ive been using affinity since 2020 and a major reason i love it is that i still own it, and i've never lost access to it. i had to go independent suddenly in late 2020, ending up homeless. long story. but i already owned affinity photo from when i was financially supported by parents. now in 2022 it's still with me on my new computer. i've maintained access to it even during months where i had to raise money for food. the one time payment model has your back when you go through anything in life.

Is always morally correct to pirate adobe products.

Adobe user for 20 years. Switched to Affinity Suite and never ever looked back. I’m happy with Affinity.

Two years ago I replaced Adobe for Affinity and ended my Adobe subscription to force myself to learn Affinity. I was used to work with Illustrator as my main software, Indesign and Photoshop to some extent. The first month was a slow one, relearning and understanding the software. Affinity’s video tutorials was of great help. After the first month I was proficient enough to get things done at the same speed as before. Now I’m paying for Adobe as well, my clients sometimes demands it. But as a person that is comfortable with both, I always choose Affinity for a project if the choice is presented. I find Affinity to be less bloated with functions and Studio certainly speeds up my workflow. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for the Affinity Suite!

There's a few problems with the Adobe rental model. You can't rent for a single month, if you don't require Photoshop access every week of the year, perhaps once and a while, you can't access the tool without signing up for a year rolling contract.

Affinity software does things that you really need and they listen to the community about the problems, Adobe keeps updating and adding features and stuff you may never use just so they can justify their prices and monthly subscription

It blows my mind you didn't mention ease of use. Some of the most common features people actually want to use (clipping masks, changing text alignment, etc) are mind-blowingly easy in Affinity, but difficult or impossible in Illustrator. Whenever I want to learn something in Affinity I learn it once and it's so intuitive I know it forever (compared to the dozens of times I've had to relearn something in an Adobe product). To me, I'd much rather support a small team putting out occasional high-quality features rather than a bloated corporation breaking my workflow with mindless additions every year (and it's much cheaper to do so). Affinity Designer is the easy winner for me.

The subscription model in adobe is the killer aspect. You have to have been on your last leg to understand how devastating a subscription model is. You don't just loose access to the software, you lose access to your own creations. This hand over of control is what I despise wholeheartedly and why I will have to be rich -- really rich before I even consider a subscription model and even then, do I really want to waste all that money for features I hardly use and find alternatives with ease?

As mentioned by Brad, Adobe is a "all in one" solution. You can however find amazing programs that IMHO outperform Adobes products or ar on par with them. For example: Clip Studio Paint is not better than Photoshop. But it is better than PS when it comes to create comics. Because that program is made for that specific purpose. And it's easier to make something better, when you have a focused goal in mind. Yes, PS has nice new features but when it comes to actual use, they are often ... not used at all. It depends on your need. So the question is: Do you want to make a comic? Are you trying to make logos as vector grafics? Are you retouching fotos? The more specific you identify your needs, the easier it gets to find really nice alternatives to Adobe.

I’m surprised you didn’t touch on consistency at all - yeah, Adobe has a larger „ecosystem”, but you can hardly call it that - it’s more like a bunch of completly different programs rammed into the same package, with almost no uniformity in both interface and file formats. Every new program needs to be learned from the ground up, even when it comes to finding stuff in the interface. This is completally different in Affinity, where if you learn one of the programs, you can easily switch to another and be familiar with it in an instance. And compatible file formats makes it very easy and pleasant to mix and match different types of material work, from raster to vector and vice versa. For me it’s actually the main benefit of Affinity suite, I’m really shocked that it wasn’t acknowledged at all in this vid.

As for the updates, I can't speak for Affinity, but I've worked with Adobe for many years now and they don't deserve any praise in this department. Back when you had to pay for each new release, every single new version came with a bunch of new or completely reworked features. Now? You get one or two new surface level features a year, if you're lucky. Just look a Illustrator's updates over the last couple of years. Nothing of consequence has been improved. Yes, they added a niche feature like slightly improved 3D, but general workflow is dormant ever since we got the subscription model. And it's not because it's perfect, far from it. Same with PS, a better selection would never count as a year's worth of updates back in the day. They are getting more money than ever and doing absolutely nothing with it. They know they don't have to sell you a new version with great updates - you will pay for their dormant apps just because you have to.

