Texasrpbrock

Agreed on all points as I was in the same boat. Luckily I am running my CS stuff on my old tower that I’ve kept downgraded for the reason of running CS6. But did get a new iMac recently and have Affinty running on it. I’m really liking the way the way the Affinity apps work and although I’m having to re-learn a lot of stuff, it’s completely worth it from a price point issue not having to do the monthly subscription. As soon as I’m confident I have all my skill sets transferred over, I’ll be putting CS6 out to pasture. Affinity has done a great job filling a gap in the industry and if they’re this good today, I can only imagine how powerful this suite of software will be in the future. 

Hi, I am a new Affinity Photo user who has decided to stop using a standalone Adobe CS6 application on my photo editing computer (an iMac), because Adobe no longer supports CS6 and earlier versions of it.  And also because of the following reasons:
a.  I can't upgrade OS-X to Catalina, nor to Big Sur-as long as I want to continue using CS6. Right now I have CS6 running under Mojave.
b.  I am an amateur photographer, and only edit my photos occasionally.  In this case, the Adobe's CC apps would be a big waste of money.
c.  I don't want to depend on photo editing apps that require monthly payments and Internet service, since I often am at remote locations where there isn't Wi-Fi available. I prefer to pay up front, and dislike being tied-up to monthly fees.  I already paid dearly for the Adobe CS5 and then CS6 apps.
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Affinity Photo, but my learning curve is steep without a guidebook.  I ordered, Frank Walters' "The Affinity Photo Guidebook,"  not necessarily because it may help me learn about Affinity Photo, but because it is the only one that has been recently published. I have no idea if this guidebook will help me, but that's all I can do at the moment.  
By the way,  learning from reading printed instructions from a book for example, is a lot easier than learning from a screen (ebooks or videos).  In the instruction videos I have watched, the host goes too fast through the mouse-click and keyboard commands.  It is tiring for me having to pause or rewind the video to catch something that I missed.

Greetings all 😀
 
I'm pleased to see so many longterm users of Serif software on here.  I used the free PagePlus starter edition when I was studying Graphic Design back in the 1990s (I'm giving my age away there 😉 ) and although the industry was using QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator and FreeHand at the time, I still had a special place in my heart for Serif, and I kept an eye out on your developments from time to time.
 
Now I'm working in an IT role (I didn't have the artistic vision and creativity to pursue a career in graphic design 😢 ) I no longer have a requirement for page layout and drawing applications, but I'll always have a need for a decent photo-editing app, even if it's for something as basic as editing screenshots when producing simple user guides and other documentation.
 
Since Adobe's subscription method seems to have lost touch with reality, and my perpetual Photoshop CS6 software no longer runs on MacOS Catalina and Big Sur, I thought it time to show Serif my support and purchase a license of Affinity Photo in the Black Friday sales for 1/3 the cost of Photoshop Elements perpetual, or less than the cost of a single month's Adobe CC subscription.
 
Here's to the next 25 years (it could be closer to 30, I can't remember) 😘
 

Well today, I made the leap away from Adobe and purchased Designer and Photo while they were going cheap.  I would have purchased Publisher as well but it is still missing a feature I need.  Regardless, I am very happy with what I have bought, and, while I am not a power user by any stretch of the imagination, I hope to make the very best of them.  I have made a few posts already on the board but expect I will make quite a few more over the coming weeks and months depending on how many hurdles I bump into.

Steve

After 25 plus years of designing I’m pretty hyped to try something new as there hasn’t been anything new in over 20 years. I’m from the Aldus/Macromedia generation that switched over to Adobe after the buyout. This looks and feels like some great design software. It’s actually exciting again to design and not get hit in the wallet every month with stuff I don’t need. Looking forward to Affinity’s future in the design software market. Really wish I knew of a good Type Manager that could rival Suitcase without added fluff and price.