Since Affinity Photo is less than five years old, each update brings with it significant upgrades that speed up processes, bring new functionality and additional fixes. (Image credit: James Abbott) (opens in new tab) Key new features $50/month for programs that get lightly used once or twice a week and heavily used a handful of times a year is ridiculous.Amongst its many improvements, Affinity Photo 1.8 now supports manual metadata input, including copyright information, tags and descriptions. I do a bit of design for my work, but it's not my focus and so I don't live in Adobe apps all day long. They are superior to Affinity's in most ways, but if you're not a designer, it's not really worth the subscription price. I don't doubt the value of Adobe products. If Affinity can come up with an InDesign replacement, I'm done with Adobe for good. I might just quit entirely regardless of pricing this year.

I'm sticking to that budget, but getting my pricing is a really annoying back and forth ordeal every year.

A $30/month rate pretty much puts me in line with the budget I've had for Adobe software for the past decade. In that month, if I need Photoshop or Illustrator, I use my Affinity programs.īack when they sold owned licenses, I tended to upgrade every other edition or so. Usually this results in them refusing to do so and coming back with a 'Come Back to Adobe' special offer a month later. When my CC subscription is due for renewal, I cancel unless they give it to me for their introductory price again ($30/month).

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