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.
Serif according to the web publishes 16 other software applications besides Affinity. I believe they only sold Affinity. The question is, did they dump the least profitable product line? The other question that begs is how profitable are the other 16 products.
What I see is that from Version 1.10.5.132 to Version 2.4 Affinity produced a disappointing, (to many long time Affinity users) update. For me the Photo update was not worth the cost, I was a bit surprised because of all the talk about Affinity the release was so poor. I'm surprised that CorelDRAW is still described as the flagship of Corel products.
Serif only has the three applications at this time. The figure I quoted was for the Affinity applications. You are looking at old information as regards the others. It's one thing to hold the intellectual rights to applications, it's another to sell them to contribute to the bottom-line.
I own the 1.x versions of all three. I only updated Affinity Publisher to v.2.x. APhoto isn't even installed anymore--didn't last but a few months here. I rarely use AD. I cannot use APub for my daily work.
For that matter, only publications that use .cdr files that need updating or for personal projects do I even fire up CD. I stopped upgrading at version 2018. My large format work is pretty much a thing of the past these days.
MikeWe said:I stopped upgrading at version 2018.
CorelDRAW 2018 was the last version before the "big changes", and included a number of "extras" that previously required separate purchase. In many ways, it's still my favorite version to use.
Considering the limitations of the Affinity applications that might be why they have cash; they certainly haven't spent what they made on V1 on features for V2. I tried all the V1 applications and only stuck with Photo and then really only for the version of Denoise that ships with it.
It will be interesting watching the graphics industry over the next 5 years. In my area we've had 2 print shops, and 3 sign shops go under since late in 2022. The market for professional production applications is certainly continuing to shrink.
The remnants of my old haunt have had 2 offers to be bought since March of 2022 from print shops hoping to add sign work to their base work.
What happened to print shops and then photography is spreading now to sign shops, in my opinion the shrinkage has really dug into the meat and potatoes of production. Getting custom high-end work of any kind has become difficult to nearly impossible. I have one Architect that is moving completely to digital for marketing. I'm helping with color management coordination and educating them, as they either move completely away from print of any kind or they have to organize their images better. You can't use the AI features in Photoshop for print well at all, they work on display as the issues hide themselves.