It is a collection of software created by Adobe and includes more than 20 fully functioning applications as well as mobile applications. The entire Affinity suite has cost just over a tenth of that amount.Ĭheck them out and you’ll see they represent amazing value for money.- So let's start with what Adobe Creative Cloud is or does provide to you as a Creative Cloud user. I calculate that over the lifetime of my Adobe Photography plan, Photoshop has cost me around £600, that’s for one application.

I talk about it in detail in my new book. You know the ‘I like to own my software’ mantra? I never want to get into an argument with someone who thinks like that and explain to them that they don’t actually own the software, even when they buy it. I’m not one of those people who has some dogmatic approach to software rental. My Adobe Photoshop Rental was £119 per year! Just for one application. It was at this point I researched the Affinity software and this is the deal right now (correct March 2021 with 50% off), to buy outright any of these products they cost To do this I either needed to sign up for an annual InDesign plan and be stuck with it for a year, or rent it for a month for £30.37. It all came to a head when I needed to edit a document created in InDesign that I change once a year. One of my favourite features of Affinity Publisher is that it can open a PDF back into its editable components, that’s magic! Even better, each of the applications can open files from their Adobe counterparts. Each one is, for the most part (and may I say for most mere mortals) a replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The software consists of Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. Then I came across the Affinity Suite from Serif. I’d been using the plan for about 5 years.

I’d recommend it to many friends, suggesting it was a great way to get the world’s leading image editing software without the huge outlay of several hundred pounds. For about £9 per month I was getting access to Photoshop, Lightroom and some other parts of the Adobe ecosystem.įor a small business owner I thought it was a bargain, a no brainer. For years I’ve been a huge fan of Adobe Creative Cloud, for the most part choosing the Photography package.

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