Has anyone swapped from Adobe CC to Affinity?
I hardly use Adobe, as I do most design work in Figma now and find there’s no point paying such a high subscription for something that’s hardly used.
On occasion find I use Adobe here and there. Like using Illustrator to make logos, but even Figma can do a lot of what illustrator does (for me at least).
Wondering how people got on using Affinity. If it does most or all of what Adobe can do. Can it open Adobe files?
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- Thanks so much @Sandrine Bascouert!
- @Dhruve Shah Both AD and AP are very capable software, If you're working on your own files and not dependent on other people files, then I would go Affinity. I don't really do logos but each time I had to submit an illustrator file as well as the proverbial .png, svg and .eps, so it would have buggered me, but apart from that, you can do all what illustrator does in AD (I can't speak for Publisher but it seems pretty close to InDesign too) even if some things take a little longer. If anything, if I was doing icons and UI work, then my go to software would be Affinity, hands down. Their export panel is something of another world!
- Thanks @Sandrine Bascouert. Yeah, I only really use Illustrator for logos, but even less-so than I used to. I can do a fair amount in Figma anyways, and I already use Pixelmator for photos and such, over Photoshop. I've never used InDesign, or at least not in years, and only dabbled with Premier, After Effects and Dimension.
- Sorry hit enter before I finished!I would say, for infrequent use, go Affinity!
- I have both... I bought Affinity Designer and Publisher when I had a very god deal being Beta tester (I think it was £30 each). I bought them mainly as a back up, in case some day I wouldn't want to pay for Adobe suscription. Having played with them extensively, I would say that unfortunately - and even if I prefer AD logic, this is no match for Adobe Illustrator. Only recently they introduced select similar with the latest version, after battling (for years!) with users to introduce it (it was deemed non-essential). Other similar features are still lacking that makes it a bit tedious when you're an art-workier working with other's people Ilustrator files, and yes, this is a big chunk of the customer base! As for Affinity Publisher, I only use it for my own stuff and consequently I never even downloaded InDesign. It really fits my needs (hence why I never tried anything else). There are lots of things that make me stay at Adobe (a superior learning experience, other software such as dimension, Fresco, XD and my software of choice Photoshop).
- Thanks @Sanda Koljatic @Adam Bradford @Daniele Daldoss!I think I will try them out and see. I'm assuming it will do most of what I need, if not all, so can then hopefully cancel Adobe.It's just not worth the cost for infrequent use
- Affinity is great tool, I recommend it :)
- I did a few years back, and found Affinity to be very impressive. I’m back on Adobe now, but only because somebody else is paying for it.If I had to pay, I’d swap back to Affinity in a heartbeat.
- I did! It is great!
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