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Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase
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Will Affinity product line be the next as Canva bought them?
Every proprietary software will be enshittified eventually; it's only a matter of time.
The only way to not be subject to the enshittification, in the long run, is to adopt a militant zero-tolerance policy against all proprietary software and insist on using only 100% Free Software instead.
I like this (and largely follow it), except that I occasionally need CMYK color space for printing, and GIMP makes that extreeeeeeeeemely difficult and annoying. That's why I use Affinity. I got the software for the single lifetime price and I'm hoping they let me keep it...
I'm in the same position. I prefer free software but there is none that does what Affinity does. If it goes subscription-only and they shut down the bought versions, it will have to be piracy time.
Yeah I'm not going to pay their subscription. The whole point was to avoid Adobe.
Everyone prefers free until they have to contribute to actually making things better. Most popular opensource project are funded by corporations for a reason.
if it goes subscription, atp i’ll just put up with adobe bullshit because i’m pretty sure if affinity goes that route they’ll forget what made them so good in the first place- not being adobe.
I'm fine with (reasonably priced) paid software, that's why I use Affinity; it pretty much hits the sweet spot between affordability and capability. If there is a free software program that does what I need, I'll gladly use it, but I don't demand it, plus you really can't make FOSS developers develop what you need or want, while with paid software you have some leverage.
Eventually some pissed off engineer who knows a thing or two about color will create a conversion utility to allow GIMP to seamlessly work with CMYK.
That angry engineer might be you if you have friends who fill in the gaps within your own knowledge base.
I should research what would be required for that.
Maybe Krita is the solution to your problem?
I’m still open to giving the Immich licensing model a chance.