Inkscape User Reacts To Affinity Designer

[@KyleShold74]

I had been using Adobe professionally for 25 years. After two months of learning Affinity and using it on client work I just cancelled my Adobe subscription and completely migrated to Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher for all of my design and layout work. Incredible creative programs.

[@englishdicktionary1611]

You must be a pro after 25 years..

[@Micromation]

Personally I’ve never understood the appeal of Adobe for design work, especially when print is involved. Where I come from CorelDRAW was and still is industry standard. It seems to me that Illustrator is more of American and British thing (mainly because Brits try to double up Americans)

[@EnriqueDominguezProfile]

Affinity Publisher is GREAT. End of story.

[@gugy68]

Kyle Shold interesting. I'm a creative professional with 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. There is no way I can't give up on Adobe. The entire industry is locked on it. Affinity is cool but not widespread. That's why it's not a replacement option but another tool to your arsenal.

[@svnbit8408]

After 25 years you must work alone ..

[@CRogers]

3:20 - Stay tuned for multiple page documents in Inkscape. We're working on it! :)

[@LogosByNick]

You guys are awesome!

[@amitbhide1479]

That and Cmyk will complete ly transform Inkscape to the professional needs we need to get it printed properly.

[@thestultavekidjo]

That's awesome to read!

[@justa2987]

is inskape better than affinity?

[@bam2502]

Shapebuilder tool please

[@dukbtr]

Yes, Affinity Designer tutorials! Shape Builder is on their feature roadmap, but no word on when. If you have the Affinity Suite, what is nice is being able to jump back and forth between the programs with the same image. You can switch to Photo and it will even keep the layers. Be sure to check out the pixel persona, the icon with the squares under file. When you're in that persona, it works like a raster image. You can paint, just like Photoshop, GIMP, Krita. Whatever you do on that pixel layer can be selected just like a vector, moved, resized, etc, when you switch back to Designer persona.

[@pierer50]

Roadmap? Unfortunately they say the same thing in 2015

[@mufeedco]

@@pierer50 Roadmap for right-to-left editing support.

[@LogosByNick]

Excited to learn more about this program!

[@HullioGQ]

Yes, Please. Affinity Tutorials will be a great addition.

[@StuartGelin]

@@pierer50 yeah I love affinity but their roadmap is pretty much worthless

[@davviau]

YES! Affinity Designer tutorials please! I love the Affinity suite.

[@jumpmantv_lyrics1204]

yes would be great!

[@Smaxx]

Just got this video recommended on the front page. Been working on and off with Affinity products for around 4 years now. Although I only use the programs maybe once a month, I've purchased them all (Designer/Photo/Publisher) just to support their licensing model. One great feature you didn't mention (because you probably didn't experience it yet): All their programs share the same file format. What this allows you to do is install all the programs, then work on a flyer in Publisher. You notice something off with the logo, so you just click the menu bar and it hands off the whole document to Designer to fix that logo. Then you want to change the color balance of a photo, you click another button to switch to Photo, where you can edit the file, save it, then return to publisher and continue writing, etc. And just to note I'm not just talking about their "persona" buttons that basically change view/behavior. During all of this all the programs keep a full WYSIWYG view. Only thing better would be one big program with everything inside, but then again more modular isn't wrong either.

[@LogosByNick]

That's amazing, thanks for sharing.

[@hm_webdev]

Question: Would we like to see Affinity tutorials? Answer: Yes. Yes we would I personally enjoy your design tutorials more than most, however I'm not an inkscape user. To watch you do your work on Affinity would be ace.

[@benjaminabara7526]

Thanks Nick for this video. I've been using Affinity Designer for about 3 years now. I started design with Ink scape from watching your videos and I really look forward to seeing you make affinity designer tutorials.

[@DesignWDC]

Yes, please - for the Affinity Designer tutorials!

[@luckey29]

I love it! I learnt how to use it in 3 days after years of not using design software due to a career change. I started out with their 3 month free trial and by the end I had created my own branded drop shipping company and website. I've now bought the software with no regrets and use it daily.

[@AZskylite]

Wow....i only wish.

