{"id":633,"date":"2023-01-17T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/?p=633"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:24:53","slug":"tired-of-subscription-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Tired of Subscription Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ty mentioned in the January SMUG meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affinity Photo<\/a> is a very respectable Photoshop replacement. It has, in my opinion, a vastly superior help system with a vast array of tutorial videos linked to the help menu. It even accepts Photoshop plug-ins and I&#8217;ve yet to find something I could do in Photoshop that I can&#8217;t do in Affinity Photo.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this version 2 of Afinity Photo is launching and until January 25 they have some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affinity_Photo\">very attractive pricing<\/a>. The MacOS license is $40.99, and the iPadOS license is $11.99. This is not a subscription, a one-time fee gives you a perpetual license to the current major version. V1 came out in 2015, and V2 was released last November. So the cost (even if you miss the January 25 deadline) is a small fraction of Adobe&#8217;s subscription, especially for occasional users.<\/p>\n<p>As with PS there are sister products, <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/designer\/\">Affinity Designer<\/a>, an Illustrator-like program, and <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/publisher\/\">Affinity Publisher<\/a>, an Indesign-like program. Until the 25th, a universal license to all three products on three operating systems (MacOS, Windows, and iPadOS) is $99.00.<\/p>\n<p>Regular pricing is $69.99 for the MacOS apps, $19.99 for iPadOS, and $169.99 for the universal license.<\/p>\n<p>The footnotes in the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affinity_Photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Wikipedia article<\/a> have links to lots of reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ty mentioned in the January SMUG meeting, Affinity Photo is a very respectable Photoshop replacement. It has, in my opinion, a vastly superior help system with a vast array of tutorial videos linked to the help menu. It even accepts Photoshop plug-ins and I&#8217;ve yet to find something I could do in Photoshop that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonapples.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}