I found affinity so simple and sweet to use. No regrets for purchasing all three.

Productivity in Affinity Photo/Designer is insane! Photoshop has a lot of performance issues Affinity doesn't have. It runs smooth as butter, it's so damn good in my marketing agency routine. Best 2021 purchase so far.

I'm 34 I've been using Photoshop since I was in middle school. Last year I found Affinity Photo by accident, I decided to download the trail and within 48 hours I uninstalled the Adobe creative cloud and never went back! You can't beat the Price also it's not sluggish I have the Affinity program on all my devices even my older ones and it still runs smoothly unlike Adobe that's also full of bugs! the same bugs that's been floating around since 2018!

I did too, Affinity works just fine for me, Photoshop has tons of tools I don't even use and still have to pay for. Also for the price difference Affinity is a no-brainer to switch to from Photoshop.

Yeah I just ditched all adobe apps, will never go back. For a low cost I use affinity photo and Davinci Resolve, I wasted a lot of money on adobe for many years. You got a subscriber from Norway.

Very informative...and good news.. I bought and use Paint Shop Pro 2019 through 2023 and find its a nice program. ...andchave used Affinity a few years ago but it was somewhat lacking back then. I'll definitely revisit.

I think the scaling problems comes from the fact that Affinity creates every layer by default as equivalent of Smart Object in Photoshop. After scaling back and forth it keeps all the pixel information.

All of our new Macs at our newspaper run Affinity - no Adobe at all. We made the switch permanent after a 3 year trial of testing the Affinity apps in a production environment. Price wasn't the issue so much as what can be done in as little steps as possible.

Truly wonderful and educational presentation. Thanks for your honesty and professional attitude. And Affinity Photo on my M1 Mac Mini is stupendous!

Thank you so much for this! Already use CSP for my digital art, but didn't realise there were viable non-subscription alternatives for photoshop and illustrator. Very nice to find quality products that don't add to the monthly expenses!

One of the fun things is that you can open up Publisher and work all of your layouts in Publisher and use all of the tools of Photo and Designer. Rather than jumping between programs.

I got me affinity publisher, affinity design, Krita and recently clipstudio for drawing. I'm so damn good to go.

I own all of the Affinity suite of programs for both Mac and iOS. I love the ability to start a project on my iPad and then move to my desktop. For illustrations I like Designer on the iPad with and Apple pencil but I also use Procreate which continues to get better.

I ditched Adobe for Affinity within a few weeks of Designer being released. There are still some tools from AI that I miss, but on the whole I’ve gotta say Affinity is EASILY worth the switch. And I will NOT be going back.

Am using all three of affinity. Thanks for the video.

i made the switch from photoshop to photo and illustrator to designer, but for now I am stuck with InDesign as it does not support footnotes or endnotes, which for me is currently a make or break issue. Apart from that Affinity is awesome.

The studio link is amazing!

Thank you! That was super informative

Fantastic overview, thank you. And I’m amazed at your eloquence for a video that seems unscripted

I did the same however getting customer service in Affinity leaves to be desired, so that explains why I had problems with the smoke brushes they just would not work.

Thanks for the vid!

A yearly rental of the Creative suite is more than my car insurance ... Nope .. Old hard drive with CS5 is on the decline ... I'm definitely not updating my new computer with more Adobe product. Screw em'

I've been watching lots of switching over experiences lately since trying to avoid the Adobe CC... They hooked us from art school (Ringling / Illustration 2005) Now it's time to leave my beloved CS6 behind *sigh -and making the change has been extremely difficult --I was ready to give up and subscribe to the cloud, but instead found small solutions each day to the differences found in programs like Designer vs. Illustrator which I'd lived with for over a decade. So many answers either in the forums or on KZfaq so I def hope you'll make more videos on Affinity in the future; it's so helpful to find them as the community grows (: Thanks for this

After 20+ years with Adobe, it only took a week of trying Affinity to buy it an ditch them, that was over a year ago. I retired a few years back and freelance now, mainly doing ad layouts for publications, newspapers, etc, plus the usual logo designs for the locals. Unlike you, I do almost everything in designer, the only time I use photo is if I'm actually working with a photo, and need to do something I just can't in designer. Some of the drawing resolution issues you experience in photo might be remedied by using the vector brush tool in designer, since drawing is what it handles best, plus everything you draw is vector, you have features to control flow and stability, plus it can be edited. It's stroke based so you can expand it and tweak to your heart's content. Play with designer more for stuff like that! It does a lot more than most think, I love it!

