@weheartgames I've been fuming about that all morning, yep. Trying to get my head around being resigned to give Adobe $100 a month until I die, since apparently that's the only practical alternative.
(yes I know about the open-source alternatives and, no, unfortunately, none of them measured up in even brief testing for my use cases - Krita is the closest, but would still impact my ability to deliver, er, professional work basically)
@glassbottommeg The best we can hope for at this point is that it's a MUCH cheaper sub than Adobe. My guess is they'll do a free version that's quite limited, then bundle in advanced features and their huge library of content, with the sub.
I just hope the whole thing doesn't get watered down. These aren't exactly tools for their "make pretty IG stories" audience.
I know nothing about Affinity. My primary offline tool is Krita (or our air-gapped Adobe CS6). However, we have used Canva for a few years. Their use of "AI" seems worthy of quotemarks.
Many third-party-apps can be used from within Canva, including DALL-E, but Canva's own use of "AI" seems focused on basics like removing backgrounds from photos or creating QR codes(!?). I've not used much of their "AI" and so I might be missing the point.
Generally, Canva as a company seems pretty decent. Their Pro accounts are free for all registered nonprofits which is why we use them.
⭐ Please let me know if there is something terrible about them! (I would be super disappointed but don't want to be a part of the problem.)
@crecente@weheartgames Their user base, and target audience, go at right angles to the user base and target audience of Affinity. Affinity's a pro-tools product aimed at professionals executing extremely precise things. Canva is "I dunno man just put this on my t-shirt."
Also, as you say, they are subscription based. I don't really care if they're free for non-profits since, well that isn't me- if they push Affinity into being a subscription system, that just puts me in the same bucket as Adobe again, so might as well pay the evil company that's at least aimed at professionals.
Also as an aside, how are you still running CS6? Last time I poked at it, it simply wouldn't install on a modern OS 😭
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