50% off rn and 10% extra if you use the discount code $75 total 😮

Thanks! Its just 80,99 € now ! Definetly buying now

so this was the comment which recommended me this video after 3 fkin months

all my homies use Affinity

Type piracy to get a 100% discount

Fr

best way to use it and the only way lol

​@@shikhamaitra8769 Adobe fresco

@@arcanep how to pirate it? dont want a virus lmao

⁠​⁠@@rotpasta2644filecr or getintopc, but I wouldn’t really recommend getintopc because I got a virus from it.

it's morally even better to support their competitors.

Not really, Because that is wht helps them keep their quasi monopoly. If you can, use an alternative software, like Krita.

Adobe is making it harder and harder unfortunately

This is the way

I used to do this for years... And it made me stuck and used to it, so now I pay for it since I make most of my money off it. If you can, don't get stuck ;)

Every good software is going subscription based. It's so frustrating.

@@LongDeadArtist "you will own nothing"

Me too. I'm still using CS6 Master collection. Will NEVER support rentware. Ever.

​@@spawel1 and we will pirate everything

​@@spawel1You know what they say, if buying isn't owning...

I could see that working before, but now that they are part of Canva? Would you subscribe to the patron of a big company that is very profitable?

I don't see this happening, it doesn't really fit with the 'professional' they are targeting. From the way he framed this video, they might be able to do something like "hey we're hiking the price 50%, we wanted to go faster so we hired 10 more devs and need some money" Maybe I'm an optimist, but personally I think this kind of brutal honesty could be effective for a company like this

I think blender does something similar if I’m not mistaken

​​@@bodi.mp3 blender is actually entirely supported through things like this. It's completely open source so the only way they get paid is through donations and other avenues

Anyone can see the new Affinity features by joining the beta program already thank you very much, we don’t need any changes.

I tried some AWS service briefly when cloud9 was purchased by Amazon. I’ve been getting billed ever since, couple of years now, but I just refuse to pay and am too lazy to take the time to cancel. The whole onboarding was so confusing that I didn’t even realise I would get billed, so I feel like it’s a them problem.

I forgot to cancel my 2 week trial of Adobe Reader. A one year subscription started without my consent, making me pay 15€ every time. When I go to my account settings to cancel the subscription, 90€ will be charged immediately. What the hell.

@@einfachfejzo yeah it’s messed up. I saw the same thing so instead of canceling on adobe I logged into my payment provider to cancel payment. I used PayPal, but should be able to block payment for CC too. Adobe removed the cancel fee charge from my account and I never had to pay that.

Use one-time virtual cards for such scumbags.

They did the same to me... I paid...

hope canva makes it right and keep that

Don't be surprised when that changes

@@weevilsnitz It will, its another greedy scum company working together to exploit more people.

Those adobe background services are almost impossible to delete completely, without just wiping your system. Should be illegal.

Affinity has potential. But there's still nothing better than Fireworks on the market.

As a graphic design student using adobe suite, what did you notice differently 🤔 I’m curious

LOL You know that is not true.

​@@AnastasiabrunoI am too and I'm curious about Affinity but I don't know anything about it

@@Anastasiabruno as someone working professionaly with Adobe and Affinity privately, Affinity photo has missing many new great features (smart and AI features), it isn't that good for retouching and masking, PS is just faster to use. I don't use Illustrator and Indesign nowadays that much, but from what I use I feel like Designer and Publisher are just as good or better. Take this with a grain of salt as I am not sure what features Adobe added to those 2 in the last year or so

if it only would have a lightroom replacement

Honestly, they will. Every single time I've seen this happen, they end up betraying everyone eventually. Seriously, I have a lot of examples, I'd love to hear examples where this was not the case.

For now, Canva is a private company so there is reason to believe that they won't do anything predatory for a long amount of time. But if they ever go public, excpet Affinity to get the same treatment as Adobe.

@@WhiteOut_RBLXwhy would a private company not have the same interest to make more money?

@@marcuskissinger3842 Depends on who runs the company, some people are in for the long run, public company investors always want the quick buck at the cost of the product's clients

​​@@marcuskissinger3842They aren't beholden to shareholders demanding growth every year. *If* Canva has smart and competent leadership, they should be able to think long-term and focus on improving their software instead of being blinded by greed.

Affinity works well on Wine too. If they would make a native Linux version, that would be insane, and amazing.

Gimp getting 3.0 this year. Finally there will be good OSS PS alternative.

It was a good alternative to PS few years ago. People were too focused on PS.

@@d3stinYwOw I wish. No non-destructive editing alone makes it non-contender. I agree that people overvalue PS and undervalue gimp, but there are few features that real editor actually needs (and I'm glad gimp will be getting them :-))

@@iFlxy how did you manage to work this out? I've been trying Linux for the past couple of months, and every program but the Affinity Suite works.

