Adobe is getting so greedy that its funny how greed can screw up good software. I know Adobe doesn't care about us normal folks but when businesses start doing the jump then it will hurt them no doubt.
i hung onto CS6 because Im retired. I paid adobe from the 90s. i can't stand that for 25 years I helped them develop their software and then they do the subscription thing. I have a 7D and until the other day the camera raw version ii used cs6 could open. Now adobe have made it so I need to subscibe to get a cc new version of that software. instead of 7.1 opening them it is now a higher number. affinity photo opens all those canon cr2 files in raw for me. Adobe will never get another cent from me for anything, Youknow they were a great company in the 90s and early 00s. they have got greedy like microsoft for word. Should be a law stopping what they did. how can home office go from say 60 dollars every few years, when you get a new computer maybe. Lets face it why would I subscibe to just write articles or work on photos. We have all paid a lot for the development of code,how dare they start renting it. New work ok if that's how you're going but not word processors and photo edit software. Really pleased there a companies like these guys, the big companies that have got too greedy will suffer. They kind of created a need for these companies to step in. I'm happy to pay people for their work but not over and over for the same thing. I only got paid once for my work all my working life and disgusts me that the software we really all have to communicate our ideas or keep info should be a pay once thing. Thank you for the info. very informative.
This has honestly blown me away - I kinda want to find an old essay I've written and play around with making it look much more impressive just for fun! Thanks for the great overview.
Good Lord...this is amazing software. I remember doing all this with Adobe and the one thing I recall, is how much time it took to plan out my workflow and organization just to create a project using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. This sofware would have saved me a lot of time. I made the switch....time to learn the Affinity way of doing things.
absolutely worth the price. get all three programs, Affinity has taken our (graphics) world to a new level. moving between programs is a blink, the only things missing are features that they are working on now.
@@OlivioSarikas Yes I have bought all three programs Olivio and am loving them. That name is just a result of being earlier involved in online car racing years back where I gained a reputation of being able to pirate or steal another driver's position on the track. I guess I really should change it as gives a bad impression...Pete
Love Affinity software. Excellent tutorial. Thank you for your time in showing this to us. Will be in Vienna in April for my 2nd visit. Can’t wait! I fell in love with your beautiful city in 2015. :)
I used InDesign for about 20 years and Quark occasionally. I was really tired of the cost of an InDesign subscription and tried out Affinity Publisher. I love it. It does everything I needed out of InDesign for much less cash. Affinity Publisher was a snap for doing complete books in full color. It's a great product.
I'm sold, I've been using gimp and scribus for years but the fact of being able to switch from the scribus equivalent to the gimp equivalent in one click might save me lots of time. Really nice review :)
That was a great run through the new program, I am looking forward to seeing your tutorials. I would personally like to see one on producing and printing multi page booklets. Thanks.
Hi Brian, sounds like a cool idea, although i would rather do that as a full online course, because it's impossible to cover that in one video - and series really don't work well on youtube :)
Thank you so much. I am working with Corel and Adobe-Products for a very long time (30years). I gave Affinity products a try now on my mac and my large iPad pro and was wondering if this could be a good choice for me. After having seen your review i am convinced to use them all. In times of corona and home office there is enough time to rehearse.
Thank you for this video! What is your take on the lack of 1-bit support? This seems to be quite a big deal especially if you are using Publisher for print designs. Do you have any suggestions for workarounds to this problem?
I used it twice in different version, one was the last beta before release date. Both times Affinity Publisher crashed using merely text layout, 2 pages, no images. I was very disappointed. (MacOS Mojave, 16 GB RAM, i5, MacMini)
That was super useful, thnx. I'm sold, as i do own designer already (which i think it could have some more refinements and i like corel better, but publisher looks very interesting, kind of blend of quark, photoshop etc). please, do more real life use tutorials on affinity products like this. As i mentioned corel before: is there any trace option in publisher (designer have none, as i know)?
Great tutorial! Is there any way to get a thorough tutorial on formating, text styles, character & paragraph features? I do a newsletter/magazine as a volunteer and I have worked on several projects in AF Publisher, however, I run into snags because I do not know or understand all the functions, even with experimentation. I have never worked in InDesign so I feel at a disadvantage as well. Thank you
Hi - sorry for replying to an old comment, but I'm curious if you still feel the same way 2 years later? I'm planning to migrate to the Affinity suite too, but haven't taken the plunge yet.
