Canva has bought Affinity, Designer, Publisher and Photo.
I have Affinity Photo 1 but I saw nothing of value in Photo 2.
It will be interesting to see what happens now.
C'mon David, its not as though I sold my soul to the devil when I bought the Affinity Suite. It was something like $100. And no I do not regret it for one minute I'm now using AP daily ( I have 10 years worth of photos to process for an update to my website) in place of PS CS6. It works. In combination with Luminar Neo it is far superior to PS CS6. I accept that Designer isn't going to replace Draw anytime soon, but Publisher is great for assembling booklets or PDF presentations (way better than MS Powerpoint) . We have to accept unless you go Adobe you will need a combination of tools to achieve your aims. So be it. I'm never going to persevere with PP, its just way too clunky and missing important tools to do what I need, even though it is installed on the PC.
And lets remember Corel had to row back on its subscription model, simply because it doesn't have the traction that Adobe has. If Canva is as stupid to go Subscription only with Affinity it too will suffer and I will vote with my feet. I can live with what I have now, just like I'm still with CDGS 2018 until Corel either fixes the bugs I logged as a beta tester or it has something new that is of use to me.
It's a wait and see situation with Affinity. The version 2 release was not received well by Affinity users, only the fan boys speak with enthusiasm and that's BS. I downloaded V2 Photo twice several months apart after the V2.4 update and Uninstalled it, I keep V1 installed. There was nothing in V2 that I already didn't have, the V2 interface, in my opinion took a few steps backward and hard core users complain of bugs.
I had hoped Affinity could make a significant contribution to my toolbox but being acquired by Canva is not instilling me with confidence. Inexpensive Affinity is but to pay and go backward does not make sense. Affinity Designer is still not a prime time program and I do nearly zero high page count documents so Affinity Publisher has no use for me.
My photography and client image editing is changing and while the 4 base applications that I use work well for low to medium ISO settings and reasonably exposed images, my desire to move to high ISO low light exposures and the devolution of client images I receive are forcing me to either add another application set to my work flow or replace AfterShot Pro 3, which will then also allow me to discontinue use of Affinity Photo V1.
Unfortunately Corel has made no improvements to AfterShot Pro 3 so its future on my system is up in the air. It's heading down to DXO Photolab 7 or Tapaz filters. Topaz will work well with AfterShot Pro 3 but DXO Photolab 7 will eliminate the need for both ASP and Affinity Photo.
The 2024 release of CDGS has had little for me, all I got was significant improvements in speed for handling PDF files with transparency from clients and overall speed improvements with text, large drawings and image editing. Photo-PAINT has seen significant improvements with NVidia studio drivers.