I'm actively telling my students to NOT use #Adobe products and to look for other options. It's way too expensive for what it is and its subscription-based. I like #Affinity - although I will watch closely and see what Canva does to it... I hope they keep the non-subscription #design
Oooh, #GraphiteEditor has the node graph functionality, which allows you to compose vector objects from the primitives like fill, stroke, transform and live filters in a visual manner!
Node graph interface and filters both give me this nice break-out I needed after LPEs in #Inkscape. Don't get me wrong: that program is THE legend, developers are masters of vectors, and it's purely native Gtk toolkit on which application is built. Right now, their priority is CMYK support, so follow if you're into printing.
I just love to experiment with shiny new software that's #OpenSource, especially one that uses #RustLang and #web to its advantage.
Watch 'em apply circular repeat filter on a mere line to produce this fun sparkle effect. (It is Graphite's official channel, by the way. Wish they were on Mastodon?)
Are you an #Affinity Designer user? Are you an #inkscape user too? Do you want to help the community?
Well do I have a job for you!
I've made a How To guide for building a keyboard shortcut profile and if you make one for #AffinityDesigner I will add it to Inkscape and millions of people will get the option of using a keyboard preference more comfortable to their existing Affinity habits.
On the topic of #Affinity and #Canva, there is a new statement out today. Registered users probably got the email as well.
For now, I suggest we extend the Affinity team our continued support and love, while holding them to their pledge. They have done right by the graphics community this far, and deserve the benefit of doubt. We'll be watching them closely.
I would have been more at ease if it was Affinity buying Canva though 🙂
My pessimism for the Affinity acquisition was perhaps too strong yesterday?
Today I got this in my email, four pledges - here is a quote from the first
"If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity."
If they can stick to pledge 1, of always offering a perpetual license, then I can be happy with that.
For the community who is saddened and skeptical of #Canva’s acquisition of Serif, #Affinity’s parent company, here is a place to get started with alternatives that highlight some proprietary but mostly Free Open Source Software (#FOSS)
Some facts might have changed, like #Ocenaudio is available on all platforms now. Enjoy and contribute however you can!
Achtung, die #Affinity-Serie, die ich bisher gerne als Alternative zur Adobe CC empfohlen habe, ist von #Canva gekauft worden. Eine Integration von „KI“ und eine Umstellung auf ein Abo-Modell in künftigen Versionen ist daher wahrscheinlich. 😩
Tbh my biggest issue with #Affinity being bought out is that they're probably going to just move it into the browser. Working with any browser software is HELL imo.
So I managed to do a thing. I think Wine 9.0 must have introduced some big fixes because #Affinity Designer works now! With some tweaking, of course, but it's pretty cool to see nonetheless.
Designer v2 is still a no-go, relying very heavily on new Windows features that haven't been replicated yet in Wine; unfortunately, most of my files are now in v2 format so this isn't an ideal solution. Still, I can use v1 again, and that's better than nothing.
Timeline blowing up today with the news of #Canva puchasing #Affinity. Posts are pouring in, written in SO many languages. ALL of them worrying about yet another good software suite falling victim to #enshittification and a license model moving from perpetual to monthly subscription.
Users universally loathe subs and we have all seen this story play out before. Nobody trusting the "no changes planned at this time" message.
A sad state of affairs when we all now EXPECT to be worse off shortly.