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A great list of alternatives has been floating around on Twitter after their AI debacle: https://twitter.com/WayneTalbot/status/1786703024330588237 https://twit

by EricE 2y ago

A great list of alternatives has been floating around on Twitter after their AI debacle: https://twitter.com/WayneTalbot/status/1786703024330588237 https://twitter.com/WayneTalbot/status/1786703024330588237 I really enjoy the Affinity tools; they more than meet my modest requirements.

sib 2y ago
>> I really enjoy the Affinity tools; they more than meet my modest requirements. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-press-release/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-press-...
cableshaft 2y ago
I didn't like Affinity or Inkscape when I tried them (I even bought Affinity on a sale in order to try it, so I own it). Affinity also had issues importing my CS6 Illustrator files, IIRC, and since I have hundreds of those for various board game designs of mine that I still go back to and rework when I have a new idea for them, the fact that it couldn't play nice with them made it pretty much a nonstarter. It's been a while since I've used Inkscape, but I remember it feeling clunky and buggy for me, and I had difficulty getting into the workflow. I'm sure I could probably force myself to get used to, and probably enjoy alternatives, but the more I invest in these proprietary alternatives, the harder it will be to shift anything back to Illustrator if I need to, especially since I don't think any of them bother to output to a CS6 friendly file format anymore, so I can shift to them, but I can't easily shift out of them. And at this point Illustrator CS6 is just dead simple for me, I don't have to think about where anything is, I know exactly what I need to do for like 98% of what I want to do on it, and most of it is muscle memory, I can whip up some cards in a few hours while watching TV shows in the background. It's going to take something significant (like it no longer working) to motivate me enough to upgrade. I know I'm playing with fire a bit, since these files are getting more and more out of date, and may not import nicely into even the subscription Adobe Illustrator at some point, but I already have too much other shit I have to learn all the time for my day job, I don't have much left outside of that (maybe eventually I will. I am starting to learn Logic Pro and Ableton Live for making music finally, and for the longest time I only used FLStudio). That's a cool graphic though. I'll download it for future reference. Also it'll be easier for me to convert for other Adobe products, like I mostly use Paint.NET instead of Photoshop nowadays, for example. Illustrator is the main one I feel I have to stick with. Also Flash, since it doesn't exist in any newer ones (I used to make Flash games, so if I want to open those FLA files again, I need it).

by EricE 2y ago

sib 2y ago

>> I really enjoy the Affinity tools; they more than meet my modest requirements. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-press-release/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-press-...

cableshaft 2y ago

I didn't like Affinity or Inkscape when I tried them (I even bought Affinity on a sale in order to try it, so I own it). Affinity also had issues importing my CS6 Illustrator files, IIRC, and since I have hundreds of those for various board game designs of mine that I still go back to and rework when I have a new idea for them, the fact that it couldn't play nice with them made it pretty much a nonstarter. It's been a while since I've used Inkscape, but I remember it feeling clunky and buggy for me, and I had difficulty getting into the workflow. I'm sure I could probably force myself to get used to, and probably enjoy alternatives, but the more I invest in these proprietary alternatives, the harder it will be to shift anything back to Illustrator if I need to, especially since I don't think any of them bother to output to a CS6 friendly file format anymore, so I can shift to them, but I can't easily shift out of them. And at this point Illustrator CS6 is just dead simple for me, I don't have to think about where anything is, I know exactly what I need to do for like 98% of what I want to do on it, and most of it is muscle memory, I can whip up some cards in a few hours while watching TV shows in the background. It's going to take something significant (like it no longer working) to motivate me enough to upgrade. I know I'm playing with fire a bit, since these files are getting more and more out of date, and may not import nicely into even the subscription Adobe Illustrator at some point, but I already have too much other shit I have to learn all the time for my day job, I don't have much left outside of that (maybe eventually I will. I am starting to learn Logic Pro and Ableton Live for making music finally, and for the longest time I only used FLStudio). That's a cool graphic though. I'll download it for future reference. Also it'll be easier for me to convert for other Adobe products, like I mostly use Paint.NET instead of Photoshop nowadays, for example. Illustrator is the main one I feel I have to stick with. Also Flash, since it doesn't exist in any newer ones (I used to make Flash games, so if I want to open those FLA files again, I need it).