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28 minutes ago, Johannes said:
The only non-disadvantages I see so far are
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Canva is a private company and has no stock market pressure - Development could now be faster for more apps
Just a few minutes and I have to correct myself 🙄
"Canva […] prepares a long run at going public"
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The worst thingThe worst thing is that with subscription models you can be locked out of your own creations – even for political reasons #AdobeVenezuela. It's extortion.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20904030/adobe-venezuela-photoshop-behance-us-sanctionsAnd once you've subscribed, it's even harder to switch to another software company because you have to be subscribed to open old documents.
So never, never, never subscribe if file formats from other software companies can't be fully read like .indd .afdesign .afphoto .afpub!
I stayed on Adobe CS6 for years for this reason and I will never subscribe if there is even the slightest suspicion that I could be locked out of my own work, even if I have unsubscribed.
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Can't believe this works in Designer but not Photo.
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Serious Color Management Issue
I went back immediately to 2.1.1 for the whole suite because on the very first minute of work I came across a serious color management issue. Wrong profiles are used (or pretended to be used) even the app wide color setting has been changed. I can't work at all if I can't know for sure which profile I'm using.
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10 hours ago, Granddaddy said:
… the threat of invisible data being inserted into images created and/or modified by generative AI …
This reminds me that every PDF gets a unique code which is sent home by Adobe products on opening the file on your computer outside any cloud¹. This can be used for example to show personal or business connections by intensity. Why not do it with all files. (I don’t like that at all and I use Little Snitch app). More than a quarter of Adobe's revenue comes from Adobe Experience for analytics, targeting, marketing … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Experience_Cloud
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1) this information is around 10 years old and I only assume that Adobe still does it. Unfortunately I can’t find the page from the security expert who describes the behavior in detail. -
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Hey @Gabe remember this?
It's still kinda annoying.
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fast times we live in
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Maybe we’ll get generative fill through a third party plug-in.
There already are some AI plugins that work with Affinity Photo.
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Maybe we’ll get generative fill through a third party plug-in.
There already are some AI plugins that work with Affinity Photo.
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What Adobe does now with Generative Fill in Photoshop beta is impressive and even more useful compared to what Midjourney or Dall-e do.
It is not perfect yet but way better than what I have available right now.
Dear Affinity team do you work on more AI integration into the suite? I hope so.
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I was indeed very pleasantly surprised with the pricing. Thank you @Patrick Connor
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14 minutes ago, rpnfan said:
Danke Johannes, "but I don't hold my breath"... Von daher spare ich mir die Zeit und warte, ob zu meiner Überraschung doch etwas passiert wäre. Ich bin im Wesentlichen mit Affinity durch. Ich hatte zuviele Probleme, hab' etliches an Zeit verloren die Software für mich nutzbar werden zu lassen und doch ist die S/W teils buggy -- und Updates bekomme ich nun nicht mehr. Ich sehe nicht ein für weitere Beta-Versionen -- das ist für mich die Affinity Suite -- mit zu vielen wichtigen fehlenden Funktionen Geld zu bezahlen. Dann halt weiter die alten Adobe-Lizenzen benutzen. Sicher ist Affinity in Teilen besser als eine alte CSx-Version, aber in wichtigen Punkten leider eben nicht.
Als ich mir damals die Mühe gemacht habe genau aufzulisten was und warum im Bereich ICC-Farbmanagement fehlt, hatte ich noch die Hoffnung, oder ist es mehr ein Irrglaube, dass Affinity wirklich versuchen würde ein Alternative zu Adobe aufzubauen.Oh, they did build an alternative. They just didn’t copy it (completely). Affinity apps lack some features and provide some that Adobye apps lack.
I hope your CS6 supporting OS and hardware will work for you as long as you need it.