Who else is here after learning about Adobe's updated TOS? On another note: I'm an astrophotographer and my understanding is that Affinity Photo has tools to edit astro images. That alone would've sold me on Affinity.

The way I see it, Affinity is a really good piece of software that has gotten significantly better since I bought Photo back in 2017. I barely used it much back then as a 10 year Photoshop veteran at the time, but as they kept fixing stuff I have come to appreciate more and more the freedom that the Affinity Suite provides. While I do think Photoshop does a lot of things right and has more polish because of decades of development, one thing I have noticed since switching is that I see more and more cracks in its armour to the point that I really don't want to go back to using it anymore. There are a lot of very nice quality of life changes I use in Affinity as a painter that I just can't live without. With more fixes being done to problem areas in each version I am positive that Serif are going to have them fixed eventually. In future versions I hope they address problems like these for painting: - Improve colour picking. Add a mouse icon while holding down alt and add all the Colour Picker Tool settings to all the other colour pickers like for the Brush Tool (want to alt colour pick with Selected Layer like you can in Photoshop). - Improve brush management. Add folders, add an R click menu for the brush tools, etc. - Creating Embedded Documents, aka Affinity Smart Objects, by R clicking layers and converting them in the Layers panel. - Fix bugs for some tools and add more shortcut key commands for each of them to improve workflow. - Perspective tools. - Perspective transformations. More specifically for the Move Tool. Designer especially needs perspective transformations for vector art. - Add anti-aliasing options for the Move Tool for better support of pixel art transformations. - Fix boolean bugs. - Raster-to-vector conversion. - Add more vector tools. Designer still needs a blob brush, an eraser brush, and a shape builder tool just to name a few. - Pure vector brushes and patterns. - More ways to save, import, and export UI settings, tool settings, etc. - Option to move cache data storage from the C drive to other drives (really big problem if your main drive doesn't have a ton of space). - Better integration between all three Affinity programs. Sharing of settings, brushes, assets, etc. would make working between each program a lot simpler. So, is Affinity better than Adobe? I would say yes if you are raster painter. It may not have every bell and whistle of Adobe Photoshop, but I think its strengths are starting to outweigh its shortcomings, and you can clearly see with some of the features Adobe took inspiration from Affinity and vice versa that Affinity tends to do them a lot better (i.e. branched history states for Photoshop, which is just embarrassingly implemented when compared to how Affinity did it). If you are a vector artist I would say that Adobe still reigns supreme, although I absolutely hate working in Illustrator. Designer is honestly a joy to work with, but it lacks a ton of features that make it near impossible to do certain vector art. When Designer does get a new tool like the Contour Tool, I usually prefer the Affinity implementation over the Adobe one (Pen Tool and Node Tool are great to work with as well). Plus, you can use Inkscape when things can't be done in Designer, so you don't have to rely on Illustrator most of the time if you copy+paste between Inkscape and Designer. Not to mention that the Affinity programs are overall faster than Adobe in many categories. 32-bit painting is much better supported in Affinity, which to me is a big plus since I recently bought a G9 Odyssey with HDR capabilities. It's really solid. Also, as the review said, Adobe fills a different need than Affinity does. If you need to run a multi-media empire, Adobe is pretty much unmatched. Even I have to use Adobe because they bought Substance Painter and Designer some years back. Though, I am very much looking forward to seeing Affinity tackle 3D painting, since they teased it coming to Photo two years ago. The future is looking bright. :)

Affinity all the way! I switched 4 years ago and I’ve never looked back. And this is coming from a graphic/web designer. PS: Adobe Xd is nothing but a joke. An extremely buggy sad joke. Don’t even bother giving it a try when there’s things like Figma out there.

Good video. I have moved away from EVERYTHING Adobe. The BS of renting software has to stop. For fonts I get them from Font Bundles, for video editing I've moved to Davinci Resolve since it's actually stable. Photo and designer I now use Affinity. I use Procreate on the iPad for painting my 3D models I make in Blender if I don't use Blender for everything. The basic resolve is more than enough for almost anyone unless you're doing high production movies. Best part, for everything I use it's basically 1 month of Adobe sub. That's just silly.

