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Affinity, mentioned in the article, was acquired by Canva and had its entire UI redone to work just like Photoshop. It's also entirely free with no gotchas.
by dtagames 3mo ago
Affinity, mentioned in the article, was acquired by Canva and had its entire UI redone to work just like Photoshop. It's also entirely free with no gotchas.
- SanjayMehta 3mo agoI paid for the entire Affinity suite in one shot, was worried when Canva took over, but glad to say everything's working together just fine.
- jkestner 3mo agoWhen you say "everything's working", have you updated since Canva took over? I haven't, after happily paying for the whole suite every time they gave me a chance. Just wary. At some point, not being a profit center for Canva, the app is going to get more exploitative.
- SanjayMehta 3mo agoThe legacy apps have been receiving minor updates along with the new Affinity app. "Everything is working" was meant to imply my legacy flow as well as the new flow haven't broken at all. I'm sure that in a year or so Canva will move to a subscription model. Then we'll see.
- _fzslm 3mo agoNot only this, but it's like Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign all mixed up into one super-app. This beats Adobe's cross-app functionality by miles.
- throw0101d 3mo ago> It's also entirely free with no gotchas. How is this sustainable for a for-profit entity? How do they pay the bills/developers?
- medwards666 3mo agoPresumably though Canva subscriptions? Shame it's only Mac/Windows compatible. I'd kill for a Linux build.
- skeledrew 3mo agoMaybe use WINE or similar to run the Windows build?
- medwards666 3mo agoTrue, that's an option, but a native build would be optimal
- graypegg 3mo agoThere's a community of folks maintaining some WINE tweaks to make it work! Thankfully, it's mostly just config options so nothing additional to install/run beyond WINE. I tend to use the V2 suite and on a mac, but I've got Affinity V3 installed on my ubuntu dev machine and had no issues with it when I've needed it. https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux
- medwards666 3mo agoAwesome. Have starred the repo and will have a look through it later tonight when I'm done with work.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoFree (as in beer). There's always a catch. Though, it's success does make me wonder if a GIMP based editor with a similar interface would work well
- wsc981 3mo agoI read on Twitter this week that someone made such an interface on top of GIMP. https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp
- mghackerlady 3mo agoYeah, there have been similar things before it as well. I was thinking more of a ground up photoshop style editor with GEGL as the backend
- cgyvbunji 3mo agoNever did understand why gimp's ui isn't a Photoshop clone, or more broadly, why there isn't one canonical Photoshop clone like libreoffice is to Ms office.
- kccqzy 3mo agoIt actually used to be paid. I paid for Affinity Designer when it came out first, then Affinity Photo. I didn’t pay for the publishing software since I was too deep into TeX. But at that time they promised that they would never become subscription software like Adobe and that message was part of the reason I bought it. I liked and still like perpetual licenses.
- trembolram 3mo ago> It's also entirely free with no gotchas. I'm running Affinity Studio on my Mac. Every time I run it, Little Snitch shows that it is transferring data to many servers, such as serifservices.com, canva.com, onetrust.com, amazonaws.com, sentry.io, .. I've tried to set privacy preferences to maximum, but it hasn't helped. Am I the product? The old Affinity Designer 1 doesn't send any data to servers, so I'm still using it instead of the new app.
- lossyalgo 3mo agoDoes it still work when you block all outgoing connections?
- trembolram 3mo agoYes, but I don't want to start tweaking my firewall to run it.
- S0und 3mo agoAffinity would be a great clone of PS, they copied it up to 90%. But for the last 10%, they were like, you know what? Let's do it in a way that it will make no sense to someone who has used PS for decades. I remember if you wanted to have a transparent background for your file, you had to CREATE the file SPECIFICALLY to have a transparent background. In PS, you just deleted the default white background, and bumm, you had a transparent background. I'm pretty sure PS behaved like this since - at least - PS 4 (not CS4). That last 10% has these idiocracies.
- sunnybeetroot 3mo agoAgreed, too often you would search “how to do x photoshop thing but in affinity” cause it was so unobvious
- ozzymuppet 3mo agoAgree. Affinity is better than nothing, but has some really really stupid design choices.
- microflash 3mo ago> It's also entirely free with no gotchas. Not true since it requires you to sign in with Canva account.
- mvdtnz 3mo agoWhich is entirely free.
- jollyllama 3mo agoDid they ever get the renderer on par with Photoshop? Every png I rendered with Affinity looked like shit but this was years ago.