Almost three years ago I bought Affinity Photo, designed and developed by Serif. It’s a very solid piece of software and a fantastic alternative to market leader Adobe Photoshop.

I bought Affinity Photo primarily as an act of rebellion as I do not agree with Adobe’s current business model, a subscription based model that sees their users having to to pay a monthly fee to access Adobe’s software. What software you can access all depends on which Plan you subscribe to.

As of today (13th October 2019) there are four plans to choose from… ‘Photography’ priced at £9.98/month, ‘Single App’ priced at £19.97/month , ‘All Apps’ priced at £49.94/month and ‘All Apps + Adobe Stock’ priced at £78.52/month.

In many respects Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription is worth it if you are fortunate enough to be regularly making money from your photography business, but I am all to aware from my own experiences in the past that you can lose all of that in an instant. And with subscription based software… if you lose your income… you lose your software.

So buying Affinity Photo for me was a bit of a no-brainer. For only a single one-off payment of £48.99 I would be safe-guarding my ability to edit my photos regardless of my financial situation… forever.

That said, three years on and I have barely touched it. Shame on me.
I still use both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for my photography workflow, but I think I am finally ready to change that.

So as of yesterday I am making the change from Adobe software to Affinity Photo. Feel free to follow my progress here in my blog as I do so.

DISCLAIMER: I am in absolutely no way associated with Serif or Adobe. This post is not intended to be anything other than that of my own personal opinion and experiences.