#affinity by serif

[orangeresearcher]

Hi, hi!

What is Affinity?

So Affinity is a suite of graphic design software that has permanent licenses so you only purchase once and you can use it forever. Affinity Designer is the vector illustration software and it can replace Adobe Illustrator. Affinity Photo is the photo editing/texture-making software that can replace Adobe Photoshop. Affinity Publisher is for making printed materials like flyers, newsletters, and so on, and can replace Adobe InDesign. The Affinity products aren't as powerful and do all the things that the Adobe products can do, which for me is fine.

[denniswilsonzine]

Credits: edited in Affinity Photo - brushes used are a mix of Frankentoon Neptune & DAUB Watercolours & Washes. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store Original pic (taken by me)

- Dennis paper angel made by me, from a photo by Ebet Roberts & wings from digital scrapbooking kit Broken Wings {elements} by Little Butterfly Wings. Hawaiian shirt napkin background is from a pack from Tescos.

[andrwcelis-blog]

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[orangeresearcher]

Affinity Products are 50% off

So I have been dying to chuck my PS/Adobe sub for a while now because:

I don't need all the features of PS

Adobe isn't a great company and will suck you dry

I already use Affinity Designer

I just paid for a permanent license for a few dollars more than what I am paying monthly for PS.

Get at the sale HERE!

[denniswilsonzine]

Oh yeah between all the chaos Affinity by Serif launched whole new versions of their software

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/   & I need to clear whole gigabytes of disk space so I can find out if Photo 2 is even better for image editing/zine graphics and if Publisher 2 will actually work for me working on a long zine file without constantly crashing.

A whole chunk of of the last zine was created/edited/designed in Affinity Photo & Affinity Publisher. (Affinity Photo was a massive game changer, compared to the ancient abandonware software I’d been using for @ 20 years because of crap computers & I don’t like change. Plus even though dealing with regular crashes, folders filling up with non-deleted temp files & autosaves & initial refusal to let me export the final pdf) version 1 Affinity Publisher was still a hell of a lot less of a heavy learning curve than Indesign & still didn’t make me want to switch back. If only one layered spread layout from issue 1 would convert over ok via idml, I’d totally uninstall it (indesign I mean).

[denniswilsonzine]

Got a bit carried away with new Affinity Photo brushes and digital painting. Info/credits:   Edited in Affinity Photo.blue clouds: gold image painted over with brushes mostly from Frankentoon Nature & pos some Xenon & Ian Barnard Powder Blast brushes too.Gold: brushes used are a mix of Frankentoon Neptune & DAUB Watercolours & Washes. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/

Original pic - Dennis paper angel made by me, from a photo by Ebet Roberts & wings from digital scrapbooking kit Broken Wings {elements} by Little Butterfly Wings. https://the-lilypad.com/store/Broken-Wings-elements.html

Hawaiian shirt napkin background was from a pack from Tescos.