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I bought the Serif Affinity Suite for personal use a few months back (on sale at the time, but not as nice as this). I use the Adobe CS5 suite at work because we don't want to pay the Adobe subscription fees.
I've been very impressed with the Serif Affinity Suite. I've done some nice freelance work with it. For background, I'm pretty good with the Adobe Suite, and picking up the Serif Affinity Suite hasn't been too difficult. Picking up most of it has been intuitive. There are some features that would be nice to have for sure, but there have been work arounds in my case. I've used all three of their alternatives with success. So far, I've used the InDesign alternative the least of the three.
I've installed the suite on multiple computers and they have all worked great so far. I haven't worked on any huge files yet, but it seems to run smoothly.
If you are in the market for this type of software and don't need ALL the bells and whistles of the Adobe Suite, I highly recommend the Serif Affinity Suite.
I dislike the subscription-based models myself, but I understand it from the business side - I just choose not to participate in it.
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Single app, single platform is $42.
There's a choice for everyone.
1) Keyboard shortcuts and menus can be tricky to relearn if you have years of Adobe muscle memory
2) If you need to collaborate with other people it's far more likely they have Adobe products
3) Affinity doesn't have anything like Adobe's AI tools
Otherwise I use these all the time for personal projects.
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I have Luminar 4 which I got when they made it free. I use Luminar 4 to process raw photos. It is more similar to pre-subscription Lightroom that I used years ago. I can manage folders of images, quickly copy settings from one image to another, etc.
The last time I tried to use Affinity Photo, it was just an awkward workflow to process raw photos. And there didn't seem to be a way to manage folders of images, ratings, etc. Maybe they have added that in version 2 now? I have used Affinity Photo some for pixel work, selecting parts of a photo, brushes, etc. and it worked well for that.
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