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Oh boy. I willingly gave my money to Affinity because I don’t want a subscription model, I don’t want my creative apps to rely on the cloud _at all_ to work _an
by rcarmo 3y ago
Oh boy. I willingly gave my money to Affinity because I don’t want a subscription model, I don’t want my creative apps to rely on the cloud _at all_ to work _and_ I want native Mac apps. I am not reassured by their FAQ at all.
I suspect a year from now Canva will break at least one (if not all three) of these features and force me to leave Affinity by version 3.
It would be extremely ironic if Gimp was the only graphics app left standing I could use without all of the above nonsense (well, I am happy to keep supporting Pixelmator, but… you get the idea).
- rpastuszak 3y ago> It would be extremely ironic if Gimp was the only graphics app left standing I could use without all of the above nonsense I know successful agencies relying on OSS tools only (such as Gimp and Penpot) so I wouldn't mind that. I hope Gimp will have its Blender moment (I've been using Blender for years, but always kept coming back to Maya, this changed with the new UI)
- kfarr 3y agoAgreed, GIMP is powerful and just one UI refresh away from being a true alternative for many.
- WillAdams 3y agoIn addition to Gimp there are: - Paint.net - Pixen - Inkscape --- straight-forward vector editing - Seashore --- this is Mac OS UI overlay for GIMP - Krita --- vector editing with painting features - Scribus --- page layout - TeX/LaTeX --- batch/markup driven page layout which can do anything one can put together a TeX macro to achieve (I use it a lot and have written articles for TUGboat on it: https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf - Blender -- 3D modeling - GraviT --- another vector editor, this is likely the one most like to Affinity Designer (since they were both modeled on Freehand) - FontForge
- nacs 3y agoI wish more people knew-of/promoted Krita - it's far more user friendly than GIMP and just as powerful if not more. Fantastic for photo editing, digital art/paint and vector tools. https://krita.org/en/features/ https://krita.org/en/features/
- jwells89 3y agoKrita is a close second to Blender in terms of well-run creative FOSS projects. Would love to see more projects take their approach.
- basisword 3y agoI thought they were different tools. GIMP == Photoshop, Krita == Illustrator.
- ZiiS 3y agoKrita defaults to a "Paint Layer" behaving very like Photoshop; it can also add "Vector Layers" that behave like Illustrator. I think it is fair to say it replaces both for a lot of use cases. GIMP is much closer to just Photoshop (and say Inkscape is much more only Illustrator).
- basisword 3y agoInteresting! I'll have to check it out.
- jarek-foksa 3y agoThere is also Graphite (https://graphite.rs/ https://graphite.rs/) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).
- samuell 3y agoLooks awesome!
- LordAtlas 3y agoAffinity already disappointed the original believers when they started off telling people they could pay a one-time fee and get all future updates for free. They then ditched version 1.xx buyers by releasing a version 2 that you could only use if you paid them again.
- matwood 3y agoAffinity should not have said that (if they did), and no one should have believed them. That's just not how software or business works. Even if we go back in time to packaged software, big updates were always a pay for upgrade.
- piperswe 3y agoI already started to worry about Affinity's strategy when they introduced online activation in version 2 of their software. I really appreciated the offline activation in the original versions - it means I will forever own Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher 1 on my NAS, no matter what they decide to do in the future.