>app is free>AI slop features require subscriptionI hope Adobe gets fucked by this.
Very queer, what's the catch?
adobe products are free :)
Trying it
>>107054887Schwab model keeps winning.
>>107054929OP already said:>AI slop
>>107054936Not if you want to make money.
>>107054936enjoy your russian spywares and miners
wtf i want a refund. just kidding i don't regret the money I spent on it, it was worth not having to deal with foss trash, legitimately a good software.
>>107054887Linux app when
>>107055180Amen, brother. Bought a license when I started using it for commercial stuff [spoiler]indie gamedev[/spoiler] and never looked back. Fuck Adobe and their 'you can rent our software' bullshit.Don't know if you got the mail from Affinity, but apparently people who bought the software previously are getting some kind of treat or bonus or something. Details TBD.
>>107054929>signup to downloadTheyll only need an email, phone number, home address, google account, SS#, retina scan, blood sample, foreskin tissue sample
>>107054887What's the catch? At least they haven't turned it into a web app.Looking at this ugly art doesn't give me much confidence in them.
>>107054936Did they disable the Photoshop CS6 authentication server already?Does anyone have the offline installer to Photoshop CS6?I'm using the Photoshop CS2, when they released the serial for free because they shut down the servers.
>>107055245>getting some kind of treat or bonusProbably a coupon to use their ai slop free for 1-3 months.
>>107054887>a fucking image editor with an acceptable use policyAnd before you apologists start to cope how Adobe has a similar AUP I thought the goal was to be better than Adobe?
>>107055539That's the AI slop service, I think you can still use it to create your Der Stormer monthly magazine.
>>107055510>niggersit's all so tiring
>>107055563*Der Stürmer, mein Fuhrer, I'm sorry. It would be weird if they tried to dictate what you do on a local app.
>>107055539>can't use art program to draw pornHow the fuck would they even know
>>107055463I had to send dick pic is that normal?
>>107055578>It would be weird if they tried to dictate what you do on a local app.No that is exactly what they're doing. At first I thought that was only about the online website community shit but nope read the Terms of Use and how they define "the service".>>107055590I haven't checked it yet but I bet wireshark lights up like a Christmas tree when you open and use the new app.
>>107055539
>>107054887>sign up to downloadno thanks
>>107055649you will hand ze data
Friendly reminder that paper and pencil has no AUP and requires no signup to use. Also, Krita.
>>107054936After the added malware tax.
>>107055590>>107055626I was so fucking right.https://www.canva.com/policies/privacy-policy/Section 2 near the end.>We may use information about you, your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to prevent, detect, investigate and address safety, security, fraud and abuse risks, and to develop our algorithms and models to identify violations of this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use or our Acceptable Use Policy (e.g., detecting content such as pornographic or copyright protected material).Good job they're worse than Adobe. At least CS6 doesn't sell my ass out to the Stasi or Gestapo holy fucking shit.
>>107055526Good point. Probably that.>>107055568They're a European company, so the pozz is still very strong over there.>>107055626This is common across almost every piece of creative software, not that I agree with it.
Imm just use a burner email and then block it in my firewall ezBetter than dealing with gimp
>>107054887>... freedom>(That's actually free)ok where's the source code
>>107055675What the fuck, are they retarded? Are they actually fucking retarded? In 2025 we actually have fucking art software companies dictating what you can and can't draw using a fucking digital pencil? Fuck this gay earth and fuck Christfags forcing this shit because "muh ebil porn".
>>107055626That's insane. #1 You cannot create a flyer for your restaurant if you serve meat. [I'm a vegan, don't use arch, btw]. #2. The military cannot use it (they bomb buildings)#3 Devastating to muslims in the UK.#4 Most intel agencies cannot use it (invade privacy) #5 Cannot use this for DEI, or your local anti-white workshop#6 No honey, you cannot use this for your OnlyFans "content" touchups.#7 You cannot use this to create banners for your anti-government protest #8 This rules out most things a jeet does on the computer#9-10 So vague#11 According to?#12-13. Great!!! So I cannot make flyers for my next Orange man bad no kings drumpf protest. Heckin' big yikes. Canvas is fash!
>>107055521i have portable version. if you want, i can upload.
>>107055626They're talking about the canva services in the app you mong.
