Metin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

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Affinity has been bought by Canva, to compete with Adobe.

It was of course a matter of time before Affinity would outgrow its status of sympathetic small-scale Adobe alternative, and be sold for large proceeds.

Canva is into AI. Hopefully Affinity will get some useful AI-powered image processing tools, like upscalers and denoisers, but Canva will probably add generative shit and introduce subscriptions sooner or later.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canva-acquires-affinity-design-suite-004813952.html

#canva #adobe #affinity #GraphicDesign

Canva Strikes Biggest Acquisition Yet in Chase to Take on Adobe

(Bloomberg) -- Canva Inc. acquired the Affinity suite of creative software popular with Mac users, securing its biggest acquisition to date in an effort to...

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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

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My favorite Affinity alternatives are:

Photoscape X, a surprisingly versatile image editor and viewer. I use it a lot. It's free, and you can support the developer with a useful in-app "Pro" purchase:

http://x.photoscape.org

@GIMP is getting better and better as time progresses, and will remain free and open source:

https://www.gimp.org

@inkscape is a great open source alternative to Affinity Designer:

https://inkscape.org

#affinity #design #FOSS #illustration #art #adobe

PhotoScape X for Mac and Windows 10

Free Download PhotoScape X - Fun and Easy Photo Editor. PhotoScape X is an all-in-one photo editing software which provides photo-related features such as Photo Viewer, Editor, Cut Out, Batch, Collage, Combine, Create GIF, Color Picker, Screen Capture, RAW images and More. Best Photoshop Alternative.

Show threadJan StarzakMar 26, 2024
@metin do you know of any Affinity Designer alternatives that have a vector-to-pixel mode? Designer was my life raft after Fireworks was discontinued.
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨

@jstarpl I guess the best thing to do is to check out the other alternatives:

https://graphics.social/@metin/112161063870638895

Metin Seven 🎨 (@[email protected])

🧵 [3/3] Some more Affinity alternatives (also see previous post)... @[email protected]: https://krita.org Photoline: https://www.pl32.com VectorStyler https://vectorstyler.com Photopea (online): https://www.photopea.com Vectorpea (online): https://www.vectorpea.com Graphite (online): https://graphite.rs Scribus (Affinity Publisher alternative): http://www.scribus.us Acorn (macOS only): https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ #affinity #canva #adobe #software #design #art #illustration #OpenSource #tip

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