Thank you for another Great tutorial. Your Unsplash gives you a scroll bar. I only get that in the other programs not in Publisher and I was unable to find out why. Can you please show how to do that here please
I think that's a bug in the software. Write a mail to Serif to tell them about it, so they can fix the software. Also make sure you have the newest version installed
How does Affinity Publisher handle cross-references? These are very important to me and their seeming non-existence as I evaluate the trial software really get in the way of me ditching InDesign.
Olivio, Thank you for this. I downloaded the app to my Macbook today. Getting familiar but I do not see the stock tab on mine. How do I find it so I have the stock photos available? Thank you
Hey Olivio! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm, this is really great! I have a question as well. Can you use Affinity Publisher for the graphic design of websites? If not, do you think any other Affinity programs would be good for that purpose? Thanks and all the best!:)
I just got affinity publisher but I can't find the Affinity Photo Personas that are within the stand alone Affinity Photo app ie Developer Persona, Export Persona. Anyone know anything about this?
Thank you for the review. Since I work with a lot of outlines (A, 1, a, (i), etc), I’d be curious how would you accomplish this in Publisher. I’m looking forward to your Publisher tutorials.
Hi Eric, i suppose this is similar or equal to "convert to curves" which you can do with any vector shape or text in publisher (and the other affinity Programs) by right clicking on them and selecting "convert to curves". You can use any shape or curve as a mask to fill it with an image.
@@OlivioSarikas : Outline is such a confusing word. As a graphics designer you'd think of the outline of a shape. I was trying to convey the alpha-numerical sequence in which you would order s manual, reflected in a table of contents. For example: I. The first section. A. The first subsection. 1. Further developments. a. A point about that. b. Etc. So, I was referring on a tutorial of that kind of outline in Publisher. Sorry for the confusion.
Is this software similar to Powerpoint (presentation wise) Powerpoint and Keynote are some programs that people use to make digital planners, and I was wondering if I could use Affinity Publisher to make digital planners, with linked tabs. I hope you understand what I'm talking about
Hello, Olivio! I wanted to ask: after I Place a Word document on a Text Frame, is there any way to modify that Word document outside of Publisher, and reflect those changes on Publisher without affecting the styles I applied? Thanks!
Hi Fire, you can place objects as "linked" documents, meaning that they are not stored in the publisher file. So they should update. However, i don't have Microsoft Word, so i can't say for sure. Give it a try :)
I think it's good for them to focus on graphic design. That will ensure the growth of their software. Adobe's mistake is that they try to do everything which causes slow improvement and performance issues. If you're in need of an alternative to Premiere, you can try DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design. Affinity Photo's "competition" against Photoshop is like DaVinci Resolve's to Premiere. They're on their way to the top...
I currently use DaVinci Resolve and love its simplicity over Premiere. I too would love to see a video editing program from Serif. Their software has made strides over the past couple of years. Love it so far. Thinking about picking Publisher up as well.
Reaching 10k Subs. Although the Austria flag is red/white/red, so i cover 2 thirds of that pattern. Bit of a sunburn on my bald head and i'm there 100% ;)
Das wäre im Web-Design richtig. Im Print-Design gehen die Seitenränder (margins) nach innen. Die "Margins" des Web-Designs heißen im Print-Design Anschnitt (bleed) - zumindest bezogen auf den Druckbogen (der auch wieder etwas anderes ist als die "Seite").
Hi Scenes, interessanter Punkt. Ich denke es kommt darauf an von welcher Richtung man guckt. Wenn man die gesammte Fläche als Canvas sieht und nur den sicheren Bereich in der Mitte als Inhaltsbereich ist es ein Margin zum Rand des Canvas. Wenn man den ganzen Canvas als Inhaltspläche sieht, wäre es ein Padding... hm... müsst man mal den Hersteller fragen.
It is really fun, listen to your clean and easy kind of explaining. I bet lots of people would love to see way more tutorials from you. Well done! 👌🏼
You might do a show comparing the features of Affinity Publisher with those of InDesign. I'd love to escape that monthly CC subscription trap.
