![]() ![]() ![]() Part of the process of helping software companies grow is to objectively critique their product. I certainly don’t want them (or any other well intending company) to fail. I like their products, otherwise I wouldn’t use them. ![]() I’m not sure if I’m reading you correctly but if you think I’m bashing Serif, then I think you read me wrong, because I’m not. ![]() That said, I’m still hopeful they’ll turnaround and actually introduce features in their eventual v2.0 release that users actually want and need, but I’m not holding my breath. None the less, the Affinity suite is a good product in their own right - specially for what it can do for the price. I still think Affinity is in a unique position to win over many Adobe users (mostly because of the high cost of using their products) but they’re not very responsive. But they never replied and it has yet to be added. I too bought the Affinity suite, hoping for a Ps replacement, but in the number of years I’ve been using it I’ve been feeling somewhat disappointed with their lack of responsiveness to user needs and requests.Ī couple of features I and other users have requested several times over the years was to incorporate image tracing, and the placement of objects along a curve (in Designer), which have been available in many apps including CorelDraw for years. But if you venture onto their forums in hopes of mentioning something and getting an improvement in the future (even 5 years later), well… Don’t hold your breath.įor that reason I still use the CS6 suite. So again, if you like the Affinity way (and boy do the Affinity forum gurus like it that way!), then you will be A-OK. They just forge ahead and do it their own way. It comes off like they don’t care too much about user input. And I receive it in forums under most software. I had it when I used Softpress Freeway too. I’m big on wanting developer participation in forums. I know a lot of people who still use Adobe apps even though they’ve purchased the Affinity suite because they had hoped their purchase would keep Serif alive and kicking long enough to make the app a bit more like Adobe apps so they could abandon Adobe forever! Well, Serif is still alive (outside their forum anyway), and they are adding features – just not the ones requested all the time in the forums. But if you have Adobe app muscle memory like I do, as you work in the Affinity suite, rather than learning the Affinity way, you will feel the app differences to be somewhat of a thorn in the flesh. If you don’t mind the Affinity way, then you will probably do okay. When something can be done better – for goodness sake, be open minded enough to listen to input and consider a fix or feature improvement.īasically, it’s like others have said. I provided feedback in the Affinity forum throughout the years, but Serif almost never replies and the power users tend to chime in an preach the status quo of why the Affinity way is right, and making it more like Adobe products is wrong. I later gave the software and books to my daughter, because she is now a graphics design major at a university in California however, they require her to use Adobe apps! I bought Affinity Photo & Designer when they first came out and I bought the paper books too. “Norm” you can always count on that this Blocs user will always upgrade when you come out with a new version of Blocs, unless for some unseen reason I can’t but that will be an extreme rarity. I will always buy upgrades from Serif software the makes the Affinity graphics design suite for the ease of use, listening to their customers and not holding me hostage with yearly subscriptions, same goes for blocs. Slicing up images and exporting in Affinity is very powerful, you can name the layers and the exported slices will have the layer name in the file name, this is so tidy and fast for a high production graphics shop. I bought the Affinity software line up almost as soon as it came out and will always use it, there is just no reason to use anything else, I say this after becoming familiar with how it works, the three software packages do everything I need, I was going to switch up to Corel last year but Affinity is where I will stay. I made big paper catalogs in PagePlus and now Affinity Publisher has data import for merging data into catalogs. I’m a long time Serif software user and totally loved using the software, I still use Draw plus on the pc because of the measurement tools I find them to be even better than Visio still to this day. ![]()
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