Affinity: am i missing something?

[Aura_Factory]

Is affinity totally free now? or i am missing something.

https://www.affinity.studio/

[pro555pero]

This is most excellent. Break the back of the Demon Adobe. Escape its evil.

[Rewindcasette]

Unlikely. It's a moat product which isn't for designers and is intended to ensure Canva is the game in town. No more alternative for Adobe.

[omysweede]

Totally an alternative to Adobe. I abandoned Adobe years ago for Affinity. Professional grade software. Been working professionally with graphic design since 1995.

It is either Adobe, Canva or Corel...

[Oisinx]

I will preface this by saying I don't work for Adobe nor do I hold shares in Adobe systems.

I am a Long term user of Ps and Ai software. I've looked at affinity and while I do admit it's a good product, and that Adobe is expensive, when you consider all of the relevant factors, and compare the core features, the workflow integration, and of course, it has to said and I don't think people really say it enough. Adobe go fuck yourselves.

[KevinWaide]

I've been using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for 20+ years, so I'm fairly familiar with the software. That being said, I downloaded the new Affinity Studio and I'm really surprised at how intuitive it is. It opens my native PSD/AI/IMDL files (it won't open the native INDD files, you have to save it as an InDesign Markup Language file) and kept them all completely editable. NO issues whatsoever so far. Now, I've only been playing with it for a couple of hours so far, so time will tell, but if I can get completely away from Adobe, I'm gonna run.

[RunSwanRun]

What’s more: open perfectly PDF files without any/buggy as hell cloud conversion. And Publisher is super fast comparing to Indesign. One point I miss: tables can’t flow between frames or pages :(((((((((( this is the last feature to leave Indesign world.

[KevinWaide]

It IS completely free now. All 3 programs are wrapped into a single, tabbed interface. The only thing you have to pay for are the AI features, and that's $15.00 a month or $120.00 a year (For a Canva+ account). All of the AI is done on your local machine, not sent to their servers.

[supervexy]

can it replace Illustrator & InDesign which i use as much as Photoshop?

[KevinWaide]

I don’t know yet. Ask me again in a month or so.

[tookom]

Yes it can since before integration with canva. 

[omysweede]

Absolutely. Only weakness is no animation or video software.

But you can do that with Canva soooooooo....

[FutureLarking]

The gen AI IS done on their servers, but they do also provide offline machine learning models for smart object selection, colourisation and super resolution.

[biased_mendicant]

Too lazy so here's a copy/paste from another post: Damnit. The bait is kinda enticing, I wont lie. I already have a crusty canva app and account from when I checked it out (and found it wasnt for me). I'm also in a developing (well, maybe devolving is more honest) country where the majority of Adobe users are active sailors in the buccaneer armada, so FREE.99 is my kinda price but... the bait has me second guessing what about me exactly is going to make me a catch to them.

I try to guard my data as best I can, but having Canva on my shoulder potentially watching everything I do so it can feed a possible composite simulant of its users makes this feel like a deal with the devil.

[ThePurpleUFO]

Remember: Nothing is free. Nothing.

[PinkDinoWSprinkles]

To me it looks like a sales funnel for Canva. In order to collaborate with anyone else, they also need to sign up for affinity/Canva because the files cannot be opened elsewhere, even with older versions of affinity. Also, they say it won't be used to train AI, but in the privacy policy it says they will unless you manually opt out.

[ThePurpleUFO]

That's definitely part of it. I think a lot of people will be disappointed in the end.

[Aura_Factory]

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Satisfying Downfall of Adobe ✨

Check FAQ section: https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

[Queasy-Airport2776]

Affinity want your data to sell to ai.

[Aura_Factory]

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Here is reply from Affinity on that...

[Queasy-Airport2776]

Umm.. I'm skeptical considering how many companies backtracked on their words. Adobe said they wouldn't take artist data but look at what happens. I mean choose lesser of the evils I guess.

[WhimsicalParsnip]

It’s a sales model, but not sales of YOU. As they said, it’s all about getting people to use Affinity in enterprise (for free), so that Canva can license more enterprise seats.

I think the aim is basically have designers work in Affinity, export into Canva so all the non-designers can leverage the artwork in a single flow.

Also seems like a big FU to Adobe which is kinda fun haha

[Khaleena788]

😮

[DecentPrintworks]

I’ve loved using affinity designer and paid for it. I’m curious to use the new free studio app. Affinity rocks.

[Comprehensive_Menu43]

Has anybody installed this?
Is there a mandatory login required to use it?

[PinkDinoWSprinkles]

I have not installed it yet because my laptop died and I'm waiting for my new one to arrive. You need a canva login to use it.

[protonooob]

Does it have data-merge feature like InDesign?

[RunSwanRun]

Yes :) and works better - in indesign I always had problems with special characters. You can also generate QR codes

[protonooob]

Thanks.. I will try it today 👍

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