I don't speak English but I could understand every words you said， amazing。

Love Affinity and HitFilm! Moving away from Adobe was one of my best financial decisions of the past few years

I use a combo of Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Photo. Sadly for my vector work, Affinity Designer just doesn't cut it and I often find myself having to jump through hoops to do basic tasks.

If drawing is the main reason you use Affinity Photo for , then you should give Krita a shot. It's brush engine is leagues ahead of Affinity, probably even better than Photoshop. Also Krita is free and open source, support non destructive editing, and other features you would not expect a free program to use.

I have tried Affinity Photo, and it doesn't match Photoshop at all. For what 20 beers cost per month, 12 USD, I can have the Adobe Photo editing suite with all the best tools. As I repeatedly do not drink, I rent the Adobe apps for "free" ;O)

i needed adobe’s exact layer styles recently and krita’s implementation didnt pass muster so i was stuck interested

Any apps with a subscription fee is already a deal-breaker for me

Been there, done that so to speak. Ditched Adobe a good few years ago. Went over or rather back to CorelDraw initially esp as CD X6 offered upgrade pricing for Adobe CS users when CC came out. Then guess what? Corel became more Adobe-esque with regards to subscription and price increases. I remember downloading Affinity Designer shortly after its release and have not looked back. Now an avid user of Photo and Publisher as well.

Would love to see more affinity videos as you play with the programs more. I used to use photoshop for editing emotes (scaling), minor graphic design for posting commissions and for stream. I need another program to replace it and have been thinking of affinity. Also, clip paint studio videos please!!! I’m a paint tool sai artist who is trying to switch to clip studio. I would love to see your tips and tricks.

Clip studio is pretty amazing, but it just doesn't have that many useful effects etc for me but for Painting it is just right for me. I agree it would be brilliant if they improved Affinity's brushes. Missing animation / timeline is a big one for me but then again, I haven't got that in Photoshop as I am using M1 native. I wish all apps would have the CP Time lapse feature, Affinity would be even more wow then. Still using CC but I think this will be the last year for me but I still use After Effects / Premiere a lot and would still love to see some video features added to Affinity

Adobe’s pricing hurts my soul 😂 I agree that Photo/Designer are great software and that neither is ideal for freehand art. Designer works well for vector/raster combinations. Clip Studio looks brilliant.

I use Lightroom Classic (and get Photoshop on the go). Lightroom Classic is extremely important to me. Also I think After Effects is the King or Queen of programs creating effects. But otherwise I prefer the Affinity Suite. For the web I use Hype, in combination with Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. For film I use Final Cut, Motion and After Effects.

What's the best alternative for auto tracing tool in illustrator?

Also, there is no ‘File, Open in...’ on the iPad version. Can you suggest the best way to open a Designer file in Photo on the iPad? I am a bit slow with this stuff.

I switched, my only hang up is no .dds support.

All i use is Affinity Photo and Davinci Resolve and i am happy

to replace Premiere, after effect and audition , i heard that Davinci resolve ( i think thats the name if im not mistaken ) can replace these 3 software !

If you want to draw/paint with affinity it's better to use affinity designer pixel persona but clip studio is definitely better.

thx

I'd love to see a Clip Studio tutorial, yes :)

Just recently started using affinity designer. I have been an illustrator over a decade. Love the illustrator program but hate paying every month for it so I stopped. Affinity Designer is fun to use but I agree that it lacks default brushes that I would like to have in the program. Just got a new project today, wanted to use Affinity since I bought it a few weeks ago, but being disappointed with the brushes moved my work to clip Studio. I have tons of brushes there that I like. I'll have to probably buy some brushes to use Affinity Designer the way I like.

I'm first start using Publisher. I think that software has best feature then you can make basic photoediting in layout software without open photoeditor. InDesign not have that feature. I'm also happy that Photo can use Photoshop filters, I got gmic plugins. My opinion is that Designer is weakest software of these three. And videoediting side I use Resolve, when it comes audio and effects in same software with best color tools than Adobe. And Darktable when I have edit many photos, Opentoonz to animation and now I learn Blender too.

Do I still need DaVinci or would the publisher will get onto itself onto the internet

And since your video published Adobe's basic photography play has doubled in pricing. I am here watching your review trying to find a better alternative as a freelancer.

