Adobe is horrible. So I tried the alternative
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Adobe Creative Cloud costs a lot so I'm trying out Affinity Photo.
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I'm not a graphic designer but it'd be dope if you painted the like button black
I use dark mode
akshually I use dark mode so i paint it white 😫💦
r/foundlightmodeuser 😂
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very nice video, now only Davinci Resolve video like this and you escaped Adobe. I already try it (as a light Premiere Pro user) but it is little pain in the ass. Can you make video about Resolve ? and what you think about new adobe terms of use from june 2024 ?
Charging any cancellation fee should be ILLEGAL !!
Fun fact: they’re getting sued
@@CrushedAsian255by the us government too, but for the new tos and not the cancellation fee [factually incorrect, corrected by multiple people]
@@jayIG uhhh no... they're being sued for hiding the fees for cancellation and hiding cancellation buttons etc. Nothing to do with their new tos
At least for a program. IF it's for certain businesses who would have had other customers if you didn't reserve or they ended up having to spend money preparing for you, then it's fair to get a cancellation fee....
But programs don't need that.
Yeah, any cancellation of all subscription services should be easily done in just one click with no charge
Next video: Adobe is horrible so I tried Davinci Resolve.
Great idea
We need an alternative to After Effects for motion graphics
@@momoware Paid version of Davinci Resolve already including ResolveFX btw, which is similar to After Effects
@@momoware you should try natron
@@momoware natron Might work?
Adobe tried charging me $130 to cancel my photoshop/lightroom membership last week. I talked to support and I told them “cancel my plan without the fees unless you want a lawsuit for your scam”
Sure enough they refunded me
that doesnt make sense, i think before you bought you agreed to the terms that there's gonna be a cancellation fee so what kind of scam do you want to sue them for
Hey, maybe learn to read a contract YOU SIGN next time. They didnt try to charge you randomly $130 bucks. They charged you that amount because you tried to cancel your obligated contract with them halfway its lenght. Adobe doesnt charge people if their subscription expires. They only charge you because idiots like you sign up for a yearly plan to get a discount. And than after 4 months figure out they dont use it enough to warrant it. Yes than you are on the hook for the other 8 months. YOU FAILING TO READ A CONTRACT is not adobes fault. Regardless how shit they are as a company.
@@BengVideo Dont say stuff like that. Its easier to just blindly sign contracts and than get angry when you are uphold to them.... /s Honestly all the complainers here deserve it. They get a discount by picking the yearly option (cause they are cheapsses) and than get angry when Adobe doesnt let them off the hook after they abused the discount system.
@@BengVideo its been proven adobe used deceptive marketing tactics to imply they have no termination fees when they do so much so that the FTC opened an investigation into them
@@TehBananaBread why are you standing up for some well known company with millions of dollars acting shady. Do you actually know anyone who reads 200 pages of tos daily before signing up to something, be for real. Do you know anyone who would take a whole day to make an account on a website just to read tos before signing up?? people have other things to do with their time. The blame is on people who take advantage of that by hiding suspicious practices inside tos.
Shows how competition leads to innovation. Affinity managed to make it way better than Photoshop by having a lot of ideas on how to improve things and ACTUALLY implementing them. They really deserve a bigger userbase.
affinity is great, but since i switched to linux i’ve missed Affinity Designer :(
inkscape works well enough, but i miss the experience of Designer
@@bluelinden I have been trying to get Affinity to work on Linux, but it has been fighting me pretty hard.
@juliusklaus6858 "Improve". Lol.
As a Photoshop user who's been looking for alternatives, don't bother buying Affinity. Waste of my money.
1) Can't press R and drag the mouse to rotate the canvas. You have to hold alt and use the scroll wheel to rotate the view by a few degrees? And you can't even press Escape to reset the canvas rotation? The fk? Rotating the view by 180 degrees takes me 8 whole seconds. And there's no option to rotate with the mouse. PISS OFF.
2) The "free" transform tool in Affinity can't even move each point freely. And it requires switching to its own tool to use, slowing everything down.
3) And naturally, the mesh warp doesn't even respect selection bounds, it's always tied to layer edges. What's the point of making a selection area then?
4) Many of the UI panels cannot be resized. The color panel cannot be stretched vertically, meaning your HSV cube will never have a decent value range for painting.
Unusable dogshit. Four MASSIVE deal breakers right off the bat.
If you love photoshop, do not buy Affinity. Eight years in and they still can't figure out the most basic shit. I am seriously so sick of these new "competitors". They'll add advanced brushes, curves, dozens of filters, and 50 more vector tools, but god forbid they make a useable free transform tool, or BASIC FUCKING CANVAS ROTATION. And the only ones who manage to create a quick and useable interface (Adobe) keep tying me up in a dark basement and beating me over the head with draconian terms of use updates. I am so fucking tired of this entire environment.
CAN'T ONE OF YOU FUCKHEADED COMPANIES DO IT RIGHT? JUST ONCE? PLEASE. Just let me drag each point of the free transform tool individually, I'm fucking begging you.
Best part is that they didn't even have to do anything other than wait for adobe to slowly ruin their reputation and user experience over the years to the point that everyone looked for a way out
Affinity is good for some things, but it really doesn’t completely replace comparable Adobe products for many use cases. Even for the ones it can replace, it’s still no good unless either have a solo workflow or the rest of your collaborators are all using Affinity as well which is not likely in many instances since Adobe is the industry standard in a lot of workflows. I use Affinity software for some personal projects, but that’s about it and who even knows how things will develop now that they have been acquired by a company that runs subscription software?
