Away from Adobe

[TransitionMan]

Currently low level design user of Illustrator & Photoshop. Moving to exclusively Mac with lots of Windows generated .AI, .PDF, and .PSD files. Can Affinity software cut the umbilical to Adobe?

[Patrick Connor]

@TransitionMan

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. 

This is the easiest question of the day..... 

YES 

[Alfred]

Please be aware that the Affinity apps cannot read the proprietary AI format, so they depend upon your Illustrator files having been saved with the PDF compatibility option (to give them a PDF stream that Affinity can read). The Affinity apps are also unable to write editable text to a PSD file, although they can read PSD text.

 

[lrjdesign]

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

[Patrick Connor]

@lrjdesign

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

[firstdefence]

5 hours ago, lrjdesign said:

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

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. 

[Alfred]

54 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

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.

 

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’.

[toltec]

54 minutes ago, Alfred said:

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’.

 

OMG and if Serif bring out a D.A.M. program. Affinity DAM ?

 

 

I'm too old for this 

[firstdefence]

19 minutes ago, toltec said:

 

OMG and if Serif bring out a D.A.M. program. Affinity DAM ?

 

 

I'm too old for this 

got to be ADam

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

 

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’.

I wondered what APh was lol

[firstdefence]

Well all of the text shortcuts are now installed and ready for the future.

Affinity Photo (APh) 

Affinity Designer (ADe) 

Affinity Publisher (APu) 

Affinity Digital Asset Manager (ADam) 

 

Come on Affinity Gnomes, I have shortcuts to use. 

[iMatt]

What Alfred says is important. As a result, I have been able to open the very same files created in Illustrator CS in CorelDraw and now Affinity Designer.

[v_kyr]

56 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

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Affinity Digital Asset Manager (ADam)

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Who said that it will be named "Digital Asset Manager" (?) which is overall more a common term for a category of software, instead of an individual corporate product naming here. - What if they call it later instead "Affinity Catalog" or "Affinity Carousel" or whatever?

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Who said that it will be named "Digital Asset Manager" (?) which is overall more a common term for a category of software, instead of an individual corporate product naming here. - What if they call it later instead "Affinity Catalog" or "Affinity Carousel" or whatever?

Maybe we should have a naming poll for if or when Affinity decide to give a damn about making a DAM.  Frankly V_Kyr I don't give a DAM lol! 

[v_kyr]

5 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Maybe we should have a naming poll for if or when Affinity decide to give a damn about making a DAM.  Frankly V_Kyr I don't give a DAM lol! 

Well it's their homework to find the right sounding and fitting name here, I usually sell my service and ideas only ...