Serif have always delivered great value. I remember netting last-version packs in the 90s with colossal clipart libraries.
Just wish they did Linux versions.
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#162Serif'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…
I have developed new muscles with dedication and effort, I had Adobe logo in front of me all the while, I was falling down and crying with pain but one look at Adobe logo would make me get up and get going with newly found vigor - just to kick Adobe's bucket and to embrace loving comfort of Affinity Suite. Nah.. it was pretty easy to jump. Life is beautiful.
I used Photoshop and Illustrator for years and years (going back to 1990's) and switched to Affinity about 2 years ago. There's a lot of little details that are different--say, when you grab a resize handle, does aspect ratio stay locked or do you have to hold down shift?--but I found that it wasn't tough to retrain. Most things are where you'd expect. It's certainly not like Gimp or Inkscape, where absolutely everything is different and it feels impossible to get anything done.
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#163Serif'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…
And that includes all platforms (Mac, iPad and Windows). Really great value.
Not really all platforms is it though. Linux not supported at all
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#164Just 4h ago I went to affinitys website because I wanted to download photos for my work laptop and I got a page "we're working on something big. stay tuned". And now I'm seing this. I'm hyped. Edit: Looks like there's no discount if you already own a license which is a bummer considering they advertised with selling you a lifetime license.
It's life time for that version. You can continue using your old version forever. I paid my $40 or $60 whatever 3 years ago and have gotten way more than $40 of value out of it.
I'm about to happily plunk down money again because the price is right, it's a perpetual license, and it's a solid product.
I just wish they'd release a DAM, because that's the one item I need right now.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cynically: why would one want a market there then?
If one could sell software there in such a way that only people in that market could buy it at that price, the answer is obvious... software has effectively zero marginal cost per copy. So if you could practically limit your market at a specified price in such a way that that offer doesn't spread to other markets, then every copy you sell in such places is still beneficial to you. There are less cynical answers to th…
How about a non-cynical answer. Software does not have effectively zero marginal cost per copy. It does have zero manufacturing cost per copy, however support is quite an expensive on-going cost. When you have a presence in multiple markets, you need localized support for different languages, and that is even more expensive. When you have different costs in different markets, you encourage users in more expensive markets to try and game the system, to minimize their costs. This sets up a potentially adversarial relationship with your users, and is mostly non-productive.
In the end this is a professional software suite, and running a business has some fixed costs. By comparison, Adobe's suite would cost much more per year.
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#166I would gladly buy the whole package if they supported Linux. One can dream.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Figma is the most recent. Behance and Frame.io are some other high-profile Adobe acquisitions.
FWIW, Flash is still very widely used in the 2D animation industry, as Adobe Animate.
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#168I was preparing myself for disappointment because I expected the new version to be accompanied by subscription pricing, but this is an incredible value.
I only casually mess around with the ipad version at the moment, but I'm tempted to purchase the whole suite because it's such a friendly deal.
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#169Wow, first class JPEG XL support! :) Google / Chromium developers, please take note!
But still no AVIF support, which is supported by Google / Chromium.
Would be very nice to have both! It's about time we got better image formats.
That said, unfortunately AVIF is not a substitute for JPEG XL...
1. AVIF has an order of magnitude slower saving / encoding speed vs JPEG XL.
2. AVIF in "lossless" mode tends to be bigger than PNG- and it isn't truly lossless, just best effort (based on the AV1 video format).
3. JPEG XL supports orders of magnitude higher resolution, bit depth, and is an actual replacement for lossless PNG.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
TLDR; lies. Kindly substantiate your claims. DT has a clone tool. It's part of the retouch tool.[1] Which is very powerful and allows way more than just cloning. It is also non-destructive, like anything in DT. DT has camera profiles, new cameras get added regularly. You can also create them yourself if you have access to a color checker using a built-in tool.[2] DT has tons of lens correction profiles. Basically any…
Your post is full of great information but didn't need the heading. Odds are really good that the poster you are replying to isn't actually lying. Instead they just aren't as familiar with DT as you are. You could have imparted the same information beginning with an opening that educated the user instead of insisting they were lying and a demand for proof. Firstly calling someone a liar basically shuts down all discu…
Shutting down the discussion should be the priority when one participant is just confidently asserting misinformation. Their motivations for doing so are not of interest.