NOWAY there's a cancellation fee
They say you signed up for a year and got a discount due to this ergo the swines charge a get out of jail ticket
Only if you subscribe to the yearly subscription
The USA government is actually suing Adobe over this cancellation fee too.
@@randoguy7488 all the subscriptions are yearly subscriptions. They don't tell you that part.
I mean it kind if makes sense.
Say the plan is $10/month so yearly would be $120
but they offer yearly discount and thus you pay $100 for an year.
but after 6 months, you cancel the plan, and you expect them to give you back $50.
but now as you haven't completed the year, the discount is no more valid for you, so the cost that you need to pay is $10x6 that is $60, so they will return you $40 not $50.
which means in this case $10 is cancellation fee.
So basically,
Cancellation fee is,
{[Actual Yearly Price - Discounted Yearly Price] x (Months used)}/12
So in our example it is,
(120-100)x6/12
which is,
20x6/12
which is $10.
Rest of the Money will be returned.
You're supposed to get adobe from the high seas, not obey and pay for a bad experience.
;)
The bay! Gotta love it
The problem with that is keeping adobe as the industry standard. Better to get other programs and reduce the community reliance on adobe
Tell me you're not a professional graphic designer without saying it.
@@d3laydtell me you’re a virgin by telling me you’re a virgin
i think your biggest issue is going into new software trying to use it like other things you’ve used. it’s not necessarily bad, but you can’t expect something to work like something else if it’s not the same thing. they might have the same capabilities but different ways of going about doing things.
I think it's a fine way of going about things, as long as you keep an open mind like he did and adjust when necessary. Affinity literally starts you off with a UI akin to Photoshop's default, so it's to be expected that they'll be similar in more ways than not. Not to mention their different workflows only really mattered when it came to layer masking; everything else was pretty minor, like having the wheel decide the direction of the shadow rather than the light.
Yeah. When he wanted to make a circular gradient and went with infuriatingly overcomplicated Photoshop approach, it hurt a little. When all he should have done is just draw a square with a gradient fill. Goddamn, I so don't miss Photoshop and its horrible UX.
Yes my personal experience is some things are much simple to do in Affinity then in photoshop. So the struggle is real of that's it? 😅
@@ginemginem as a 20+ years PS user, when I saw that, I was like "ohhh shi... that better than PS does because it's non-destructive "
@@yasunakaikumi The seamless interplay of raster and vector layers is just beaytifull, isn't it? :)
I don't usually comment on a youtube video like this but honestly dude you've sold me on affinity.
I would normally sail the seven seas to get Photoshop.
I've seen affinity popping up everywhere and yours is the first video which is a hands on experience with it. Genuinely you smashed it. The fact it wasn't constantly a "I hate this" or "I don't like this" was refreshing. It's nice that you approached it with a "I use photoshop but I want to learn how to use this as it looks like a promising alternative" and you walked us through it consisely and showed you appreciated it wasn't going to be photoshop 1:1 and also gave valid critisms. Heres to making Adobe hurt 👍
Looks like a decent alternative for literally pennies in comparison.
Keep up the good work man.
Cheers!
I started using Photoshop in 1993 and switched to Affinity Photo three weeks ago.
Some things are a bit annoying having to re-learn but overall I find the program to be really good and not missing any feature.
I think it is great that there still is space for applications that just deliver on SW features, and not trying to push license - make a good product and spend effort there, not on license schemes and lock-ins. I'm ok with subscription, but it should be in/out and clear. I really hope ppl leave Adobe for better products in terms of customer care. 😊
As someone who wanted to learn a photo editing tool. Who has no experience with Photoshop. This tool seems to be really well made and have more freedoms associated with what you want to do. So I think I will learn this one instead.
@@ristopaasivirta9770 Not missing any feature? LOL
I also moved to Affinity software, I decided to buy the whole suite and no regrests honestly.
been using and paid for the Affinity suite for a couple of years now... no regrets here. I find that all I need can be done within Photo and Publisher. I don't do much vector so Designer is kinda whatever for me (and given the basic vector stuff I can do inside Photo anyway).
@@zeighy Learning Designer is IMHO pretty useful as then you can use the Designer functions in Publisher. And you can for instance convert text into vector layer. And it gives a lot of additional control.
Same here, we can't see why anyone but a select few would continue with Adobe
Adobe: *has cancelation fee*
Me: *Locks card*
Very much this. I disabled online usage of my credit card for a while so they can't charge me.
Pretty sure this won't fly in Finland's legal/customer protection system if they try to force it.
they are not charging money from your card 😂😂😂
they are charging the cancellation fee from the amount that is supposed to be RETURNED because you cancelled the yearly plan early.
Blocking your card, or insufficient balance has nothing to do with it.
Say the plan is $10/month so yearly would be $120
but they offer yearly discount and thus you pay $100 for an year.
but after 6 months, you cancel the plan, and you expect them to give you back $50.
but now as you haven't completed the year, the discount is no more valid for you, so the cost that you need to pay is $10x6 that is $60, so they will return you $40 not $50.
which means in this case $10 is cancellation fee.