[@ColdChills01]

😃Thank you very much I so appreciate the consideration to add Affinity designer and Affinity photo to your playlist😁👍🏾

[@CreatureDesign]

Cant afford to keep 'renting' my software, so bought outright the affinity suite. So far, it can do everything I was doing before and more. Plus, the suite is integrated, so its easy to switch between vector and raster based projects. I'm glad I have got in to Affinity early, so I can learn as it matures.

[@rahul-thakare]

Yes, we want Affinity Designer tutorials really badly! Please do it when you are fluent in it.. 🙏🏼

[@drawbak]

Yes I would like affinity tutorials

[@jmclean6648]

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[@Alch-]

+ 1

[@TwoFamilyHomestead]

Waiting for Master Classes for the entire Affinity Suite of products. You produce some of the best tutorials out there and thanks.

[@mateegri78]

Just a small detail: you don't have to manually input stroke width in Inkscape, you can use mouse wheel on the number box. Really handy. Thanks for the review!

[@realavx]

Affinity... don't become like Adobe when you grow up.

[@KTheXIII]

That’s great and all, but they’ll have to find a way to earn money. The one time purchase is great for the one buying the software, but not great for the one that develops it. Either they’ll have another license price for maybe the ones that earned more revenue or have a donation. This pricing style is not a great thing in a long run.

[@kvendy]

@@KTheXIII you are going to buy the next update, by upgrading to newer version of the app with price discount, Some companies do this like Luminar 4

[@funnyberries4017]

Kvendy but for the “short” run they have countless customers to get. Most people don’t really need any more updates. Also affinity is set up to win because they already have their software running on ARM processors. When computers make the switch, affinity will be ready right at the beginning

[@mgangam.7006]

Anyway Adobe's prices (old and for the subscribers) too high for more country in this world.

[@michaelandrews4403]

@@kvendy I have Affinity Photo and Publisher...upgrades are free, each and every time.

[@Rice7th]

Affinity designer has a lot of features, like the "Pixel Persona": a buildt-in pixel editor, the CMYK color space, the beautiful price, and there are more features coming soon, like blending and even a sort of shape builder tool!

[@lesentrepreneuresdupourquoi]

I have been using affinity for a while now and I'm loving it! No monthly fees and so intuitive! No turn back Heather!

[@darshanaiyengar]

I use Inkscape on Linux and Affinity on Windows. Really would have loved to see Affinity on Linux, especially because they are consistent across Photo, Designer and Publisher. Have been following your tutorial on Inkscape and found it very helpful. Yes, would love to your tutorials for Affinity.

[@maximofernandez4957]

Man, you're literally an inspiration for me. I'm a teenager interested in graphic design and you working with inkscape profesionallly it's amazing. Thank you for your videos, a gem in the whole of youtube.

[@tgs1766]

You can work with it professionally if you are self employed but that’s about it. If you want to work at any type of agency, better learn your Adobe stuff. Don’t be fooled by click bait titles like this one. Adobe isn’t going anywhere.

[@maximofernandez4957]

@@tgs1766 I didn't mean that. I know that Inkscape is just as useful as adobe illustrator for freelancers, but you'll need a foundation in adobe products if you need to work for a company. Nick said it in his video comparing Illustrator with Inkscape

[@James-tz6fe]

Hey Nick, yes i would absolutely appreciate some Affinity tutorials. You were a massive for me learning Inkscape, so I'd love to see what you could do with Affinity. Thanks

[@williamjordan1534]

Affinity tutorials for sure, please! I have been using Affinity for a little while and am loving it. I refused to be forced onto a rental arrangement by Adobe since the CS days.

[@mars_experience]

I bought the complete Affinity "suite" including publisher and just love the way the 3 programs work together, changing between them is so fast and easy that makes adobe feel outdated and unnecessarily complex

[@cferracini]

I never used Affinity before but it sounds about right. I mean, Adobe is known for the integration between the programs but that doesn't really work that well. Want to import stuff from Illustrator to InDesign? As long as it's not editable text and you didn't apply any effects, no problem. If you did, then better save an eps and import that instead. Want to import from Illustrator to Photoshop? No problem. Wants to import from Photoshop to Illustrator? Good luck. I also never understood why can't the shortcuts be universal between the programs. Some have ctrl+k for the preferences, some have ctrl+; and some have another shortcut. Would it kill them to be consistent?

