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Anonymous10/31/25, 16:16No.462577Affinity is free
What is the catch? And how does it stand against GIMP?
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Anon10/31/25, 16:53No.462579
Affinity > Gimp
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Anon11/01/25, 09:47No.462587
It's infinitely better than gimp. So far the catch seems to be no linux support?
I love this software from the 5 hours I just spent trying it out. I don't know if I trust it but it has basically already replaced other options I used to use.
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Anon11/01/25, 15:44No.462588
also wireshark lights up like a christmas tree when those programs are being ran
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Anon11/01/25, 21:40No.462595
Affinity suite got sold because it is not profitable enough to create and sell application software for purely utilitarian purpose. It is not 1999.This is a death rattle for another software product that some European guys (white, male, pale and stale) built.It may get shelved in 2-5 years after the Canva execs cannot figure out how to further monetize the user's data. Maybe sold off to the Chinese.There cannot be a commercial competitor that recreates Adobe or Affinity suite without some buyout grift in the end of it. Same can be said about office suites, operating systems.Proprietary file formats and SaaS are a long term liability. You don't own projects you store on cloudshit, you don't own project files whose formats are not open.Open file formats and communication protocols gradually surface and get adapted out of necessity and desperation, but that takes decades, as in like half of your life. Blender will be your general purpose multimedia project editing program in 2064 when all the proprietary competitors gatekeeping the respective tooling and technologies have died.Graphic designers eat slop.
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Anon11/01/25, 23:16No.462597
It's still using raster brushes so no idea what all the adobe killer people are talking about. Inkscape still has better gradient mesh export too.
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Anon11/03/25, 13:37No.462614
>What is the catch?
The catch is that they make money with your data.
That's why it's """"""""""""free""""""""""" now. Harvesting that shit is more lucrative than selling.
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Anon11/03/25, 19:31No.462625
I'm not a heavy 2d person lately so I've actually switched to affinity (from Photoshop) for a couple of years now and it's been perfectly serviceable
New one is really good because splitting vector and raster functionality has felt artificial for years. You can just customise a space to have all the stuff you need and never switch workspaces.
I need to see if they've fixed their canvas rendering issues and non-100pc zooms for large images.Gimp is simply unusable if you're a professional. Need to do print work? Basically impossible. I fucking wish there was a photo editing equivalent to blender, but there just isn't so far. Graphite looks promising, hopefully they don't fuck it up.
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Anon11/04/25, 11:56No.462631
Patcher updated to bypass login for V3 and run it completely offline.
https://github.com/Still34/AffinityPatcher/releases/tag/v1.2.0
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Anon11/04/25, 13:50No.462634
Why not just pirate Adobe?
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Anon11/05/25, 19:29No.462645
>Training your future AI replacement for free
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Anon11/06/25, 01:44No.462655
it's free because it's overAI is the future, and they're trying to capture the last batch of graphic designers who still think they can get jobs without using AI
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Anon11/06/25, 16:16No.462661
>Idiots on Affinity forum doesnt even know what pixel art is and how ti works
>Gaslighting me that Photoshop works the same
>You cant create GIFs
I used Affinity for 10 minutes and Im going back to Photoshop. I knew there is a catch that its free...
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Anon11/07/25, 12:22No.462738
Can it be used entirely offline? I dont want to need ANY account, have ANY online checkup or need ANY connectivity. I want to use it in an RV with no internet.
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Anon11/07/25, 17:10No.462747
Did they have to move around every feature and redesign the export interface. I searched for 20 minutes to find cycle selection box. Loads of crashes too.
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Anon11/08/25, 12:16No.462757
Will it still run properly if I remove its access to internet?
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Anon11/17/25, 19:20No.462840
You all have Stockholm-Syndrome from Adobe, LOL
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Anon11/22/25, 20:17No.462886
The catch is professionals don't have 20+ years experience using it, and telling someone you don't have an Adobe account will make them assume you're not a professional, but some broke kid trying to break their way into the field.
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Anon11/26/25, 00:11No.462918
>sign up
jewed
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Anon11/29/25, 18:13No.462955
Any advice on how I can mirror my vector pen line so the right side looks like the left?
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Anon12/03/25, 08:33No.463010
I don't trust canva
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Anon12/12/25, 16:28No.463106
It is great for 10 years alredy. Gimp has unusable UX.Surely Canva will do something to make money from Affinity purchase. But right now there is no reason not to use it.
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Anon12/17/25, 10:50No.463168
the problem with GIMP is that it's features are not complete and up to date enough for professionnals and the design is too clunky and unintuitive for newcomers. It's actually quite powerful once you get to know it and it's completely free, no tracking, no cracking needed and you can keep it forever. It would probably massively benefit from a new design and a couple of qol features like drawing shapes. But no one cares enough / has enough time to put all that work in.
I still prefer using it over anything else because I'm on linux and paint.net isn't available. GIMP is still fine for basic montage, photo editing and meme making imo
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Anon12/18/25, 13:55No.463181
AI > Affinity > Adobe > Gimp
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Anon12/25/25, 23:20No.463248
So Affinity is better?
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Anon01/27/26, 04:24No.463529
The only catch with Affinity (as of current v3 release under Canva) is that it require a Canva account as formality when you first install it, it won't ask login again. If you're paranoid enough with muh data, you can opt out on setting, or even firewall block Affinity installation folder.Feature wise, Affinity can totally replace Ps, Ai, and Id workflow; except Ps animation and some specific non-destructive editing. It's funny that companies willingly getting squeezed by Adobe subscription knowing that Affinity could handle the project for free now, with less performance bloat.t. user since v1, and finally accepted that Canva's v3 actually an improvement over Serif's v2
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Anon02/05/26, 19:21No.463630
Why is gimp so terrible and no good a alternative has popped up that is free open source and works on Linux? You’d think with something like blender there would be something as good but for graphic design.
Does Krita count?Is gimp controlled opposition to be a bad software so people give up and go for the paid for ones or at least go for affinity now?How well does the affinity suite run on winboat?