To be honest, my biggest issue here is that Adobe does not want to make packs focused on certain areas of expertise. I don't want to spend 63 euros / month for all the programs when I only use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign. Sure I could do the switch to Affinity, but unfortunately all my clients work in full Adobe environments. It feels stupid to pay so much for things that I use once every few months. They should at least offer packs of 2 or 3 programs, instead of having to get them separatedly. I once asked them if they were ever planning on doing this, but it was totally not in their plans.

Great video Brad, just a couple notes: 1. Affinity Designer was released before Affinity Photo, not a big deal but interesting that Affinity went after Illustrator users before photoshop. 2. I think the ecosystem can go either way. Sure Adobe has more apps, but Affinity's apps work WAY better together. StudioLink is life changing and Adobe could have built something like that a decade ago but just chose not to. Most people don't come close to using all the apps they get with their creative cloud subscription anyway, so just buying the apps you need is more useful in many ways. 3. You didn't really talk about industry compatibility which is the main complaint I get about Affinity on my channel. Affinity is fantastic for solo creators, but it gets really difficult when working with others in the industry because Adobe is so dominant. 4. I think iPad apps could be its own a category, and that is Affinity absolutely creams Adobe since Adobe just doesn't care about iPad users

I used Adobe for about 8 years and recently switched to Affinity. Best decision. I would not go back.

Great video. I migrated from Adobe to Clip Studio and Affinity 2 years ago and haven't looked back. Purely based on the subscription model and not wanting to pass that cost onto clients.

For me, it's all Affinity. Been using them for years and LOVE their stuff. One payment. Done and dusted. Yes, please.

There's a single frame of Brad upside down at 2:34. Is this on purpose? What do I win? 😋

“… keep in mind that Adobe software is just as expensive as it was before they switched over to that [subscription] model…" That's probably true for many but when Adobe switched to their subscription (i.e. hostageware) model, my annual cost for Adobe products that I used up through CS6 went up close to 350% since I mostly needed Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver and I didn't need every annual update iteration. On top of that, when the subscription ends, their software no longer works. (I do have a number of software subscriptions but they provide more value to me and not continuing a subscription just means I no longer get updates - the software works as long as the macOS version I use supports it.) When I had to finally drop the CS6 applications due to a macOS upgrade I switched over to Affinity’s suite and have been very happy with it since. Outside of Dreamweaver, there is very little that Adobe has produced that I can’t find quality alternatives for - this, of course, varies according to one's software needs. (I did try the Dreamweaver subscription 2019/2020 version, but while it has some improvements over CS6, it seemed to take a few steps backward and was rather clunky so I went back to Dreamweaver CS5.5 on Windows at work.) The only real problem I've seen in going from Adobe to Affinity is some file compatibility issues with workflows that rely heavily on Adobe.

as an ex-typographer, when you mentioned TypeKit and said “yeah, i know…” I thought you were going to discuss its limitations and how not all the fonts there are well designed or something along those lines 😅 though I suppose I was more so in a Glyphs vs FontLab than in an Adobe vs Affinity when I was still a creative professional lol

I love the opportunities that Affinity has brought to me, so I love it for that. It is not a perfect thing, there certainly are some very annoying bugs in their programs, which sometimes take a while to be resolved (small team is a drawback here), but as a whole it has been very good to me, and the workflow that the programs allow me (cross compatibility between apps, ease of using raster and vector together) has gotten me away from the Adobe sub. The programs just suit my workflow as a freelance designer perfectly. Adobe does great software and I have used it a lot in the past, but for me right now, Affinity is the better choice.

I made the switch during the start of the pandemic and Affinity has been a blast to learn. Since I teach, I have to be up-to-date with Adobe products, but subscription prices are so annoying. I'm still getting a handle on the smaller but mighty Affinity ecosystem and how you're able to work in all three platforms at once (Personas I believe). That's really cool. What I noticed with Adobe is their ecosystem tries to tackle things in chunks. For illustration and design - PS, AI, and ID, for photography - PS and LR, for video - PR and AE, etc. It's hard to compete with their size, but oftentimes (for me at least), there's so much in each program that feels bloated. It feels like nearly each program wants to be a catch-all instead of leaning into one another. Though, I can say that I enjoy InDesign more than Publisher for right now. I'll pass on Adobe Fonts. I prefer Google Fonts because I'm not locked down to a subscription to download the full font family. For me, Affinity gives me my art & design ecosystem while also giving me flexibility to find what I like for animation. If Affinity steps into animation (even if it's 2D for now), it'll be great!