Welcome to the occupation brother! 😂

Same, I should have switched a long time ago but I was being lazy and didnt want to learn a new program lol

I'm honestly considering getting the full suite too, gonna look up some vids to check them out cause I've never seen any Affinity apps before 😅

@@ohmeqaThat's not your laziness, that's Adobe's walled garden.

as a Adobe user since the first Macintosh computers e.g. 512K and onwards, very happy to exit the Adobe rent seekers.

You got the right mindset

Adobe on any platform IS malware! They’ve got you by the nuts and there’s nothing you can do about it. You want their products, you have to install their licensing software and it spends the rest of eternity spying on you whilst you pay handsomely for the privilege…

Tbf so is MacOs and Windows basically. Adobe got no excuse at all though

The part about Creative Cloud that drives me batty is that it wants to be running all the time. Which I might not even mind if it were just a faceless background app, keeping my software up-to-date and staying out of my way, but it’s more like a popup ad, jumping up in my face, trying to get me to give them more money, and constantly taking a spot on my menu bar. Unfortunately, the one part of Affinity’s suite that is worse than Adobe’s is that they’re even worse about not following macOS interface conventions and not using standard macOS APIs. I never realized how often I use the filename in the window titlebar - to rename, to move the file, to open the containing folder, just to check where the heck I saved this because it’s not where I thought it was or I’m worried I’m accidentally working on a duplicate/backup - until I started using Affinity Designer and Publisher. And with v2 they’ve taken away the ability to have a proper window-per-document interface, instead forcing us into a very MSWindows-like application frame with weirdly-contained document windows. While Adobe has been favoring that style of UI since…was it CS3?, even they still give you the option of working with a separate window for each document. And there are other little things like that that are constant annoyances with Affinity on macOS.

Little snitch. Lock down your computer. I do it with all my computers. They never phone home. Ever.

@@DonoVideoProductions Great suggestion, used it for years. Another suggestion which I what I switched to after Little Snitch: LuLu by Objective-See, it's free and it works great.

Me neither. I own all three, still haven't used Publisher for anything real, but I bought it right on release just to support their efforts.

I bought Affinity & almost never use it, just to support an awesome company.

Yes, monopolies suck.

Revit not being on Mac is criminal

Seems like a you problem for using the hardest platform to develop software for

Its like all The A letter companies suck, autodesk, adobe, apple.... Affi.. no not that

OpenSCAD

Exactly

Basically what Adobe has been doing then

What makes you believe that? I mean, except that many companies have done this in the past. Some haven't

what keeps companies from being predatory is competition

I hope that by then a new competitor to Canva will emerge

10:51

LMFAO I scrolled down exactly at that timestamp and this is the first comment I see

@@TheFinnish1Me too LMAO

You beat me to it 😂

Thank you, came looking for this and this only.

Yeahh!! How dare he love an amazing company!! >:(

@@championn.werdiox because companies are just a necessary evil. We can't live without them, and they abuse this dependency by making insane pricing models. Greed is really the worst sin.

It's sad this was even necessary to any sort of degree... =/ market dominance of bad actors is rather depressing

What's insane about 50 usd a month for a completle suite of software?

Peak shill 🤌🏻💸

What was the work provided?

she’s right. fuck canva

Why not use affinity then? Your teacher has a point, If you're trying to be a professional designer, you won't be taken seriously using canva exclusively. It's missing lots of advanced features. Then again, if you're only doing a comms or marketing course, you shouldn't be punished for using canva.

Funny my professor actually recommended it as an alternative

​@@sirfabyan why? I love their software and decent pricing

Bitch but they dont get money to get the competition going, your favourite software is of no use if it fucking dies. Unless your dad has unlimited money funding the company they def need constant cash flow.

Yeah. That's what worries everybody

I love Affinity Designer and I fear a subscriptions that will be the end for me…

@@joecuevas6368 Just Remember: if buying does not guarantee ownership, piracy is not theft. Edit: wrong word. English Is not my First language

Im not sure if theyll keep their promise but canva said that theyll keep affinity the way it is

Have you tried Krita? Its feature set and design is much closer to what's offered by Affinity Photo.

GIMP sucks for the creative part. But, like Fiji (ImageJ), it has a place in the toolbox. Ie, something that you need to script hard and/or needs a great plugin that exists. PS has that over Photo, scripting has been around since like... 7 at least. In fact, that IS one of Adobe's major strengths in the "pro arena", because they've had scripting for a LONG time all across, and entire workflows are built on that. AE in particular can be "abused" in a pretty insane manner. Not Avisynth insane, but insane nonetheless. Wonder if their "debugger" improved since CS6, that was the part that sucked bad.

For other open source software, if it's purely for photo editing I recommend Darktable as a Lightroom replacement and if you need other design tools I've seen people prefer Krita. Krita is primarily a program for digital art but they have enough tools and you can also use it for standard photo editing.

Specifically what do you have a problem with? It's fine for my use case of editing photos, vector and pixel art. But I do use Krita for drawing and now pixel art.

