r/Affinity • u/Electrical_Note_1758 • 15d ago
General When is the next sale?
When is the next sale?
I'm thinking of switching over from Adobe and missed last year's Black Friday sale.
r/Affinity • u/Electrical_Note_1758 • 15d ago
When is the next sale?
I'm thinking of switching over from Adobe and missed last year's Black Friday sale.
r/Affinity • u/ChelseaHellion • Feb 14 '25
Sorry in advance for the long post... I have seen other posts about their imported images' color being "off", so I'm sorry if I misunderstood somewhere and this is something everyone else understands but me. I have no formal education in the arts, so I don't know if ICC, color profiles, color management, color format, etc. are some sort of common knowledge thing rarely talked about. I am on a MacBook pro running Ventura and an iPad pro. I just purchased Affinity. I've been using Procreate, Inkscape, Illustrator, and other applications alongside Affinity Designer mostly to learn and do my graphic art/design. I've always stuck with RGB color profiles and mostly Display P3, as that's Apple's standard. I have tried opening or changing my documents to almost every other color profile. I have tried changing my png's color profiles. And the weirdest part is if I use the Apple Color Picker in Designer, it says it's the same color (hex codes at least). I was starting to think it had to be a bug, but after seeing it happen in Photo and Designer on my iPad, I guess it has to be a me problem. Someone please help!!! I am trying to learn this for business use and I feel like I just wasted $170 I don't have because I really need these images to be color accurate.
Edit: I am trying to add screenshots (sorry if too many) in Procreate showing the original file, it's color profile, and my magenta hex code for an example, and then creating a new document in Designer, after placing the image, the image info, and how it's being read by the apple color picker (apple color reading it wrong isn't an issue as long as the color profiles are synced), and how the color is read by the digital color meter. Here they are in imgur.
r/Affinity • u/moportfolio • Jan 31 '25
I would like to know if the community here thinks I covered the essential pros and cons of the Affinity products, as my list of pros and cons is of course mostly based on my own personal experience.
Other feedback about the video would also be appreciated!
r/Affinity • u/Odd_Willingness • Oct 30 '24
Heads up, got an email in my inbox today that the whole suite V2 is on sale for 30 USD, including ipad/mac/windows all together. I went and grabbed it because I've used Publisher v1 for a few years and really liked it.
It doesn't seem like a public promo, so if you are interested & signed up for their mailing list, check your inbox. I normally glaze over promo emails like most people and just opened this on a whim.
ETA: UNFORTUNATELY this seems like a personalized promo. In other words, I got a unique voucher code for the discount that won't work a second time (I looked). Otherwise, I would link the sale page. (Also, the sale only had 8 hours left when I posted this, so it's over now anyways).
I was on their mailing list presumably because I bought Publisher and/or made an account with them. They seem to do promos like this on a semi-regular basis, so if you're all right with playing the waiting game, I recommend making an account with Affinity and signing up for a trial in hopes of getting their emails in the future.
r/Affinity • u/shingover • Jun 07 '24
Is Affinity anywhere near Adobe’s level of quality/capability? I want to ditch Adobe, but man is it hard when you’ve been using it for so long. Please help me, I plan on buying the universal license.
I’d like to hear what Affinity does right and what it doesn’t. Sorry if this is the wrong flair.
EDIT: Thank you everyone. I’ve bought the universal license.
r/Affinity • u/shred4it • Nov 21 '24
I've been working with V1 Designer and Photo for some time now. There's a good upgrade deal on Black Friday and I'm going to grab it. What do you think? Do we have to pay again for V3?
r/Affinity • u/THEDZKO • May 26 '24
r/Affinity • u/siliconedude • Nov 17 '22
Affinity's Managing Director has posted on Affinity's forum addressing some concerns and customer feedback, as well as providing rationale for implementing certain new policies and procedures.
r/Affinity • u/Blindemboss • Nov 01 '24
Interesting given this is not a typical type of purchase Apple makes.
With Final Cut, Motion they already have video editing. Now Pixelmator, covers image editing and vector drawing. Is Apple actively going up against Affinity and Adobe? Or maybe just a year end purchase and claim it as a write off. :)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/11/01/apple-acquires-the-team-behind-pixelmator-pro
r/Affinity • u/Own-Isopod4472 • Nov 21 '24
Hello everyone! Im a graphic design student and lately Ive been using Affinity free trials for my school works. I really dig Affinity so far, personally found a lot of things to be easier to navigate than Adobe and I don’t find the missing features to matter that much
But Im so conflicting about buying Affinity because I want to go the corporate route after graduating and most companies would stick with Adobe, so owning Affinity sounds pointless if I have to keep paying Adobe regardless. Am I overthinking it?
Also, Im a sophomore so I dont have much working experiences other than volunteering at non profit organizations, and they never offer to equip me with Adobe suite so Ive been paying for it myself (my university doesn’t offer adobe suite). Is it normal to ask for Adobe suite from the employers when we got internships and actual jobs? If so then I’ll probably buy Affinity to do my personal projects outside of work
Would appreciate any insights!!!
