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[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 62 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Guys, seriously. The entire Affinity Suite is $150. Paid for updates through the current version. It's solid.

Dump Adobe.

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

Being recently acquired by Canva stops me from trusting that deal in the long run.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

even better, use the money you'd pay for adobe suite and donate to open source alternatives

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to give Krita a try for some of the photobashing sort of stuff I do

Honestly Krita is reallly awesome and I would also reccomend

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I can totally recommend it, during the time I worked with design it was the closest I could get to photoshop when it comes to features and workflow, even more than GIMP, it's awesome!

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm on their site now and the full suite is on sale - €90, not sure if that's the same for everyone's local schnorples.

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please reconsider.

Since Affinity have been recently acquired by Canva, many of its users doubt that perpetual license will be respected.

Just look at the comments of its announcement.

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[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Nice! I got it right after the latest version came out but that's been a while. They do sales pretty regularly though. It's definitely not as massive as Adobe wrt features, but they cover the essentials well.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Would love to, but they are neglecting Linux Support.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

It does work great throigj wine apparently

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hear you, but so is adobe. Linux isn’t in this conversation.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? This is Lemmy. Linux is always in the conversation.

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

The conversation should be the lack of competition in the image manipulation space and on Linux.

Most of my software boxes have been ticked, but that’s a major deterrent for a daily driver.

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

It's 50% off right now.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Thats outdated. Only version 1 ran on bottles, and quite poorly. V2 is busted

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

When i see stuff like that I want to buy it. And then I remember I'm not a graphic designer. And unfortunately I'm terrible at any type of layouting or drawing. Be it webdesign or otherwise.

It looks like a great tool though. And very fairly priced.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn’t replace Lightroom Classic sadly. Affinity is good, but literally nothing compares (no darktable isn’t anywhere as good)

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~~Only thing I miss is smart fill so far.~~

Inpainting I guess =D