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[zebedee]

How does Affinity Design compare with Illustrator?

Chris

Very favourably, I would say there are 90% of the features, but its the 90% you actually use!

Main advantage, apart from the cost), is its a clean sheet application that doesn't have decades of features added and bolted on, its genuinely a nicer place to work!

In my day job as a design educator, Affinitys attitude is a million miles from certain other companies, emails get answered quickly and they are open to feedback on features and workflow, the other lot just tell me to log into the support forums and hope for the best, which is not what you expect for a significant 5 figure subscription every year. Just wish we could dump them and move over entirely but the industry has an expectation, although we are starting to see a shift.

As a designer, well I had been using Adobe apps for over 30 years and I've pretty much made the switch totally now with no issues.

Zeb

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

A pretty good comparison :

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hAtdfX4Ma0


It's pretty much the only viable alternative to Adobe applications. I actively prefer both Designer and Publisher to their Adobe counterparts.

@zebedee thanks for the recommendation mate

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Heh - timely - Affinity products are 50% off right now

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[BAROBA]

I bought it too, dumping Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign after... 20 years.
I was always lucky to find an employer to buy it for me, so it didn't cost me much ( A lot of magazines and some training in the early days).
But Adobe telling everyone that everything they upload to their servers is used for training their (sub-par) AI is a bridge too far for me. Screwing over the little guys once again...