So basically,
Cancellation fee is,
{[Actual Yearly Price - Discounted Yearly Price] x (Months used)}/12
So in our example it is,
(120-100)x6/12
which is,
20x6/12
which is $10.
Rest of the Money will be returned.
@@ristopaasivirta9770they are not charging money from your card 😂😂😂
they are charging the cancellation fee from the amount that is supposed to be RETURNED because you cancelled the yearly plan early.
Read my other comment.
Blocking your card, or insufficient balance has nothing to do with it.
@@MarcSpctr that's only if they actually paid the annual cost up front. Most people, and by default, Adobe charges you the annual cost broken into monthly payments. Which is why people get so confused and assume they're on a monthly commitment when in fact they're in an annual commitment.. Hence the cancellation fee.
Very sneaky on Adobe's part, but depending on the person or organization it maybe in their favour to breakdown the payment into monthly payments since the annual commitment is cheaper (and exactly what Adobe wants you to sign up for).
Either way, Adobe put in a lot of effort to create "dark patterns" to purposefully deceive, confuse, and obfuscate important details that anyone signing up for a service needs to know, especially when they're being tied into a contract.
@@MarcSpctrI never thought I see someone fighting for adobe.
I got an adobe ad before this video. You can't escape them
When people snapped out against Adobe, they are trying everything to get them back and fortunately its not working I think :3
i love cs6. not others versions
Same
Use ad blocker u 🤡🤡
time to use an adblocker my guy
Go to Edit->Settings->Performance, set Retina Rendering to High Quality, and make sure hardware acceleration is turned on. If you have a fast enough PC, when you move an object or do things it shouldn't blur it anymore.
"Would you like to contribute..."
" *NO* "
When I joined college everyone was going for Adobe of course. I went for Affinity because it was a one time fees. Saved the moneys and my work and grades were at par. This was 5 years ago. It's not really what the tool you use can do for you, but what you can do with the tools in hand.
My favourite feature by far is switching between Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher with a click of a button! The file remains the same and open, just the interface and tools change.
But of course, Adobe software can do much more varied work than the Affinity stuff. So you've saved some money up front, and you've limited the kind of work which you can do later. I've made a whole living doing work in Photoshop which is impossible to do in any software made by Affinity.
@@KuttyJoe Depends on the work obviously. What BOG has proven is that you can actually do something in another app in a similar way, just there is different parts and settings. In addition, Serif has said many times they will continue to update for a version number for a long time. They know his is their bread and butter so even by saving money, they continue to add features.
@@athstreamsandmore Well, yes. That it depends on the kind of work is a given, not something that needs to be proven. If you're doing digital painting for example, there are countless good options and there have been for many years.
@@athstreamsandmore Results may be the same but the time spent on getting there is different. It's like working with Pro construction tools or Home variants. For home users either work great as there is usually on money or time constraint. For pro users, pro tools start saving money as they are faster, more precise etc. Photoshop is clearly aimed at the pro users and not home users (as you can see from their overall reactions on piracy, feature requests, OS support, pricing). The new AI stuff is to speed up work for professionals, not to entertain normal people on the internet.
@KuttyJoe you don't actually need all the features to do professional works, just the specialize one is enough, like the one above said
The reason you need to rasterize before being able to mask with it is because it's basically a link to the inage in the layer, rather than the actual raw image in the layer, it's the same reason it doesn't lose quality when you make it small and make it bigger!
so after rasterizing shriking and growing it would lose quality? same as smart objects in ps?
@@SLokutaR Nope, it still maintains its quality, I just tested it. It even has the same quality after drawing on it with a brush.
@@80sVectorz so if you resize the image small, rasterize it, then grow the layer bigger, it keeps its original quality?
@@pascha4527 Yes. My guess is that the transform of a layer is non-destructive. The fact that you can move things in less than a pixel increments backs it up. I'm not how it holds up from more intense editing, but it definitely works in simple cases. Something like content aware fill or the inpainting brush will probably break it.
NVM it looks like modifications are done on the original images and the transform is just post-processing. Even inpainting works
@@80sVectorz Neat!
19:30 I understand why it's pixelated at first, it's performance. instead of potentially lagging your PC out, it just renders it after you let go. many of these tiny optimizations can mean a world of difference on a slower PC.
I'd also assume that perhaps if you increase its ram usage it wont do this as much but Im not sure
one of the first things i noticed about affinity photo when i switched to it was how, unlike photoshop, it doesn't try to render everything at full quality until i'm finished zooming, panning, or adding effects. it makes it so much smoother and it's a wonder how photoshop hasn't done the same.
@@imaadhaq540 ram is only used to store the files that are in use. Changing effects goes directly on your processing components, not on your ram
@@oh-noe while that first part isn't true yeah it probably does this regardless of ram as that wouldnt affect processing speed in the first place
That seem to be similar to the default view mode of Adobe InDesign, you use low res to make it snappy. To prove your point, on my old laptop, Affinity Photo flies, while Adobe chugged a lot, mostly because of the new AI contextual menus. Older version of Photoshop was faster, but Affinity Photo was super fast.
Dude, I'm not sure if you realize this, but your presentation style is heaven for UX designers. I would kill to get this kind of feedback for products I'm working on.
Right? That would be the dream. I'm hoping for more videos like this.
