Yikes! I hope 2.0 is free. I don't use it enough to justify buying a new version of everything all over again!
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Serif Updates Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher With New Tools and Functions
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But you don't have to, your existing version is perpetually licensed.
It's an independent company actively working on inexpensive competent professional software. I think maintenance cost for updates is important, lest we see it fold or be sold to a corporation that mishandles it.
New to Affinity. Honest question: of the Affinity users here... How many are professionals and how are you finding Affinity interfaces with the rest of the creative professional industry (I'm thinking file compatibility/sharing/conversion, press-ready, etc.)?
I ask as someone who has used Adobe since the '93 Acrobat launch and is completely over their price + subscription model. While Affinity looks promising, just wondering how realistic it is to switch from THE industry standard to something less established. Maaaaybe as an individual, it could be possible. But I can't fathom a team considering switching from Abode to Affinity - hence, my inquiry.
Cheers.
*edit - I guess a 90-day trial period is pretty legit. Might have to give 'em a spin to see what they know.
I ask as someone who has used Adobe since the '93 Acrobat launch and is completely over their price + subscription model. While Affinity looks promising, just wondering how realistic it is to switch from THE industry standard to something less established. Maaaaybe as an individual, it could be possible. But I can't fathom a team considering switching from Abode to Affinity - hence, my inquiry.
Cheers.
*edit - I guess a 90-day trial period is pretty legit. Might have to give 'em a spin to see what they know.
Love Affinity Designer, but you still cannot apply outline mode to individual layers. Surely I can’t be the only person who wants this feature.
The interface is a complete mess. And the same functions in the different apps are different key combinations.
It is totally unintuative - adding a gradient being 1. You can add a gradient in about 4 different sections. All have different levels of manipulation and adjustment.
They already state on their forums that all updates are free, upto the 2.0 release. Which is fair. I have been using them on the mac for 2 years or so and just bought them again for W10. Paying £25 per Application is a good price. Happily pay them again in a couple of years for 2.xx.
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I like you not subtly insulted Adobe users as people that are stubborn and not people that demand better workflows or speed in editing.
I bought the Affinity suite a year ago when I accidentally upgraded to Catalina (BTW, **** you, Catalina), and my CS6 (BTW, **** you, Adobe) stopped working. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw they added data merge to Publisher. That was the exact feature I needed. Virtual fist bump to whomever championed building that at Affinity!
No harm in checking out the trial. Plus it's 25 bucks. That's a no risk scenario to a ultra low risk scenario.
I have Affinity Designer and Photo. The workflow in Photo is a mess IMO. Designer is closer to to Illustrator than Photo is to Photoshop. The "Personas" in Designer, at least the two main ones (Vector and Pixel) makes sense. In Photo, it kind of doesn't. It seems rather superfluous.
There is no batch editing with Affinity Photo in the way anyone serious is used to in LR or Bridge. Also, LR is still the fastest. Adobe hate or not, people need to live with it.
Plugin support is still meh with Photo even though they emulated PS plugin support.
Adobe is moving up a tier and is catered to professionals with the CC products. They offer casual online only products and Elements for everything else. People hate them for that, but guess what? Every other professional grade product in almost every industry has the same model.
The curt people telling Adobe to *expletive off are for people that aren't interested in what Adobe offers and Affinity doesn't.
Can I work with Affinity as a professional? Yes, but I don't want to.
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it is agreed that Photoshop is more mature than Affinity Photo, as of this writing, and maybe forever. However, I never used a lot of the new features that came even in CS6, like 3D. I rarely toss and turn at night because I'm not able to turn a subject's frown into a smile with one click or apply facial recognition to the neighbor's dog or replace a sky instantly, vis-a-vis, in a few minutes. (I also avoid using the Cloud, but that's a bit off topic.)
I continue to use PSCS6 on an "as needed" basis simply because I know it so much better and I can get some things done more quickly using it. (I also still use Lightroom 6 and it, too, substantially cut down on my Photoshop usage.) However, even if today's Photoshop could turn wine into water (or is it the other way around?), I will not "rent" software, which is why I started using the Affinity products to begin with and how our discussion began.
It's good to see that Serif Publisher has continued after all these years, and that they added Vector and Photo processing applications.
I don't use the photo application so much because I use Capture One Pro, but it is useful for Photoshop-type manipulations.
I don't use the photo application so much because I use Capture One Pro, but it is useful for Photoshop-type manipulations.
Each to their own, I guess. Most of the things you list are workflow preferences. Plenty of others who haven’t adapted their lives to Adobe will prefer things the Affinity way. Personally, I can not conceive of a UX worse than Adobe’s.
The update appeared as normal after a couple of hours. Didn't need to delete anything.
You're correct. After installation, it still takes about 20 seconds to launch. Weird.
On my end the slow launch is gone. 1.8 would bounce in the dock for around 30 seconds before opening but this updates lets it open within 2 seconds now. Hopefully it stays that way for me lol
Unbelievable! 1 day before the update, I had to make an Automator workflow to copy hundreds of values from a spreadsheet and put them in Designer. Mind you, this takes several attempts to get right and a long time to run. I do this every year, and the next day it gets replaced by Data merge.
Great feature, but the timing hurts...
Great feature, but the timing hurts...
Hm... I’m aware that it would be much more convenient to have auto-trace directly in AD, but for the moment you can use e.g. Vectornator, Inkscape, or potrace-variants -all free- to create a vector file to use in AD. While some potrace-variant installation requires additional work like compiling it with XCode or, in case of Delineate, installing native Java (or if you prefer the MS build here) the results are actually surprisingly good (depends on the original, your personal requirements and expectations, might require additional work in AD 😎).
Here is a Wikihow entry on how to autotrace in Inkscape.
Here one example on how to do it in Vectornator.
Here you can download DragPotrace for M1&Intel.
I didnt see the updates in my App Store? Is this ONLY for Bug Sir ? I sure hope not.
Today, Affinity is having new Affinity Creative Sessions in their YouTube channel. Starting at noon, they have allocated one hour per product.
Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/c/Affinitybyserif
The learning curve may seem huge, but once you understand the concept, it becomes very easy. Just try to start with a fresh perspective, and you will eventually understand it.
Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/c/Affinitybyserif
The learning curve may seem huge, but once you understand the concept, it becomes very easy. Just try to start with a fresh perspective, and you will eventually understand it.
At the moment I have been using https://vectormagic.com/ for the time being. Far superior to Illustrator's tracing tool. I will check out those other links though too! Thanks!