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They expected to be able to upgrade it in the future to most recent version with a one-time payment fee, like they used to so far.
What? Lots of us bought v1, then v2, and would have bought v3 too.
What a fascinating thread. I bought Affinity Photo and Designer V1 as one-time purchases a few years ago. I didn't upgrade to V2 when those came out. I have continued to occasionally use the V1 apps - I was just in Photo the other day. To me this is exactly why you would want to buy software licenses as one-time purchases - the company can't rug pull you for what you already bought. If I want, I can keep using the Af…
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> Isn't this EXACTLY what subscriptions fix, though? That you can stop paying if the product stops getting updates. How? First, by that time, you've usually spent many times more than it would have cost you to own the software outright, so the vendor is already better off. Second, if you stop paying, you lose access to the software, possibly with no other way to open existing files, etc. You're the one who's being he…
Sure, if the subscription is unreasonably priced. Then yes, it will be unreasonable. Final Cut Pro is a $300 piece of software with a $50/yr or $5/mo subscription. It would take you 6 years to reach the same price which shows the subscription cost is reasonable. It's a separate issue when software is unreasonably priced in subscription mode, versus the merits of the subscription model itself.
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> don't have a good alternative for InDesign There really is none, at least not that is comparable. InDesign is perhaps the one product where Adobe really shines. Aldus PageMaker and Quark XPress were worthy predecessors; I used both back in the day, but Adobe bought PageMaker and discontinued it. As for Quark, not sure what happened to them but they're not around anymore.
I used Quark XPress, and it really felt like it had a monopoly on the professional market in the UK at the time. It didn't really innovate, it was slow and clunky. Then InDesign came along and it was a breath of fresh air. Took many years for the transition to happen, but a lot of people in my circle wanted to see the back of Quark.
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My friend was using Photoshop 7 up until she couldn't install it for whatever reason under W10. It was always enough for her to do what she was doing with her digitalized drawings. Not sure if she found a replacement but she certainly didn't want to use GIMP - interface was way too convoluted and layers management weird, according to her IIRC.
Learning GIMP as a PS user is like changing operating systems. ... but it has always been worth it for any normal person, IMO. That said... PS's new AI tools might make GIMP no longer a viable option even for normies like me.
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Photoshop has that (adjustment layers in adobe world) but smart objects lets you use any layer effect non destructively, not just the predefined adjustment layers (which also apply downward by default, not just as a per-layer thing). It’s like a layer group on steroids. Pretty hard for me to live without now or id just have an intel hackintosh running CS5/CS6 :)
Smart objects and smart filters were present in early CS versions I think. CS5/CS6 had them for sure, though I don't doubt that new filters and features have been added in CC.
Uhhuh. I think anyone in the tech field can immediately tell where this is going, and I'm not at all excited for it. 1. They silently make it online only. Currently you need to make an account and be online on activation, so they're already one step closer to getting there. 2. They silently ditch the concept of buying and owning Affinity software, but that's okay because it's ~totally free~! 3. As soon as they lock i…
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And if you want just a photo editor, not a vector software, I really recommend Pixelmator Pro. I've had it and Affinity Photo for years, but I find myself sticking with Pixelmator more often than not.
Apple bought Pixelmator. What is it's future?
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To add to this, Davinci Resolve is also great freemium software IMO
Kdenlive is free and open-source and is so great, such a slept on app
I don't know what they're doing with it, because it seems to lack even the most basic editing functionality.