I have both and always see myself shifting to Affinity because of the mixer brush on Affinity Photo. If you have Lazy Nezumi and a couple of extra brushes, AP actually works pretty nicely.

Pixel persona in Affinity Designer has been game changer for me and suits my needs as an illustrator. I've been a long time Adobe suite user where my work flow required that I draw in Illustrator, before exporting it to Photoshop to be rendered. I actually bought both Affinity Designer and Photo thinking that the workflow would be the same but so far I've only needed to use Designer. There are still things that Affinity Designer is missing (I wish there was a warp/distort tool) and pattern making isn't as intuitive as Illustrator but I'm still 100% on Team Affinity! Now if only they offered an Android version, I would be over the moon!

I was using Adobe creative for 1.5 years and I didn't realize how much it accumulated in fees. Was looking for alternatives and found out about davinci for videos and photo, designer, and publisher for graphic design. I'm glad I made the switch.

Self-employed, contracted designer or hobbyist then Affinity is awesome. You want a job working for someone, then Adobe is a must, as that’s all HR will look at. They don’t just want your portfolio, they want your mastery of the Adobe Universe. And 50 years of experience!!!

It’s taken me a while (over a year) but I’ve really taken to Affinity Designer on my PC, I think very few people sell the fact it can combine raster tools alongside vector tools and that specifically is what made the difference. For image editing, my old copy of CS6 still does the job so Affinity Photo remains untouched on my hard disk. My drawing workflow means I need Inkscape alongside the pro App - always needed it, even before Affinity Designer, the image trace and simplify CP tools are more intuitive in free software than the pro Apps but hopefully Designer will make a simplify function available or at least make it more obvious to find.

Ok, first off you said it costs the same under the rent/lease vs their older purchase model. This isn't entirely true. Most of the time the new version each year didn't introduce enough new features to warrant a purchase so many people skipped a year or two sometimes three or four so the purchase cost should not be calculated every year and compared to the new rental/lease cost required yearly.

I picked up Affinity's suite as I'm still at the state of learning. It seemed like a reasonable gamble, as it would be really hard for me to shell out the annual cost of Adobe's suite, especially when I don't necessarily need everything they offer. So far, it has paid off. I totally understand Adobe's place in the market, but it's nice for someone in my position to have a more affordable option available. Especially when it will get the job done for my needs.

Great video comparing the two. I have been doing my own research on affinity suite since it would be cheaper for me to have and yes the community is awesome at sharing what they know. the programs are wonderful and I can only imagine they will be top competitors w/ adobe in due time.

All I can say is, after using Affinity’s suite, they are noticeably faster and run more efficiently than Adobe. I just created a huge Illustrator file with many art boards on my new MacBook Pro (maxed out), and Illustrator was becoming sluggish and saving took a long time. I opened it in Affinity Designer no problem, worked on the document with no hesitations and saved immediately. I then moved that same document over to my iPad and same thing… worked perfectly and saved immediately. Moved it back to my MAC and was seamless. Unreal.

I use strictly Adobe products on my laptop. Adobe works well, I don’t care about owning anything, they’re still industry standard, and I’ve been working on the for over 20 years. But, and here is a major caveat, any app that has figured out the nuances of working on an ipad IMO is a far better app. Affinity apps have figured it out and I believe are farther ahead than Adobe, by a large margin. Editing photos or “photoshopping” and logo design work (actual paid client work) is a TREAT on the M1 iPad Pro with Affinity. It allows me to sit at the beach, and totally immerse myself in a creative zone while working on projects. No stress, plenty of power. Even notable mentions like Nomad sculpt is a delight on the iPad. If someone can figure out a proper type of After Effects for the iPad, now we’re in business.

I love your videos! Im an aspiring animators and your videos helped me decide what tools to use!

I’m glad you made this video. I’ve been using Adobe for over 20 years. I purchased an M1 iPad Pro and would really like to use it for professional design. This is where I have issues with Adobe. I can understand the subscription feature, but why include it for iPad OS? Especially since the iPad versions of Photoshop and Illustrator are not quite desktop quality on the tools and features. So now I’ve really got my eyes set on Affinity apps. What I’m really excited for is the possibility of Publisher coming to iPad. InDesign is my main tool and to be able to do full desktop publishing on my iPad would be fantabulous! So while I still see Adobe as the standard, they definitely have some serious competition out there, especially when it comes to mobile apps. Affinity seems to be the toughest.

