You’re looking at some of the best photo apps out there for Apple’s hardware and, as we mentioned above, at the best prices we have tracked since the spring of 2020. So again, anyone who wants to use our apps can download a free 90-day trial.” You can download the free trials for Mac or Windows right here, even if you did so during last year’s event. “The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a serious impact on the creative community. All rights reserved.(Update 1/20): Alongside the 50% price drops throughout this post, Serif Labs is also now once again offering a FREE 90-day trial to its suite of image manipulation apps. I don’t know anything about them but Affinity’s trial and pricing extends to the Windows versions too, so tell your non-Mac friends. I recommend you watch at least a few before getting started. I’ve learned a lot from the ones I’ve watched. Affinity’s video tutorials are excellent viewing. A public service message from your pal Christian Boyce. Download their trial versions, buy the apps if you want, make great documents for a tiny fraction of what you’d pay for Adobe’s bloat-ware. I just wanted you to know about some great apps, at a great price, by a company that really seems to get it. I don’t know them and they don’t know me. I don’t have anything to do with the company that makes these apps. The introduction of the 90-day free trial and deeply discounted pricing is done in the hope that this will make life a little easier for people who rely on creative software to make a living, but may be stuck at home without their usual tools, or for students who might not have access to their Affinity apps on their personal devices.” We’re also offering a 50% discount for users who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including iPad versions. To provide some support during this incredibly difficult time, we’re now offering a 90-day free trial of all the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite. “The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have severely impacted people all over the world. Want to know why Affinity put their stuff on sale? Well, these paragraphs from their website say it all: Nice touches abound would you believe you can flip a switch and the app goes into “left-handed mode”? (I bought these too.) The apps are great, the offers are great, but THIS– this is really great. I bought all three– Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Designer– and am having a ball playing with them.Īffinity also makes iPad versions of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. I think you’ll agree– the Affinity apps are a treat. This is what Mac software was meant to be. Even if you’re already using Adobe’s apps, give these apps a try. They’re a pleasure to use, smooth and fast and full of thoughtful features. If you are even the slightest bit creative or design-y, or want to be, you have to take a look at Affinity’s apps. If I were you, I’d get the free trials right now. And of course it works the same way in all three Affinity apps. A movie’s worth a thousand words, so watch this real-life recording (I was trying to make the words “Meeting Controls here” fill the purple box): Affinity Designer, changing the font size In fact, this isn’t really “Adobe’s way.” It’s “the normal way.” But it turns out there’s a better way.Īffinity’s way is to dynamically change the size of the type, on the page, on the fly, as you slide up and down in the type menu. The “Adobe way” to do it is you select the text, and you choose a size from a menu (or you type a size into a box), you see how it looks, you try again, you see how it looks, you try again, and so on. If you’ve used Illustrator, or Photoshop, or InDesign, you have an idea of how Affinity’s apps might work… and you’d be right, except they are so much nicer to use than Adobe’s!įor example, suppose you have some text, and you want to experiment by changing the size. $24.99 each, for now, on the Mac App Store
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