Please more trading on all 3 products

I had Adobe Cloud for almost four years. I just got rid of all Adobe products because of their unacceptable business practices, and because of poor Photoshop (Ps.) performance. I bought Capture One (C1) which is a fantastic editor. But it doesn't do everything. I'm also going to try Affinity and Luminar Neo. No monthly subscription fees. C1 has fantastic color. It's a lot better than Ps. I particularly like how C1 renders skin tones. C1 edited files printed on Hahnemuhle pearl or Canson luster papers look out of this world. I can't speak to Affinity colors as I haven't tried it yet. I'll have to test out Affinity. Also, I use the Topaz Labs Gigapixel, Noise AI, and Sharpen AI. Affinity would have to be compatible with those.

Resolve for video editing is free and beats Premier hands down.

On system that runs Krita, Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop brushes fine, even with "bigger" brushes, Affinity runs abysmally bad despite optimised settings. Even Affinities basic brushes have significant lag! On my system (Dual Core 2.4 Hz, 16 GB Ram 64 Bit, even the resources hungry Photoshop is running 3 times faster!

#TEAMAFFINITY

What about 3D?

As much as I like affinity photo, Lightroom is simpler to use for a lot of things.

Lol got a photoshop ad on this video

Clip Studio is amazing. The Affinity stuff, not so much. And the features in Affinity software do not put them almost on par with industry standard. Not even close as far as I can tell, and I've been a user of Serif product for probably 15 years. The Affinity software is one step forward and one step backwards. Meaning, there were a lot of features in the old software that did not make it into the new software, while the new software has newer, different features. Adobe has it all though. That's what you're paying for. Having it all.

You hate vector? Oh man! You need to learn to like it. Once you do, there's no turning back.

i prefer macromedia

Left Adobe years ago Saved a fortune

@4:57 did she really just say that lol @4:58

Just got affinity for digital painting.....mistake

To bad they don't have something that looks similar to Premiere Pro. This looks a lot like Photoshop!

Before starting this video there is Adobe adv.... ahahahahahahhaahaahahah

Wish I could switch to all the Affinity Apps but the devil is in the details. I think they overhype themselves, and it will be quite a few years before they become even close to a substitute for Adobe, if then. I am too often frustrated trying to do basic tasks, quickly. The Affinity Suite superficially looks simpler but has annoying deficiencies and quite a few of their actions require more and slower steps to do what you can do with the Adobe Apps. They lack support for various file formats that I use, jpeg 2000 and HEIC with Alpha in particular. There appears to be absolutely no intention, that I can see, that that is going to be corrected. Also there are annoying pointless differences to absolutely standard shortcuts that constantly catch me out. Who uses cmd j for duplicate? WHY???? That it is NOT subscription IS their greatest plus, but if i can't do my work that is also an ongoing cost. I use multiple alternative Apps which all have their shortcomings but make up for it in other ways. I am hard pressed to think of anything in the Affinity Apps that makes up for its too often obtuse clumsiness, and am astonished how often I have to spend hunting for ways to simply get out of something or find the tool or method to get basics done. Also I am surprised how often you are thrown into a dialogue to complete an action that should have been able to be done directly in the UI. I go in their forums but all that does is either silence, responses from people who obviously don't know professional graphics (being cheap means Affinity gets lots of amateurs) or an initial wrong response and then the silence. I will continue struggling with Affinity but it is far too much hard work for me to go crazy and say bye bye Adobe.

I switched to Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 3 years ago. DO NOT REGRET it at all. AD is sufficient for all that most designers need. Adobe is a rip off... plus you get all kinds of bugs. No Thanks.

This is all about the money...not the software

$768/yr here after taxes.

$120-$630 a year is a good deal for tools lol

Goodbye Adobe

Cannot disagree more. Photoshop is irreplaceable. I did try Affinity once and could not even see how people compare. I am a professional and PS has features that no other software comes even close to have. I do feel that the price I pay is worth it. It is obvious that non pros will not need it and can use lower level programs.

Did I say something wrong that made you delete my comments? If you want me not to follow you, I will not follow you, no hard feelings. Good luck on your youtube venture. Ciao.

I noticed that you use Windows instead of Mac OS. The last 10 years (kind-of like Adobe has) Apple has become a company of Nazi's making their computers and platform walled off from DIYers and Moders who want to mold their own unique solutions out of their Apple computers and Mac OS. While Microsoft isn't much or any better in a number of ways at least you can save A TON of money using a Windows system over MacOS AND you can customize it in a way that;s unique to YOU and ADDITIONALLY you can UPGRADE them in the future with new processors, RAM, hard drives etc to further extend your original investment in the computer. I'm seriously thinking of switching to Windows 11 Pro...