Likewise, the iPad version, which I also have, is a steal at $21.99 USD / $29.99 CAD. The Affinity Photo software is an unbelievable deal at $54.99 USD / $74.99 CAD. If I'm lucky enough to catch them on sale, half that! Amazing! Thank you, Serif! Purchase, Free Trial and Installation I could buy all three Affinity programs for $224.97 CAD ($164.97 USD) outright, a one-time purchase. So, in my case, for example, if I wanted an annual photography plan, $12.99 CAD x 12, plus three months of Illustrator because I needed it three times, $122.97 CAD, and the same for InDesign, $122.97 CAD (the cheapest way to get them), my total annual bill to Adobe would be $401.82 CAD (or $308.82 USD), and that's with ZERO extra Cloud storage. Monthly: $79.49 USD / $103.99 CAD month to month.Annual: $9.99 USD / $12.99 CAD paid monthly.‘Photographer’ Plan (Photoshop, Lightroom, and a very limited amount of Cloud storage): Monthly: $31.49 USD/ $40.99 CAD month to month.Just to show you how expensive it is, here is Adobe's pricing scheme: Photoshop alone: I’ve now been using Affinity Photo since about 2016, and here is my review of it, as well as a comparison to my memories of the last version of the more mainstream but more expensive Photoshop. On top of that, they also have the equivalent of Illustrator and InDesign available, and their prices are extremely reasonable. T hey have done a wonderful job on this, IMHO. They have completely revamped the interface and user experience of the product, retaining the stuff that worked and dump ing a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t. It actually does many things better, more conveniently, and certainly more logically than Photoshop ever did. My heroes!Īffinity Photo does everything that Photoshop in CS6 did as far as I can tell, with the notable exception of 3D, which I never used anyway. But then I heard about a wonderful little company in England called Serif, who were building a product called Affinity Photo. I was really mad and frustrated with Adobe, and I remain so to this day. What was I going to do? Pay Adobe’s monthly subscription fee, which initially was truly outrageous? And to top things off, what about users like me who needed Illustrator and InDesign two or three times a year, but didn’t use it all the time? Was I going to have to get a subscription for all of this? It was far beyond my ability to pay, and it still is, as initially they were on an annual subscription paid monthly fee schedule, so occasional users like me were disadvantaged. At the same time, however, Apple was gradually shifting to 64 bit architecture in all of their computers and software, and by about 2015-2016, CS6 no longer worked on my machine. I was OK for a while, in that I still had a fresh version of Creative Suite 6 that was still working, so I steadfastly refused to sign up. In 2013, the fear became a reality, and Adobe stopped issuing standalone software for Photoshop. It was pretty much the only game in town for a long time. I had grown very used to its cumbersome, arcane, buggy, and, at times, inane, user interface. I started using Photoshop when we were still scanning prints, slides, and negatives. Having been a Photoshop user since about 1996, and having spent literally thousands on Adobe software over the years, I had developed a good little side business doing photography and graphics which augmented my work as a musician. When Adobe first announced in 2011 that Photoshop, and all of its Creative Suite applications, would go to cloud-based monthly subscriptions, I was upset, like many users. People From 1974 : My uncles going back home for the weekend.Weekly Challenge Best of PF Newsletter Challenge #9: Santa's on his way!!.Weekly Challenge Caption Contest - closes Midnight EST 12/27/23.Thematic It's That Time of Year Again (Favorite Images of 2023).Post-Processing Post Processing Challenge #494.Monster Adapter LA-KE1 Pentax K to Sony E Lens Adapter.Pentax O-ICK1 Sensor Cleaning Kit Review.Astrotracer Type 3 added for Pentax K-1 and K-1 II.Making Fall Colors Pop with the "Gold" Custom Image Mode.November "Towers and Spires" Contest Finalists Announced.Announcing our November 2023 Giveaway Winners.
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