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I have a question. I have bullet points, and the first line is bold and the rest is regular. How can I create a paragraph style for this. So o don’t have to change a whole page of billet point text manually.

Really good video. Thanks for mentioning "The Print Shop". I had totally forgotten about that program but used to use it on my Apple IIe -- the original version of the software! So interesting to see that it's still around. I agree with your position on Canva. My (relative) hate for Canva is the way it can "empower" people to produce designs -- with major flaws that they may not "see" -- who would have in the past delegated to someone who is more capable. In a team environment, it can allow things to get out the door that maybe should be handled by someone more skilled. Prior to tools like Canva, this hand-off would happen automatically because the knowledge of the software was an issue. This isn't the fault of Canva, of course, and is part of Canva's noble mission -- but sometimes this mission results in things going badly.

Great advice and lots of valuable knowledge. I think a lot of that is very universal if you work for yourself. Thank you for taking the time and making effort to share with us.

Great video. Thank you!

Time will tell. It depends on the people who will be in charge. Corporations have become so greedy and monopoly oriented with price fixing and subscriptions is have my doubts. thenAffinity group has been well managed by good people who appear to care about their users. Let’s hope that continues. So far so good.

Thank you for this!

Yep

if you are using canva you are not a graphic designer, to me you are a decorator that picks items and put it on a canvas that was already made

Thank you, very much, for this insightful information!

That’s some news.

I suppose the Big Big question would be, is... Will Affinity and Canva P... Off their customers just like Adobe did. Will we see a mass migration, pontentially even going back to Adobe..? YIKES!

Good advice. Thanks.

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Very interesting topic. I greatly appreciated your discussion and insights on this! Thanks!

Excellent episode! Keep the real-world critiques coming.

Hi guys, just switch to the toyo inks 'kaleido' system with an expanded RGB color gamut using four color process printing!!

I like the span column, split columns and paragraph shading. This will save a lot of time.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO Funny how your name crops up when I'm looking for technical know how on such things !! - 2nd time now I have seen your videos and what can I say - Another banger - Clearly a lady who knows how to dot i's and cross t's - thank you for sharing. BIG APPRECIATION FOR YOUR EFFORTS AND QUALITY.

Thank you for the video and for sharing. Yes, I use a contrast checker and it's the same you showed in your video.

Great information, thank you!

That's great

Excellent video - very informative and to the point. pantone should disappear in to oblivion anyway. as for adobe, people are looking at alternatives like never before, a lot of very disassitified people out there these days. Thank you for sharing this video plus great resources, well researched, we don't thank creators like you enough, I am sure this took you some time. no idea why you only have 1.39k subscribers.

I've used Adobe for 20+ years & am seriously considering jumping ship. As an industrial designer, I use their software less frequently these days. Alterantives are in many cases better & much less expensive

Used Quark too! Had to learn Indesign years ago. Will now make the transition from adobe to affinity.

Maybe I'm missing some key step but I thought I might find in this video, a way to find all path tags then mark those as artifacts using the preflight tool. On attempting this via what was mentioned around the 3:38 mark, it didn't do the job. I'd seen another video by Mike The Print Man where he had some custom preflight scripts and one did just that, though not for accessibility reasons in his case. Is there something already built into Acrobat Pro that finds path tags and artifacts them all, like those unneeded path files for all the table borders in some pdf files? -Doug

The Anne-Marie Concepción of Affinity

Some real gems, here, Colleen! So incredibly helpful and succinct, as are all your educational tuts and tips. Thank you for sharing your gifts with the community! Curious... sounds like you use JPGs in RGB format for your 300dpi print files and then let the PDF export do the conversion, is that right? I have always brought original JPGs into PSD, set to 300dpi, converted to CMYK, and saved as TIFs for use in InDesign.

I don't trust their promises flaunted to the four winds about not having a generalized subscription plan for everybody, because, when that happens, it generally means nobody's going to keep their promises but I want to stay positive, so I wait and see.

Excellent advices.....

I don’t mind having a subscription as an option. I would have a problem with subscription being the only option

Really enjoyed that guys - very valuable. Have been self employed like 17 years and have experienced all the same things.

2:25 Why would it bother designers that non designers are using a product? Someone creating a news letter for their local pottery club doesn't have any interest in over spending for a professional designer, but they shouldn't have access to the same tools?