[@Redwv842]

Please make Affinity tutorials! Your channel got me into vector graphic design, but over time I transitioned to Affinity and I love it!!

[@firesidecode9065]

I think some video tutorials of Affinity would be great. It will also help open you up to more viewers.

[@mayavp]

There's a bunch on youtube! Affinity has a KZbin channel for tutorials

[@ductapeplays]

I would absolutely love Affinity Designer tutorials. I recently picked up Affinity Photo and Designer and have been fumbling through them on my own.

[@ColdChills01]

OMG FINALLY YES!!! Of course I would love to see step-by-step tutorials all about Affinity photo and designer! I left a comment on one of your last videos last week talking about this it's like you heard me. I was learning inkscape from you but I need it something a bit different since I'm making graphics for print so I was looking for step-by-step start to finish tutorials and my search was very limited so I went back to you my main source from inkscape.

[@knukkls]

YES! Dude I just bought affinity a few months ago and I was so bummed there wasn't tutorials by you for it. I gotta admit I get confused on how to make certain functions work in Affinity Designer as well as Affinity Photo because I've only worked with Inkscape and Gimp. Thank you for posting this

[@LogosByNick]

I'm on it!

[@azmisudrajat]

@@LogosByNick don't do it nick. Inkscape is all you need.

[@chrisl7902]

I was a long time Illustrator user and then switched to Inkscape when I sort of semi-retired and couldn't afford the cost of Illustrator. I've now purchased the whole Affinity suite for around the same price as as a years sub to PS and LR. I have to say that the way they integrate together is superb. I can open files in Designer and switch to Photo for better pixel editing, and vice versa. CMYK is essential for print designers and the vector brush tools are amazing and perfect for digital artists. For freelance artists and designers who don't maybe need the workflow tools provided by Adobe it's a stunning achievement that will surely leave Adobe choking in the dust. And it's fast. From my experience I noticed that Inkscape gets very laggy when lots of complex vector shapes are used in a design, even on a powerful gaming PC. I don't have these issues with Designer. And the myriad layers? When you group some vectors they combine into one layer.

[@ARNABOSS]

very helpful walkthrough, thx i love how their suite is tightly knit, as i also use the book publisher

[@rsher_digital-art]

Thank you, perfect timing! I' work in 3d but am looking for a vector companion. For me it's b/w Inkscape and Affinity....for now. YES, an Affinity Designer tutorial would be wonderful to see.

[@CarlWade]

I would love to see Affinity Designer tutorials. I love all of your Inkscape tutorials and I have recommended this channel to a lot of my designer friends. Keep up the good work.

[@abdelhaksidialimebarek2057]

Just as a mention, what you see in the layers Tabs of Affinity Designer are in fact equivalent to the Objects you see in the Objects window in Inkscape, and there is a possibility to "upgrade" a group to a Layer, for the sake of organization.

[@marcelboersma]

Furthermore, I think when you have a group layer selected, all new creations are automatically added to that group instead of new layers. This prevents the accumulation of too many layers.

[@Dvilad8]

Affinity has layers, groups, and shape, the real layers are at the bottom named create new layer, which you can put layers, groups, and shapes into, took me a month to realise that.

[@markshirley01]

@@Dvilad8 do you mean you can group layers - is there a video describing what your saying as I don't quite understand. I'm new to Designer. It's the shape thing that I don't understand.

[@ChromeLion]

It took some adjusting to get used to Affinity's approach to layers, but now that I've got it, it's very intuitive.

[@Dvilad8]

@@markshirley01 In affinity you start with a shape, and in the layer panel is that shape, each shape you add is just a shape layer. If you pick two or more shapes, you can put it into a group. In the layer panel on the bottom left corner is a paper icon that is named add layer, which adds a layer that most people know from other programs, so you can put shapes, groups, and other layers within that new layer :)

[@KINGHIGHZ]

I love Affinity Designer, you should do a whole series of Affinity based videos!!

[@igorrtkd]

Affinity was an instant replace from Illustrator to me, not turning back.

