Thomas Veil
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If you use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign, your world may've just changed.
One of Adobe's best competitors in the graphics field has been Serif, the British company behind Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. They are Serif's equivalents to the aforementioned Adobe apps.
For most things, for most people, they are just as good. And they were priced at about $79 each for life, as opposed to Adobe's monthly subscription model.
They already had a lot of converts. Well, just within the last week or so, Canva bought Serif and made the Affinity programs free.
Yeah, free. Well, with one catch. If you want to use Canva's AI option, you have to pay extra. But a lot of people don't really need that, so within the Affinity user community there has been general celebration.
I've been using Affinity myself for at least a year, and while it does have a few quirks, in general it does everything I need it to do. What will be interesting to see is how much it manages to damage Adobe's previously bulletproof market share. Personally, I find that aspect of it satisfying.
One of Adobe's best competitors in the graphics field has been Serif, the British company behind Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. They are Serif's equivalents to the aforementioned Adobe apps.
For most things, for most people, they are just as good. And they were priced at about $79 each for life, as opposed to Adobe's monthly subscription model.
They already had a lot of converts. Well, just within the last week or so, Canva bought Serif and made the Affinity programs free.
Yeah, free. Well, with one catch. If you want to use Canva's AI option, you have to pay extra. But a lot of people don't really need that, so within the Affinity user community there has been general celebration.
I've been using Affinity myself for at least a year, and while it does have a few quirks, in general it does everything I need it to do. What will be interesting to see is how much it manages to damage Adobe's previously bulletproof market share. Personally, I find that aspect of it satisfying.
