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Adobe is taking a pummeling this week. This news is nicely timed for the launch week of Affinity Designer, a serious competitor to Illustrator on the Mac App St
by jurassic 12y ago
Adobe is taking a pummeling this week. This news is nicely timed for the launch week of Affinity Designer, a serious competitor to Illustrator on the Mac App Store for casual and not-so-casual users who don't use Adobe products heavily enough to justify the cost of a monthly subscription. I tried it yesterday and was ready to cancel my Creative Cloud single-app subscription after about 20 minutes of experimentation. It's more than sufficient for my vector graphic needs as an indie developer.
- 13 12y agoI don't mind Affinity Designer at all, but it's still missing a lot of functionality I've become used to in Photoshop. I enjoy the speed and the interface, but the lack of in depth bitmap transform tools was a bit disappointing. They were however very responsive in the Beta and I imagine they'll keep that momentum up. If they manage it they might be a very capable alternative to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
- michaelbuddy 12y agoYup, I'm stoked on Affinity Designer. It also nicely promotes Serif software as an alternative to the Creative Suite. Serif has a lot of educational customers and casual users and probably would have more if people knew about them and their prices. I'm going to revisit their stuff. It's been about 10 years since I checked out their page layout program. But Affinity is fantastic. They put in a lot of great ideas into it in the UI. Xara on Windows and Affinity on Mac will be my go-to apps for vector drawing. Illustrator for me is basically just an app for conversion to make sure a file is ready to share. I hate working in it, clunky app.
- estefan 12y agoThere are also loads of great serif fonts. I've been using them for a while now. It's really great to see them moving into software.