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Welp - that’s the end of recommending affinity 😔
What a shit fuck
Yeah, very worried. Why would they purchase something unless they thought it would be profitable? I don't want profitable software, I want fairly priced software.
:(
I bought the V2 suite of their apps at release to support the company because I'm tired of perpetual subscription software. I'm not expecting lifetime updates or support, I just want whatever I paid for to work reasonably without hassles.
Out of the loop for this one. Is Affinity a software for graphics editing, which was regarded as an alternative to Adobe, but it now acquired by a big corp?
Pretty much
They had a set of programs that rivalled Adobe Photoshop and similar software, good enough to be used by the industry. They differentiated themselves by having everything available with a one-time purchase instead of Adobe's monthly subscriptions.
They got acquired by a big corp that's known for annoying subscriptions, so people are worried that the software won't be developed in the same way anymore
Hi All, I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family.
It's just so cringy seeing this weird corpospeak saying "we've been acquired, another corporation paid money to own our assets".
Literally these messages could be written by an AI, they’re so generic.
“We’re thrilled”: we’ve been paid to be happy and have golden handcuffs on. “Nothing will change”: We’re busy popping champagne bottles and ordering private jets and besides this isn’t our concern any more. The new owner will eventually make some changes I’d imagine. “We’re committed to”: we are making no promises and until we announce changes we will fully back the current policies.
Also, of course you are thrilled, you’re getting a fat check lol.
God fucking dammit.
Well at least I got the full suite now, and hopefully they won't force subscriptions on existing users.
Well at least I got the full suite now, and hopefully they won’t force subscriptions on existing users.
Probably not, that would cause too much bad PR. They'll just make it more and more inconvenient to keep your prepaid suite until most users switch over
I think if there’s anything big corporations have learned over the past few years, it’s that PR doesn’t matter all that much.
I won't switch over. The whole point is avoiding thr subscription model.
My first thought was, “here comes the subscription.”
Guaranteed this will happen. Even skylum has been taking Luminar on a steady path toward subscriptions too (Luminar and affinity being the two paths I went when ditching Adobe).
was affinity actually on the same level as adobe ?
was affinity actually on the same level as adobe ?
Regarding what? There are no audio and video editors by Serif, for example.
I mean the ones they did have, e.g. was affinity photo as good as photoshop ?
was affinity photo as good as photoshop ?
It's not as fully featured. Whether people care for such features is another question. It doesn't support file format plugins (so no AVIF and HEIF support even through plugins) and it doesn't have those AI features.
Better give inkscape more practice.
lol at the "no plan to change at the moment" crap. that ship has already sailed.
“At the moment” being the key part of that phrase. All the changes still have to be worked out lol.
I’ve used Designer for several years now in combination with inkscape very heavily for work having bashed my head against a wall called Adobe Illustrator for years - all the obvious reasons including terrible svg support. Inkscape should be supported for sure , but Designer has sped up workflow no end with what I use it for. It’s a shame that everything must enshittify.
The only thing that inkscape could be better at is image tracing. Other than that its my favorite vector software.
Better give inkscape more practice.
Too bad Inkscape uses GTK. It's fine under Linux and okayish under Windows but under macOS it's just horse shit. There's a reason Krita's popularity exploded. It just works great everywhere (heck, even Android under Samsung DeX).
Yeah, same with GIMP. I would love to use it on my Mac since I already use it and am comfortable with it on Linux, but it's noticeably slow for some reason and you shouldn't even try using it with the touchpad. The windows especially in multi-window mode don't behave as you'd expect, the keybinds don't either, it's very meh all around. I was wondering whether I should get Affinity but I guess with this it's a no.
The difference to GIMP is that Inkscape is written in C++, so a port to Qt would be more feasible than a Gimp port to Qt.
Krita on Mac works fine, btw. Get it on Steam if you want an auto updater.
What makes it bad on mac? On windows I find both krita and inkscape mediocre UI's but idk how much of that is the toolkit, and how much just small open source teams not having time for ui/ux
What makes it bad on mac?
It's like using an old Java GUI application on a modern OS.
I bought Designer last year as a one off. But there's no point in mastering it anymore. That's just going to suck you more into their ecosystem, then a subscription, then raising price, and then whatever they want.
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