[@Leo-Crespi]

@catsapp russia me neither

[@HexYan]

Same. Affinity all the way, much more intuitive for me.

[@LKicksBucket]

I just use em both side by side lol, best of both worlds. They are both good and have some features that complement each other well. AI for tracing, blend, path offset etc. Designer for the isometric grid, shape tools, the vector brush, and symbol tool etc.

[@thephantomx6467]

I agree, after using Affinity for the first time. It was honestly my replacement for Illustrator.

[@AdamDesrosiers]

same here. When I transitioned to being a full time designer, I left behind CorelDraw for the Adobe suite. And kinda hated illustrator off the bat. Nearly a decade later, I still don't like using illustrator and when I first tested Affinity Designer, it was an instant purchase. Has much more of the user-friendly workflow of CorelDraw and much lower price tag. Never open illustrator at all any more. Affinity photo doesn't quite replace photoshop yet, but if they ever manage non-destructive mesh and perspective warps it will.

[@WinterWerewolf]

Happy to see you check it out. I am very interested in tutorials for Affinity Designer 🙂

[@BenitaPrinsNotTheAuthor]

I've been using Affinity for seven-ish months now and I love it. Like you said, it feels intuitive and somehow right. Before I purchased Affinity for myself, I was doing some freelance work for a company where I used their Adobe software. I got used to it, but now when I have to go back to Adobe it feels clunky and outdated. The thing I especially hate about it is that you can't control-scroll to zoom in and out (that seems like it should be a basic action!) and also that you can't shift-scroll to pan side-to-side. Affinity, on the other hand, is smooth and pleasant to work in.

[@agungbudiutomo3431]

Yes please, more tutorials for affinity designer. For me the coolest feature in affinity designer is persona

[@alinayossimouse]

One of my favorite features of the Affinity software suite is that the files of any of the three programs can be opened in any of the other ones, even right via the file menu "Edit in …". That means if I'm doing vector work and I want to use one pixel layer and I want to quickly perform some photo editing it like applying a non-destructive depth of field effect, I just quickly pop the document over into Photo, apply my edits in place seeing all that I do in context, then pop back into Designer to continue the vector work

[@AlexApetrei]

I love how you explain everything so in depth , I don't even play with inkscape that much anymore, but I love looking at you work magic from base design principals .

[@ong1]

For me, the interface looks very user friendly.

[@HickoryDickory86]

It really is. When a novice like myself can easily figure things out and find my way around, it's designed really well.

[@johndumpling1896]

Inkscape would definitely benefit from a more intuitive interface.

[@talhamuneer2599]

Yes We Want Affinity Tutorials! 😍

[@jamesdavis8731]

Well HELL YES we would like to see Affinity Designer Tutorials on your channel. Affinity Designer might not be Illustrator, but it is not far off and is MUCH less expensive. The same goes for Affinity Photo compared to Photoshop. Adobe is just out of control with their pricing. Let's see some tutorials because I need to become a lot better at vector graphics.

[@makif668]

Yessss!!! Affinity tutorial please!! I learned how to use Inkscape with your videos and I love the variety of file formats Affinity handles, that Inkscape doesn't, that's probably the one reason I got it for, sometimes I just open the files in Affinity to export them as SVG and then work on it on Inkscape if I need something fast and Don;t have time to figure it out in Affinity, but it would be highly appreciated if you did!

[@nathans.509]

YES!!! Please make the video tutorials for Affinity Designer! BTW: As always, excellent review/comparison. A more detailed video would be excellent.

[@FlorinNitulescu_1]

Affinity Designer tutorials!! YES PLEASE! 😁 That would be awesome. Made the move from Ai last year and replaced Ps as well with Affinity Photo. No regrets whatsoever.

[@MarkWilder68]

Absolutely would love to see more affinity I plan on getting it once I get a PC that runs 64-bit.

[@flakknightgaming8583]

I would love to see Affinity Designer tutorials. Heck I'd like to see Affinity Photo tutorials too.

[@mrspeeddemon727]

I switched to Affinity apps and ditched Primere for Davinci Resolve. OMG the apps are so much better and more intuitive.

