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I’d add that they often have steep sales, and Black Friday is coming, but also while affinity is an underdog their formats are just as closed source if not more so than Adobe
Until GIMP gets nondestructive adjustment layers, Krita is the closest. And it’s definitely not good enough. But Inkscape is very good. Blender is very good, even it’s broken VSE editor. Though Resolve is amazing and the pro version is ridiculously cheap at $300.
Yeah there’s no easy win, Affinity is the closest competitor but it’s worth keeping in mind that they’re not the anti-adobe, they’re not fighting for accessible open software, especially not since they’ve sold out to Canva.
I am still happy with my purchase and I think it’s a good deal tho esp on a sale, just worth the consideration.
It’s a one time purchase license, not a subscription. And the software is good.
To anyone promoting Affinity, they’ve sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.
Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.
Affinity tools are still good. Until they’re enshittified, still a good deal.
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Yay, more subscriptions.
👌Adobe, I am sticking to my Affinity Photo 1.
Affinity is great
I was able to use that trick to cancel my Adobe sub without a cancellation fee and then bought Affinity Photo 2 right after. I’ve integrated it fully into my workflow now and won’t ever look back.
Fuck Adobe and fuck their stranglehold on creative industries.
It’s okay. I’m using Krita. $0
Elements were always just so much inferior to the full versions that you’re better off using free alternatives anyway
I’ve seen an old list of Adobe alternatives, but do you know of a recent one? I prim use Divinci Resolve over Premiere for video but have less familiarity with others. I find Gimp a bit hard to use. Mostly the controls don’t feel natural for some reason.
I dunno if this changes any of the UX paradigms, but I heard GIMP is about to release a huge major version.
photopea for photoshop, darktable for lightroom, inkskape for illustrator
If you’re using a drawing tablet, Krita is free.
look up “make GIMP feel like Photoshop” or something similar. iirc it’s a quick install that rearranges GIMP to be much more intuitive for people who came up on adobe.
Nice!
I’ve switched from Premiere to Kdenlive and I find that it works fantastically. It’s more clunky a bit but the features are all there.
Adobe does anti-consumer shit. More at 11.
Normies take it without bothering to ask for lube
If history is any guide they’ll moan and complain, 2% of them will not buy the subscription, and then the other 98% will bend over and take it up the ass.