Adobe is getting so greedy that its funny how greed can screw up good software. I know Adobe doesn't care about us normal folks but when businesses start doing the jump then it will hurt them no doubt.
hi Michael, I will do that in a future video :)
@@OlivioSarikas How about Corel can it compete with Indesign?
i hung onto CS6 because Im retired. I paid adobe from the 90s. i can't stand that for 25 years I helped them develop their software and then they do the subscription thing. I have a 7D and until the other day the camera raw version ii used cs6 could open. Now adobe have made it so I need to subscibe to get a cc new version of that software. instead of 7.1 opening them it is now a higher number. affinity photo opens all those canon cr2 files in raw for me. Adobe will never get another cent from me for anything, Youknow they were a great company in the 90s and early 00s. they have got greedy like microsoft for word. Should be a law stopping what they did. how can home office go from say 60 dollars every few years, when you get a new computer maybe. Lets face it why would I subscibe to just write articles or work on photos. We have all paid a lot for the development of code,how dare they start renting it. New work ok if that's how you're going but not word processors and photo edit software. Really pleased there a companies like these guys, the big companies that have got too greedy will suffer. They kind of created a need for these companies to step in. I'm happy to pay people for their work but not over and over for the same thing. I only got paid once for my work all my working life and disgusts me that the software we really all have to communicate our ideas or keep info should be a pay once thing. Thank you for the info. very informative.
Your review taught me more than some of the tutorials out there, so thank you!
Thank you, Craig :)
This has honestly blown me away - I kinda want to find an old essay I've written and play around with making it look much more impressive just for fun!
Thanks for the great overview.
Cool, do that! Always good to improve old works, Kristian :)
Good Lord...this is amazing software. I remember doing all this with Adobe and the one thing I recall, is how much time it took to plan out my workflow and organization just to create a project using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. This sofware would have saved me a lot of time. I made the switch....time to learn the Affinity way of doing things.
I agree with Hans, I will look out for your tutorials.
absolutely worth the price. get all three programs, Affinity has taken our (graphics) world to a new level. moving between programs is a blink, the only things missing are features that they are working on now.
You have become my 'Go To' channel for all things Affinity Olivio. Thank you.
Thank you, Pir8Pete99 - I hope despite your pirate name you are still buying the software and support serif on their journey :)
@@OlivioSarikas Yes I have bought all three programs Olivio and am loving them. That name is just a result of being earlier involved in online car racing years back where I gained a reputation of being able to pirate or steal another driver's position on the track. I guess I really should change it as gives a bad impression...Pete
Love Affinity software. Excellent tutorial. Thank you for your time in showing this to us.
Will be in Vienna in April for my 2nd visit. Can’t wait! I fell in love with your beautiful city in 2015. :)
I used InDesign for about 20 years and Quark occasionally. I was really tired of the cost of an InDesign subscription and tried out Affinity Publisher. I love it. It does everything I needed out of InDesign for much less cash. Affinity Publisher was a snap for doing complete books in full color. It's a great product.
Happy you like :)
Is it ok with iPad Pro?
Hey Chris, I'm frustrated with Quark - how steep is the curve moving to affinity publisher? I'm old by the way ;)
I'm sold, I've been using gimp and scribus for years but the fact of being able to switch from the scribus equivalent to the gimp equivalent in one click might save me lots of time. Really nice review :)
👍Looking forward to your tutorials on Publisher!
Thank you, Olaf. Me too :)
Olivio Sarikasm: me three!
Excellent video, thank you very much. So happy I left Adobe behind, you just helped to confirm my decision.
great video olivio,straight to the point and no bs around,thats the way to do it,well done
Thank you, Ronny :)
Very nice background Olivio. I hope I can make my living rooms as such.
Hi Olivio. I'd love a tutorial on using Affinity Publisher for presentations. Thank you for all your wonderful tutorials.
Sounds great, Douglas, i will ad it to my list :)
That was a great run through the new program, I am looking forward to seeing your tutorials. I would personally like to see one on producing and printing multi page booklets. Thanks.
Brian Horrocks check out Elaine Giles’ tutorial. Comprehensive.
Hi Brian, sounds like a cool idea, although i would rather do that as a full online course, because it's impossible to cover that in one video - and series really don't work well on youtube :)
Hey I can help you print multi page booklets in affinity
Thank you so much. I am working with Corel and Adobe-Products for a very long time (30years). I gave Affinity products a try now on my mac and my large iPad pro and was wondering if this could be a good choice for me. After having seen your review i am convinced to use them all. In times of corona and home office there is enough time to rehearse.
Thanks for reviewing the program! I’m always curious about this program :)
Looking forward to your tutorials!