Due to my personal circumstances, an issue I'm running into time and time again is when looking for a job in design or illustration 99% of the positions require knowledge of Adobe products. I get it - it's the "industry standard" but I lost my own business to covid and so currently have no money to pay for the Adobe subscription to learn it to then get the job that requires it! It's a horrible cycle as I know I could achieve what the employer is asking by using Affinity and Clip Studio but they won't even accept my application due to me not ticking the "proficient in Photoshop" box. 🤦🏼‍♂️

great video. i bought the whole affinity desktop suite for the price of a few months of adobe. my main software is after effects though which has no real competitors. affinity works well for me for most things now. though i’ll probably eventually end up needing to use illustrator

I've been using design software since the mid 1980s. Page layouts with Ventura, PageMaker, Ready Set Go!, Letraset Design Studio, Quark Xpress, InDesign. Vectors with Freehand (the best) and Illustrator, and mostly Photoshop since version 1 or 2. The bulk of my professional work has been done with Quark and InDesign. Almost everything either disappeared or was swallowed up by Adobe. When Affinity came along it was the first real alternative option for me with Publisher, and it has fully replaced InDesign, and Designer has replaced Illustrator for the minimal vector work I do. Unfortunately, Adobe Camera Raw is the only thing that keeps be tied to Adobe, because it is the only RAW processor that can deal with the colour cast of LED lights in music venues, and I've tried nearly all of the others. Thankfully the Adobe Photo package is relatively cheap, otherwise it's Affinity all the way for me. And the Studio feature in the Affinity suite is brilliant and integrates it all far better than Adobe currently does with theirs. But who knows what will come when they release version 2 of Affinity's apps. So when you take into consideration that Affinity is still on version 1 and Adobe is on versions 20+ (?) the old giant must be feeling a little threatened. Let's face it, most freelance designers don't need the whole Adobe suite, and there isn't really a design package option (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) that Adobe used to offer. So if you want those you either have to rent the whole package or the bits you need individually, which can work out quite expensive, especially compared with Affinity. The main issue with Affinity can be industry compatibility, if you need you share work with other studios, especially with Publisher. It can open IDML files (and PDFs) from InDesign but it's still not perfect, but won't export IDML. Photoshop and Illustrator are less of an issue. But if you're a lone freelancer who deals directly with clients and printers then Affinity has to be hard to beat.

I love Affinity! But I want them to make more apps. I would love a Fresco/pro Creat like app made by them and a video editor

That was some solid comparison Brad, I hope affinity comes out with their own video editing software soon so I can ditch Premiere lol, I tried Davinci and couldn't get a hang of it

If ever went freelance or left my workplace (My studio pays for creative cloud), then I'd have to rely on affinity products but I'd miss after effects. The only adobe program I'd miss is after effects, a program that adobe contiues to let down with updates that can slow down render times or stop compositions from loading.

I'm a pro that uses Affinity apps daily and do not miss Adobe in the slightest. I absolutely love the workflow and features of Affinity.

Great video Brad. I recently downgraded my Adobe membership to Indesign only as I use and teach Canva to my clients that I wasn’t making use of the monthly subscription. I’ve used Affinity designer in the past and knew it was a good alternative. It’s good to know that Affinity have taken a steady approach and that I’m not alone in considering them a good alternative.

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Ipad combined with Affinity suite is phenomenal. Looks like there are no restrictions in toolset compared to desktop versions, and the way it works on Ipad is so so slick and consistent. They really smashed it out of the park.

Back in 2019 when I was getting my associates degree, I was using Adobe but that was because it was required. Then when I graduated I learned about affinity and switched, mainly due to budget. And now I have an iPad and I use affinity designer all the time.

It's a real shame that Affinity has no interest in putting their software out for android devices. I'm honestly not a fan of apple products and would love to be able to use affinity on my Galaxy Tab s7.

Clearly, adobe has some amazing stuff. And yet... I refuse their subscription model. Principles man, principles. Actually, the programs I've replaced adobe with are pretty good. But, I focus on things like clip studio, rebelle, etc. I don't do as much graphic design anymore, so I stick with occasional use of affinity products. Most of my work is deep into digital artwork, which the competitors do very very well.

