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 🧵 [3/3] Some more Affinity alternatives (also see previous post)... Photoline: VectorStyler Photopea (online): Vectorpea (online): Graphite (online): Scribus (Affinity Publisher alternative): Acorn (macOS only): #affinity #canva #adobe #software #design #art #illustration #OpenSource #tip 23 comments
Affinity in September 2022... 🙄 #affinity #adobe #canva #software #design #GraphicDesign #art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #designer #publisher #photo That moment you realize you were once interviewed by Affinity, back when they were still a sympathetic Adobe alternative… 🙂 #affinity #adobe #canva #software #design #GraphicDesign #art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #designer #publisher #photo #interview #article #read #reading  @metin@graphics.social I wonder if they are gonna drop the buy option. Or honestly when will they drop the buy option and move to all subscription @metin bugger! I guess I'm going to be using Acorn more extensively in the future and looking for vector and publishing alternatives. I suppose we had a good run, for a while there, at least.  @darrendilieto @metin Have you tried Inkscape and Scribus to see if they do what you need? @gunchleoc @darrendilieto I haven't tried Scribus, but I've worked with @inkscape and it's a very competent vector tool. Have a look at these tutorials for a nice impression: @metin @gunchleoc @inkscape Inkscape is now on my list for when I get a minute for this stuff. 🙂 THANKS! @darrendilieto @metin @inkscape Take a look at this blog for an artproject that was set in Scribus: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article735/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-1  Really sad to see the once lovely alternative to Adobe's aggressive subscription- and cloud plans probably end up taking the same path after all. @sharpstick I haven't got personal expience with a number of the mentioned tools, but know that Photopea (online), Scribus and Photoline have CMYK support. Photoline's UI / UX is a bit archaic, but it's powerful under the hood: |
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@metin @Krita Not so convinced by Scribus - the application is nice enough but the last I saw it was producing tables as groups of rectangles. That's almost as awful as the old Quark 3 "text tabs and hand drawn lines" monstrosities I used to be given back in the day. Apologies if they've moved on since I looked. For page layout I'm in non-WSYIWYG mode at the moment with the excellent Typst (https://typst.app), which is a different way of working but you quickly get used to it.