Photoshop alternative Affinity Photo now offers a six-month free trial
Jul 9, 2024
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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It looks like Blackmagic isn’t the only one taking advantage of Adobe’s current misfortune and other troubles. Affinity – now owned by Canva – has also taken advantage of the opportunity to promote the Affinity Suite with a six-month free trial.
Affinity Photo 2 used to come with a 3-month free trial, already very generous. But the company’s so confident in their product that they’re willing to let you use it without paying for longer. The one-time purchase price rather than a subscription model also makes it a very attractive offer.
Affinity Six Month Free Trial – But, why?
The new six-month free trial isn’t just for Affinity Photo. As mentioned in the above video, it also extends to Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. And that’s on all platforms, too. Yes, that includes the iPad.
As photographers, we’re interested in Affinity Photo the most. But why has the subscription been extended to six months? The company says they’ve seen a lot of creatives checking out their tools recently. They put this down to the recent “flux” in the creator software space.
The company admits, however, that photo editing tools today are extremely complex. All of them are complex. Trying to learn a new piece of software takes a lot of time as it is. It takes even longer when you have to keep jumping back to your old software to get work done quickly while you learn.
So, the free trial has been extended to six months. This gives photographers and other creatives plenty of time to learn the software. Plenty of time to figure out some kind of workflow before making a purchase. And when you do drop that cash, it’s a perpetual license. It lasts forever.
You’ll get free updates until the next major version, too, like the traditional perpetual license models. But as the license is perpetual, if you choose never to buy a new version, your old one won’t just suddenly stop working.
Price and Availability
Affinity Photo, Publisher and Designer are available to buy now for Windows and Mac with a perpetual license for $70 each or $165 for the suite. The iPad versions of the apps are $18.50 each. Affinity is currently offering a 50% discount on all apps until August 15th.
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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2 responses to “Photoshop alternative Affinity Photo now offers a six-month free trial”
It’s a shame that Affinity isn’t available on Linux; that would be a big + over PS.
You have to know how to invest…
Yeah, with DaVinci Resolve also being available for Linux, that would let some people cut Adobe off completely.