Hi Brad, I have two questions: 1) I want to switch from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. After importing an .ai file into Designer, will all the points remain identical for future editing? 2) Illustrator has the perspective grid tool. Is there a work-around in Designer for manipulating the perspective of an illustration? ~ Thank you

To me, which is worth about 2 cents max, the app that sets Adobe apart is After Effects. Yes there are some alternatives out there, but there is nothing like AE if you want a robust animation program for many different things. Brad - would love for you to make an Adobe Animate course....please!

I've moved on to Affinity, because it feels like Adobe doesn't try to be user-friendly. The big thing is the monthly subscription thing. I've also moved away from Adobe Premier and After Effects. I get a better experience with the free version of DaVinci Resolve 17. With there being a lot of competitors now, you'd think Adobe would be trying harder. From what I understand, they're still using old code. They may have to rebuild everything from the ground up.

I switched to affinity several years ago. I am very happy with Affinity, it does every thing photoshop does. I use affinity photo and designer. I use them on an Apple desktop and a Dell inspiration laptop.

If I could make two suggestions for categories if you ever do a follow up.. One, performance. Affinity is waaaay more lightweight from a resources perspective. Most bugs in Photoshop come down to standard/video memory. Affinity runs like a dream on almost any system. My favorite "couch sketcher" is a 2017 laptop with an i5 and Wacom penabled screen. Someone on a budget could pick it up on eBay for about $225. Goes very well with the budget software price. Of course the caveat is Photoshop offers very robust features to go with that processing power. The other super important note is... Many industries require Photoshop proficiency. I work in games/entertainment (for example). In every studio I've ever worked in people are expected to sit down in Photoshop on day one and jump into any task needed. From sketching to working with a robust multipurpose file featuring hundreds of nested groups, smart objects, adjustment layers, clipping, the whole deal. Same as Maya vs Blender, etc. So if anyone watching is like "I wanna work on games and movies!"... there is unfortunately no debate. You have to learn Photoshop to a very high level. Side note, I love Affinity. I was an early adopter and I push them on everyone. I teach Photoshop at university.. and I very clearly ask students their goals so I can transition them to Clip Studio or Affinity when they graduate *if* they don't *need* Photoshop. I find Affinity more artist friendly and I feel like as a platform they deserve more presence in the space. They've earned it and they're awesome. Oh, and Designer is a magical piece of software that Adobe should have invented years ago when they started merger products. It has no equal 🤘

I have an idea. Flipaclip vs. Adobe Animate

I use Affinity Photo for almost 2 years, so far it's good, but I can say that AP still lack of detail-effect feature like PS such as Filter Gallery or the detailed slider on PS each Adjustment feature. Another lack feature is, AP Effect Tab, personally I think it's just a basic featured when compare to PS. Nonetheless AP is still a proper/professional apps that can be used to make a good art..I do use it for client work as well. but when you wanna work deeper to get detailed feature, more effects, and more tweaks ..I guess PS still the winner

I own a small printshop and I would love to have a replacement for Acrobat Pro and the Pitstop Pro Plugin. Acrobat crashes regularly and is just quirky while working on customers PDFs. I get really tired of waiting for mailing lists to compile in Acrobat and watching it only use one of my 24 CPU cores.

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AFFINITY SUITE user here but I keep CS6 in since thats adobe version which work without hiccup in my machine . But I open the idea about plugins which will extending CS6 capabilities to par with newer version . Do you guys have any info about those plugins?

I'm really split on the subject of standart vs variety. Having lots of competition in photo editing aps makes it a lot harder to get started as a graphic designer looking for a job. At this point you can mostly can get by learning CC.

Thanks for weighing the pros and cons for me. I loved the video but what was the image that flashed for about .33 sec at the 2:34 and 2:41 time marks in the video????

What device did you use in this video? I've been looking for one that does the things yours does, for years now. Which brand and model number is that?

love these. can't wait to watch.

Great video, thanks. The one thing that would really make me happy is if Affinity Photo would have transform selection on their iPad app and their desktop version.

Please note that Substance 3D apps are NOT included in the normal program. I would also recommend Davinci Resolve free version as replacer of Premiere Pro, Audition and After effects

been on affinity since 2018. reliable, never let me down what else can I say?

