's close to unusable — and I am someone whose first computer was a TI44/4A. I'm a die-hard terminal shell user. Even Adobe Illustrator didn't really click for me. The Affinity suite made immediate sense.
There's value in usability.
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#180I've bought the whole Affinity suite (v1) on Mac, Windows, and iPadOS over the course of the past couple of years, and I'm happy to pay $100 to support further development and get access to v2 of all of it at once!
I only use Affinity software casually every now and then, but it's a lifesaver when I do need it. Paying $100 every several years for a new major version is absolutely a worthwhile cost, and it's especially nice that it's not required (cough Adobe)