lrjdesign

@lrjdesign
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. I hope you find that it suits your needs 

Create your signature here in your account settings. As for abbreviating the app name, it’s probably a good idea to avoid using ‘AP’ for Affinity Photo now that Affinity Publisher is on the way; I’m in the habit of referring to Affinity Photo as ‘APh’.

Affinity can only get better, so the futures bright, one thing to bear in mind is Designer is not Illustrator and Photo is not Photoshop and while they do very similar things they are their own type of app. There are no dumb questions so ask whatever you need to, there are many tutorials for you to watch and, as always, have fun learning on your way to your dream 
 
ps, create a sig in your profile so people can see what OS you have, the apps you use, see mine below for an example, this prevents people from having to ask common questions. Also let people know which app you are referring to, something like AD or AP will do, it just makes life easier. 

I'm so excited. I am just downloading the trials of Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer and feel pretty good about the prospect of being free of Adobe... finally. I really hope this works out.
As a part-time freelancer/mother to young child I just can't afford the extorionate adobe subscription as my work is sporadic - sometimes I only get 1 job a month at the moment. I'm a little scared though, as most of us are who have been using adobe ever since starting our careers, but am determined to give this a good shot and look forward to telling everyone else to do the same.
Fingers crossed that this will be my dream solution