Adobe and Affinity

[billtils]

Well, that made life simpler ...

Affinity release a powerful and free update and a couple of weeks later Adobe hike their prices.

I have cancelled the Adobe subscription without any hesitation, but in fairness it was reasonably simple for me as I have been an Affinity user since V1.2 (albeit at a relatively low usage level) so there was not much of a learning curve.

[DanK]

It will be interesting to see how Adobe responds to Affinity’s move over the longer term.

I get Adobe via a university subscription, so I’m staying put


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[Manfred M]

Well, that made life simpler ...

Affinity release a powerful and free update and a couple of weeks later Adobe hike their prices.

I have cancelled the Adobe subscription without any hesitation, but in fairness it was reasonably simple for me as I have been an Affinity user since V1.2 (albeit at a relatively low usage level) so there was not much of a learning curve.

As I use the AI functionality in Photoshop, Affinity is not looking like a particularly good deal to me. The biggest risk I see with the current Canva strategy with Affinity Photo is that all development will stop on the base functionality and the only improvements will be with the paid-for service side.

We saw somthing similar when Google bought Nik. A bit of cleanup work at the beginning and then no updates.

[Geoff F]

I am somewhat concerned about how the Canva version of Affinity will handle Raw conversions. When I used Serif Photo Plus, many years ago, the Raw handling was rather poor, a bit like an additional option which they had been forced to include but they weren't keen on doing it. So I did my conversions using Raw Therapee which was better but it was a rather cumbersome work around which fell well short of Adobe Camera Raw for ease of use.

[billtils]

I am somewhat concerned about how the Canva version of Affinity will handle Raw conversions. When I used Serif Photo Plus, many years ago, the Raw handling was rather poor, a bit like an additional option which they had been forced to include but they weren't keen on doing it. So I did my conversions using Raw Therapee which was better but it was a rather cumbersome work around which fell well short of Adobe Camera Raw for ease of use.

I've not had any problems with how Affinity handles Raw conversions in any of the versions tried over the years, but we are probably talking subjective "art" rather than objective "science" and should not discount familiarity with the software and how we view the finished article. As posted earlier, I took umbrage at Adobe's recent price hike (which co-incided with the release of the Canva version) and have moved (back) to Affinity with no regrets.

Even though I was reasonably familiar with the software there was a bit of a (re)learning curve but happily settled in now.
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