It also has a very reasonable price tag. Usually, it costs £50, but they’ve had quite a long-running (probably Covid-19 inspired) 50% off promo running, which means I got the whole thing for a one-off cost of £24. Affinity Designer is a piece of software that’s (almost) on par with Illustrator. I went looking for a cheaper solution and, luckily, I found it. I wanted Sketch, which costs a very reasonable £100ish for the first year, and £80ish for renewals (or you can keep the version you have, without updates, forever. I really only needed Illustrator for vector work and XD for web. I didn’t need all the software Adobe has to offer. I tried to justify the expense by 1) thinking of all the different software that comes with Creative Cloud, and 2) deciding I would switch to Adobe XD for my web design software, rather than paying for Sketch. £50 per month! Even subtracting the £10 I pay for the Adobe photo bundle, it was a bit steep, especially in the unpredictable times of Covid-19. When I got a new laptop earlier this year, I was 99% sure that a fresh subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud was a no-brainer. I pay monthly for Photoshop and Lightroom currently, but they’re definitely photo editing programs (and that’s what I use them for), not fit for designing a website. I decided to look for an alternative, and I found Affinity Designer. Looking back, it’s really hard to see why. When I first started creating websites, Photoshop was the industry standard. I’ve been using Adobe for design work for as long as I can remember.
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