But on this case the new version Price is overly exaggerated and there's absolutely no Upgrade fee for who already owns the full Suite, even if bought as independent Apps they are networked and work together under my Affinity Account.You’ll probably know Serif more for its Windows-based editing software PhotoPlus X, but more recently Serif delved into Mac with Affinity Photo, creating what I think is a legitimate alternative to Adobe Photoshop. I have all three of them, they're logged into my Affinity Account, yet there's no record of my purchase or License info, just the receipt on Microsoft Store. The Microsoft App Store is not highlighting the release as you claim on Twitter and what appears on it's search is dubious, might be too soon and they sort it out soon, but word on it would be nice. I purchased via Microsoft Store and they're not even showing yet, not in a definitive way. Evn at 40% off th eprice for each single App is DOUBLE what I payed for the original Apps in 2019 at full price. Upgrades are free up until the next full version of the app for example from 1.9 to 2.0 (Note this doesn't mean you will have to pay after the 1.9 update there could be many more updates before version 2.0) You then have the choice to pay again for future updates or keep the version you have In terms of the actual price for this upgrade we don't have anything set in stone yet.Īs for a time frame for when you may be expected to upgrade bear in mind Affinity Designer has now been out on Mac since 2014 and we haven't charged for any updates yet so it could be a fair whileĬallum, it's not that I wasn't seeing it coming, but for previous users there should be a substancial price reduction than it's being announced today. I don't think that v2.0 would come out so fast. Currently using Gimp to do major edits after lightroom is kind of difficult, and Affinity looks like it will really help me.īoth the Photo and the Designer are on version 1.5.x and as said above, users will only have to pay for upgrades i.e. that makes me pause to see if the money is well spent on Affinity.Īt this point, I think I am going to pull the trigger on Affinity because watching the training videos has me hooked. When lightroom 7 comes out, I might be forced to purchase a CC license which would come with photoshop. These are updates to the same version.just not available on the standalone version. 2) I purchased lightroom 6 outright, however I found that Adobe has provided updates to CC users but not standalone users. The reason I hesitate is 1) If another version is right around the corner and would require a new license, I would likely wait to gain the new features. I do think $39 cost seems very reasonable for software that seems to be very capable. So, when I see people on the 'fence', hemming and hawing over deciding to buy Photo, or Designer, or the iPad versions, I just shake my head in disbelief!! Even if I had to buy each Affinity app yearly, at full price, that still comes out to a savings of $2,200 over the course of 10 years compared to Adobe. If I can dump Adobe I pocket almost $3,400 over the course of 10 years. CC can be great when it works, but can be a frustrating, maddening experience when it doesn't.Īnyway, back to the savings, $450 for Affinity, $3,800 for Adobe. I even had an issue one time where Creative Cloud was interfering with my Backblaze backup cloud service, actually erasing files. I have had 3 different occasions where I couldn't start any of the apps and had to deal with the pain of getting it all to work again. I am one of those Adobe users that has had problems with the Creative Cloud. And with Adobe I am probably never going to have an Illustrator that works on my iPad, never going to have a Photoshop that works on my iPad. I am looking at less than $450 for 10 years, compared to $3,825 for Adobe's apps over 10 years. Hypothetically say Serif has a new version for each of those apps once every 3 years and I upgrade to each app at the full price. Say Designer has introductory pricing of $20 too. I paid $40 for Designer, $40 for Photo and $20 for Photo. Now, I took advantage of the introductory pricing that Serif offered on Designer, on Photo, on Photo for iPad, and as soon as Designer for iPad is available I will buy that too. So, I pay $31.88 a month here in the USA, and that comes out to $382.56 a year. The Photoshop/Lightroom plan costs $10.69 a month. The Illustrator single app plan that I have costs me $21.19 a month. This is just my example of paying for Illustrator and the Photoshop/Lightroom plans. Or how they could possibly be against paying full price for the next version of each app. Yeah, I really don't get how people are on the fence when it comes to buying Affinity Photo and/or Designer.
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