Adobe vs Affinity | The Ultimate Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- As your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription renewal approaches, the thought of exploring more cost-effective alternatives might be crossing your mind. In this video, we'll compare Adobe Creative Cloud and Affinity, two popular suites that cater to different needs and preferences.
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Adobe Creative Cloud, an industry standard for decades, offers a vast range of applications spanning motion graphics, video editing, UI design, and more. On the other hand, Affinity, a newer suite owned by the UK-based company Serif, focuses on photo editing, vector graphics, and publishing.
This comparison will look at Lightroom and Photoshop vs. Affinity Photo, Illustrator vs. Affinity Designer, and InDesign vs. Affinity Publisher. Here's what we'll cover:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 Pricing
02:35 Adobe Photoshop vs. Affinity Photo
03:45 Adobe Lightroom vs. Affinity Photo
04:30 Adobe Illustrator vs. Affinity Designer
06:49 Adobe InDesign vs. Affinity Publisher
09:51 Which should you choose?
11:20 Conclusion
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Great review. We completely switched to Affinity Suite in 2021 and have never looked back. DaVinci Resolve is what we use in place of PP and AE.
Ditto. But for photo editing, I use Photoshop and Lightroom. I like Da Vinci
I bought Affinity because I deeply resent Adobe going to subscription only. I bought the Adobe suite for about £450 back in the 90's when I had a graphic design studio, then shortly after I closed that business my InDesign was somehow blocked because I was 'out of memory'. I had no choice but to go to subscription. So since then I have been paying monthly which over a year is more than I paid for my last full package. I shudder to think how much I have paid since then. I now write and produce books and I understand that Affinity can create layouts for printed books, I am not sure about ebooks. At 74 I am still learning!
me in da future
I dropped Adobe a few years ago and am never going back.
Affinity is my favorite tool.
You forgot to mention that if you’re are a designer looking for mobile capabilities affinity is the best option since it has all the tools as it would on the pc version and Adobe creative cloud is limited to certain features
I hadn't even thought about it till your outro, but affinity really is SO much more stable. I've had many a session working multiple items in both photoshop or illustrator, only to have the application send me to the blue screen of death. Affinity really is quick and clean.
Please do more tutorial courses frequently for how to use affinity suite more efficiently it will be more helpful
Hey there, nice comparison. My 2 cents as a professional freelance illustrator using mostly Affinity Designer for client work since 2014. Designer is what I use most and it has everything I need to get the job done. There are a few free or inexpensive vector tracers solutions available if I require that for a job once in a while and I don't miss those features that Illustrator has like blending or the ability to work with gradient meshes. In fact Designers ease and ability to work in raster format replaces the need for some of those "missing" Illustrator features most people bring up. The transparency tool is a big plus for my workflow with Designer and the way the layers panel works with nesting and masks is much less clunky than the layer mask workflow I remember from Illustrator (not sure if that has changed). I guess like you say it comes down to what type of work you do and if that pricing structure and working in a cloud is something you are okay with. For me I don't miss anything crucial and the Affinity line not only is up to the challenge, it often exceeds it.
Hi! Can you please recommend a vector trace tool? I use Affinity myself, but for tracing I use an old Corel Draw I've got
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I was never a fan of adobe.. so much features which i do not use, it just makes the software slow, clanky and unstable.. Affinity is truly a God send to me.. since i started using Affinity i never looked back..
Today was strange. I woke up and as about to get started working and I had an idea. I'd just learned about this new feature in Affinity Designer 2 where you can align/distribute/ and resize objects to the same size about a week ago and it crossed my mind. I thought to myself, Serif makes these features that nobody asked for while not doing the ones that people want. I got started on my work in Illustrator. I never use Affinity Designer although I do have the software for a rare few things. One thing that I do typically is take a handful of objects and do align/distribute on them. Today, I had a ton of them to process in this one document and they also were different sizes. So guess what? On the same day that I wrote off the feature that Serif makes that nobody asked for, I actually needed that feature. I jumped over to AD and gave it a shot and it worked, although I still needed to go back to Illustrator for 1 particular distribution feature that AD wasn't able to do, it still saved me a lot of time.
hi, it's more helpful content i felt affinity is more handy as a graphic designer. could you do more content for affinity tools
Terrific review, made the plunge to Affinty recently, haven't had to look back (yet). Very impressed thusfar.
Very helpful, thank you and great work as always!
