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Serif Affinity Software: Photo, Designer or Publisher (Windows/Mac Digital)

$27 each

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Serif.com offers 50% Off Serif Affinity Photo, Designer & Publishing Software (Digital Download) with prices starting at $9.99 each.

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BH Photo Video also Serif Affinity Photo (Digital Download) for $26.99.

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Serif.com offers 50% Off Serif Affinity Photo, Designer & Publishing Software (Digital Download) with prices starting at $9.99 each.

Thanks to Deal Editor Discombobulated for finding this deal.

Available options:
BH Photo Video also Serif Affinity Photo (Digital Download) for $26.99.

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Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • These prices are 50% lower than the list prices.
    • See the forum thread for additional discussion and advice regarding this deal from Slickdeals members.

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BearIslandNative
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I switched over to these from photoshop to save some cash and I absolutely love them.

I ended up buying both for PC and for my iPad. Worth it at any price to no longer support adobe's greed IMO.
LeasedJet
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If you're looking to touch up photos by adding/removing/modifying parts of digital images in formats like png, jpg, bmp, etc (aka "photoshopping" something) you probably want the Photos product. It's equivalent to Adobe Photoshop. A free open source alternative if you want to get a feel to what this class of products can do is GIMP.

If you need to create vector / graphics design images to work with or have things printed by a professional printer you need Designer which is equivalent to Adobe Illustrator. A free open source alternative if you want to get a feel for what this class of products are about is Inkscape.
pechango
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Affinity software is very capable software and I say that having an Adobe CC subscription. If I no longer had that subscription, i'd switch over 100% and not be concerned whatsoever.

Canva is very capable too but I don't have a lot of experience with it.

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Kachu2142
May 16, 2022
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank Kachu2142

Thanks for the notice. Been waiting all year for this to finally go on sale. Black Friday was only ~30% off
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BearIslandNative
May 16, 2022
31 Posts
I switched over to these from photoshop to save some cash and I absolutely love them.

I ended up buying both for PC and for my iPad. Worth it at any price to no longer support adobe's greed IMO.
May 16, 2022
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NEW0
May 16, 2022
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If I'm not confusing software, this is version 1.9 or something, and 2.0 has been on the horizon for a while, right? Either way though, it probably would be good for many more years as is.

I'm still unsure if I should buy though. I don't really do design, although it'd be nice to have something on hand when I start doing some minor web and game dev. There are more and more free alternative software these days... like photopea is a free web browser based Photoshop clone

Edit: this is what I was talking about with the versions...

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/...-20-price/

https://aecmag.com/technology/ser...aec-firms/
Last edited by NEW0 May 16, 2022 at 09:29 AM.
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May 16, 2022
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IPrince
May 16, 2022
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FYI: if you have the iOS version, it also works on M1 Macs
May 16, 2022
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ben_r_
May 16, 2022
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Quote from IPrince :
FYI: if you have the iOS version, it also works on M1 Macs
Is it as complete an application using the iOS version? How much are you losing from the full OS X version?
May 16, 2022
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BENJAMINB1246
May 16, 2022
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For some reason I had to Google to get this price. The provided link keep giving me the price in GBP (about 20% more expensive). Happen to anyone else?
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May 16, 2022
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79TAKid
May 16, 2022
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Lol nice. I bought publisher a few weeks ago for 10% off and haven't even used it. Knew I should've waited. Going to grab the other 2 thanks
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vicsta48
May 16, 2022
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Reaching out to those who may read this thread. I'm a teacher at a small school, and we are fortunate to have Photoshop due to grants and discounts. If those are not available in the future I will need alternatives. I have kept my eye on Affinity, but am very intrigued by Canva as we just got the education version for our school. Any one with experience with these in lab setting have thoughts?
May 16, 2022
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pechango
May 16, 2022
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Quote from vicsta48 :
Reaching out to those who may read this thread. I'm a teacher at a small school, and we are fortunate to have Photoshop due to grants and discounts. If those are not available in the future I will need alternatives. I have kept my eye on Affinity, but am very intrigued by Canva as we just got the education version for our school. Any one with experience with these in lab setting have thoughts?
Affinity software is very capable software and I say that having an Adobe CC subscription. If I no longer had that subscription, i'd switch over 100% and not be concerned whatsoever.

Canva is very capable too but I don't have a lot of experience with it.
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NeatWallaby7056
May 16, 2022
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Any different from this compared to photoshop? Liquify features, ect...?
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pechango
May 16, 2022
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Quote from NeatWallaby7056 :
Any different from this compared to photoshop? Liquify features, ect...?
Go do the free trial for 30 days, it's a full featured trial you can mess with.

And read the website, it's all on there:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
May 16, 2022
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michaeldn
May 16, 2022
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I have an iPad Pro and Intel Mac, is there any benefit in getting both versions? or should i just get one version and work off that? I'm getting sick of the adobe subscriptions. Any noticeable difference between ios and osx versions?
May 16, 2022
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SensibleCreator798
May 16, 2022
44 Posts
Good deal! Paid $37.99 for the PC version of Affinity Designer in November. It's a better deal than the $20.99 a month to use Illustrator. It's still got a ways to go to match it in terms of features but the price is tough to beat.
May 16, 2022
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tebasaki
May 16, 2022
368 Posts
I wish the shortcuts ams operation was more in line with how Adobe handles. There's little tricks this has that isn't helpful for those that have been in the Adobe verse for so long
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thriftmeister
May 16, 2022
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Funny, I just set up an alert for this about a week ago, after jumping on the recent Lumix G95 deal. My only current photo editing software is Photoshop Elements 4.0 (circa 2005, I think). Would this be a pretty nice upgrade from that?

I've been on the fence between continuing to roll with PSE 4.0, upgrading PSE for $80, or going with Affinity. $27 pretty tempting and I hear it's pretty capable.

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