@@NicCrimson Let me put it like this. Can you do fine creative work in MS Paint? Yes. Is it a good experience? No. That sums up GIMP as a creative tool. Heck, you can find an old PS7 in some trash bin and for the most part, it will still feel better than GIMP, because the basic tooling has been pretty much the same since like forever, and pretty much better since as long. Now, as part of a creative PROCESS does GIMP have lot of value? Yes... p.s. You can leverage the same points at Inkscape. Illustrator will feel better for creative work, Corel Draw will feel better for precision work. And "how good it feels" becomes VERY important if you have to spend all day with something. And the opposite, if you're forced into using something that you hate all day everyday, you know what hell feels like...

i would have bought it today if it did :(

Yes if they would also support Linux then we would have a real adobe alternative!!!

I will also probably buy it if they introduce native Linux support

Read something in the forums. They'd need to be sure they'd be able to sell at least 300k licenses for them to port their software to Linux. They could not afford to port the software if they sell any less.

Or maybe it was $300k in sales. Tell your friends who use Linux to write to Serif and Canva. Affinity cannot read their minds.

So glad I found this comment I was just about to make! 😂❤ I was like what the hell, does he know about the existence of Darktable?

Darktable is awesome but the user interface is hot garbage

RawTherapee is pretty good too. Both are open-source if I recall correctly

I thought this was a pun at first 😓😓😓

RawTherapee is great ❤️

I've been using an older Corel Paintshop Pro. for more LR functions.

Agreed. Especially with generative fill. Not because “I wAnNa mAkE Ai aRt!” But because it has IMMENSE practical uses that have made things that used to take ages take literally seconds.

Have you checked out Darktable as an alternative for Lightroom? If you did how was your experience?

and cost more

Luminar also works nicely too.

Buying Capture One outright means you own the current version, but don't get future updates or bug fixes. Could be an issue if you get new camera equipment often.

There's a pretty good free version of Canva, so doesn't quite have the same precedent.

This would be so sad to see

Canva, which I hate. Is just a fraction of the cost of Photoshop a year.

If you compare it to other web services commonly used by ordinary consumers it is not that expensive either. Taking into consideration that they often solve a unique problem, sometime giving access to exclusive stock photos is not that expensive.

Premium is kinda of expensive, Canva is free.

considering canva also implements ai into their design usage, i have no doubt they'll take affinity in the same direction adobe's products have gone. not sure why so many are celebrating this buy out lol

At least darktable is a really good free open source option for that. Switched to it years ago, never looked back

Oh

What about figma

Yep, been using it for about 10 years now, never got on with Lightroom. It's not exactly inexpensive, though.

Darktable is open source, it basically has any tool you need and in some aspects it has better features. There are plenty of tutorials.

I am still salty about Apple discontinuing Aperture. It is such a well-designed program. I still have my photo library in Aperture on an old Mac because no migration path out of it is lossless. (Moving to Photos or Lightroom keeps all the originals as well as the edited renders, but you lose the not-baked-in adjustments.)

We use Final Cut. I love it dearly.

@@theorants really thought you would have been the type to use resolve lol

@@blueboy4625 He? Hell nah. Too much bought into apple :D

@@blueboy4625 Same. It's so good.

@@blueboy4625why so?

Try out Krita, coming from Ps I could barely stand GIMP's UI/UX but Krita felt familiar.

@@bersK00 Krita is geared towards digital artists of which I am not, lol. Plus I've been on GIMP for like 5 years now. The UI really isn't bad, just different, plus there's always PhotoGIMP which makes the UI and shortcuts match Photoshop

😂😂

How does Notepad compare to VScode

That they both are trash compared to Photoshop

​@@AnonymousMachinebet

🤷‍♂️ fell off I guess

Feed the algorithm 🙏🧎‍♂️‍➡️

Rants channel

You viewed it shortly after it posted.

This entire video is a giant unpaid promotion for Affinity.

What an insane mindset to be like “creators should make promotional content for free” Making content about design tools that aren’t popular would hurt this channel. I would be talking a financial hit, especially if I used time that would otherwise go into content that’s more likely to grow my audience. This video cost me hundreds of dollars to make and get edited.

I second ​@@theorants

@@theorants Yeah! Pretty weird where people draw the lines. Everyone wants someone to do something for the good of it, without financial gain. Shockingly it always falls on the little guys to do the sacrificing for everyone's good, not multi-million or billion dollar companies. Wow!

Bruh. Everybody wins in this situation. Monetizing your work is an important skill and Theo, apparently, has it, which is great. I'd even say I envy him a bit :) Making money promoting software you actually like is the best situation you can be in. The moment when he starts promoting shit he doesn't like, just for money, that's the moment when he goes insane. Currently - more power to him.

There are a lot of other videos reviewing the software, just watch those.

@@sirbxnny lol what is this comment

@@quadstrike brother what are you complaining about exactly 😂

@@sirbxnny id spell it out, but that involves words that are already being ignored 🤣

@@quadstrike 😂 mad for no reason

Wait when did he say Canva is awesome for professionals? I understood his words as "Canva is good for most people, but not really for professionals"