Affinity Photo - Was OK, now not so sure!
When Serif released Affinity, it was a game changer, it had all the power (and more) of Adobe Photoshop, was non-subscription and at the time, an offer price of £39.99 so I bought into it.
It soon built up a strong following as an alternative to Photoshop for those not wishing to jump on the subscription model. It was followed by Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, both of which had no interest for me as I only needed a photo editing App.
Affinity v2 is now out, looking to upgrade I looked at the website only to find I needed to shell out £119.99 (upgrade price) for “Creative Collection’ - the full suite of Affinity Apps when I only need the photo App.
I suggest Serif are missing out here, having built up a strong following for Affinity Photo, to then only offer the full suite @ £119.99 (upgrade price), will certainly put people off who don’t require (or can’t afford like me) the “Creative Collection”.
Time to look around for an alternative within my budget now I’m retired!
Update - So Serif came back to me on this, they offer an individual App price of £67.99 for the new version 2, but no upgrade discount on an individual App (so much for trying to retain brand loyalty!)
Postscript.
Looking on Affinity forums, the opinion was that the v2 was probably not worth buying into at the moment. A Black Friday deal for Pixelmator Pro @ £24.99 looked tempting so I bought it. So far I'm very impressed with it and Affinity will be taking a back seat for my photo editing in the future.
It soon built up a strong following as an alternative to Photoshop for those not wishing to jump on the subscription model. It was followed by Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, both of which had no interest for me as I only needed a photo editing App.
Affinity v2 is now out, looking to upgrade I looked at the website only to find I needed to shell out £119.99 (upgrade price) for “Creative Collection’ - the full suite of Affinity Apps when I only need the photo App.
I suggest Serif are missing out here, having built up a strong following for Affinity Photo, to then only offer the full suite @ £119.99 (upgrade price), will certainly put people off who don’t require (or can’t afford like me) the “Creative Collection”.
Time to look around for an alternative within my budget now I’m retired!
Update - So Serif came back to me on this, they offer an individual App price of £67.99 for the new version 2, but no upgrade discount on an individual App (so much for trying to retain brand loyalty!)
Postscript.
Looking on Affinity forums, the opinion was that the v2 was probably not worth buying into at the moment. A Black Friday deal for Pixelmator Pro @ £24.99 looked tempting so I bought it. So far I'm very impressed with it and Affinity will be taking a back seat for my photo editing in the future.
