Description Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software around. Get the latest Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers by following on Twitter and subscribing to the Engadget Deals newsletter. For that matter, Serif has already tuned its apps for Apple Silicon Macs - if you need creative software now and performance is a high priority, you don’t have to wait for Adobe’s optimized suite to wring the most out of your system. And at sale prices of $35 for the desktop apps and $14 for iPad, they may be your best bet if you’re not particular about exact feature matches. You don’t have to keep paying if you’re content with the software you have.

While Adobe asks for a Creative Cloud subscription as a rule (at least $10 per month), Serif is content with one-time purchases. The key, as you might expect, is the pricing. Affinity Designer courts vector and raster artists who’d otherwise use Illustrator, while Affinity Publisher serves as a publishing program (what else?) for those who’d rather not get InDesign. Affinity Photo is a rival to Photoshop with multi-layer image editing and painting. This applies regardless of whether you’re buying for iPad, Mac or Windows, and also includes 30 percent discounts on numerous art, brush and font kits.Įach app is widely considered a more focused and affordable (if not always as wide-reaching) parallel to an Adobe tool.

Serif is running a Black Friday sale that cuts prices by 30 percent on all Affinity creative apps, including Photo, Designer and Publisher. It might be a good time to shop around if you’re looking for alternatives to Adobe software like Photoshop.

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