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 threadMetin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

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Some more Affinity alternatives (also see previous post)...

@Krita:
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

Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

Krita
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

Affinity in September 2022... 🙄

#affinity #adobe #canva #software #design #GraphicDesign #art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #designer #publisher #photo

Show threadDarren Di LietoMar 26, 2024
@metin Oh no. Are they being acquired?
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

@darrendilieto Yep… 🙁

https://graphics.social/@metin/112160618398616073

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🧵 [1/3] 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

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Show threadDarren Di LietoMar 26, 2024
@metin bugger! I guess I'm going to be using Acorn more extensively in the future and looking for vector and publishing alternatives. I suppose we had a good run, for a while there, at least.
Show threadDarren Di Lieto
@metin I love their tagline, "Those that can't, use Canva" 🙃 #Joking
Mar 26, 2024 at 4:14pmWeb
Show threadGunChleocMar 26, 2024
@darrendilieto @metin Have you tried Inkscape and Scribus to see if they do what you need?
Show threadMetin Seven 🎨Mar 26, 2024

@gunchleoc @darrendilieto I haven't tried Scribus, but I've worked with @inkscape and it's a very competent vector tool. Have a look at these tutorials for a nice impression:

https://www.youtube.com/@LogosByNick

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Show threadDarren Di LietoMar 26, 2024
@metin @gunchleoc @inkscape Inkscape is now on my list for when I get a minute for this stuff. 🙂 THANKS!
Show threadGunChleocMar 26, 2024
@darrendilieto @metin @inkscape Take a look at this blog for an artproject that was set in Scribus: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article735/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-1
The English book printed project: production report 1

David Revoy