>>107055730Is a tattoo or a piercing an artistic expression or encouraging and glorifying personal disfigurement? No matter what side or end of the political spectrum you're on this shit is so far beyond acceptable that I now genuinely pray for them to fail at everything. If this is the supposed Adobe competition then yeah we don't need competition.
>>107055463just lie
>>107055753I've already highlighted the relevant part for you if you're still intellectually overwhelmed I can't help you and neither can anyone else.
>>107055758It's clear at this point the only meaningful political spectrum that exists is libertarian / authoritarian. I don't give a flying fuck if liberal or conservative I just want the fucking authfags to kill themselves and die. I should be allowed to do whatever I damned well please with a tool.
>>107055771I understand English is not your first language so legalese must be difficult to parse, but the portion you've highlighted doesn't say the thing you think it does, Rajesh
>>107055798>projectionAh so you're Indian that explains everything.
>>107054887>canvadropped
>>107054887thanks, but I am sticking with Krita
I lose trust when a for-profit organization offers their product "for free". Asking me to pay you, I understand. Being an ideological zealot that wants to release something for free, I also understand. This approach is just inviting a rug pull.
I remember when everybody was happy how affinity stepped up to adobe and now they became the adobe. fuck them
>>107055837The thread on Hackernews has several Canva employees doing damage control, saying that "Canva absolutely wants to keep this free forever and respect users' data and privacy!" as if we're fucking retarded. The overly strict TOS, the mandatory account creation, everything from the get-go is set up to be more MBA-driven retardation to make tools worse and more user-hostile.
>>107055753you literally need to sign up for an account to use the app. you know the app and account that are both part of the service? and the content you create with the app that's part of your account data?>>107055675maybe try reading more than one sentence before shitting out your worthless drivel currynigger
>>107055874I'm guessing they've also already found this thread.
>>107055874>MBA-driven retardationThis phrase cannot be overemphasized enough. Do they really think they're fooling autists with this crap?
>>107054887>I hope Adobe gets fucked by this.Implying this whole takeover wasn't an inside job coordinated by Adobe to kneecap their biggest potential competitor.
>>107055897You can't read, sorry. Just not going to bother with you.
>>107055675what the fuck
>>107055024>he actually believes this>>107055076>>107055664>russian malware boogeyman in 2025
What dogshit.I bought the affinity suite about a year ago and the more I use it the more I want to tear my hair out. The only reason I use it is because I wanted an alternative that ran well on my laptop. That it does, but it's missing even basic features that open source software covers. Now as a kick in the dick they just put it out for free full of shady nonsense. God knows I don't ever want to deal with Adobe but fuck
>>107055837The general rule of thumb is if a product is free, *you* are the product.
>have a working product some people consider an alternative to adobe>completely butcher itWhy?
>>107055905>Do they really think they're fooling autists with this crap?Executives surround themselves with yes-men that never go against the grain because everybody is terrified of losing their jobs in this shit economy, so yes, they really are that stupid and think everybody else is, too.
Does this have AVIF support? Affinity V2 (the previous major release) had JPEG XL support but not AVIF support.
And they flock like flies.
>>107055675Thx, i’ll be using my old Affinity V1 software that doesn’t upload any images to those scumbags and do whatever i want.
>>107054929>macOS or Windows
>>107056134It took so much effort but i finally found the url for redownloading the old Affinity software https://store.serif.com
>>107056245Fuck, 4chan doesn’t allow, it thinks it’s spam.And that url without the extra url leads you to their version. I can not guarantee the old Affinity site will stay.
>>107055998Because it's not enough to have working products, every product has to be turned into a financial vehicle for elites to extract maximum rent from everybody in the world while providing as little real value as possible.
>>107055590>How the fuck would they even know
>>107055829I just don't understand how Krita can be so good but GIMP so bad. At this point I've come to the conclusion that trans folx are simply the superior software developers. I've been using the Helix text editor even at my work now.
>>107056318>picWhat program is that? Wireshark?
>>107056333Dunno, someone posted it on hacker news.
>>107056245I bought Affinity Photo 2 a few months back and I am so sad I didn't go for the whole suite, I don't think AP2 really needs an upgrade, especially if its only more AI slop.
>>107056344No sweat. I'm still a brainlet when it comes to networking security, but I'm interested in apps that tell me what's sending day in and out of my PC.