[@Rahulsingh-theraha]

MrSpeedDemon72 😁hmm davinci resolve is much better and easy too ( not talking about colour tab btw)

[@RusstafaB]

Resolve is miles better, yes I have the odd crash but works very well

[@dumebiafran1180]

Resolve is awesome!!

[@xCarbonBlack]

Does resolve need more resources to run? Can I run it on a normal i5 laptop with 4 gigs of ram?

[@ShutterlabCreative]

@@xCarbonBlack resolve uses heavy GPU processing. This is great because they're easily upgraded but if you're doing graphics and fusion it will be a frustrating experience.

[@aemonwarrick4654]

Yes, please Affinity Designer tutorials! Thanks for the video.

[@KarynLewisBonfiglio]

I made the switch over to Affinity from Adobe, and I am so glad I did. Would enjoy more Affinity content from you. :D

[@jajphotog77]

Yes, I would love your tutorials in Affinity, as well. You are a good teacher.

[@khaliyah191]

I’m so excited you started trying out the Affinity Suite. Vídeos like this are great! I really hope you react to Affinity Photo as well!

[@GM-js2yg]

YES! All yes to Affinity tutorials! Thanks!

[@gabrielstation]

And there's another feature that heavily influenced me to buy the software, the amazing isometric grid. And overall polish and snappiness. Which Adobe has been lacking.

[@linda3086]

Yes, I would love to see more affinity content. I switched as professional adobe user to open source for working from home, and recently gotten affinity publisher to start with. And I Love it!

[@etiennemahler]

Affinity looks really interesting and I'd love to see some more in-depth videos on that, maybe even some tutorials if you have some time.

[@simeonincognito6245]

A lot of great tutorials, please. Your tutorials made me an Inkscape user, and I just accidentally found this Affinity Designer review by you. Keep the good work!

[@jenqui4505]

From Photoshop to Affinity, not turning back too! Adobe is greedy AF.

[@nobodypanic71]

its not just about pricing, its about control of the tools you use for your work. I am a huge fan of the Affinity products. I believe adobe has lost track of the people and creatives that made them who they are.

[@KuttyJoe]

@@darkopz It's like saying the price of a Bentley is obscene given the competition that little economy cars are giving it. LOL Here's the reality. The only products competing with Adobe are the ones that have similar price tags. Just like in the real world. Corel has competed with Adobe for decades. The prices are similar. Subscriptions. Coreldraw might be a dollar cheaper per month. And low cost software has a feature set to match, usually, although there are some exceptions such as Clip Studio Paint. Serif has always made consumer level software. They are doing fine in that market and probably have absolutely no intention of actually attempting to compete with Adobe.

[@nelsonmwombeki5243]

I used affinity for few times, and i must say it's really easy to learn and use

[@jesse6327]

I have never really used AI, but I have had Affinity Designer. I find it's a great product. Definitely worth the cost.

[@dannyvanswieten2484]

Love Affinity products, I picked up their whole productline a couple years ago, it has been my go to software ever since! Tutorials by Nick are always on top of my list, keep 'em coming brother!

[@jade_1620]

Thank you for making this video, I've been watching you for a while now and I was curious as to what you'd think of Affinity. I went from using gimp, to inkscape, to now affinity and I definitely like it the most. I'm still trying to figure how to do certain stuff in it so i'll definitely tune into tutorials if you make them.

[@lvang2557]

Nick you are one of the most under rated KZbinr! So much love and support for you!

[@movingnaturefilms]

I like the simplicity more than Inkscape and it has CMYK!

[@4536647674]

@@Sprogster inkscape? Advanced? Bruh..

[@FlameForgedSoul]

@@4536647674 He's not wrong, Inkscape has parity with Illustrator in more than a few areas that AD lacks. The real issue being elegance, which AD and Illo have in spades.

[@Velliott54]

First I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge about these programs. I recently started using Inkscape after watching your videos. I definitely would like to learn more about Affinity Designer.

[@fuzkek9135]

Oh yes please, I can’t get Inkscape on iPad Pro so I’m pretty much forced to use Affinity if I want to use it. Your vids a really, really helpful.

