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Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (25 children)

I dumped my Adobe sub and grabbed Affinity Photo a while ago. It does 95% of the things Photoshop does (and 100% of what I need) for a one-time payment that is a fraction of the cost of an Adobe payment. It's runs so so SO much better than PS. I very often saw Photoshop using up to 40gb of RAM and Affinity Photo uses 9gb doing the exact same work with the same files.

Removing Creative Cloud and it's 838 different processes was amazing. Like finally watching your toilet flush after it's been clogged.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I've only used the v1 affinity suite, so I can't speak for the latest versions of v2, but when I started the first thing I noticed was the performance. It's much more responsive.

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