Affinity whole suit is great and I can personally highly reccomend it. It isn't on par with Adobe on several things, but they are closing the distance fast. They are great especially if you need them only once in a while.
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The Affinity Suite (Designer, Photo, Publisher) is pretty great. Whish they had Linux support :(
This would really change everything, imho
Does it not run in WINE?
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.
An amazing deal and all the licenses work on all platforms.
By all you mean Windows, MacOS, and iOS.
No Android or Linux support, and no plans for it.
Sure. Linux is less than 3% of desktop and laptop market share. No one cares and those that do know how to use Wine.
Not true! Linux has a full 3% now according to statcounter!
That includes pre-rendering by Google servers, though, since they run Linux and Chromium. They’re not real users so you can knock that down by 0.5%, at least.
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!
As long as other people confirm that's the case (I don't have an iPad or a computer at the moment), shoutouts are cool with me. I just suggest to edit the title so it's clearer it's about a photo editing app.
Done!
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.
I need to try 2. I tried for a while to make myself use Affinity Photo the other year but I just couldn't get used to it, I started using Photo Pea until I finally just went back to Photoshop.
I agree 100%, Affinity is amazing and certainly have my loyalty mostly BECAUSE of no sub. I will say that I need to spend more time using Affinity Photo. I know it can do all I need it to do but I've gotten so used to just using Pixelmator Pro and moving on. Both are great!