Switched to affinity ecosystem recently and i kinda loving it.

I’m an indie video game developer and artist and what I am looking for in a graphic suit is functionally, easy to learn and master, powerful tools and cool features and price. I like Affinity as the suit fits the bill even though there’s no 3D support or other graphic design support and if I need to use more than Affinity, I can use some Adobe apps like Substance Paint and the file sharing is solid between the two camps. I’m a rebel and Affinity GUI and tools are better plus you get to own it. My verdict is Affinity for main creation and supplementary graphics would be Adobe.

for some reason i always cant resist not seeing one of your smackdown videos but now its between adobe and affinity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love using affinity products. I have affinity photo and designer. I am a huge fan of them on my ipad, though I also have them both on my desk top. The big deciding factor for me was the one off fee for affinity. I do not want to "rent" my software. I do not use the software often enough to justify a monthly fee. I am not a professional digital user. I am an eclectic creator so use digital as well as traditional supplies and I have other hobbies such as knitting and sewing etc. I still don't own an ipad pro lol My ipad is so basic it is only 32GB lol It does struggle a little for space with both photo and designer downloaded as I also have procreate on my ipad lol I rarely have all 3 "fully downloaded" onto my ipad as I do not use them often enough. Maybe one day I will buy an ipad pro. As for my video software, I use davinci resolve, it allows me to do what I need for free, I can't argue with that lol

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There´s one functionality which seems unique to Adobe Illustrator: You can create overlapping closed and open paths in illustrator, select them all and apply a boolean divide filter on them. Wherever a line cuts through the closed path, the divide filter will split it into two separate closed paths with a common boundary. What is the significance? Simple: Just like you had to cut out masks back in the airbrushing days to avoid brushing over a boundary, you can use this to create masks that can be imported into Photoshop. There, you can simply select one closed path, turn it into a selection and paint only within that selection with a brush tool. Of course paths can be also created in Photoshop and be turned into a selection, but you´ll never be able to split a closed path into several seperate closed paths with common boundaries so easily. Oddly enough, to this day I´ve yet to see an alternative vector editor capable of this trick. BTW: I learned this in the nineties, which was long before the creative suite days. It never ceases to amaze me that no other manufacturer of vector graphics software has caught on.

I used to buy Adobe but they don't sell the product anymore, that was the biggest reason why I bought Affinity Photo and Designer. The results are what matter, and I can do the same stuff as PS but much faster.

Hey when you ranked art apps you didnt use corel for a while so why dont you review both apps

I just switched to Affinity from Adobe after two years. Adobe is great, but it's a collection of separately acquired tools that have been reworked to try and play nice together. With Affinity, I can work with print, vectors and images without having to jump out of one program and wait for another to load up. Also, I realised that ditching Adobe's subscription is enough for an extra holiday for my family per year.

Affinity photo just crashes consistently with me on my new iPad. I’ve tried reinstalling rebooting and I just don’t have any success with it.

I've been saying this since day 1: I can't make sense of Adobe and the ungodly amount they charge and there isn't strong customer service whenever it comes to their products like Apple, for example. I'll use Affinity and my team will use the Affinity suite of apps because I like the model of you buy things and can keep them until death do you part and that's why I gravitate towards Final Cut, Logic Pro, and the Affinity Suites because you can pay and you can keep them for a long time while getting the quality to life upgrades. My favorite YT channel to talk about Affinity Suites is Affinity Revolution and their courses are amazing by this Husband/Wife duo(I might be wrong on the duo part lol). Also, Brad nice Batman shirt I see you 👀

It would be nice if Adobe could bring back the perpetual license and only charge customers for updates whenever they’re ready to upgrade to a new version.

I opened a full (more than 100 Layers) AI file in Affinity 2.5.2! Lets see if I can finish this project in Affinity! It did affect the fonts,(easy to fix) but the gradients look amazing, keeping the effects I used in Adobe. The jpegs are good too

Guys I just bought a Galaxy Tab 8. I came from windows, and I was using Inkscape and photoshop. Can any one help me with similar programs for Android??

My main issue stopping me from buying Affinity is when I'm working with friends and colleagues who use Adobe and share files with me to view/edit and vice versa. Or clients that need a specific file type that Affinity doesn't offer

I’m considering Affinity only because Adobe InDesign is not on iPad. Is it worth using Affinity in this case?

