{"id":7695,"date":"2025-11-04T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:04:12","slug":"affinity-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/affinity-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity, Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jayteeau.bsky.social\/post\/3m4kmvmwjbc2u\">had a good one<\/a>), people tend to reply with two options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a> (free, open-source)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affinity.studio\/get-affinity\">Affinity<\/a> (was ~$50, but a one-time cost)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>But now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/newsroom\/news\/affinity-free\/\">Affinity is free<\/a> (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would hurt GIMP usage, but I suspect it won&#8217;t as GIMP runs on Linux (which neither Adobe or Affinity do) and it feels&#8230; Linuxy. I can&#8217;t imagine Adobe is happy about it. Canva says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v9YR9KeCJDY\">&#8220;there is absolutely no catch whatsoever&#8221;<\/a>, and also that their mission is to <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.net\/l\/quote\/zgmgnyfn\">&#8220;build one of the world\u2019s most valuable companies&#8221;<\/a> so, ya know, you make the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24,410],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-design","tag-software"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pexels-photo-3184657.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1255&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7706,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}