Give it to me straight, lads. How is the move from Adobe to Affinity? And how does Affinity square up with Photoshop?
>>455375Do you collab?Are you freelancer?What sort of clientele do you have? If you've only been submitting the PNG files then it doesn't matter what software you use. It's just a matter of relearning the UI.Me, I usually submit the full stack with the .psd/.ai/.eps AND documentation, plus the commercial printers I work with refuse to accept anything that wasn't made in Indesign.
>>455376I'm a hobbyist. At the moment. Dicked around in GIMP with the PhotoGIMP plugin and had fun making memes and shit, but I noticed that Adobe shit the bed so maybe Affinity will get a huge boost and lots of tutorials for Affinity would be made and I'm too much of a bitch to pirate software. So if I really sink my teeth into graphic design and consider buying software Affinity might be it.
>>455375I've been using Affinity for my personal photos for a while now, switched because Adobe software wanted a constant internet connection + I'm not paying for a subscription license.Affinity Photo is great (beats PS at everything except AI bullshit like genfill and subjectselect) but it's a fucking memory hog at least on MacOS. Will gladly chew through multiple GB RAM with 2 RAWs open.Affinity Designer is the best thing ever made. Even better than Illustrator. Extremely smooth transition.
>>455375never heard of it>>455376what a weird response. png files? whos asking for png files anywhere? the fuck is a 'full stack"? what printer cares about your software if you can deliver what they can print?
>>455435i imagine any image/pixel software might groan with some big raws open until you save it as something smaller.Can affinity designer do what indesign does?
>>455437Affinity Publisher is their Indesign alternative. The way it handles layers is far superior to Indesign, but as >>455376 said faggot printers and other design companes have stockholm syndrome.
>>455441fuk is wrong with you? never had a printer groan over getting a hi rez pdf
>>455441How seamless is exporting files from Designer > Photo > Publisher?
>>455444You have to give clients original files.>>455446It's the same window and settings for each app. Loads of quality options and filetypes you can configure and you can save presets.
>>455448Just noticed there's a 7 week free trial. Gonna try this bitch.
>>455448ive designed and prep'ed and printed a number of books and i dont kow what youre talking about
>>455464Not saying it applied to everyone. Clients have templates / fonts / everything else all wrapped up in the Adobe ecosystem, so do printers. If you have no issues then good luck to you.
>>455466Yeah I'm from east Asia and the boomers here are really picky. I suppose someone working for the free market in the west would have a different experience. But the industry here is very standardized, conformist, and traditional.If they had been doing X job using Y method for 20+ years, a new player coming in submitting Z for printing would be frowned upon, inf not straight up rejected.
>>455436>what printer cares about your software if you can deliver what they can print?proper ones? We have to use Quark (cheap boss) and like 8 different steps afterwards so the printer can accept our magazine pdfs because everything is set up for indesign on their side
>>455495thats just fucking weirdwhat 8 steps do you need to do?perhaps your printer ISNT a proper one?
>>455495Isn't Quark like expensive? I've always associated it with old prestige design firms, but maybe my perceptions are wrong
>>4554968 steps was a comedic hyperbole but; we need special settings .esp for the images and graphics, then use those in Quark, then export to the pages to another kind of .eps then turn them into a specific .pdf>>455499he already bought it so it doesn't matter that id would only cost x/month, because why use a better software if he already paid for another one.>inb4 why didn't i object this happend before my time with the company
>>455500forgot to mention that we can't even use the 2017 version of Quark because it's a piece shit software and we have to use a 25 years old version, with a dedicated PC running Windows 95 just for this reason.
>>455500>>455501QXP 4? That's just too wild for me, but my old design firm was still using MS office 2007 until I quit in 2017, so there's that. Old people I swear
>>455503either 4 or 5. but yeah, avarage age at the company is around 50. The other editor uses Ps 6 because, even though we have a never one "he likes to do things manually".Which translates into absolute bonkers workflows like not using masks, groups, hell the layers are just a huge unorganised mess, no naming, no logical structuring, and half of them are empty text layers because he accidentally created one.
>>455437For clarification I've also had issues with multiple rasters, even <1mb JPEGs, opening about 8 and I'm already running out of application memory.
>>455375any tutorial makers that can get me up to speed with the Affinity?
