If you need an alternative to Photoshop, you don’t have to look far – there are also programs that are significantly cheaper than the subscription to Adobe. The Affinity Suite is now even half price.
If you create graphics, edit photos or layout them, you really can’t get past Adobe Photoshop CC and the like. The Adobe suite is still the top dog when it comes to professional graphics work. Accordingly, users also have to be prepared for hefty costs for the monthly subscription.
With Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, the software manufacturer Serif offers powerful and inexpensive alternatives to the Adobe tools Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
You can currently save almost 50% on the manufacturer’s website, so the tools only cost 26.99 euros each. If you purchase all three programs, you save a total of 84 euros.
In the current Version 1.10.5 the revised architecture of the applications is used completely, which should ensure a faster workflow. This applies to all platforms, i.e. Windows, Mac or iPad:
- optimized memory management for shorter loading times
- faster rendering in Affinity Designer
- better blending modes on layers in Affinity Photo
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Affinity Suite: Test all tools casually
Affinity is an excellent choice for most professional users and amateurs, but in the end what matters is how well a program performs in practice. For this reason, the manufacturer offers a 10-day test phase for all programs. All you have to do is register on the Affinity homepage. You will then receive an e-mail explaining the further steps of the download process.
Also practical: you can buy all products in the Affinity Shop at half price at regular intervals. This also includes the programs of the suite.
Affinity Photo: Cleaner and faster than Photoshop
If you use Photoshop CC, you will quickly find your way around Affinity Photo. The usual editing functions agree with the Adobe tool, but the workflow is designed differently. With the so-called “Personas” there are five different tabs that simplify the processing of steps in photo editing.
But the image editing tool not only provides well-known features from Photoshop, but also some functions that go beyond that. For example, Affinity Photo has a color wheel that makes choosing the right color a lot easier than the selection boxes in Photoshop.
Another long-standing Adobe problem is eliminated with Affinity Photo: the speed is noticeably higher and working is smooth, even with large images. There are a number of automatic and customizable corrections for quick editing, and with various brush packs, digital artists are also catered for.
Affinity Photo can be tested free of charge for ten days, after which the software must be purchased – but the regular price of 54.99 euros is negligible compared to the Adobe subscription.
Affinity Designer: Alternative for Illustrator without the subscription trap
The vector and graphics program Affinity Designer is also a good alternative to Adobe and can be tested free of charge for ten days. The software proved to be significantly faster in the test than the competitor Adobe Illustrator and offers professional tools for creating and editing vector illustrations, logos or even surfaces for the web and smartphone. With the integrated Pixel Persona, images and textures can be inserted and edited.
Some Affinity Designer features are still a long way off in Illustrator. With the surface manager, you can add an infinite number of textures and colors to any desired object and manage them with just a few clicks. If you want to create isometric illustrations, you should be happy about the powerful isometric tools. After the free period, a purchase price of 54.99 euros is due.
Affinity Publisher: A worthy adversary for Adobe InDesign
The InDesign alternative Affinity Publisher is the youngest of the three applications – since its release in mid-2019, it completes the trio. In addition to layout and graphics tools, the software also provides a library of freely usable assets for creating brochures, flyers or entire books.
In addition, Affinity Publisher offers an unprecedented merging of tools: Publisher can be seamlessly connected to Designer and Photo through the two tabs “Vector Persona” and “Photo Persona”. So you can create vector files directly in Publisher and edit images from within the document. This enables fast and efficient work directly in the document and is something that has never been possible in Adobe before.