Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months
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#2That's a clever move, kudos!
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#3Does anyone have insight on how this compares these days to Adobe's suite? Seems pretty competitive, but I'm not sure if you're getting 80% of the features for 30% of the cost or 50% of features for 50% of the cost.
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#4First time I've realised that affinity is made by the same people who did serif photoplus.
How does affinity compare to lightroom?
Re: Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months
#5Does anyone have insight on how this compares these days to Adobe's suite? Seems pretty competitive, but I'm not sure if you're getting 80% of the features for 30% of the cost or 50% of features for 50% of the cost.
Some features are “missing” or don’t work in a similar way. For example, Affinity Designer doesn’t have shape replication tools like Illustrator, manual copy paste is required. You also can’t trace an image to turn it into vector outlines. Just two things off the top of my head that I noticed because I used them extensively in Adobe Illustrator. So if you’re only using a subset of features you’re probably fine, but without testing Affinity’s products for yourself it might be hard to tell if they’re a like for like replacement for you.
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#6First time I've realised that affinity is made by the same people who did serif photoplus. How does affinity compare to lightroom?
> How does affinity compare to lightroom
It doesn't. They have Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign alternatives.
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#7First time I've realised that affinity is made by the same people who did serif photoplus. How does affinity compare to lightroom?
Affinity doesn’t have a comparable program to Lightroom.
Affinity Photo does have a development mode, but it’s single file focused and more akin to Photoshop’s raw import tool than an app like Lightroom or Bridge.
I think RAW support is much lower than Adobe supports as well, at least with Fuji I’ve had issues and only a few programs handle Fuji compressed RAW.
One of Affinity’s strengths is a single compatible file format between all of their apps, but it does lack anything like library support.
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#8How is the plugin compatibility? Can I use CS6 or CC plugins in Affinity?
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#9This is just for the Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps.
When will some organization agree to support Gimp, Inkscape, and Libreoffice Writer in the same capacity?
I would already prefer the free apps.
Re: Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months
#10Does anyone have insight on how this compares these days to Adobe's suite? Seems pretty competitive, but I'm not sure if you're getting 80% of the features for 30% of the cost or 50% of features for 50% of the cost.
It truly depends what you do and need.
IMHO, as someone who professionally uses the Adobe products and has licenses to all the Affinity suite, none of the apps compare favorably to the Adobe equivalents other than price and a superior iPad version.
They’re all great apps though but they definitely exist in the tier below adobe’s offerings. Which may be fine for most folks but hasn’t been for me, because I literally cannot complete projects in them and I certainly have tried.
Affinity Designer lacks many utilities from illustrator like advanced gradient handling, perspective alignment and repetition automation. Inkscape isn’t that far off from Designer imho.
Affinity Photo is fine as a photo editing tool but it falls apart for more advanced edits where you need to use brushes and advanced masking tools. Again, perspective tools and more granular referencing tools are just missing or broken. It is a significant step up from Gimp though but I would personally push people to Krita instead.
Affinity Publisher is the weakest of the trio. But then again, so is InDesign. These two aren’t too far off but InDesign has better tools around multi page layout and quickly updating templates references. I don’t know of a good OSS equivalent.
Again, I think these tools are great for people who value the price over the feature set. Most people don’t need more than they offer. But if you’re a professional, the Adobe products are yet unmatched.