The difference between MSIX and MSI/EXE is, that MSIX is the new Windows-App format aka stuff that is usually available through the Microsoft Store App and MSI/EXE is a traditional windows application
If you can choose between MSI and EXE go with MSI because it's supposed to be a program installer, nothing else. Meanwhile, EXE may very well be a whole program ready to be executed. A simple rule of thumb that *helps* when downloading programs from unknown places.
@@marcosdly Usually you want the EXE if possible, though - while usually that's still just the same installer, it sometimes nets you the portable version of the software. Handy!
Go with the MSI/EXE version if you want to load a file into image from something like Faststone.
1:47 I admit I have not watched the rest of the video yet, nor have I used Affinity Photo. But I have a rough understanding of what this option is because of Inkscape, the free SVG image program.
Linked means that when you import an image into the program it will reference that image file. This is a simple but powerful feature that's useful for when you have one image that you use regularly, say a logo for your channel, that you want to update you don't have to then go through the many other project file that use it and update that portion. The trade off being that you have limited editability of that image in the current project file.
Embedded means that it imports a data copy of that image that you imported into the project file and can freely manipulate the image with out it being altered in other project files. The main trade offs being that it bloats your project file size and if you update a regularly used image then that image must be updated across all project files that use it.
This is exactly how it works in Affinity as well! It's also a weird way of doing smart objects, that is you open a linked affinity photo file inside another affinity photo file. It's pretty janky I wish they'd implement Photoshop style smart objects
@@sergejbozinovic6096 One of the many nice things about Affinity products is their constant improvement at no cost to the purchasers. Affinity listens to feedback and makes changes. I have both the first and second versions of Affinity products and I'm very pleased with them.
It's also a feature in Krita - "Insert as layer" vs "Insert as file layer".
People should stop pirating Adobe software and use the free alternatives instead, so that they become the industry standard.
affinity is not free
@@SLokutaR I've never used affinity myself (I use Krita), but one time payments are fine also. The only problem is if they switch to a subscription model if they ever become the standard, which I'd imagine purely profit driven companies would be tempted to do.
Yeah obviously, thats the reason why it is the industry standard... Maybe that's why they profitable too XD Except a few unicorn like blender, I cannot see acceptable alternative for the most proprietary software. (DavincyResolve not foss) And considering the fact that now with the EU policy situation, even a country like Germany, cannot make an os for their government usage, since 30 years. I don't think that some dude in their free time can race against multi billinaire companies with thousands of employees.
They still paid, and Adobe software has been used by users for years, using a new software might need alot of adjustment. Either way pirating still hurts Adobe which is good
@@SLokutaRYes and? Things still cost something, if not money then the creators’ time.
WOAH the cancelation fee is absolutely criminal!
I mean it kind of makes sense.
Say the plan is $10/month so yearly would be $120
buh they offer yearly discount and thus you pay $100 for an year.
but after 6 months, you cancel the plan, and you expect them to give you back $50.
but now as you haven't completed the year, the discount is no more valid for you, so the cost that you need to pay is $10x6 that is $60, so they will return you $40 not $50.
which means in this case $10 is cancellation fee.
So basically,
Cancellation fee is,
{[Actual Yearly Price - Discounted Yearly Price] x (Months used)}/12
So in our example it is,
(120-100)x6/12
which is,
20x6/12
which is $10.
Rest of the Money will be returned.
@@MarcSpctr Are you dumb????? It's about people buying yearly plan PAID MONTHLY. You DO NOT get money back if you pay the full year upfront, from adobes page itself about the yearly plan paid yearly, "If you cancel after 14 days, your payment is non-refundable, and your service will continue until the end of your contracted term." NON-REFUNDABLE, YOU DO NOT GET MONEY BACK WHEN YOU CANCEL A YEARLY PAYMENT.
Yearly billed monthly is what people are talking about, you enter a contract that says you're gonna pay for for a year but the payment is split up monthly. You're telling adobe, "hey I'm going to pay you $276 for a year, but I want to pay that monthly", so they split it up to $23 a month. If you cancel your plan after 14 days, you will cancel and loose access at the end of the month and the monthly fee will be gone. But you told adobe you were gonna pay $276 in total, so if you cancel 6 months in you only paid $138, they expect some compensation, that is the cancellation fee since you did not pay the amount they wanted.
I got no idea where you pulled your information from but it is entirely incorrect, none of their plans work that way?? If you could cancel a yearly plan and get money back for the months you didn't use there wouldn't even be any reason to use the monthly plan....
@@MarcSpctr Oh so they actually give you back money? I thought when you cancel, it only stops the renewal process, but your Adobe subscription is still active until the end of the year. I guess the UA-camr should've reiterated on that fact.
@@Ardeact
Not really, the issue is rather with yearly, billed monthly plan.
You commit to Adobe that you'll sub for a year, and Adobe offers to divide payments into 12 installments. If you want to cancel early, you need to pay 50% of the remaining contract.
It's fine, as long as people didn't perceive it's an yearly discount instead of commitment... or something? it's hard to draw the lines between marketing and deception, so I'm not entirely sure on which side I am.
