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Serif Affinity alternatives for Photoshop - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ Illustrator - https://affinity.ser
by benbristow 6y ago
Serif Affinity alternatives for
Photoshop - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/
Illustrator - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/
InDesign - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/
50% off each product (one-time purchase with updates, no subscription) too during the COVID pandemic.
Won't take you long to adjust at all as they're very similar and the apps are more lightweight and faster than Adobe's products have ever been. Also iPad versions if you want to edit on a tablet.
Been using Affinity Photo for a while now as an alternative to Photoshop and wouldn't look back.
- diebeforei485 6y agoHow does Affinity Photo compare with Pixelmator Pro? I'm trying to pick between the two.
- benbristow 6y agoI've never used Pixelmator, but Pixelmator is Mac Only where Affinity works on Windows too.
- ultrarunner 6y agoI tried both. Pixelmator lacked (or I couldn’t find) vector tools I was looking for at the time, then the trial expired. That pushed me to Affinity and I had less trouble. Take this with a grain of salt, but vector work feels like a bit of an afterthought with Pixelmator.
- werber 6y agoI lost my adobe license from my old job and gave designer a go. For my purposes, I’ve found it to be a superior solution. Runs faster, and basically the same shortcuts.
- oefrha 6y agoI’ve used Affinity Designer as a cheap alternative to Illustrator. Not surprisingly it’s way better than Inkscape (the Inkscape UI alone makes me lose all interests in designing anything), but Illustrator definitely has a lot more features and power tools, and arguably more importantly, a hell lot more online resources. So I guess Affinity Designer fulfills the role as a budget alternative, but not much more.
- derefr 6y agoI've always wondered why the space of professional graphics programs isn't like the space of professional DAW (audio) programs. With DAWs, everything is a standardized plugin (a VST) that can be run inside any of the workstation programs. Customers can buy VSTs separately from any consideration of what ecosystem they're going to be using them with.
- ksml 6y agoI have no experience with graphic design programs, but I would guess that it has something to do with the fact that VSTs are self contained and have extremely simple interfaces. A VST takes some input (MIDI or audio) and produces some output (MIDI or audio). That's it. They're extremely modular, and you can chain them together in arbitrary ways so long as the inputs/outputs line up. I imagine it's not so simple in the graphic design world, and without such a simple interface that everyone can agree on, it's much harder to create standardized plugins that everyone can use.
- chefandy 6y agoBecause only now are viable professional alternatives to Adobe programs starting to show up. Adobe would be shooting themselves in the foot by working with some interoperable plugin format. Also, for graphic design at least, plugins are a much smaller part of your workflow than they are in audio production— the basic tools really are the most important thing in design. I'd say most professional graphic designers, if absolutely necessary, could replace their entire digital workflow with a few hundred dollars in art supplies, maybe minus typesetting and color matching functionality, and likely produce more interesting (if much slower and less polished) results. I don't even think they make Letraset letters anymore.
- chefandy 6y agoCome to think of it, one of the most important graphical resources we have is even more interchangeable than VST plugins— fonts.
- derefr 6y ago
- LegitShady 6y agoDo you do any digital painting? That's a large component of photoshop for me, although lately its been sharing with Procreate.
- killerdhmo 6y agoHave you checked out Adobe Fresco? It's a free app that works for iPad and Windows, and let's you draw/paint in Fresco and use that same document in Photoshop
- LegitShady 6y agoI use procreate on ipad. For windows I'm done with adobe. I'm not looking for an alternative to photoshop to stick with the company that made me leave photoshop.
- thelittleone 6y agoI needed to do some water color recently. Corel Painter blew my mind. The interface looks a little outdated but the brush styles and effects out of the box are just a joy to use.
- LegitShady 6y agoI own Corel Painter 2019 but it hasn't been very stable for me. Lately I've been doing my digital work on an ipad pro on procreate.
- alexashka 6y agoAffinity Photo literally freezes trying to open 5-10 raw files taken with a Nikon camera. Pathetic. I tried to get a refund, oops buying through Apple's App Store makes that impossible.
- benbristow 6y agoWhat iPad are you using? RAW files are more a lightroom thing from what I've heard
- alexashka 6y agoI'm using a mac. iMac 27" from 2015. Using adobe lightroom on the exact same computer, I can open/edit/whatever the same raw files no problem. Affinity Photo cannot work with photographs taken with a camera. Whoever works on that software should've been ashamed to release it. They probably know it's trash or else they wouldn't have disabled asking for a refund through the app store, which is another what-the-fuck moment - why is that even a possibility? I contacted Affinity directly and they told me since I purchased through apple's app store, I cannot get a refund. What a company, hope they go bankrupt.
- draugadrotten 6y agoWhat a shitpost. Just bug report it, and surely they will be happy to fix it in the next release.
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- alexashka 6y agoWhat level of bug would it take for you to believe that a company is inept and bug reporting to be a waste of time? For example if I was selling lemonade, you bought some and when you tried to drink it, you discovered sand instead of lemonade, would you come back to my lemonade stand and report a bug in my lemonade making abilities? By the way, no refunds, you keep the sand. Legit lemonade business right?
- aikinai 6y agoYes! I also switch to all of the Affinity apps in addition to Capture One.
- langitbiru 6y agoI am looking to replace Adobe because 50 USD per month is quite a number. I prefer one time price like Affinity. Too bad they don't have replacement for Premiere Pro and After Effects. For now I'm stuck in Adobe's purgatory.
- quantummkv 6y agoFor Premiere Pro, did you take a look at Final Cut Pro X? Sure it's mac only, but it ticks all the other boxes
- epse 6y agoYou probably already have, but DaVinci Resolve is worth a try