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Canva Acquires Serif's Affinity Apps
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Bro, mouse right click is everywhere in macOS.
True, it’s so daft. Resizing brushes requires keyboard or menu bar. Adobe already worked out decades ago that users want to quickly change the brush size with a right click and a slider.
Affinity aren’t the only one who do that. It’s terrible after nearly 30 years that PSD files are the only reliable format for layered and masked files and it’s Adobe’s native format!
Sure, but you have to enable it. Separately for every user. Same for tap to click.
And you will wonder, how many users are running years long with the defaults and never discovered that right click and tap-to-click actually exist.
The few times I gave them a shot I had to give up because of how frustrating the interface was. But that was me, others may be happier.
No, I personally prefer the Mac version, because it's where I download my photos. I didn't try the app on the iPad though
I shoot RAW and my photo are big and don't want to fill the iPad
There's something so manufactured feeling in the air right now.
If it wasn't for how toxic, juvenile and misinformed people have been behaving in the last week regarding Adobe, I would have looked into Affinity's sale.
But I'm not going there. It just feels that this whole situation of misinformation was engineered by Canva and that they may have bought off some influencers and paid a troll farm to get people to switch from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, a much weaker software that can't deliver industry standard file formats or some of the compatibility professionals need with other apps.
Did people realize Canva does generative AI and subscriptions before they went wild brained on the internet about Adobe?
If it wasn't for how toxic, juvenile and misinformed people have been behaving in the last week regarding Adobe, I would have looked into Affinity's sale.
But I'm not going there. It just feels that this whole situation of misinformation was engineered by Canva and that they may have bought off some influencers and paid a troll farm to get people to switch from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, a much weaker software that can't deliver industry standard file formats or some of the compatibility professionals need with other apps.
Did people realize Canva does generative AI and subscriptions before they went wild brained on the internet about Adobe?
Many of us have been using Affinity products for almost a decade and find them useful and productive. If I were in a design production company I would almost certainly pay for Adobe products, if only for increased compatibility. But, as an individual, Adobe does not offer much additional benefit and Affinity suits my needs. Even if they end up going subscription. I want them to have enough regular supply of money to fund ongoing development and to address some of the shortcomings.
Several Affinity tools don't have a quick access contextual menu including for brushes where it is most used. They aren't the only app to not have a right click option for brushes and other tools.
Also, hitting Command T should be for the Transform tool. This is a photo editing app. Adobe understood how users think long ago and segregated the Text tool to Shift T.
Their nested folder structures are also cumbersome. Adobe really hit the mark when they made clipped adjustment layer sit on top of a layer. That along with other things makes their Layers palette extremely easy to read and navigate in Photoshop. They the pioneers of getting this right and if anyone wants to compete against them they should follow the lead instead of trying to reinvent the wheel into a square.
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You don't have to enable mouse right click on macOS. It's on by default. The only option is which side of the mouse you want the secondary click on.
Trackpad secondary click is also on by default although there is a disable option.
People have been complaining about adobe’s subscription-only model ever since it was introduced. I very much doubt canva payed them so far in advance just in case they ever bought a competing product.
Talking about the current mania not a decade long campaign. Cmon bruzza use the head. Canva only purchased these apps recently. It's the first post on this topic.
If Canva starts doing machine learning and subs for these Affinity apps, which is very likely in the future, the reaction from these people screaming about Adobe is going to be either hypocritical or very funny.
I haven’t really heard of current complains about adobe. Back in the day, sure, many of us did complain, then moved on. If only, my biggest fear is that with the canva aquisition affinity may follow suit.
This new site CARA looks fishy too.
It was registered in 2022 before generative AI started being shoved around.
So was all the hysteria and headlines the founder was making about piracy and AI in the last year all manufactured for attention?
And why insist that all uploads should use GLAZE? If every member used Glaze it would use even more energy wastefully like generative AI does as it requires a lot of GPU power and there is no guarantee it works. Screenshots of images are easy to collect and don't include the data that Glaze creates to confuse AI training.
It just looks like another front for Nvidia or whoever is ultimately going to profit from it.
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Yeah every mouse with a physical right click doesn’t have off option.
Anyway on desktop Affinity doesn’t support a contextual menu for things like brushes no matter what you have pen, mouse or trackpad. Surely they do on tablets?
You know what sucks is that Apple has never supported forward and back buttons on third party mice. We have to install software for it. In Windows and Linux it’s built in.
Same old story we saw back in the Macromedia days. Macromedia fanboys were always screaming about Adobe and then….oops
True. Even on Apple's "mighty mouse" that has more buttons you can only assign them to Apple's apps, not to the usual mice actions:
With Karabiner, a third party app, you can overcome that limitation.
Just tired off third party device apps atm. Had some open source apps break macOS drivers for other components for reasons unknown.
Of course, I would appreciate, if I could do on macOS without third party Karabiner app, what Microsoft's PowerToys do natively: Reallocate keys, give some meaningful life to function keys.
Here on a German keyboard the square brackets and pipe symbols are unintuitive: I have them on F16, F17, F18.
And copy on F13, paste on F14, paste w/o formatting on F15.
With Karabiner on macOS and PowerToys on Windows I have the same key behaviour on both systems.
All extra mouse buttons on third party mice are recognized by macOS but we just don't have a built in option to assign them to actions like backwards and forwards in the web browsers and Finder. Weird that we never got the option yet.