I also had a yearly plan billed monthly. So in my opinion they are in the right to charge me with a cancellation fee if I choose to opt out in the middle of the year since I agreed to commit to a yearly subscription. Its like youre getting a loan from the bank and you have to pay interest for say 2 years. After 1 year you decide to pay back the loan with one payment. Guess who is charging you an extra fee for the 12 months interest they are missing out now since you signed and agreed on paying 24 months interest. I cant remember seeing any information on a cancellation fee. Thats something adobe must point out before you subscribe. But other than that I dont see anything unethnical with this cancellation fee to be honest. Never the less Im glad I wont have to use any adobe products ever again. Or at least pay for them.
13:20 Rasterize was the option you were looking for, not Rasterize to Mask
I used to exclusively use Adobe products, switched to Davinci Resolve and Affinity photo, haven't looked back since!
Both are also WAY more stable hahahaha
Adobe Photoshop 2024 has stopped working
Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.
> Check online for a solution and close the program
> Close the program
If you want to move a layer without its children layers, in the move tool there is a "Lock Children" checkbox at the top of the screen
I'm sure they could have come up with a better term for that feature :D
Cheers! Found out about that after making the video (you can also hold spacebar to do it, pretty neat).
@@bogxd the pixelation while moving objects bothered me for so long and now because of your video, I gave it another shot, it's actually super easy! in setting/Performance change Retina Rendering to High quality
Also you can move the shadows with the mouse, you have to click "Offset tool"
@@bitterboyblue LOCK THOSE CHILDREN
@@bitterboybluekinda funny though, maybe they should just keep it
Link vs embed basically means how are pictures sourced. Embedded means that they're inserted into the very file, they make the file get a lot bigger and thus slower, but that means you don't need to keep every file close and if you delete one of them they break the design. And linked means that a reference to the original image is placed on the design, saying "I'm using the image that's in [path/to/image]". This is blazingly fast and makes the file a lot lighter, but also makes you depend a lot more on libraries of pictures external to your PC. This is particularly relevant in vector programs like Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer because pictures are basically just vector objects with a picture on top, so where the picture is sourced is VERY relevant.
The best thing that could've happened to Affinity is Adobe. I'm sure Affinity's user base will explode soon. They're awesome.
they have been bought by canva, and their products will likely get some amazing “updates” now, with canva trash and AI bs integrated, possibly more paywalled shit. Doesn’t sound like an exiting future to me.
I watched 25min of this. No idea how you make this entertaining.
I'm probably never going to use it, I have a pirated photoshop and I use it to make memes, once a month or so, do I really don't need the support etc, I just use it because I find it better than gimp with the content aware fill, but it was interesting to see what the other softwares are like, especially when Adobe becomes so shit
Affinity tries to keep the imported image without losing any of the original detail. So when you do "Rasterize & Trim", it can lose the original resolution, or any content that's hidden with layer masks.
It's two steps, and it's useful to know when you want to just rasterize, and when you want to also trim.
Rasterize recreates the image in the size you have it in the document, 4k photo imported to 720p document and resized to fit it, will be rasterized as 720p and won't retain the detail of the higher resolution image. If you resize an image to very small size, then rasterize and then enlarge the image, the enlarged image will look pixelated. And Rasterize will also remove any parts of the image hidden with a mask layer.
Trim cuts out any content outside the bounds of the document.
You can also rasterize groups or nested layers to combine them into single image. (sometimes useful to overcome some limitations with layer effects on nested objects)
0:32 Yeah, I'd recommend not doing the MSIX one if MSI or EXE is available. MSIX is firmly attached to the Windows Store stuff and is strictly a downgrade from regular executables.
Thank you
I'm so glad you took the time to look up the differences rather than complaining that the tools and shortcuts aren't identical and then giving up entirely. Another banger video!
One thing I love about Affinity is that their file format can be used in all Affinity apps. So it's a mix of raster and vector. One thing I dislike about Affinity is that they are acquired by Canva, which has the potential to turn Affinity into another Adobe.
I use Affinity for most of the basic graphic design stuff, but I missed some of the great functions that Illustrator or Photoshop has.
these videos would genuinely be a dream for software designers. really really amazing documentation of your thought processes, very easy to catch any common user error to make stuff more accessible
With the rasterization issue, how a tool should logically function can differ dramatically from a programmer's perspective vs a designer's perspective.
PSA, Alterantive Free and Open Source Software:
GIMP -> Photo Editing
Krita -> Painting
Inkscape -> Vectors
The more we use these and support these the better they'll get.
I don't like the user interface in any of them. They really need to change it, if they want a higher user base. There is a reason why, Blender, despite being the best 3D modeler that is open source, isn't that used. It has a very difficult learning curve compared to the commercial ones.
@@aziskgarion378blender, krita and inkscape are on par with any commercial software (and many others), just try to "massage" your learned way for longer than couple of minutes.
@@aziskgarion378 krita is good
@@aziskgarion378 I've used all the other big name 3D software out there for years (Max, Maya, C4D, Modo) and Blender UI is easy to learn...and now I prefer it over the rest because it is more customizable than the others combined. Professionals don't use 3D software because of the UI, they use it because of the features they need to get the job done. That's what has kept Blender from being adopted as standard....but ever since v2.8 it's been going from strength to strength.
@@aziskgarion378 krita ui is very good, but the power user features are not there
I wanted to sail the seas for the mac version. But I switched to Affinity last month, when the Adobe nonsense with the AI learning forever popped up...
I still need to (re-)learn, but it feels good so far...
Welcome to the (smarter) A team
love the open-mindedness throughout the dialogue in this video, first time coming across your channel and already a huge fan :)
Cheers!
