/r/Affinity
Affinity gives designers exactly what they need for the highest quality artwork, photos and designs—accurate, high quality tools in fast, innovative, reliable apps with flair.
The fastest, smoothest, most precise professional creative software, for Mac and Windows!
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/r/Affinity
Like almost all of you, when I heard about the acquisition I was devastated and pissed. But as I keep seeing people's concerns, I feel like a lot of them are not only very far out, but also wouldn't even be in Canva's own interest. I, like many of you, have trusted this team for years and they have continuously given us incredible software and updates. The development team is apparently not integrating with Canva's team so I think worries about the interface changing aren't super warranted.
The main thing though, is concerns about the price. While Canva is subscription-based, the people there are not stupid. When acquiring Affinity, they would obviously see that the one-time-purchase is THE selling point of the software. Even an ounce of research on why anyone likes Affinity would show them that a subscription model is completely shooting themselves in the foot.
I know there is a huge chance I'm wrong especially with the abject terror inflicted by "no plans at this time," but I don't think we should immediately assume that Affinity is finished. In fact, I feel that if Canva plays their cards right, this could lead to Affinity becoming a serious threat to Adobe's market share.
If we all unite against the inevitable subscription model Canva has in store and make it known that our usage of the affinity suite is strictly dependent on the perpetual license we paid for, I think we can have an impact going forward as Canva begins to rollout whatever it is they have in mind to increase their profits with their acquisition of Affinity.
For starters, I will be absolutely firm in moving to another editing software, even if it’s another subscription service.
Please let me know what you guys think.
Sad day. Feels like I got cheated on 😂
Should I buy affinity now? I seen it will soon be bought out. Should I get the whole suite now to have it?
Saw the news this morning was quite shocked that it’s acquired by Canva.
I migrated from Canva to affinity V1 just not to pay subscriptions but now does it seem to be a good time to upgrade to V2 in case in the future V3 becomes subscription too 🥲
Tin foil hat time: I was wondering when V2 arrived how would they maintain the company selling such good software suite for the low low price of 100 bucks. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't bait to grab a big number that would make Serif interesting for some prospective company to buy them.
I'm pissed, and the only worry I have now is to download V1 and find a way to activate V2 offline.
I know this post might be redundant, however, I really, really feel strongly that we should spam as much NO FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION EVER to make it very clear that we are not at all interested.
A subscription would be an instant no and I'd just use V2 for as long as I can and then go back to Yarrr'ing Photoshop.
Again, I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion and push across, that despite what they say now, subscription is a never ever for me and most likely the majority of users. Don't fuck this up. I've seen these "oh but we promise we won't do ____" after a buy out and then shit all over the proverbial floor that is the user base.
Consider me ignorant, but I just bought Affinity Photo 2 and Designer 2 for iPad last week. What's the future like, can they just make it subscription-based and I have to pay for a subscription? or are we safe for now and they have to do it for version 3 of the app? Like, I don't understand this.
Now that Canva bought Affinity and it will definitely become a subscription based app, what app are you gonna use now?
I am trying to fix my Affinity apps in their current state due to the Canva takeover. Since the manual is only available in a browser, it will be autoupdated as well. Does anybody have it as a pdf or knows how to extract the whole thing? I can only print as pdf in paragraphs which would take forever and always looks kinda glitchy.
So i have installed Affinity Publisher recently but my files do not show up whenever i save them anywhere. I can open the explorer where i saved them, refresh the explorer but no file whatsoever appears even tho when i search for the file it apparently is saved on my disk in exactly that location
How tf does that happen and how can i fix it ? Runninf win10 and affinitypublisher2 newest version
Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold?
There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were originally purchased – with plenty of free updates to V2 still to look forward to!
Yeah, where have we heard that before.
I fear that Affinity has gone the way of PaintShop Pro when Jasc Software sold itself to Corel (and later, Bibble).
She didn’t get rich selling good Software
I'd like to disable all updates and all checking for updates. Is this possible?
The founder of Canva is one salty money hungry girl
Hi :) I'm new to Affinity, and coming from Illustrator. In general I really thought it was a solid (possibly better) alternative, but I'm running into one issue that I refuse to believe there isn't a solution to. In Illustrator, when you create a new shape with the pen tool, it takes the colour of the shape you created before it. In Affinity, it creates a shape with no colour and no fill. Please, tell me there is a way to change this so it automatically takes on the colour of the previously created shape. Or even any colour at all (not sure that would be the best solution, but it would be better than an invisible shape). I create quite complex illustrations, and if I have to stop between each shape, shadow, and highlight to give it a random colour, then Affinity isn't the software for me :(
I have a question for digital artists who use Affinity Photo. I'm a long-time Photoshop user, but I recently got Affinity Photo and realized that I have to enable the pen pressure settings every time I use a new brush, and once I'm done using that brush, the settings reset so I have to enable the pen pressure settings again when I reuse that brush. How do I fix this? I never had to do this in Photoshop. Please tell me there is a way to fix this. D:
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