>>107056333Not unless there's a fancy UI for wireshark I don't know about. Could that be that on device firewall tool people shill sometimes? Can't remember the name. Either way that's just fucking great, not even their website phones home to that many domains kek
>>107055626What an incredibly gay future. Endless data harvesting at the expense of everyone's privacy only to use that data to train AI models to automate the work the program sets out to do. The AI bubble could not come any sooner.
>>107055568>it's all so tiringwhy? niggers are awesome!
>>107056245>>107056284you still have to make an account etc. the download brings nothing
It's not enough to give money and receive a product, noooo you have to let them remotely monitor everything you do with it so that you can't POSSIBLY commit a wrong-think. This future is so fucking gay and retarded and I hate everybody and everything that keeps pushing us down this path.
>>107056327what the fuck are you saying. do you have rust in your brain?
>>107056486No
I bought V1/V2 licenses. Fuck this. Back to GIMP and Krita I guess. The lack of ongoing development kills the entire suite for me.
It was already a mess to get this running on Linux to be quite honest
>>107056559How's Photoshop on Linux these days? Both CS6 and the subscription suite.
People never learn; it is always FOSS or bust.Instead of paying $300 for Photoshop, you could simply send this money to a Krita contributor to make it worth his time to fix your niche issue.
>>107056579I haven't tried running it for a long time.I heard of many scripts out there to get those programs running but the last time I tried (mainly because I wanted Illustrator more than Photoshop) I would always get the program to run once, then crash every time after through Wine.I remember at some point in time I would use it through a virtual machine to overcome some issues. But then certain graphical features weren't available. There is a Photoshop alternative people don't know about that actually runs on Linux, but I got a few crashes with it a while ago: AliveColors. It's not amazing, but I found it more usable than something like GIMP and recently it has gone free for personal use (with the only condition that you sign up to their fucking newsletter).
>>107056633my niche issue is I want enterprise grade software that feels pleasant to use.
>>107056633I don't think $300 can completely overhaul Krita's interface and get rid of qt6 dogshit ugliness overall
>>107056633My niche issue is that I disagree with fundamental design and technical decisions when it comes to Krita, so who's going to take developing a CS6 tier PS and illustrator replacement for $300? Any takers?
>>107054887>their policy for content controlhttps://www.canva.com/policies/acceptable-use-policy/Want to bet they won't be impartial? Also will look trough everything by aussie lenses.
>>107054887don't do it. it's a trick to steal your soul.https://www.bitchute.com/video/OKW50Sg2XbfJ
>>107055777>It's clear at this point the only meaningful political spectrum that exists is libertarian / authoritarian.Pretty much yeah. You're either pro personal liberty, not personal liberty* not personal liberty but, personal fucking liberty, or you're simply not human.
>>107055626Won't this overwhelm their infrastructure? They are not exactly facebook or google. Actively spying on 200 million users will put a strain on their servers.
>>107054887>AI slopI pray every single fucking day for you to finally fucking disappear, AI stays here since there are big money put into it, F-U-C-K-O-F-FTOTAL ARTFAGS D E A T H!!!I'm artfags but you are retarded, I hate you with all of my heart, even if it have to kill meSeriously now, I can't wait when you fucking fuck off, your voice means nothing at all, AI stays and is developed further, kill yourselves, artfags are shit and literally MOST OF THEM produce slop worst than current AII have meltdown but put yourself in my place, you use new digital art tool and you keep reading the same shit over and over and OVER about ai slop, FUCK OFF, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GODImagine being an artist and every single fucking comment section is like; 'ai bad skull face emoji'
>>107056333little snitch, for mac
>>107057539Everything is AI "slop" till proven otherwise.
I hate artfags more than I hate AI slopslop it up frens
>>107057711>>I hate artfags more than I hate AI slop>>slop it up frens>I am becoming very histerical because of other people becoming histerical.
>>107057734>casually says he hates artfags once>YOU ARE GETTING HYSTERIACL OAKY!????
>>107057539I know this sounds very sinister. Most serious artfags will benefit from the majority needing to use AI as a crutch. It will be very easy to outdo them, since they will never bother to learn the proper skills.
>>107057771>Most serious artfags will benefit from the majority needing to use AI as a crutch.This is why I don't know what is going on inside their head?
>>107057711AI is only a threat to artfags within and below the midbeg level. They deserve it for refusing to learn all the fundamentals.They hate it since they wild be force to git gud and cannot make easy cash drawing deviantart-tier inflation art anymore.
>>107055183Right now. Just get Winboat and you can install it and run it. Edited a couple of images already and worked without any issues.
