I totally agree. Our current workflow can't yet move from Adobe for two reasons. One, our workflow requires heavy InDesign scripting which Affinity Publisher doesn't *yet* support. And two, we work with other clients that use InDesign. If Affinity Publisher supported scripting and could export IDML, then we would be moving to Affinity entirely. But i've used the Affinity suite and it is great. I was also around for the exodus from QuarkXPress to InDesign because it was cheaper, with more features many many years ago, and now it is time for the same thing to happen with Adobe to Affinity.

There is no comparison of Photoshop with affinity. Adobe is giant. Issue Photoshop and illustrator are most slow software. Indesign is an uncessary software addeed by Adobe. They can add the same feature with illustrator.

Very good video. I am using them for years and I don't miss Adobe. The difficult part for me was figuring out the Personas feature.

Moved to Clip Studio for art, never looked back. Everything I used in photoshop is there and more.

My sentiments exactly! I'm a very part time semi-professional illustrator who wants a photo editing program but doesn't need the "advanced" functions included in Adobe. As a student I came to totally resent Adobe because even at "student" prices, it was expensive. My computer exceeded the hardware requirements specified by Adobe, but Adobe software would constantly hang and crash. Additionally, Adobe's Classroom in a Book series was extremely ridiculous to use because despite owning the latest version of CIB, the tutorials didn't match the software function. The reality of using Adobe software as a solo user without the support of knowledgeable colleagues available to coach me through the idiosyncrasies of using the programs was an exercise guaranteed to create excessive frustration and hours of wasted time trying to figure out why I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I'm a newbie at Affinity Photo, but after watching several introductory tutorials, I'm able to accomplish what I want to do with minimal frustration - a huge plus in my book! Affinity is my winner - hands down! I hope Adobe looses their anti-trust suit with the US Government and meets their demise as a result of it. I will NEVER use another Adobe product EVER!!!

The key word here is "learning curve". I've been a professional designer since 1993, and have left Adobe in 2018 (when affinity's DTP program was still not very stable). I haven't looked back. Especially the "Affinity Studio" in Publisher makes a lot of sense. It's up to personal choice, but you definitely don't need Adobe to efficiently deliver professional work. Keep up the good work on your videos.

Hopefully you've found the "Inpainting Brush Tool". That's what you wanted for most of the touch up. Actually does some/limited generative fill, albeit nothing like Adobe's. Still, much easier and better results than the clone tool. Thanks for the video ... looking forward to more.

Wow! I love how you walk through this video and show before and after impact...it really does work! wow. I am blown away! THank you thank you thank you!!! xoxo

Boycott Adobe. What a cheap trick.

As a professional artist that regularly uses photoshop, I was pissed when I could no longer use my licensed copy of CS6. I begrudgingly purchased a subscription for photoshop so I could finish some projects, but now with the recent revelation they can steal my work I'm done with Adobe after my subscription ends. Thanks a lot for putting this video together and showing some alternatives, really appreciate it!

Affinity has excellent tutorial videos on youtube. They are short and focused. Check out the inpainting brush.

NEA is on Adobe payroll/blackmail

Wow amazing

Fun fact: adjustments are none destructive, so you can go back anytime to redo stuff without loosing your work. AND the adjustments are masks so you can paint sertain areas of an adjustment if you didn't want to use it elsewhere. Great work. It's always hard to start a new. 😊 (goodluck on the rest of the journey)

I switched from Adobe Photography plan to Capture One Pro (which was a One-time payment) a few years ago, and bought it the second time because they came out with a new version with great features. Cost a fortune, but I was happy about it, until Capture One started their own perpetual license subscription plan (and is more expensive if my memory serves me well), and basically told us our one-time payment software would no longer have updates. Now I feel like a fool and was completely screwed over, and the Capture One Software I bought is starting to crash every 15 minutes. I bought Affinity Suite Ver1 some years ago and use them from time to time, they are great and have iPad Apps, then Serif came out with Ver 2, like two years after I bought the Ver1 Apps, and they took Ver1 Apps off the App store, now I bought a new iPad, and can't download the Affinity mobile Apps that I BOUGHT.

Love hearing your perspective as a teacher on this. Couldn't agree more that schools should teach Affinity, even if alongside Adobe. FWIW, I'm a senior designer, and a *_former_* brand advocate for Adobe. I left them when they stopped allowing you to own your own software. To me, RENTING software is immoral for the company to do, and stupid for me to support. And for Canva/Affinity to provide their suite for free for schools? Very smart.

I hated working with the "industry standard" for audio, ProTools when I was at university. Somehow I get the feeling that the term just encourages complacency.

Hi ! How can i replace Adobe after effect ? Thank you

Good points. As someone who went from CorelDraw to Adobe CS, back to CorelDraw and then to the Affinity Suite, perhaps we need to look beyond the concept of software being the "Industry standard". After all, when we produced layouts by hand, there was no industry standard layout paper and marker pens!

Affinity is far from superior to Adobe. Affinity does not respect language support or RTL tools Despite all these years In your opinion, why all this deliberate neglect?

thanks for the video. i greed, ti,e to say good bay to predatory policy by adobe also in educational

Affinity is great but you can’t automate your process with scripts and actions. If affinity adds automation I am switching over. They need to add styles, scripting, and actions

Affinity has been such a treat. I had to unfortunately drop Adobe due to costs, but I have not looked back since. Affinity Designer has been blowing my mind the more I use it. You get the whole suite and ipad version🤯 what a win for artists. We should definitely back this, make it obvious what we want. (I hope it comes to Android tablets too in the future) Anddd Affinity can save as psd or ai files, and you can also work with psd files. (So no work lost) YOU CAN also use adobe brushes and fonts, even procreate brushes. I have all my previous psd brushes back in Affinity (disigner and photo)

I suggest you start out with the Affinity Revolution Channel if you are just starting with Affinity products. They have good instructors especially Ally and they will get you up and running in no time and cover all the basics plus advanced lessons. I am not affiliated with Affinity Revolution but I did take several of their courses which are reasonably priced.

Learning fundamentals is so important. Imagine the future frustration when Adobe's AI servers go down, even for a single day. How much productivity will be lost if those future prompt designers don't have "manual" or traditional skills to solve their assignments/projects.

better every day

I think Affinity is very good, especially Designer. Inkscape, Krita and Gimp are free open source options, good for beginners who want to try digital art, but also used by professionals. As long as your teaching also focuses on skills, design principles and fundamentals I don't really think the software should matter too much as a lot of the things you can do with Adobe software are things you can also do in other software.