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Anyone looking to jump ship, the Affinity suite is very close to Illustrator, Publisher, and Photoshop in capability. It's also a lot nicer to use in many ways

Anyone looking to jump ship, the Affinity suite is very close to Illustrator, Publisher, and Photoshop in capability. It's also a lot nicer to use in many ways. For example, using Export Persona in Designer is soo much better than Adobe, I'd regret moving back. Best part is that for less than the cost of two months renting Adobe, you own the entire suite. Not affiliated whatsoever; I just despise Adobe's business practices.

eropple 3y ago
For visual design, I can see the value; a lot of people say Affinity is pretty great. The bummer for me is that there remains no great alternative for video. FCPX Resolve, by itself, is good to great, and Resolve's CG package, Fusion, is okay (don't love the editing model), but there isn't the kind of tight integration between components that makes bouncing between tools pleasant to use. Throwing a PSD into an AE composition and having a text-templated instance of the AE comp within a Premiere timeline is something I just never think about, while having to manually go bake intermediaries drives me up the wall. This week I tried to make a go of switching from Premiere to Resolve for real(tm), and I lasted like...two hours. Finding myself saying "but where are the buttons?" was maybe the first time I have felt truly old trying to use a computer. Adobe can have my $30/mo forever, I guess.
juujian 3y ago
Has anyone tried running their software on Linux through Wine or similar?
- prox 3y ago
  I just read a whole thread on their forums, apparently no one has. There seem to be a few issues with getting it over. Affinity mentions it takes $500k to develop a Linux version and their market research says they will never recoup that.
- latexr 3y ago
  According to the rating on Wine’s website, version 1 runs like garbage (their word). https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17927 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... For version 2 of Affinity Photo: > It looks like someone got the program working. Unfortunately, it requires some work. https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37300 https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37300
dataflow 3y ago
> Anyone looking to jump ship, the Affinity suite is very close to Illustrator, Publisher, and Photoshop in capability. Last I checked, Affinity didn't support Photoshop's XMP sidecar files because {excuses}. That's a deal-breaker for lots of RAW photographers with existing files they care about.
- pgorczak 3y ago
  Wouldn’t {excuses} be reverse engineering all of Lightroom’s adjustment tools to be able to develop the same picture from a given pair of raw and sidecar files?
  - dataflow 3y ago
    Probably. But I'm not sure why the difficulty should convince customers to buy a product that doesn't solve their problem.
    - hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
      It will take these customers some time to understand that their deeper problem is not the lack of support for XMP but decades-long vendor lock-in they voluntarily entered into. Only with this understanding they can realize it's worth the effort.
      - dataflow 3y ago
        The existing files they have are still going to be there regardless of how much "understanding" they do.
        pessimizer 3y ago
        Sunk costs.
        dataflow 3y ago

eropple 3y ago

For visual design, I can see the value; a lot of people say Affinity is pretty great. The bummer for me is that there remains no great alternative for video. FCPX Resolve, by itself, is good to great, and Resolve's CG package, Fusion, is okay (don't love the editing model), but there isn't the kind of tight integration between components that makes bouncing between tools pleasant to use. Throwing a PSD into an AE composition and having a text-templated instance of the AE comp within a Premiere timeline is something I just never think about, while having to manually go bake intermediaries drives me up the wall. This week I tried to make a go of switching from Premiere to Resolve for real(tm), and I lasted like...two hours. Finding myself saying "but where are the buttons?" was maybe the first time I have felt truly old trying to use a computer. Adobe can have my $30/mo forever, I guess.

juujian 3y ago

Has anyone tried running their software on Linux through Wine or similar?

prox 3y ago
I just read a whole thread on their forums, apparently no one has. There seem to be a few issues with getting it over. Affinity mentions it takes $500k to develop a Linux version and their market research says they will never recoup that.
latexr 3y ago
According to the rating on Wine’s website, version 1 runs like garbage (their word). https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17927 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... For version 2 of Affinity Photo: > It looks like someone got the program working. Unfortunately, it requires some work. https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37300 https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37300

dataflow 3y ago

> Anyone looking to jump ship, the Affinity suite is very close to Illustrator, Publisher, and Photoshop in capability. Last I checked, Affinity didn't support Photoshop's XMP sidecar files because {excuses}. That's a deal-breaker for lots of RAW photographers with existing files they care about.

pgorczak 3y ago
Wouldn’t {excuses} be reverse engineering all of Lightroom’s adjustment tools to be able to develop the same picture from a given pair of raw and sidecar files?
- dataflow 3y ago
  Probably. But I'm not sure why the difficulty should convince customers to buy a product that doesn't solve their problem.
  - hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
    It will take these customers some time to understand that their deeper problem is not the lack of support for XMP but decades-long vendor lock-in they voluntarily entered into. Only with this understanding they can realize it's worth the effort.
    - dataflow 3y ago
      The existing files they have are still going to be there regardless of how much "understanding" they do.
      - pessimizer 3y ago
        Sunk costs.
        dataflow 3y ago