[@longroth4882]

Love your videos Nick, keep em' coming. Been doing this for a couple decades and still learning. Would love to see some Affinity related content! I just switched to Affinity, after 20 years with Adobe, it's an adventure. I'm retired but still do freelance work on the side, mainly because I still love doing it, so it's hard to justify subscription pricing in my situation. Most of my clients were shut down through the pandemic, so when Affinity had a "half price" sale I bought all three products to give em' a try. Even after seeing how many rave about it, I kept my expectations low, but they do everything I need. There are differences to get used to, but overall they're way more than I expected at that price point. One issue is importing Adobe files with certain effects, they're handled differently, kind of a pain, but repairable, so all my existing Adobe files can still be used, some just need to be "tweaked". I also use Inkscape regularly, it's awesome software, wish it had CMYK support. Affinity does something that Adobe has always had issues with, proper handling of SVG files. Inkscape native SVG files can be opened with, or imported into Affinity, as well as other file types that Adobe is known for having issues with, so converting an Inkscape file to CMYK is easy. Best part about Affinity, just like Inkscape, I own it!!!

[@LogosByNick]

Very interesting. I'm looking forward to exploring all of this myself. Thanks for the feedback Lon!

[@danielmoore1678]

Honestly, I like it, but like you said, it's missing some key features from adobe and Inkscape, like gradient meshes, and everything you mentioned above.

[@danielmoore1678]

@@Sprogster True that.

[@pineapplepizza4016]

@@Sprogster That was my impression too. I think it has potential to be a serious competitor to Adobe, but it still has ways to go.

[@YammyBoh7]

I'd definitely watch Affinity tutorials on your channel. The price to performance ratio with Affinity is just great, there's pretty decent comparability with Inkscape files as well. I've done a few things on Inkscape that I couldn't figure out how to do on Affinity and then switched to Affinity to finish them off. Look forward to seeing more, thanks, Nick!

[@sizosibanda9867]

Yes. We need that affinity designer tutorial!

[@foodislife3390]

Yes to Affinity tutorials please! I always go to your Inkscape tutorials for learning Inkscape , but have recently purchases Affinity designer, publisher and photography and would love to see some tutorials on it from you!

[@SugarTouch]

Keep in mind : Affinity designer is the only professional grade vector editor on iPad. I do lot of my small tasks just on iPad Pro with apple pencil anywhere. And files are instantly compatible with desktop version and vice versa.

[@AlissonDepizol]

I am trying to do that leap to the iPad but besides the fact that I'm more familiar with vector graphics I had a lot less difficult with Affinity Photo on iPad than with Designer

[@homecactus]

YESSS! Please do Affinity Designer tutorials. I am new to vector design and am using Designer (at least to start with since it is easy to understand). However my biggest drawback of Affinity is that there is not a lot of tutorials on it as opposed to Illustrator, or even Inkscape.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:51 Inkscape has that in its Objects tab. Which is separate from the Layers tab.

[@seanasdfghjkl]

Yesssss. More people turning to Affinity. One of us. One of us! ONE OF US!

Thank's for the review ! My only problem with Affinity, is it has no Linux support.. So I must run a Windows for a few apps I'd like to use properly... But the price tag of Affinity, is very friendly.. :-D I bought it in the 50% sale.. :-D

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Literally the One Thing keeping from Linux as my Full Time OS.

[@BeckyAnn6879]

I agree. I mean, they started out writing these programs for Macs, which is loosely based on Linux (MacOS is heavily based on Unix, which IIRC, Linux is based on). There's NO justifiable reason why they can't tweak a few things to be supported on Linux If Affinity would run natively on Linux/Debian based distros, They'd have my business immediately.

[@mchief4487]

Nick, thankyou so much getting your hands on affinity designer finally. I hope you make tutorial video's out of it.

[@PhilAllamong]

Yes I will add my vote for Affinity Tutorials.

[@sskdev5116]

Yup switched to Affinity. It’s soo good and powerful and with the iPad apps providing you full desktop features , it’s a no brainer. I often switch with the iPad version and Desktop version

[@devmike9344]

Affinity is the best option for freelancers. PLS make a lot of content with Designer.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Seems like they promise a lot of vapourware that they don’t deliver, though.

