Affinity – Professional Creative Software
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From the smoothest photo editing and design software to next-gen page layout, Affinity is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.

Last year I got an iPad pro as a gift. I’ve been meaning to do more with it especially photo editing and I finally got around to looking into it.

But…every damn photo app seems to be a subscription. The ones that aren’t are very basic.

Until I found Affinity Photo 2.

Holy hell, an extremely full featured photo app with no sub?! It’s like Lightroom and Photoshop rolled into one for a one-time payment of $A30.

I took a few days to learn it and once you do it’s very good.

For the cost of buying Affinity forever I could get Adobe’s photo plan for just 2 months!

For someone like me who will use this stuff lightly, going some months without using it at all, subscription software sucks.

Well done to Affinity for providing a high quality alternative. Give them a look - they also have Windows and Mac versions.

This sounds like an ad but it’s not, I’m just so tired of having subs pushed in my face - especially on the app store - that when I find a good alternative I feel like shouting about it!

  • MrFlamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    I used Adobe Illustrator from time to time, didn’t really like it, and was not willing to pay $20/month for software I rarely use. Normally I’d use a foss app, but I tried using Inkscape and unfortunately it wouldn’t run very well on my machine, so I bought Affinity Designer.

    Affinity is just as good as Adobe in many ways, runs really smoothly and I liked it so much that when they announced V2 (paid upgrade, but at launch had a nice big discount), I just paid for the full suite as it was such a great deal, even though I’m unlikely to even use publisher or the iPad apps that all came with it. Definitely worth the money, and happy to support a company using the traditional buy once own forever model.

  • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The Affinity Suite (Designer, Photo, Publisher) is pretty great. Whish they had Linux support :(

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    And the difference between the two isn’t that big. Affinity’s luminosity filter is leagues better than the process in photoshop.

    There were some things I wasn’t a fan of. The pen tool was kinda weird.

    But as someone in your position as far as intermittent use, yeah, it’s an amazing value!

  • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I bought the whole suite - Publisher, Designer, and Photo. An amazing deal and all the licenses work on all platforms. Highly recommend, especially if you’re a macOS and iOS user.