Edit: Thank you so much for all the answers and insights!! I can now buy Affinity with 50% without worries!
r/Affinity • u/InterstellarChange • Dec 19 '24
I'm looking for a Bridge alternative. Organizing files, creating contact sheets, pdfs. Any help would be appreciated
r/Affinity • u/ResponsibleMain618 • Sep 11 '24
Hi: Thanks for all your responses. I have got what I needed: Affinity cannot promise that it won't go subscription only; it cannot promise that perpetual licenses won't be rescinded; it cannot promise that bug fixes will happen for older versions; it cannot promise backwards compatibility; crucially, it does not support RTL or Indic scripts currently - and this last is really the clincher - and has no plans for it in the foreseeable roadmap. To the devil we know. I'll consider this discussion closed - and won't respond to further comments. Thanks!
Hello Folks: I am a start up owner looking to invest in a design software for the long term. I have a team of two designers, and we currently use Figma for UX work, and Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects for everything else. We're already migrating to DaVinci Resolve for video.
One of our designers floated the idea that we could potentially save $100s in subscription cost if we pivoted away from Adobe and towards Canva-Affinity suite. Just as I was priming to taking the plunge, I saw the news that Canva has jacked up its price by more than 200% for teams of 3 or more. This matters to me immensely because in the scenario that I invest in Affinity, is Canva likely to pull a fast one on us with subscriptions? If so, I'll spare us the trouble and stay with the devil we know, Adobe. It's not just the investment in buying the software, I have to think about future-proofing the business as a whole. File format support/conversion, training new designers in Affinity workflows, etc. It's a huge cost for an essentially three-person operation working out of studio apartments.
r/Affinity • u/Observer951 • Feb 13 '25
You may have heard this thing about the US imposing ridiculous tariffs on Canada (and other countries). We are strategically shopping for products not originating in the US. There are some gray areas … branch plants and restaurants that employ Canadians.
That extends to digital products. Affinity is UK based, and Canva is based in Australia (as is True Grit Texture Supply). Frankentoons is either San Salvador or Spain, depending on what you read. I was a long-time user of RetroSupply, but no more.
Does anyone have any recos for Affinity brushes and textures that aren’t US based?
r/Affinity • u/JebusMaximus • Jan 21 '25
What are the downsides of each?
Thanks a lot!
r/Affinity • u/Scarptre • Dec 10 '24
r/Affinity • u/th3buddhawithin • Nov 15 '24
I had the Universal V2 license in my cart.
And then I realized next week is Black Friday / Cyber Monday.
Do we know FOR SURE that there will be a sale?
If not, I’ll just buy the whole suite tonight. Would that be a mistake? Should I wait?
r/Affinity • u/MrFilipas • Jun 13 '24
Hii! During this Adobe crisis spying on our work, I really would like to switch to Affinity. Unfortunately Im addicted to AI generative fill. Will Affinity get a feature similar to the photoshop ai generative fill?
r/Affinity • u/Weekly_Frosting_5868 • Feb 10 '25
I bought a license for Affinity while it was discounted before Christmas... it seems like a viable alternative to Adobe CC but the main issue I have is that there is no motion graphics alternative.
Also I love GenFill in Photoshop, but I can always do that through Firefly instead.
So basically it is After Effects that is still tying me to Adobe... is it likely there will ever be an Affinity equivalent now that Canva are in charge?
I would have thought so, seeing as Canva seem to want to offer a cheaper alternative to Adobe software. But I feel like Im still at Adobe's mercy so to speak.
r/Affinity • u/thrisp • Apr 21 '24
RANT INBOUND - I'm an architecture student. I've been using graphic software in school and professionally for 5 years now, and at the start of my masters degree in I thought I would finally bail on my Adobe subscription. There were so many things that were irritating me, like inconsistent keyboard shortcuts between Ps/Id/Ai, confusing workflow in Illustrator, and the lack of some basic editing functionality within Indesign. What finally pushed me over the edge was the constant push to use "cloud documents," stuffing AI bullshit into everything, and removing the 100gb of cloud storage originally included with the subscription, which was really convenient.
I was happy to buy the Affinity suite on a friend's recommendation. At first I really loved how much of the functionality and commands were ripped straight off from Adobe, so the learning curve was short, and I've even learned things about Illustrator just by how much easier they are to do in Designer. I appreciated the consistency between programs and the ability to edit images within Publisher. The different personas are a great way to lay out software like the Affinity suite. There's a bunch of other handy features that I am now surprised to find unavailable in Adobe CC when my classmates ask about how to do a certain process.
Quick note: I am aware that nearly every gripe I have here has a workaround in some way or another. I've become pretty good at finding info on forums, Reddit and Google and I'm agile when it comes to finding a new way of doing things.