I've been using serif page plus X4 for years but it's just starting to show its age with Windows 11. Affinity looks like the perfect replacement.
Thank you for this video! What is your take on the lack of 1-bit support? This seems to be quite a big deal especially if you are using Publisher for print designs. Do you have any suggestions for workarounds to this problem?
Hi 20nine, i'm actually not sure what 1-bit support is. Affinity photo does pixelart if that's what you are looking for. Sorry not sure what you mean.
Great presentation ! Affinity Publisher is a great software, as beta tester I've got a lot of fun with it.
Thank you, Riccardo
I used it twice in different version, one was the last beta before release date. Both times Affinity Publisher crashed using merely text layout, 2 pages, no images. I was very disappointed. (MacOS Mojave, 16 GB RAM, i5, MacMini)
Fantastic video! Can't wait to see more.
Thank you, john :)
Thank's OLIVIO . Please make series tutorial about Affinity Publisher.
Hi Mia, i will try :)
So cool! We want now to see Affinity App to compete Adobe XD.
I think the Affinity App is already better (from what i have been told ) :)
Thank you very much. Very good explanations ...so very helpful.
You are welcome, Jane
you can auto fill the box text with some random text by select text top menu and scroll down to insert text filler :)
Cool, thank you Laurent. I didn't know that.
@@OlivioSarikas you can also specify custom filler text in the app's prefs
That was super useful, thnx. I'm sold, as i do own designer already (which i think it could have some more refinements and i like corel better, but publisher looks very interesting, kind of blend of quark, photoshop etc). please, do more real life use tutorials on affinity products like this. As i mentioned corel before: is there any trace option in publisher (designer have none, as i know)?
Review comes with Tutorial! Nice
Thank you. Happy you like it :)
Great tutorial! Is there any way to get a thorough tutorial on formating, text styles, character & paragraph features? I do a newsletter/magazine as a volunteer and I have worked on several projects in AF Publisher, however, I run into snags because I do not know or understand all the functions, even with experimentation. I have never worked in InDesign so I feel at a disadvantage as well. Thank you
This was really helpful.
I have used publisher since it was released and never looked back, goodbye Adobe Indesign.
Cool, that's great to hear, Stephen :)
Hi - sorry for replying to an old comment, but I'm curious if you still feel the same way 2 years later? I'm planning to migrate to the Affinity suite too, but haven't taken the plunge yet.
Thank you for another Great tutorial. Your Unsplash gives you a scroll bar. I only get that in the other programs not in Publisher and I was unable to find out why. Can you please show how to do that here please
I think that's a bug in the software. Write a mail to Serif to tell them about it, so they can fix the software. Also make sure you have the newest version installed
@@OlivioSarikas Thanks I will contact them. I have the latest only bought it 2 weeks ago
Appreciated this! Thanks!
Great indeed. Keep it coming!
Thank you, John. Happy you liked it :)
How does Affinity Publisher handle cross-references? These are very important to me and their seeming non-existence as I evaluate the trial software really get in the way of me ditching InDesign.
Olivio, Thank you for this. I downloaded the app to my Macbook today. Getting familiar but I do not see the stock tab on mine. How do I find it so I have the stock photos available? Thank you
Hi Bill, you need to go to View -> Studio -> Stock. Also make sure you have version 1.7 installed
Well presented. Thank you 👍
You are welcome, Ron :)
I can not add pages in document setup. What do I not good?
does it have other office export formats like doc and docx?
Hi Hana, nope, neither of those. Just the same formats as Affinity Photo/Designer
Apparently you can import word documents using the 'Place' command. I still need to figure out how to adjust the pages when it goes over margins.
thank you sir, very informative, God Bless you....
You are welcome, Raya
Hey Olivio! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm, this is really great! I have a question as well. Can you use Affinity Publisher for the graphic design of websites? If not, do you think any other Affinity programs would be good for that purpose? Thanks and all the best!:)
Yes! But it's much better to use affinity designer for mockups/web design
Thank you for this video :)
Thank you, Ulysse
I just got affinity publisher but I can't find the Affinity Photo Personas that are within the stand alone Affinity Photo app ie Developer Persona, Export Persona. Anyone know anything about this?
Great video! I do have a question though. Can you use your own pictures on Affinity Publisher?
Hi Bryan, yes, you certainly can use your own pictures and any other pictures you have a license to use :)
@@OlivioSarikas thank you so much!
