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Not happy with that - would advise against it.
I migrated to Affinity after Adobe put the last nail in the coffin for me. I have to admit that even with some experience, Affinity doesn't get close to Photoshop in terms of shortcuts and ease of use ("getting in the flow"). Sometimes I even resort to using photopea web, rather than open affinity. That said, I really appreciate their pricing model and hope they stick to their guns.
Once I've found out what the difference between Affinity versions 1 and 2 is, I might yet buy 2 anyway, just to support Serif some more, because I'm frankly fed up of Adobe's practice of unhinged monolithic greed.
Spent £116 through the App Store on version 1 of this software not long ago and now I can't upgrade, but instead, have to buy it all again at a "discount". Downloading my versions means looking through the purchase history too. Not happy with that - would advise against it.
Edit to add link from another comment: https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/15903262690314649...
Serif actually said that this is specifically what happened
I’m looking for (and haven’t yet found) any mention of v1 to v2 discounts? Am I missing something or is it an entirely new purchase?
Serif mentioned on Twitter that the decision is partly driven by the absence of upgrading pricing options in third party app stores. https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/15903262690314649...
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?
I’ve been prodding Affinity on their forums with a feature request over the past few years, but other forum-dwellers get weirdly hostile over it… like, yeah, I wish JPEG-2000 had made it too, but it didn’t, and WEBP is here today and it works, should our graphics apps not live in the present?
Spent £116 through the App Store on version 1 of this software not long ago and now I can't upgrade, but instead, have to buy it all again at a "discount". Downloading my versions means looking through the purchase history too. Not happy with that - would advise against it.
I completely agree that continued work needs to be payed and I don't expect to buy a software once and receive updates for it forever. If I was using it in a professional capacity all the time, I would have preferred a cheaper monthly subscription but because I'm using it mostly now and then, pay for the V1 and use it forever and pay again if I would like the newer version works very well for me.
Previously I’ve only been using Affinity on Mac. Now I’ll be able to see how it performs on Windows as well.
I wonder though if they fixed the crop tool. The rectangle wouldn’t stay within photo borders, i.e. any “constrain proportion” setting would be useless, and trying to align the crop with one of the borders was very mundane, pushing me to do all my cropping in ACDSee.