I use both at times but I really want to only use Affinity in the future. The only reason I have Adobe is because I get it free from my school. I also prefer other software from adobe's such as DaVinci Resolve from Premiere Pro or Harmony from Animate.

It's been no contest to me. I don't rent software so I use the Affinity suite for my work on still images and DaVinci Resolve for video. which now even includes cloud options if needed. With this combination Adobe offers nothing I need that I don't already have.

Back then I love to use Adobe Lightroom for photo editting. Now my recently favorite photo edittor is Nikon NX Studio. It's *FREE!*

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What gadget is that you were using to draw?

would love to see a revised version of this video.

Nice. I've been using Affinity a lot since the second quarter of 2020. Great price (for both Designer and Photo) and a lot of tools and options. I love it . Now, I use Illustrator on ocasions, for certain works. Still like it al lot. Saludos.

The Substance apps aren’t included in Adobe Creative Cloud. It’s a separate subscription. 😖

Honestly the best thing Adobe has ever done is building the Behance community. I don't even use Adobe products (I use Clip Studio Paint and Affinity products), but I still watch the livestreams there (both the Adobe produced shows and the regular non-Adobe streamers). It's a really great resource and community for creatives whatever their art or design app choice is. For me Affinity wins not just on the price, but because of the way vector and raster graphics are integrated so well in Affinity Designer. Illustrator may have more features, but Designer is still better for my workflow because of that.

I'm loving your videos and you always speak on what is on my mind thank you. I like a lot of people spent a lot of money and time learning the Adobe suite however when my Mac went down the Adobe I was using went with it (I was on the G5). Fast forward to 20/20 I got an iPad I didn't get the one with the great memory which I still regret but I eventually got a chance to get affinity which was great and then Adobe came with their products and their price and models which just pissed me off and so I will be going back to affinity with my next iPad because the month to month is just not working for me. The reason all these other guys exist is because Adobe did that to themselves.

Uh, the "scope" point is fair enough, but it bears mentioning that you need those four apps mentioned specifically because Adobe has chosen *not* to have their functions built into the basic suite (unlike, say, how Davinci Resolve has the equivalent of AE etc. built in)...

Great video. Thanks for posting this. I currently subscribe just to have access for personal graphics projects. I'm working on a book illustration project which is being done in PS, but i don't love the monthly subscription model. If I could switch to Affinity Pro, it would make great sense financially. My main concern is file portability. Does Affinity import layered .PSD files?

As much as I love Affinity, I've had to go back to adobe because of frustratingly stupid little problems with the software that just make it a headache to use. For example on the desktop: the brush pallet, it shows no name(unless you hover over it for a full second or 2), sometimes no highlight on what brush you're on, sometimes won't even switch brushes and when you do, it resets to default if you tap out and back into a brush. There's the "it works with photoshop brushes" half-truth, where it does, but the settings on the brushes are completely wrong so it doesn't behave at all like in photoshop. Brushes often also start off with a blotch of pigment that may or may not be a phantom graphic glitch (sometimes it'll just be there until you adjust the brush and then it'll magically go away) The color picker is slow to respond (you have to touch and move the cursor before it actually activates). On the ipad: the huge control panel at the bottom gets in the way because you can't turn it off and then picks up palm touches and then messes with the settings. Some settings are SUPER responsive, and other (like flow) aren't responsive at all. You need to jump to another persona just to get the lasso tool. The inability to have a proper reference/navigator window. You can't even split-screen another app. :( And the worst is the community has been calling for these fixes (especially the brush pallet issue on desktop) for years on end and they don't fix it. While Brad is right and the forum is active, the users and responses do not seem to be taken into account when they are planning features/fixes because rarely, if ever, is anything the community was calling for is introduced.

Designer came first, not Photo. Photo was what got everyone's attention. I adore Affinity it's the apps I wanted ever since Jobs announced CoreImage.

Affinity all the way, have all their apps and couldn’t be happier, do all work I need without subscription plan.

As long as Adobe has a rental/subscription model, it always loses.

For me it’s Affinity, I used to own Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator 2 decades ago but now their mobile version is not on par with their desktop version and plus subscription. I decided to purchase Affinity Photo and Designer for iPad because of more features and one off payment.