Some time back someone on the forum put a post that Affinity Designer was half price. I bought Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher and like them. Affinity Designer can create svg files and is a very robust graphics program. They are cuttently having another half price sale. Affinity has a ton of tutorials on youtube and other sites that make learning their software easy. So I thought I would post the link if you are interested. The sale price is $25.00 US. Affinity is a UK based company so for the European customers you could check if you can buy with Pounds/Euros.
I have received a couple updates for free since I have had Affinity. I certainly have not mastered the software but it is very powerful and is as good as Adobe products for a fraction of the cost.
I like Affinity because you can design text on curves and for the price that is mainly what I use it for. The interface has a lot of buttons and tools but actually are quite simply grouped. The amount of tutorials on youtube is amazing. Inkscape is free and is pretty capable but I like Affinity better. The problem with Adobe products are they are so expensive and is almost exclusively a subscription model. You dont own the Adobe software you just rent it. The Affinity you download and install locally and you can use it forever. Over time it may become outdated if you dont update but I have gotten updated for free from 1.7 to 1.8 and then to 1.9. For me it is a no brainer, cheap and good.
I used inkscape exclusively, but took advantage of the previous AD sale.
I still use inkscape on occasion but AD is pretty much my go to design tool now. It’s really good and should make perfect sense to any Inkscape user. At that price it’s a bargain.
Hmm… This seems interesting. I’ve been meaning to look into Inkscape, but just haven’t allocated time to learn. I took the dive and purchased Affinity Designer at the sale price. Thanks for the heads up, @gdon_2003. Now to go down the rabbit hole of tutorials on YouTube.
For our purposes text on a path is very helpful. You can kern the text and is very versatile.
The Affinity suite is a pro level app at amaeuter prices. I bought all 3 products and publisher can use photo and designer in its interface without having to open them separately.
If anyone missed the deadline for the Affinity Designer 50% off sale it can still be purchased at a discount. I contacted them after the sale and was offered a 20% discount but when they sent a link for check out they gave me the 50% price.
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I too jumped down the rabbit hole.
Zero experience with this sort of app. Quick perusal of YouTube offerings pretty disjointed. Leaning toward Udemy courses. What are you all finding for training?
Thanks for bringing this software to my attention. I missed the sale but through an email I got 20% off and it was worth every penny!
It’s quite a bit easier than inkscape and for sure more powerful. I can do SVG for CnC work and it’s 10x easier to make complex shapes in then CC is. Getting the Boolean tool in carbide to work how I wanted had me beating my head against a wall a few times and this removes having to use CC for anything not basic.
Plus it’s great for T-shirt design so instead of buying name brand graphic T’s I can design my own and rock shirts no one else can get their hands on.
