In case if many of you didn’t know about affinity, this article is to bring you up to speed on their products. I’ll only dive in a little bit and let you learn more about their products with the link below. I’ve been using them for over 5 years. Not once have I since thought about needing Adobe Creative Cloud since these guys came into my life!

They currently have three main products available at the moment. Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher. I have purchased all versions and love their ease of use and familiar adobe style user interface. Usability between all three products are simple and seamless, unlike their competitor. They’re very lightweight and quick to open so you can get to work fast. I find Designer’s functionality much more pleasing to use over Illustrator, which is what got me hooked on their products at the beginning.

Saving or exporting file formats is a breeze. See formats below…

• Publisher template (.aftemplate)
• Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
• TIFF (layers preserved)
• PNG
• JPG
• Progressive JPG
• GIF
• SVG
• EPS
• EXR (Open EXR)
• HDR (Radiance)
• PDF (can also be opened in Adobe^® Illustrator^®)
• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4
• Affinity common file format

Also, import formats are…

• Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
• Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSB
• Extensive RAW import library (including CR3)
• DNG
• PNG
• TIFF
• JPG
• GIF
• TGA
• SVG
• EPS
• PDF
• PDF/X
• EXR (Open EXR)
• HDR (Radiance)
• Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI (containing PDF stream)
• Legacy Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI files
• Adobe^® FreeHand^® (versions 9 to 11)
• Affinity Designer native file (for desktop only)
• Affinity Publisher native file (includes page navigation)
• HEIF with depth map (as separate layer)

What’s the price? Each application is a one time payment of $69.99. But they tend to offer sales often at almost 50% off. Since writing this, they’ve released their version 2 of each application and are offering them at 40% off! So, that’s $40.99. Go buy them all!