Nice, Affinity Photo has been great for me. I'm ready for total adobe death.
>>107057891>Just use a VM with no hardware acceleration
>>107057771>It will be very easy to outdo them, since they will never bother to learn the proper skills.and who will actually care about the non-AI-artist and his work being 5% better?seems like some cope
>>107057919If not non-AI-artists, who is going to come up with the new uwu art styles?
>>107057539>>107057711>>107057771>>107057831Your “AI” can’t make anything outside family friendly content. It’s controlled by corporate interests to sell. They don’t care if “AI” crashes because they will own enough to outlive you. Artist will outlive you because they can get jobs, you will just lose jobs.
0x4BF04: 17 2Astill works as usual>>107056318just block it. silly goose
0x4BF04: 17 2A
>>107057894yeah it was great when it still got regular updates and fixes, like before canva bought it
>>107057549Is there a Windows version/alternative?
>>107054929They're now owned by (((Canva))).
>>107057803>>107057771are you fucking retarded or I don't understand somthing...I generated tons of pics and for each style I had to learn and adapt to match it, I learned more about digital art thanks to AI than from my own art fagging, period, fuck off, AI is best possible outcome, skilled people will improve and those faggots who cry about AI will fucking die out, because they always been fucking shit without any art skillfaggots are ridiculous, they can't even learn basic generations, using loras and stuff, can't bother to learn matching styles to fix ai art or make it better, and they shit on people who use ai, fucking ridiculous, fuck offand no, you can't 'get jobs' fucking lel, most of you literally do shitty commissions for coomers or furries
>>107058380brown hands typed this post
>>107058214Windows firewall control.https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.phpTinyWall also
>>107058475Thanks, anon. I'm using an antivirus (Bitdefender) and Malwarebytes already. Would either of these fuck with it?
>>107058214Also this one, perhaps even more so. The first two work with Windows Firewall, this one is an alternative.https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
>>107058519No. Malwarebytes took over WFC, so it'll certainly be compatible.
>>107058380Hello Canva jeet.
>>107058536>>107058526Appreciate the tips, anons. Thanks.
>>107056318Don't mind us, we're just going to watch you while you work.
Artrannies suffering is always good thought
>>107054887gonna have to try it out, i enjoyed the trial last year, but i just couldn't get myself to buy it without a sale, and now it's finally here
The Serif/Affinity Discord server is a sorry state of affairs. There are shills in the server defending the privacy policy and the designer on the software claims that Canva can't view what you are working on.
>>107055539How would they know if you used Affinity for something? Does the software phone home what you're editing or drawing?
Thanks, but I'm sticking with affinity.
>>107055245Apparently you're just getting a free font pack.
I have used Affinity Designer for years. This has like one new feature, vector trace and even broke some old features. Your settings from older Affinity versions don't carry over either.
>>107058713This is one of the reasons Canvas closed the official forum and made everyone move to (((Discord))). It's easier there to silence critics and bury controversial opinions under a perpetual flood of irrelevant messages.
>>107056642>AliveColorsThe fuck is this convoluted installation process, though?https://alivecolors.com/en/tutorial/howwork/install-linux.php
>>107058071Dial 8, troon.
>>107058762>Thanks, but I'm sticking with affinity.This. No software is worth sucking a CoC.
Very disappointed with the lack of Linux support, I had hoped the funding from the Canva acquisition would finally allow it. It also still doesn't have AVIF support either which is something I've also hoped would be in this release.
>>107058713the analytics thing that's opt out by default when you open the app specifically says they can't see anything and the ai is not trained on your work
>>107060049>>107058380You people claim it’s “AI” but the machine is too dumb without you. A real intelligent machine would have generated photos without you needed to type. See how much of a scam these so called “AI” became.
>>107055837I was trying to figure out why they made it free, but if you think about it AI is getting so powerful that people aren’t going to study to become graphic designers anymore. Regular, normal people are going to be capable of doing this stuff with the aid of AI and they know this. Just charging to use AI might actually work.
Can someone upload the "premium" onnx models from %AppData%/Affinity/Common/3.0/modelcache>>107058519cringe
>>107059695Well, the problem is that they don't seem to give too much of a fuck about linux support. I couldn't get it to run properly on wayland (it shows the interface but not whatever you're editing).
