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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

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Never heard about Canva. But checking them out they seem to focus on mobile apps and web apps to edit photos and videos. With a very specific focus on social media influencers. Don't be fooled by the cheeky templates and filters,they are going heavy on AI, with some interesting features such as inpainting and video background removal. I guess that's either a very lucrative business or they have a ton of VC money behi…

Canva powers the scam market. It's played a big part helping the scam market expand. Everything from "make money online" creative to flooding Etsy with poorly designed AI garbage to crypto scams. Canva and Stan are the peanut butter and jelly of scammery in 2024.

Your description could equally be describing google, Facebook, twitter or even the internet itself.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Canva and Affinity just released another news [1] which makes the pledge that > We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future. If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. [1]: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity-canva-pledge/

Guess we'll see how well this ages.

Companies always keep promises like this, so I'm sure we have nothing to worry about.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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In addition to Gimp there are: - Paint.net - Pixen - Inkscape --- straight-forward vector editing - Seashore --- this is Mac OS UI overlay for GIMP - Krita --- vector editing with painting features - Scribus --- page layout - TeX/LaTeX --- batch/markup driven page layout which can do anything one can put together a TeX macro to achieve (I use it a lot and have written articles for TUGboat on it: https://tug.org/TUGbo…

There is also Graphite ( https://graphite.rs/ ) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).

Looks awesome!
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