Earlier quoted context omitted.
From another comment, he teaches design. As a designer, I find it’s legit to downgrade a design student for using Canva.
On what basis? Is Canva somehow cheating? I don't know, as I'm not a designer in any way.
Yes.
Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
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Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#122Official statement from Affinity (Serif): https://affinity.serif.com/de/press/newsroom/canva-statement... Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold? There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were…
"with plenty of free updates to V2"
But let's not talk about V3...
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#123I love Affinity Designer as a tool and his pay once license, I'm pretty sure that if you already purchased current version (V2), you will be fine, but I'm afraid they will go the subscription route soon like Adobe and Canva.
Is suspicious that Affinity marketing was always highlighting the pay once license model and against subscription, and in the official announcement there is no mention of that.
A lesson is that with the good ol Inkscape that type of thing that endangered the tool it doesn't happen.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#124If Adobe would have a little bit of brain left, they would offer a cheaper subscription now. Essentially covering Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Instead of only the reasonably priced PS/LR bundle versus the too expensive "all the products we ever had" bundle.
They could basically wipe out Affinity. But yeah, won't happen I guess...
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#125Why every product I like ends up being bought... argh, we can't have nice things.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#126I love Affinity Designer as a tool and his pay once license, I'm pretty sure that if you already purchased current version (V2), you will be fine, but I'm afraid they will go the subscription route soon like Adobe and Canva. Is suspicious that Affinity marketing was always highlighting the pay once license model and against subscription, and in the official announcement there is no mention of that. A lesson is that w…
It will probably go subscription, unfortunately.
But the smart move would be to double the price (obviously not immediately, but eventually) while retaining the pay once model and really doubling down on the professional aspect of the Affinity products (even if, compared to Adobe, they're not super professional grade yet). The reason people bought Affinity stuff was the pay once deal. That's how you retain those customers while aggressively moving into a prosumer market for Canva.
Now, though, Affinity is just another gravestone on the path of insane tech rent-seeking, buy-extract-kill, and financialization.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#127This is bad news. The Affinity offers a genuine and very high class alternative to the Adobe suite. Its HDRI workflow is league ahead of anything else. As for Canva, all I can say is that I downgrade any student who makes their research slides using this dumb service. The slides are template-driven horror with each exported pdf slide being rasterized pngs: stupidly large files with text that is impossible to select a…
You're a great educator! I'm surprised that other people here cannot separate their subjective opinions, whether they agree with your judgment, from fact, whether you're a good educator. It would be more reasonable to say: A good educator would help students understand that PDF files should have a small file size, and if a student fails to notice that, you will have to downgrade them for lack of attention to importan…
If the course makes it clear that grading is affected by accessibility and efficiency of file size, and then submitted work ignores those factors - regardless of Canva being used - then downgrading it is justified. Perhaps it’s obvious to designers that Canva has these problems, but to a non-designer like myself, the comment sounds like snobbery, with students’ grades affected by the capricious whims of their teacher.
> I wouldn't be surprised if Canva has people to distort social media to downvote anyone who disagrees with them
Snide remarks about astroturfing are also off topic here.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#128The fast race toward version 3 has been a cause for concern. It _just_ came out and it's already in the 2.4s.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#129This caused me to bite the bullet and buy the v2 universal licence, currently 30% off. If you've ever bought anything v1 including a single app you probably qualify for the upgrade offer which is an extra 25% off on top of the sale https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/upgrade-offer/ I'm not necessarily against their inevitable subscription model, but may as well get the standalone while the getting is good. There a…
The problem with V2 license is that it cannot be activated offline so Canva can take a courageous decision to stop activations any time in future. V1 is great because it can be activated offline.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#130This is bad news. The Affinity offers a genuine and very high class alternative to the Adobe suite. Its HDRI workflow is league ahead of anything else. As for Canva, all I can say is that I downgrade any student who makes their research slides using this dumb service. The slides are template-driven horror with each exported pdf slide being rasterized pngs: stupidly large files with text that is impossible to select a…
Why would you downgrade a student based on the tool they use to create their presentations instead of the content itself?
Tapping into both my own uni graphics design and a past life as senior exec at a mega corp: because designers that use bad tools to make unusable presentations are failing "you had one job", to make something presentable across the variety of business modalities.
Being able to email the presentation and copy text from it are generally more important to communications impact and utility in the workplace than how it looks.
Being aware what your tool does to the presentation is part of the job you're learning in school.