I see Posy´s cursor, I get happy. 😍
haha
Some useful tips:
- At 9:00, if you want to be able to move the parent object without moving the child object, there's an easy to miss feature called "Lock Children" at the very end of the menu where you can change the color of the selected object (near the top). Be aware that this feature applies globally.
- You can right click the bar where the personas are and add in missing button groups such as Distribute, Spacing, and Transform. I have personally also added in the Arrange, Enhancement, Selection, and Geometry groups to my toolbar.
- The semicolon button (on Window version) turns on and off the snapping guides. This is especially good to turn off if you are doing freeform shapes.
Really enjoyed this video, it shows how it's not always easy to move to a new platform and it's daunting because you know you can do something so much faster but on the new workflow it takes many times longer. Thank you for making this and A, showing how some things are done differently, and B, showing that taking the time to learn with something that you've already made can get you to improve. It's nice because you already know what tasks you need to do because you've already done them. Rather than sitting there and thinking what else do I need to find.
Affinity user for like 7 years here to give my input:
Yea.
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Ok on a serious note, I appreciate that you went into it with the intent to learn how the program works. Affinity photo is one of the best programs I have ever used, and I am glad people are starting to notice. I didn't come from photoshop, affinity was the first program I used that wasn't paintnet. I never learned any photoshop tricks so I actually learned some things from this video! (I had no idea you could alt+drag to copy layer effects)
OMG after watching your video I realized very quickly that I will NEVER leave Luminosity as have NOWHERE NEAR the knowledge for either Photoshop (Which I LOATHE Adobe) or Affinity photo which I LOVE but don't understand LMAO. Anyways you really are GREAT at making youtube videos and I wish you much continued (And accelerated) success !!!
Out of principle, I *_forced_* myself to unlearn my decades of Adobe muscle memory and replace it with Affinity. Super frustrated _at first._ *_Super happy_* that I stuck with it. So much better than renting software, which I REFUSE to do.
You can also just right-click in the layer area to add a fill layer.
I recently left adobe behind too and the saviors for me were Pixelmator Pro and Davinci Resolve. Amazing software, far better than what adobe has become
just +1 audience interaction for the algorithm bc this content and your channel are so underrated, keep it up mate
Ayy cheers!
I don't speak english, but i saw one of your videos and i like it a lot
Regarding the ability to paint visible but not invisible pixels, simply check the Protect Alpha box when painting on a selected layer.
22:23 I think the reason why you hold into something and give pixel effect is because you use something to cause a live effect which requires a lot of processing power, to save up power when moving or editing something is to reduce it by pixel scale (similar to blender when you move, scale or transform your cube in Cycle rendering.
Yep, live layer effects cause that pixelated effect to appear when you move something. It's to make the "preview" faster and not lag when you move large amount of layers with multiple effects. Maybe they could optimize the processing/rendering, but at least currently it is what it is.
This looks like a great alternative to Photoshop, I might try it out!
just pirate photoshop using genp
I never used photoshop (or at least not in the last 10 years or so) But it's so fun to watch you experiment around and hearing your thought process. But I wonder do you record the voice over right while your working on the file or afterwards in post production?
Cheers! I recorded everything but the intro while working on the file.
From what I can tell the big difference you were noticing with things not losing quality when rescaled unlike photoshop, but also with the invisible pixel mask issue, is that affinity defaults to working with vector graphics and vector layers, whereas photoshop has the bare minimum support for vector stuff and defaults to rasters, so you need to tell affinity to rasterize a layer - convert it to just a grid of visible pixels - in order to dump the clear pixels, which in a vector layer need to be there because the vector graphic exists in a rectangular frame.
I bought the whole affinity suite last year on sale for both iPad and desktop ZERO REGRETS LOVE IT SM
MSI/EXE is like default software installation with being able to see files and using their uninstaller to remove it. MSIX is basically a Microsoft store app but as a file (kinda like a ipa or apk)
MSI files are used in active directory networks. They are compatible with the Microsoft installer service that allows a system administrator to install the program on multiple devices at once through active directory. Generally just chose the exe since it is smaller in most cases.
Takes a few weeks to get used to the differences, but that's worth the savings.
Affinity needs more credit . Great software , pay once , no hidden fees . Love it .
17:30 The reason you have to rasterize the imported image is so if you don't, you can scale it without losing quality (as you've discovered earlier in the video). Everytime you import an image into Photoshop, it rasterizes it once you hit enter, that's also why it loses quality after scaling it etc.
Honestly, Affinity seems pretty solid...
...I could also just stick with pixlr though...
Can you show us Linux alternatives too?
I have Affinity Universal, going to try to get it working on Linux. We will see lol, but I hear PhotoPea is a good online alt as well.
Linux user here. There are not. Use wine
None, but you can use affinity via wine and bottles from what I understand. And no GIMP is not an acceptable alternative.
Signed fellow Linux user
Krita
@@lolkthnxbai I tried with bottles but I couldn't get it to work unfortunately. Haven't tried with regular wine though.
Sir you do such good videos.
I really like that you actually show the whole process of not knowing what to do, to have figured it out. I feel like that not enough people do that when making videos or even just talking about it with friends.
Best point of this is the LTT Linux challenge.
I think they should have had Linus and Luke but also had Anthony helping a third person so there is a contrast to show how to do it right.
