Nice work!
Still think Affinity Photo for £23.99 one-time is a better option if you're on Windows/Mac though. I've easily switched from Photoshop which I've never been able to do with GIMP.
Still think Affinity Photo for £23.99 one-time is a better option if you're on Windows/Mac though. I've easily switched from Photoshop which I've never been able to do with GIMP.
On macOS I use Pixelmator which is one of the best quality Apps I have on macOS, was also only a small 1 time purchase.
Edit:
Spent the last 1hr playing with it on Windows, gorgeous iOS & Mac App of the year quality Apps like this never exist on Windows, at USD $25 it's a steal (50% off until June 20). Finally a Photoshop replacement quality App for my hobby design tasks that I don't need to maintain a subscription for.
It’s the same as Flexibits updating Fantastical, switching to a subscription model (the app used to be €6 but now is €50/y) and both putting old features behind paywalls and ‘unlock this with premium’ buttons everywhere that you can’t hide
I just can’t & won’t trust companies that pull switcharoos like that
Affinity are good folks as far as I can see, and haven’t pulled stunts like that yet
Edit: well I guess HN loves everything moving to a subscription world. What the hell..
It's great they offer a different & improved SKU as I don't see how they could develop such a quality App for a low 1 time payment & was concerned for their sustainability, happy to hear they offer a quality upgrade that I can upgrade to support continued development of their quality app.
I understand that there is a limited support window and I understand that sustainable software development requires version upgrades, but the way Pixelmator did it left a foul taste in many many users their mouth.
but for me, i didnt like the ui of pixelmator pro, and am glad they left the older one alone, and made the totaly redesigned one a separate app, as i would have just abandoned it for afinity or something else (not saying pixelmator has a perfect ui by any stretch tho)
They introduced a new and improved product based on feedback. Do you think they should have done that for free?
Personally I prefer subscription model.
Contrast with Affinity, which supports lots of older versions of MacOS and will happily take your money on their own website. Affinity is the clear winner in this contest for me.
Affinity does everything in the CPU, which is also why it's slower - Pixelmator gets a lot of GPU acceleration.
(And frankly, complaining that it doesn't work on versions of Mac OS released over 9 years ago seems unreasonable.)
Older versions of Pixelmator did work on 10.12. If you can find one, you can download it. But you can neither purchase it or activate it beyond the 30-day demo period.