>>107058071Turn that smile upside down.https://youtu.be/BLxFn_BFB5c
>>107057711I have artfags hating AI fatigue fatigue.AI is certainly of help for anyone with small needs. It also helps in the same fashion the 30 billion functions in photoshop have helped gorillions of artists. Let's not pretend though that there is a need to listen to yet another midwit using the ghibli style to make a dumb fucking joke. These so called prompt artists we have in places like this are doing nothing to help AI be indistinguishable from the real stuff, in fact they're doing the opposite. It gets easier and easier to tell through repetition.
I have used gimp for photo editing my entire life.
>>107063171i feel sorry for you, but I guess you don't know what you're missing out on
cancer
>>107063171I miss Jasc Paint Shop Pro like you wouldn't believe, before Corel bought them out it was fucking wonderful, no drm bullshit.Like the old days before photoshop had right click menus, the fucking savages.
>>107059695>>107062877just install with it's flatpak repo, then turn off wayland on Flatsealit works for me with force XWayland
>>107063864I do exactly that, but upon opening files it won't display them.GPU support is also unavailable through its settings.
>mfw always pirated photoshop>mfw pirated affinity 1 and 2 because even pirated adobe was too bloated>mfw made a burner, signed in and blocked the new one in my firewalli'll just move to graphite once it's had a bit more time in the oven. you ladies complain too much.
>>107056633>Instead of paying $300 for Photoshop>paying>for PhotoshopI don't follow.
>>107058071>Your “AI” can’t make anything outside family friendly contentYou're clueless.
>>107063903you know you didn't need an account at all to pirate the new version?
>>1070639952018 was 20 years ago, anon...
>>107064050idc it still werks
>>107064037very nice. i just assumed the initial startup was account gated.i expect to see a pirated version soon anyway because a number of the ai model features are actually locally run and just locked artificially.
>>107055749>i have portable version. if you want, i can upload.Please anon, the more copies the better.
>>107063995Where do you get CC18 i staller? All i've found are dead torrents
>>107064517I used this https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux/ but the script has been broken for a while.
>>107064060newer photoshop basically adds nothing that you need for memes and sketching/scaffolding. i used to use photoshop7 for all my needs.
>>107064752peak
I've been using Affinity since 2017 and I do have mixed feelings about this. It's good that the base package of Affinity is now free-of-charge for everyone, but you cannot use it without a Canva account (you must be signed in at all times and signing out will close the app) and certain features are locked behind a monthly subscription, turning Affinity into cloud-ified freemium software. It raises questions, how much more of Affinity will be absorbed into the Canva cloud from now on?I've had my doubts towards Canva's acquisition of Serif last year and I've found myself leaning toward Krita, Inkscape and Scribus over time anyway, probably a good thing if Affinity goes past the point of no return.
>>107065721*probably a good thing in case Affinity goes past the point of no return.
They changed the way the brush system works. You can no longer stroke a shape or path with a raster brush. If you want a free vector app with no telemetry just use Inkscape.
A good time to fund FOSS alternatives.
>>107064752newer photoshop versions add dpi scaling which is quite needed for high resolution monitors
>>107055749>Anon says yes>Anon never uploadsSasuga.
>>107056633Krita is not Photoshop.And as much as GIMP tries to be it: It's not Photoshop either with that atrocious UX they never bothered to license GIMPshop for.Face it, Tiger. Adobe has a stranglehold on good UX.
>>107065925>You can no longer stroke a shape or path with a raster brush. yes you can. the 'path brushes' are just raster brushes, but they're applied non-destructively.i'm pretty sure this is always how it's worked in affinity.
>>107057539AI bad doe. Sorry (not sorry) you're a shit "artist."
>>107065721just crack it
>>107054887>people afraid they will do subscription model>they go full on malware insteadkek, this somehow went worse than expected. anyway, Krita.
>>107062640That's coming next month. cope harder, fartist tranny.
>>107054887o7 Adobe. KEK....
>>107056941Now that I think about it, if I would say use their software to make a mickey mouse fan art. Will they invoke rule 9 and ban me for copyright infringement? Or would it only happen if Disney pay them to do so, perhaps also use it as a excuse if I have done something to anger them(like posting a negative review on youtube).
>>107066190Well fire it up. Pick the pen tool. Pick a raster brush. The brush won't appear on the path. Draw a circle. Pick a raster brush. It won't stroke the circle.
>rules about what you can make with it>telemetry phoning home the images you makeNo thanks, I'm sticking with Kira.