Affinity just needs to come out with something like After Effects!
So Symbols are the same as Blocks in AutoCAD? That's fantastic - Perfect for Logos!
I never used AutoCad, but good to know :)
Thank you for the review.
Since I work with a lot of outlines (A, 1, a, (i), etc), I’d be curious how would you accomplish this in Publisher.
I’m looking forward to your Publisher tutorials.
Hi Eric, i suppose this is similar or equal to "convert to curves" which you can do with any vector shape or text in publisher (and the other affinity Programs) by right clicking on them and selecting "convert to curves". You can use any shape or curve as a mask to fill it with an image.
@@OlivioSarikas : Outline is such a confusing word. As a graphics designer you'd think of the outline of a shape. I was trying to convey the alpha-numerical sequence in which you would order s manual, reflected in a table of contents. For example:
I. The first section.
A. The first subsection.
1. Further developments.
a. A point about that.
b. Etc.
So, I was referring on a tutorial of that kind of outline in Publisher. Sorry for the confusion.
Is this software similar to Powerpoint (presentation wise) Powerpoint and Keynote are some programs that people use to make digital planners, and I was wondering if I could use Affinity Publisher to make digital planners, with linked tabs. I hope you understand what I'm talking about
Hi Tiffany, you can design presentations with this, but i don't know about the "linked tabs", because i have never used Powerpoint.
Olivio Sarikas okay, can I link objects to other slides in the presentation?
Danke …. echt toll !
Where did you get the cartoon assets?...
Hi Overlord, they are from here.Seems like i forgot to link them in the video info: www.flaticon.com/packs/tropical-13
Olivio Sarikas thank you, sir.
Thank you
Thank you!
You are welcome, Mayflower :)
Hello, Olivio! I wanted to ask: after I Place a Word document on a Text Frame, is there any way to modify that Word document outside of Publisher, and reflect those changes on Publisher without affecting the styles I applied? Thanks!
Hi Fire, you can place objects as "linked" documents, meaning that they are not stored in the publisher file. So they should update. However, i don't have Microsoft Word, so i can't say for sure. Give it a try :)
I wish they made a video editing program so that people can use as an alternative to Premiere.
I think it's good for them to focus on graphic design. That will ensure the growth of their software. Adobe's mistake is that they try to do everything which causes slow improvement and performance issues. If you're in need of an alternative to Premiere, you can try DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design. Affinity Photo's "competition" against Photoshop is like DaVinci Resolve's to Premiere. They're on their way to the top...
신지혁 Have you looked at Davinci Resolve?
@@visithorsham1323 yes. I have been using it as well as Vegas. thanks for your comment :) but I wish there was a video editing program of Serif.
I currently use DaVinci Resolve and love its simplicity over Premiere. I too would love to see a video editing program from Serif. Their software has made strides over the past couple of years. Love it so far. Thinking about picking Publisher up as well.
OK, which Austrian celebration did you dye the beard red for?
Reaching 10k Subs. Although the Austria flag is red/white/red, so i cover 2 thirds of that pattern. Bit of a sunburn on my bald head and i'm there 100% ;)
Olivio Sarikas Lol! I saw the video you first did with your red beard. Congrats, by the way!
can you please explain why is your beard red ?
Hi Ahmed, it was a joke for my 10k subscriber celebration - the UA-cam Red. But i quite like it, so i left it on :)
@@OlivioSarikas so you didnt fel into a bucket of ketchup, thank god :P
Die Margins müssten doch eher als Padding bezeichnet werden. Sind doch Abstände nach innen.^^
Das wäre im Web-Design richtig. Im Print-Design gehen die Seitenränder (margins) nach innen. Die "Margins" des Web-Designs heißen im Print-Design Anschnitt (bleed) - zumindest bezogen auf den Druckbogen (der auch wieder etwas anderes ist als die "Seite").
Hi Scenes, interessanter Punkt. Ich denke es kommt darauf an von welcher Richtung man guckt. Wenn man die gesammte Fläche als Canvas sieht und nur den sicheren Bereich in der Mitte als Inhaltsbereich ist es ein Margin zum Rand des Canvas. Wenn man den ganzen Canvas als Inhaltspläche sieht, wäre es ein Padding... hm... müsst man mal den Hersteller fragen.
Review? You showed features of it, but not how well it does them compared to ther apps. Good video, but not a review.