[@slumpdogyt]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 they have a team of like 5 people

[@abdullahalabdulwahab6672]

Amazing Nick. We definitely need tutorials of Affinity

[@ginemginem]

I think Affinity is best used for vector illustration.

[@themenon]

Would love to see more tutorials on Affinity Designer!

[@deepdata1]

My only concern is: What if Adobe just buys them, as they do with all their competition?

[@PhantomGanhdi]

But they could always refuse the buy out if they feel like they can compete against adobe

[@voltcorp]

@@PhantomGanhdi the question is, would you turn down early retirement into wealth for some sense of pride over a digital product?

[@TOMMYBOY6969]

You are right, i missed Freehand :( The best Vector Program )

[@reactions5783]

Flashbacks of 'Macromedia' come to mind.

[@TOMMYBOY6969]

@@reactions5783 Flash/Dreamweaver/Freehand/Director, they were the best...Not like Adobe who has a Monopoly now and rents the program out. Affinity is the way to go !

[@EricAdamsYT]

You nailed their position between open source and the industry standard. I'm not a designer and don't use Affinity very often. I bought the suite simply to support the company. Competition is healthy and there really isn't very much competition in this space. My wife is a designer who has always used Corel's products, so I guess it's not a complete monopoly. I don't think many people, at least in North America, are using CorelDraw however. Anyway, great to see you covering this. Thanks for the video!

[@TheRealAlpha2]

While I do like Affinity as a replacement for Illustrator, I find a lot of their choices a little obtuse sometimes. It's almost like they changed the function of some tools _just_ to be different from Adobe, but didn't consider just how irritating those changes would be in practice. Having to switch to a different tool just to move an object that you already have selected, missing options like a simple distort, the way handles work with the pen tool almost forces you to draw every path first as angular shapes and _then_ go back to add rounded edges. Polygons and other shapes objects have to be converted to "curves" before you can add points? WHY? The layers... just too much clutter. It all just adds extra steps that don't need to be there and slows things down tremendously. There's a lot of stuff on their roadmap, but when they'll get to them is anyone's guess because the team is small. In the mean time if you can't do something in the program you either have to hope you still have an old copy of illustrator or just be screwed because you can't do what the client wants. There are some nice features in there, but you have to get past a pile of little annoyances first.

[@ChrisPollard]

You completely overlooked one of the coolest little additions to AD - isometric grids!! You should definitely look into it for a future video. Not something I use a lot, but when you want to do something isometric, man, you can't beat it.

[@LogosByNick]

I'll check that out! Inkscape has isometric grids too.

[@matteobarbieri2989]

I would personally love if you get on with InkScape just because it's free and everyone can follow your tutorials

[@wongsanggar]

You're the vector designer KZbinr that I trust. Oddly, I purchase your inkscape course after picking affinity designer. And I wished you justify my affinity purchase with a review. That's great coincidence! Nice honest review man. I hope you make more tutorial for affinity designer on future!

[@antoniopolonio]

Another point, obvious but notable: neither AD nor AI runs on Linux.

[@HickoryDickory86]

Many Affinity forum users keep requesting native Linux ports, but the staff members in the forums keep shooting it down. As one said, they would have to be fairly certain they would recoup the $500,000 in development costs it would take to make the ports before they considered doing so. You can assure them they certainly would, but those assurances always fall on deaf ears because the Linux desktop marketshare is (or appears to be) so low.

[@antoniopolonio]

​@@HickoryDickory86 That's true, and I can understand it. Meanwhile, the only alternative for designers on Linux is to collaborate (with personal efforts and money) with open developments like Inkscape and make them grow. Unfortunately, commercial projects will never come to the Linux ecosystem, although many professionals would be agreed to pay for their licenses. But this is another debate :) Cheers!

[@HickoryDickory86]

@@antoniopolonio I understand it too, but it's just the same old, unfortunate, chicken-and-egg scenario. If I were weqlthy enough, I would just donate to them the $500k to see it done. But alas, I am not. 🥺 But I'm guessing that's what we need to get such things done: Wealthy investors willing to donate to these companies to cover the cost of native Linux ports. Because I truly do believe that Linux is not widely adopted precisely because these industry standard programs (and games, for the most part) are not available on it. Were they, though, I am 99.999% sure Linux desktop marketshare would see a massive takeoff and surpass macOS by a wide margin in no time.