Also I think it is great that you make 1 whole video to show your experience instead of making multiple videos because you will not have everyone see it
Anyways have a great day and God bless you man😁
I love your videos so much! It's so nice to see you learn new tools, seek answers in case of a complication. You're the perfect example of what every computer user should be like and how to behave when picking up new stuff and learning new things on your own.
I just use GIMP with a mod called PhotoGimp that makes it like Photoshop CS6
I had no idea that photogimp was a thing. Not that I know how to use either Gimp or Photoshop with any proficiency
what does photogimp exactly do? surely i get better warping tools, layer styles and smart filters right
You don't. It's really just a theme.
@@lysenthe it kind of just makes gimps layout more like Photoshop's other than that its just gimp
that's a huge shame, the warping tools and the text tools of gimp are so limited and i wish the program supported vector graphics without rasterizing them until the very end where you have to do so
This video is great! Could you maybe do this with Premiere Pro Alternatives? I'm heavy on video editing, and I've always liked the functionality of Premiere Pro, but I don't particularly like having to pay almost $100 for their service... So I've always searched for free and better alternatives but can't really find any. *With user friendly interfaces' aswell.
Davinci reslove has a free version and it's really good
Resolve
Davinci Resolve is not only free it's better than Premiere Pro. I used the free version for 3 years and then upgraded to Pro. I love it. Ableton Live, Davinci Resolve and Affinity Photo are the only 3 programs I need professionally. I honestly love them and best of all I own them outright.
@@joecunningham6939 Resolve is awesome. Even though i get premiere for free from school i use it.
Davinci Resolve is great. There's also Hitfilm
I would love to see more videos of this style going over different alternatives such as Gimp, Photopea and others
This is REALLY close to what Corel Paint Shop Pro did. Might try this out.
I got an Adobe ad on this video 😅
punish them by clicking on it. They have to pay if they’re advertising.
ublock origin extension. Haven't seen ads on anything in years (works on phone too as browser extension)
Holy shit, honestly mad respect for everyone who does their own thumbnails. Never thought it is this complicated but actually never tried anything else that ms paint lol
I use all 3 of affinity software professionally for multiple years now, since V1. I love it, a lot of functions are the same as adobe stuff
Nice video! I just made the switch myself. Very usefull to see someone searching for direct translations of Photoshop features
why do people suggest gimp when krita is just better
Because most of people say so. But Krita is miles better
Isn't Krita for digital painting and less for photo editing/graphic design?
Isn't Krita for drawing?
Yes Krita is for drawing but it's also basically just better than GIMP for photo editing
Agreed, Krita is made for digital painting (for which it is fantastic) but it has all the necessary tools for photo manipulation and if you dislike GIMP, for anything else that isn't UI, you can try Krita. It has non-destructive layers that last time I checked GIMP doesn't have and it supports live HDR painting on Windows, I think this should be advertised more often.
I wish it was available for Linux I would def pay for it
You can use it on linux with wine, though it's probably better to just stick with gimp
@@tdoggie7315or Krita?
@@tdoggie7315 It's better to just use Affinity/PHotoshop through wine than to use the nightmare that is GIMP.
Nah, GIMP is definitely not an acceptable replacement@@tdoggie7315
Krita is better than gimp. Gimp is not professional at all.
Man i really like your videos!
And above that i like how frequently you upload them, seriously the quality & lenght are really good but the wait time between one and another is almost non existent!
As a user of affinity photo 1, a few things surprised me. That pixelation when dragging doesn't happen in the first version. The clipping mask thing was also weird to me too, I've never seen that happen.
As a casual user, I really love affinity for how simple it is. I like that it doesnt feel like old software with new stuff stapled on like Photoshop feels to me. As a casual user, affinity photo feels easier to learn then Photoshop.
On my 4 year old laptop, I've never seen that in v1 or v2. Probably has to do with software acceleration in the settings.
I don't really like Affinity Photos compared to Photoshop, but Affinity Designer is superior compared to illustrator IMO.
Agreed, Affinity Designer is very good alternative for Illustrator, especially because it feels more close to how Photoshop works.
You should try to do the same thing with gimp.
Oh man... he would have a LOT harder of a time. GIMP is so clunky and untuitive, especially for beginners.
@@VeeTHis I know it can be done with the same ease.
I love how you documented your experience.
Same! I feel like a lot of UA-camrs would just go "but that's boring and you wouldn't want to see it" and skip to the finished product and just talk about what it was like instead of actually showing it (even though it's literally the entire point of the video!) Show, don't tell!
you can use the scroll wheel to adjust any numeral inputs (scroll + hold shift for increment of 10) and you can also hold middle mouse button while scrolling to zoom in and out
i ALMOST bought it now. then i made sure to double check if it works on linux, and it doesn't. my love for microsoft is the same love i have for adobe, so that kinda makes the purchase moot. so... hopefully they make a linux version in the future. then i'll buy it
Some say they've gotten it to work with Wine or Bottles, but I don't think it's nearly as straightforward as many apps. YES to a native Linux version!!!
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
1:48 prefer embedded or linked means
(Embedded) if you copy any external image into the canvas its going to be imported into saved output file like photoshop psd file bundling
(Linked) this means the file imported will not be imported but it will use link storage the output file will use a file explorer path to look up the image.
