For the first time since the mid 90's there are no Adobe products on my machine at all.

That's kind of wild, as I made my living entirely from them for many years.

@BobWilliams

They lived long enough to become the villain

@Muddobbers They did, it was kind of sad to see. Lots of good years in there.

@cole Yes, and other things for web dev, interactive dev etc. I used to be a big Flash and Director user way back when.

@BobWilliams Coincidentally, I was almost on the verge of getting back into Adobe apps till yesterday 🙂

I haven't used Adobe apps in ages — probably 15 yeras? But Fresco looked very good for drawing on a tablet and I was tempted. Was about to pull the trigger when I tried Affinity again (which I hadn't for a while) with v2 and I went back to Affinity and I guess I'm punting Fresco?

@f I've been pretty happy with Affinity.

For what they were charging me, Adobe Suite wasn't a bad value, but I was really down to barely using the apps, and they eliminated my discount ($31 a month) so I decided to punt.

@BobWilliams Us too .. I mean happy with Affinity 🙂 We used to use it all the time for personal projects and then I got really busy and personal projects tapered off.

So we didn't upgrade to v2 when it came out. But we realized yesterday that we can get a universal license at the moment for like $60 (with upgrade pricing + discount) and be able to use the whole suite on macOS, Windows, and iPad. Seemed like a great deal. So we went for it 🙂

@f Same, I haven't really learned it yet, but I bought it to lock in the price and support the company.

@BobWilliams Yeah, you can't beat them for the price .. and (mostly) features 🙂I think we bought v1 about 7 years ago and we got updates for all those years for that one single payment ...

But I am in the same boat as you when it comes to using it 🙂I forgot everything I knew after the last time since I didn't use it for several years. Now re-learning since I want to do some stuff at the moment but it's already very easy to get back into ...

@f It's a lot harder to learn things at this age, and I've never been a "read the manual" sort of guy unfortunately. 😅

@BobWilliams Not sure how old you are, but I believe you since I find it harder to learn things now too and I'm 50+ 🙂

I've never read the manual either. I find it easier to just do things and learn that way. But that means I need a project that I'm invested in. Toy projects just don't work for learning.

That was what was stopping me from really learning Affinity Designer. Hoping that the new project I'm working on cures that, but no idea if it will or not 😛

@f Yeah, late fifties for me, so my cognitive boat doesn't sail as fast, somedays it doesn't float so well either. 😅

@BobWilliams LOL. I guess we just got to do the best we can, Bob 😀