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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Affinity is available today. The products are great, the pricing is reasonable, and it is not subscription based.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Affinity is just great and reasonably compatible with Adobe files. It's been my way out of the Adobe hegemony, after trying for Corel or Opensource tools for years. Without the creative cloud client crashing life has been so much more enjoyable !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve used Affinity for many years, I really like it, and for the low one-time price, it’s been a spectacular value. That said, it can no longer even compare to Photoshop given their incredible AI capabilities and some of their other integrated features. In my case, I’ll stick with Affinity because I’m more of a hobbyist, but if I was a graphics professional, I’d most certainly have to use Photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

High-end professionals avoid Adobe like the plague. Photoshop still doesn't have decent EXR support or 32-bit support.

It's great for 5-person design studios, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that. What do the high end pros use?