Embedded will increase the output file size and linked will save you space but if you delete the linked file from where you saved it or move it the output file will be useless and you would have lost all your data.
In addition linked saves your edits in a xml or log format so if you replace the image you have linked with another image of the same name the app will make those edits to that new image.
Been on Affinity for years now, couldn’t be happier
oh lol, watching your video on it a few months ago spawned the idea to try it
@@bogxd 🫡
Don't want to defend Adobe here but you mixed up the price. $600/Year is for ALL Apps not just Photoshop - I mean it even says so on the screen at 0:06 . Even the "Photography" Plan for $240/year has Lightroom in it. Still very expensive but much less so than the video suggests.
yeah it's misleading and one of those thing that puts you off a video as it's just lying to push your point when your point can be done in the exact same way by just saying what is actually true.
Pretty sure he was clear about that; even mentioned the $240 I believe. BUT to pay $240/year, forever for the privilege of editing your own files? No thanks.
By the way, Affinity Photo 2 is even for US$34.99 now...
bro got shadow banned
He did?
just got this video reccomended
@@gianfar4067 same
@@gianfar4067 me 2
I never use this and probably never will, but the way you discovering things it makes for an intresting video.
Tried it cause of your video. The one thing that I found lacking immediately for my workflow is the Batch Job. In Photoshop, it remembers your last setting, can include folder and subfolders, and the output are kept in the same manner as the source. I'm a lazy bum, I like to just open the batch processor and click start, wait till finish and boom. The number of steps increases with Affinity. I don't mind the learning curve for the other parts and I will get used to it eventually, but they will have to work on that Batch Job.
Couldn’t leave adobe even if I use Linux
Wine works with harr yarr version
Skill issue.
Totally a Skill Issue ..
umm... GIMP
Krita
gimp is ass, just pirate photoshop
GIMP is an absolute nightmare to use. I know it's FOSS and all, but i'd pay for functionality, thanks.
This is honestly just a question of what you are used to. I like gimp and when someone sits me down in front of Photoshop, it'll be a nightmare for me too.
@@Jammet there's also the physical limitations of gimp, and how even older photoshop is more viable for professional work. but fair point.
Very nice video and good comparison! Liked your honest summary at the end: I only ran into issues because I didn’t know the program.
What sucks about Adobe is that their software is so damn good compared to the competitors. It's s shame we need to move to inferior products to escape their invasive practices and their unethical terms.
But.... I'm going to give the alternatives another go, as its been a couple of years since I last tried them. A bit annoyed that I have to sink hundreds of hours into learning new tools when Im about to start a business. Ive PUT the hours, weeks, months and years into learning Adobe :(
Alas, Adobe can go to hell. I do NOT accept their Authoritarian control over users, and I despise their move towards destroying the creative professionals that made them one of the largest tech companies in the USA
You have perfectly encapsulated my first experience with affinity lol. Camera raw is still something I miss the most so I still keep my (totally legit) photoshop copy to use camera raw on it after I’m done with my edit. At first I also missed smart objects but the more I use affinity, the more I realise I don’t exactly need them. There are definitely times when I’m making mockups. That’s where I miss smart objects the most. Linked documents in affinity is not the same.
the low quality live preview is most likely an optimization. ive never used the program before but maybe theres an option to change it?
14:37 to move the image around, no matter what tool you have selected or what dialogue is open, hold down the mouse wheel instead of left click
Most of what I do is vector, so I use designer more than photo, but you don't need as many masks. For example, you could apply the radial transparency to the blue layer using the transparency tool. And it remains editable. Once you get used to the differences, I think you'll like it.
Awesome to see you switching sides. I am using the suite since over a year and it's stunning.
This is how my initial experience with Photoshop looked like when I switched to PS from GIMP. Getting used to a different workflow is always a pain in the very end of my spine.
Adobe also happens to sue Delta App for its similarity of their logo
Groovy video showing an actual honest attempt to try to replicate a workflow from one program to another! I think my main hangup based on this video would be the intentionality of making and assigning masks to layers since I'm more used to actively choosing ahead of time which layers are clipping masks, vector masks, etc and knowing how they behave vs having to stumble figuring out blindly how the app treats masking like this video shows.
As for switching to low-res preview mode for moving layers around and such, my guess is that it's done for memory reasons since the Affinity suite was Apple-first and likely less reliant on GPU during its early development cycles, but that's just a semi-educated guess coming from a software dev such as myself.
The thing where the resolution lowers when you move stuff around and then it gets sharp after you stop, there might be an option for that. I only have the iPad version and I’ve never used it without this turned on, but in the settings under General there is an option that says “retina rendering only”. I think that keeps the resolution high no matter what I do. On a PC it would probably not be called “retina rendering” since retina is a term Apple uses for their high resolution displays. But I’d go look there for an option.
Affinity is great!
It was my starting point back then when Photoshop was still available as one-time purchase. Affinity is optimized and programmed godly for new and older machines out of the box.
Also your 64gb Ram makes sense, you have physically 32gb of Ram but virtually it’s always double the amount. You still use your 32gb physical Ram and then the other 32gb Ram are allocated on your HDD/SSD.
One time payment per version. Meaning if they upgrade later to version 3 (major), then it is paid upgrade.
Pen tool doesn't suggest you where to put it, it simply snaps to other elements' borders or center points. You can configure what the mouse will snap to in guides.