Thanks for this video for the comparison- I have both and want to learn Affinity
I think I'm finally ready to try to get away from Adobe. But, honestly there's nothing out there as powerful as Adobe. But Adobe is just getting so buggy right now, and they're not able to resolve the issues, while the software continues to get more expensive. Things are even worse because I'm making good use of Astute Graphics plugins and I would only get those through Adobe Illustrator. But, if I could get away from Adobe, I would save all of that money, plus the monthly fee for Astute Graphics as well. The challenge is in maintaining my fast workflow as I switch over to using several programs to make up for 1.
For Motion Design, Davinci Resolve is a great alternative to adobe.
I use adobe creative cloud but I am definitely planning my move to affinity
As a freelancer myself, I have tried the Affinity way, but it bites a lot when i work with other teams. Outside my office, it is all Adobe minded. It was time consuming solving issues. So keep this in mind! Also, the AI impact in the Adobe tools is kinda high. Specialy in Photoshop these days, it can save up time. Also the huge bennefit in Adobe is the CC library system. So, from a professional point of view.. tha 50 dollar ish a month for tier 1 tools is not that much. But, having no subscription at all is interesting from Affinity. There is no win/win sadly.. so, be aware of that!
Yeah. I actually missed a job opportunity because I couldn’t work very smoothly with Adobe apps. For example, just adding a simple shadow to a PNG requires me to manually enter digits into photoshop and preview it until it’s right, whereas on affinity photo, what you get is a slider. I wonder why PS interface is still so sucky.
Definitely Affinity Used to LOVE Photoshop and Lightroom, but since Adobe dropped perpetual licenses, no thank you. To each their own but I'm not paying a fee every month just to 'rent' their software, even if it does come with free updates.
I have the Adobe Creative Suite but also bought Affinity when Adobe put their prices up (again). The main thing that's prevented me from going full Affinity is that Publisher can't import native InDesign files. It needs the .idml file which is automatically created if I package a document, but not otherwise. As I have work going back several years including Indesign files which haven't got the .idml version, this is a problem, especially as I have often have clients who want an old document updated.
My issue as well. I've decided to continue with inDesign as my only Adobe cc software, $29 Canadian vs. $72 Canadian monthly. I'll continue doing that until i'm completely comfortable with Publisher, also spending some time each day converting old files to .idml files. Photoshop and Illustrator are used in a much more primitive fashion by me and Infinity's versions should be fine.
One area where Affinity Publisher runs rings around InDesign is optical margin alignment. I'm actually a little astounded at just how primitive this feature is in InDesign: first it's buried in an unintuitive location and then it's basically one check box and a numeric setting. And it simply cannot cope with centred text, nor does it allow any custom settings or nuanced adjustments. Publisher, on the other hand, has full-featured control over this aspect of typesetting. You can use the built-in settings of your font, or you can choose to manually adjust some or all of those, for both left and right margins. And it works with centred text as well as left-aligned and justified text. Basically if you care about niceties of typesetting or if you want your headlines and display type to look visually aligned without mucking around with tabs, etc., then Publisher is the way to go. I currently use both apps, since some clients need me to work in InDesign, but when it's entirely up to me, I opt for Publisher, for this and many other reasons.
Nice video! I will have a look into the affinity software right now. I’m just afraid of taking the plunge and whether my learning curve will be steep or not. As a solo designer, it would be huge savings for me.
i you good at using photoshop or designer i garantee the learning curve will way easy
It’s a much more simpler and intuitive interface. You won’t have a problem.
Great presentation! minimal and clear.. and beautiful.... thank you
can you do a tutorial video for kittl design software tool
Now days i use Affinity software
The biggest problem for me as a beginner graphic designer is that I want to make good looking mockups and that seems almost impossible without adobe photoshop. Sure some files work kinda in affinity photo aswell but its very limited and often doesn't work as smoothly. So even if affinity designer works good for creating logos I have no good way of making mockups. If anyone has tips for me I would appreciate it very much! :)
Affinity FTW
i'm really surprised you chose affinity for graphic design
Your mind will be blown on how simple it’s UI is. You don’t even have to think.
Where can i download adobe from bro kindly
It depends on what you're looking for. Regardless it's on their website. He's talking about the company and not the products themselves. A lot of people may not know that Affinity is owned by Serif, so they just Affinity for sake of simplicity.
adobe just sucks. It is way to expensive in most countries.