1st time Affinity help

[Karyn56]

Hi

I have just heard of Affinity.  I have recently cancelled my photoshop subscription as its too expensive.  I mainly make posters, flyers and signs.  I need to import photos and drawings and use different lettering styles, colour etc

Would I be able to do this using Affinity and also is it in any way similar to use as Photoshop.  

Thank you

Karyn56

[dominik]

2 minutes ago, Karyn56 said:

Hi

I have just heard of Affinity.  I have recently cancelled my photoshop subscription as its too expensive.  I mainly make posters, flyers and signs.  I need to import photos and drawings and use different lettering styles, colour etc

Would I be able to do this using Affinity and also is it in any way similar to use as Photoshop.  

Thank you

Karyn56

Hello @Karyn56 and welcome the forum.

I am very confident that you would be able to make posters and flyers and signs with the Affinity programs. They are made for this.

You just have to investigate beforehand if they fit your workflow. There are three different programs: Affinty Photo is for image manipulation and comparable, while not similar, to Photoshop. Affintiy Designer is a vector illustration software and would be better suited for design of flyers and posters. And there is Affinity Publisher which has a strong emphasis on print production. If you own all three of them they are very closely integrated and you could e.g. work in Publisher and switch easily to edit images or to edit vector art.

It really depends on how you organise and prefer your workflow.

There are two (if not more) options to find out if the software is for you. Firstly there are a lot of video tutorials that give a first impression on how things work. You find the here: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/learn/

Secondly you can download free trials (I think for 10 days) so that you can try and see on your own. You find links to the trial versions at the bottom of each product page over there: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

I think if you are mainly working in Photoshop you should find your way around in Affinity Photo quickly.

One important aspect to check out beforehand is also on how you continue to use your work you already have. While Photoshop files can be opened chances are that on more elaborate designs you perhaps have to readjust things. It all depends on the actual files.

I wish you good luck exploring the Affinties 🙂

d.

[Old Bruce]

33 minutes ago, Karyn56 said:

I mainly make posters, flyers and signs.  I need to import photos and drawings and use different lettering styles, colour etc

Photo can handle all the above.

One caveat is if you import a photo/drawing it will be an Image layer so you will have to turn it into pixel for some operations.  Most stuff will just happen regardless of a layer being an Image layer or a Pixel layer so if something is not working the way you think it should check to see if the layer is pixels or vectors or text or an image.

[John Rostron]

15 hours ago, dominik said:

Secondly you can download free trials (I think for 10 days) so that you can try and see on your own.

The trial runs 10 days from when you first open it. Unless you have time to try out all three in parallel, I would recommend trying them out one after the other.

John