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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by open-source-ux on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:28PM (#21185593)
I have Affinity Designer and Photo and disagree with your assessment. You're right that Affinity apps do not match all the features of Adobe's apps, but Designer and Photo are well above "bare bones" in comparison. I'd say that Photo's biggest missing feature is an equivalent to Photoshop's smart object feature.

As a former user of Illustrator, there's nothing I miss from that app, certainly not the clunky Illustrator UI. (Unfortunately, Designer also has some clunky aspects to it's UI.)

Anyone, who wants to make up their own mind about the Affinity apps can download a free trial from their website - the apps work on both Windows and Mac.

Also, take a look at the 'spotlight' section of the Affinity website to see some of the work possible with the apps.

https://affinityspotlight.com/articles/recent/

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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by jiveturkey on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:03PM (#21216833)
> Anyone, who wants to make up their own mind about the Affinity apps can download a free trial

Because the discussion is not whether Affinity apps are good or not, but whether they are good relative to Adobe, anyone that wants to make up their own mind also can download a free trial of CC apps.

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