[@gvanvoor]

HickoryDickory86 Any idea where the 500k figure comes from? I’ve been working on the linux port of some software and that number seems awfully big; especially since it already runs on multiple operating systems.

[@GraphicalRanger]

If they just put some effort in getting AD to play nice with wine on Linux there'd be no problem. And no need to spend significant amounts of monies.

[@igavinwood]

I enjoy and really appreciate your tutorials on Inkscape. As far as I know you are the best on the web for sharing valued knowledge on Inkscape and the quality of your videos are great. So if you switch to Affinity I'm sure all the Affinty users will be very happy at your input. One of the best features of Affinty isn't a feature, it's that you own the software. I don't how others feel but I'm rather sick and tired of buying tech/software to find I don't own, nor can control it. I only hope you continue to support the Open Software movement and then Adobe as well as other companies will really have to justify the exhorbitant prices they charge.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

The lease, that is, extortion, software model just took another nail in the coffin. Here's hoping it goes the way of Autotune.

[@jerryskains7456]

I disagree since Adobe went to the subscription based model it is cheaper if you want the software to always be updated. Although I do think that the end user should still have the option to buy it or rent it. The adobe master suite was $2500 dollars to purchase and a new version was released annually that means to stay up to date you had to pay $2500 every year. With the subscription you pay about $600 every year (I'm not sure of the exact price I only ever bought the student version) and you software is always updated. Now if you don't mind continuing without updating the old software for 5 years then yes the purchase model is cheaper. I am only referring to the fact that subscription is cheaper than purchasing in this way. Adobe is still expensive AF and since my income is not based on it I had to let my subscription go once I could no longer use the student edition. I needed a more affordable solution and $150 for all three Affinity apps fits that criteria nicely.

[@spartanboosts]

I think they mostly moved to subscription to combat people pirating it.

[@JaredPlane]

For every one of your videos I end up saying to myself, "This guy is just brilliant!". Thanks for the great work you do, Nick.

[@HrafnNordhri]

So far from what I've seen with Affinity, I often say, "ok but I can do that easily in Inkscape". I'm not impressed with it enough to drop $50 USD on it, but I don't hate it. If you do add Affinity content, I hope it won't be at the cost of less Inkscape content.

[@ohohgreasy660]

if he does make those tutorials it would probably drop inkscape. like what happened to gimp

[@victorwestmann]

I agree with you... but even if that happens... he did an amazing course and already a LOT of awesome tutorials on Inkscape.. so if he moves on I will miss this as well... but I will understand it as well.

[@minhaj_rahman]

YES NICK. More tutorials and new ones for Affinity would be sickk

[@Nikonhermit]

A company that consistently takes advantage of its customers is shooting itself in the foot. Like Adobe. Next: Apple.

[@icedriver2207]

Autode$k

[@fvs666]

apple?

[@KuttyJoe]

Subscription pricing is the future for pretty much everything. Every company that can figure out a way to get that constant cash flow is trying to do it. Now even small software businesses are doing subscriptions, and people are paying it too. So, Adobe is just ahead of the game, and the rest of the world is going to catch up as soon as they can. It's unfortunate but that's the truth. Just thinking about it. Right now, you can subscribe to shaving supplies. And people are subscribing. HP tried to get me to subscribe to ink. My Dell PC tries to get a backup subscription out of me. As a business person, I love the subscription model. As a consumer, I hate it.

[@borkusgod]

Oh hellz to the yeah I would love to see some Affinity tuts! I just bought the masterclass suit on your site and am super excited to really begin to push some boundaries with Inkscape. But like you said, you can also tell that AD will have some nice fangs once it grows past it's infancy stage. I love the workflow already. Anyway, thanks for all the hard work boss!

[@FronbondiSkegs]

The software subscription model is simply disgusting and when software goes to this model, I find other software.

[@ce3772]

Oh, please do tutorials! Your tutorials are always so clear and easy to follow, I would love some from you on this program.