trial copy extension needed

[Pixel-Mover]

Hi. Some time ago I downloaded and installed Affinity Photo as I had some months left on my Photoshop subscription, which I intended to cancel. Long story short, I didn't put enough time in evaluate, and now my Photoshop sub has been cancelled. I tried downloading another trial, but I cant use it.

Any chance you can extend my trial of Affinity Photo (windows 7), even just for a week? 

[MEB]

Hi Pixel-Mover,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Unfortunately there's no way to do this. You may have another chance when we release the 1.7 versions of Affinity Photo and Designer since we usually reset them so everyone can try the app again to check the new features. There's no eta for the 1.7 release though.

[carl123]

Serif offers a 14 day money back guarantee on Affinity Photo, so just buy it from the Affinity website, evaluate it and if not right for your work you can "return" it without any problems or questions asked.

 

[Pixel-Mover]

Thanks for speedy replies. I didn't know about the 14 money back guarantee. I'll give that a go.

[Miljac]

I think that trial period for Affinity Photo needs to be longer. In a 10 days period I only found 3-4 hours to look into the software and for me it's far from enough to bring the decision for purchase. I only found that it's not fully compatible with Google NIK Collection (Viveza does not work properly), it does not have full screen preview, Elements Organizer does not recognize native Affinity format...
On the the other hand, it looks like I can find a lot more usable controls over the Elements, such as HSL filter, which really made me happy! I just started familiarizing with Affinity masks, and wanted to finalize first image in Affinity Photo, when the trial expired ..... 

I have no other option but to wait for the next release and a reset of the trial .. 
I believe that I am not the only one who's too busy in daily routines to concentrate the trial scope in such a short period.

(I don't like money back guarantee, as suggested by carl123. Normally I never come back to the seller where I had to use this.)

[firstdefence]

I think a much fairer solution to the 10 day trial would be a usage timer, The allowable amount of time would be specified in hours instead of days, after all you cannot use an app 24/10 and remain sane lol! so what would the considered amount of usage within a day to make a reasonable assessment be? I think most people would want the 24 hours 24x10 = 240 hours but I doubt anyone will ever be able to stay awake for 10 days, maybe 4 hours per day? 4 x 10 = 40 hours.

[Miljac]

Good proposal, firstdefence. For me, 20-30 hours would me more than enough for a trial. With frequent releases and trial resets, someone may comfortably use it for free for a long, long time, so it's ok if Serif decides to limit it in days as well, but please not under let say 45 days.