I'm wondering if I use a font, let's say form Adobe for a logo, and at some point I no longer subscribe, can I still use that logo all over the place with no limits?

oops, I was looking for the “Design Bondage” channel.

Hey thanks for covering this :)

"for the purposes of improving our services and software" includes Firefly generative AI... which is specifically trained on LICENSED and public domain content

If they change the Affinity pricing/ upgrade model, I'll find something else. At what point do we draw the line with these corporations?? It's time to speak up with your wallet.

" An easy walk", more like a crawl, "Litigation takes a while", the objective by crafty lawyers at Adobe. It gives them time because humans will be involved in the access of "private" data. To understand their historical mindset, review the early days of PostScript (now PDF).

The real threat are the Canva investors and their push to always squeeze more money out of customers to increase their dividends. Parasites.

What about accessibility to people who don't want to be on one of the predatory OS's (Apple, Google, Windows)? Linux being the main one after that. But not the only option. THIS would be accessibility every bit as much as price or disability accessibility. But still as distinctly different as they are to each other. I agree, mergers are almost never good. The world is getting more and more spiritual monopolies (including duopolies, etc). which is leading towards a lot of poor treatment of the population. I bought the Affinity Suite recently, and now I see why it went on sale. On the fence about keeping it, but mostly for accessibility reasons. Thanks for much for this info!

Personally, I have had Canva and Affinity since the very beginning and I love them both. Canva has grown so much from when it first started and I have seen it evolve in an amazing way. There is a plethora of potential here. I am a self taught designer, and I am looking forward to see what this merger has to offer. I agree that these tools should be at the hands of everyone who loves to be creative. It's going to open up the path for many to learn new software and that's always exciting. It's going to be interesting to see how this expands.

The biggest winner in Adobe's license debacle is Canva, who just recently bought out the Serif/Affinity suite. What timing. Affinity software will now sell thru the roof and reap tons for Canva. I'm sure there's a lot of celebrating at the Canva headquarters. Prediction: Adobe BUYS Canva.

So many years ago when Adobe first went to the subscription model I was pissed. I knew I would be paying them monthly for the rest of my life. This was in the early 2000's. I had already been using the software for my business for years and there was no alternative for graphic designers on a mac. I don't think I will change now, but I have never initiated my free cloud storage. I learned that lesson when those celebrities got their iphones hacked with their nude pics on the cloud. I am dating myself, but we need to pay attention in life! That was a great lesson learned!

As you already suspect, this was just another hate campaign against adobe. These campaigns have been going on for over 10 years, but for some reason, this one about Adobe stealing and spying caught on and went viral. I'm not a laywer but it took me around 30 seconds to read sections 2.2 and 4.4 (I'm speaking from memory) and realize they are pretty much the same as any other software legal terms. Of course, if I strip away parts of the text and reorder the words to my liking, then I could deduce that Adobe forces us to accept the most outrageous things. But that would be on me. Even without referring to the terms of use, just out of common sense, I find it utterly ridiculous to believe that a company as big as Adobe (and as scrutinized as they are) would start happily stealing intelectual property and spying on people. Not to mention training their generative AI on customer content, when precisely the main distinctive trait of their generative model (Firefly) which Adobe proudly shows off is that, unlike most, it has been trained as ethically as possible only with stock contributors contents and public domain works. This doesn't mean Adobe are all saints and "good-deed-doers" - one must maintain some level of mistrust. But what I've been hearing and seeing these days is pure nonsense and makes me realize how easy it is to misguide public opinion. Thanks for this video.

Adobe has inadvertently fed oxygen to a smoldering issue (overpriced live service) with their updated EULA, and a possible solution might be perpetual licenses with OPTIONAL live service, at least with regard to the primary design apps. Anything short of that will probably result in Affinity becoming the Trinity.

I did not appreciate having to agree to the new user agreement or not being able to use the software. I think terms of service should not be unilateral. I still don't trust Adobe. Are you sure you are not being naive?

We should give canva the benefit of the doubt. If things gets worse, we can always keep our perpetual license, so it's not like we're taking a huge risk!

I think will go a long way towards competing with Adobe. Interesting!

Back to GIMP

its still can't fucking compete with Adobe.