Gregory's Server@metin yeah, I am happy user of Affinity v2 (I also have v1 as I bought it via AppStore) and I really hope that they will not move fully into subscription. If they will provide subscription for some stuff (like generative AI, which can be sometimes useful for human artists, but as an addition to human work, not just "slap prompt and you made ~art~ shit"), then it will be ok. But I want my application to stay mine, it is one of the reasons why I have gave up Adobe and I encourage my wife to do so
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 @hauleth I fully understand. Have a look at the thread for some alternatives, in case things get really bad with Affinity in the near future.  @hauleth @metin Hi! Just in case you missed this, we've got non-destructive layer effects in our dev builds now. You can even test the feature with our last development version (GIMP 2.99.18). This will be in the stable GIMP 3 which should be released within a few months. π https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/#initial-non-destructive-layer-effects  |
@metin and hell, I am no graphic designer or anything (TBH I suck at anything art related, though I am trying). Affinity with their "buy once" was a breath of the fresh air in the waves of subscription models. You can suck all the money in the world from AI-generated-shit crowd, you are more than welcome to, just leave simple people like me, who want to edit some stuff from time to time alone. I paid literally only for that reason.