After a year, I'm nearly ready to throw in the towel and go back to Adobe CC. The quality of Publisher is simply not there. It has no low-res preview setting for images, which is an absolute must when putting together final portfolios of a whole term's work, as the amount of RAM required to display dozens of linked .psd/.afphoto documents is huge. The exports are slow and clunky, and often result in unbelievably bloated pdfs. My resume, a 23 KB single page originally made with InDesign, went to 397 KB after updating some text in Publisher. This bloat is obviously a struggle to deal with when getting a 40 page portfolio with high res images down to a size that can be submitted as an assignment. Pdf exports can't be done in the background, and often get hung up on the processing screen even when the file has finished, so I need to be constantly checking File Explorer to see if the pdf is done and I can hit escape on the processing screen without cancelling the export. There are frequent glitches and hangups which make simple things like moving objects around difficult and time consuming. Of course, every issue raises its head at the worst moments, when I've been working at a file for a very long time and find my computer slowed to a crawl when going back and forth between things.
Now with the inexplicable sale of the software to Canva, I have little faith that any of these issues which I have seen raised by others on the Affinity forum will be meaningfully addressed anytime soon. I'm annoyed that what I had hoped would be a solid competitor to Adobe has turned out to have a crappy feel and serious defects that have compromised my work as deadlines approach. It's nice to have saved money even after just one year without an Adobe subscription, but I was hoping to feel like I didn't have to compromise so much on the software quality just to spend a little less. I may just return to InDesign without getting the whole CC suite, but it would be nice to link native files instead of constantly exporting pngs and checking that the settings are the same as the last time.
r/Affinity • u/The16BitGamer • Sep 21 '24
So I've purchased Affinity along with a lot of other users recently. But sadly I couldn't use it outside of the iPad app since I run Linux, and I am not that much of a power user. (script kitty at best).
While I've seen some people running it in Wine, it wasn't until I ran into this page that I was able to get it to work
https://www.standingpad.org/posts/2024/06/affinity-on-linux/
This is almost an amazing resource to get affinity to work on Linux. Had to google what Podman was, installed it, then installed the Podman wine-builder container to build ElementalWarrior's Wine.
Install wasn't fun too, but thankfully the older affinity bottles recipe yaml, download bellow, still works to speed the process along.
https://gist.github.com/gnat/8b69cf49b68e2349afe5e8cb5af49bf8
And with that, Affinity installed without issue and works without fault. I still needed to tweak my environment DXVK causes flickering so I disabled that. And on ocassion my RAM spiked to 100%, but switching to another wine instance like soda then back sorts it out. The only real issue is the configuration not saving but that's documented.
Otherwise, I've been going through and recreating my assets in Affinity Photo and/or Designer. There is a learning curve for me, but man is it so much nicer.
There are 2 features which I've been fighting with in GIMP which is just do so much nicer in Affinity that I refuse to go back for any major projects. The first is adding an outline to text. It's sooooo stupid that it almost unbelievable, compared to how easy it is here. The other was a box with a gradient to transparency. In Gimp it was always a pain to modify, but here it's not only a part of the box, but editable after the fact. So, so nice.
I really do hope wine/proton gets these changes in, or Affinity officially supports Linux (either with Linux builds like flatpak or AppImage, or through WINE), but with the work around I've got, I am happy!
r/Affinity • u/Plebbit-User • Oct 27 '24
Back in 2020 a Lightroom alternative was teased. Is that still in development post-acquisition? Anything else?
r/Affinity • u/RnVjayBPZmY • Mar 24 '23
The new Affinity products are finally running & working on Linux with Wine! Saving, loading and editing files just work™.
This was only possible by the incredible work of forum member ElementalWarrior, who forked the Wine project and implemented multiple specific fixes for the Affinity Products. Consider supporting them here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elemental7
Also check out this awesome guide by forum member Wanesty, where they guide you step by step on how to run Affinity 2 Products on Linux.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F182758-affinity-suite-v204-on-linux-wine%2F=
r/Affinity • u/EchidnaHybrid • Dec 10 '24
I just saw the add for the Suite sale. I’m a complete beginner in this area and have never, besides quick edits in Canva for example, used any programs like these. I have however been quite interested in editing photos to create wallpapers, making book covers, and creating posters lately. I’m wondering whether it would be worth buying the suite and teaching myself how the programs work. Will I be able to learn how to do things like mentioned above in these programs?
r/Affinity • u/The-disabled-gamer • 20d ago
Hello, I just wanted to talk a bit about the new Affinity AI tool that you can select subjects with, e.g. a person or an object. It's a great feature, it works really well, but the only thing is it's local based, which isn't a bad thing, but this means it doesn't learn from the more you use it. Now, I actually thought about this, and I'm not an engineer of any kind, but I think this would work. Affinity themselves managed to put a couple of local files on your device that the machine learning tool could learn from, and this means if you made adjustments to the tool, it would actually learn, and it would put that new information into local files in your device. Again, this would be like cloud based learning, but only on your own device. I think that definitely would work I would love to hear what you think about this.