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32 minutes ago, drkanukie said:
That's even more annoying I have one Mac that can upgrade and one that can't as on High Sierra. With the broken compatibility with V1 and V2 files this is a complete retrograde step for interworking. I think not maintaining file compatibility is a terrible business practice. Also Apples hardware become obsolete even if it's still working, I now have one laptop and two tablets I can't really use anymore, I can run modern Windows on 10 year old hardware no problem.
Well my Mojave runs on a 2009 Mac Pro 😙🎵
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9 hours ago, rpnfan said:
Has someone already checked the new Affinity suite 2? Do they finally support full ICC colormanagement which Adobe introduced over 20 years ago?
I didn’t check specificly but It wasn’t mentioned in new feature introduction videos as far as I remember. I was almost happy with color management in v1 but you can have a free look at v2 with the 30 day trial.
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17 minutes ago, drkanukie said:
There is version migration
Unfortunately my v1 is on MacOS Mojave which isn’t supported anymore and my v2 therefore is on a different machine with Monterey. So probably no auto migration for me.
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I like how the teams are doubling down together now. 😮💨
via https://affinity.serif.com/de/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/
The Affinity and Canva Pledge
As we step into our shared future, we are committing to four pledges that we’re excited to share with the current and future Affinity community.
Earlier this week we shared the news that Affinity had been acquired by Canva. As the dust settles on the announcement, we wanted to share more about our future together and our commitment to the Affinity community.
Since our inception, both of our companies have shared the same mission and vision. We were both founded with the belief that design shouldn’t be limited to those who can afford complex software. Our goal has been to make the highest quality design tools available to the largest number of people with fair, transparent and affordable pricing at our core. By joining forces, we’re looking forward to accelerating this shared vision.
Above all, together, we’re committed to continuing and amplifying Affinity’s position as the highest-quality professional-grade design suite on the market, while continuing to empower millions of designers to unlock their creativity and achieve their goals.
We share a commitment to making design fairer and more accessible. For Canva, this has meant making our core product available for free to millions of people across the globe, and for Affinity, this has meant a fairly priced perpetual license model. We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future.
If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity. It could also allow us to offer Affinity users a way to scale their workflows using Canva as a platform to share and collaborate on their Affinity assets, if they choose to.
We believe Affinity is the highest-quality professional-grade design suite on the market. It’s non-destructive, super fast, and easy to use. As such, we want to reassure you that it isn’t going anywhere.
In fact, we’re committed to using our shared resources to continue expanding Affinity’s products through further investment in Affinity as a standalone product suite. We’re looking forward to accelerating the rollout of highly requested features such as variable font support, blend and width tools, auto object selection, multi-page spreads, ePub export and much more.
These additions will further cement Affinity as the best advanced design suite on the market and will be released over the coming year as free updates to V2.
Canva, which has pledged 30% of its value as a company towards doing good in the world through its two-step plan, offers premium plans at no cost to schools and NFPs all over the world. More than 60 million students and teachers, plus 600,000 charities and registered nonprofits, benefit from this each month.
We’re excited to extend this programme to include free access for schools and nonprofits to Designer, Photo and Publisher. These professional-grade tools will add enormous value to this free offering, helping millions of students to master the craft of design, and empowering mission driven organisations to amplify their voices and maximize their impact.
We’ll share more details on this in the coming months, including what it means for our education and NFP customers that already use Affinity.
Affinity and Canva were both founded on the basis that their respective communities – of expert and non-expert designers – deserved better. The tools available were overly complex, overly priced, or both. We know designers deserve better. They deserve the highest quality tools to serve their needs and they deserve to be treated fairly.
We also believe the design community also knows best what it needs. As such, we are committed to shaping our products based on your ideas, your feedback and your needs. To kick things off, we’d love to learn more about what you’d like to see as we embark on this next chapter of our journey. What would you like to see in Affinity? What features have you been dreaming of? What would you love to achieve? We’d love to hear from you.
Thank you to everyone who has been an integral part of the journey so far. We’re excited for the future and can’t wait to see what we can build together.
With gratitude and excitement,
The Affinity and Canva Teams