Creative professionals have been abuzz with the recent news that Canva had folded Affinity into a subscription model that included a free tier, making slimmed-down versions of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher accessible for no money at all. The first question was, would this cause a stampede of Adobe subscribers to the free Affinity versions?

Answer: Highly unlikely. Beginners and anyone needing a one-off flyer or other creative project might opt for Affinity’s free-version suite, but the true pros and anyone else wanting to create high-quality creative work is almost certainly going to stick with Adobe Creative Cloud Pro, anchored by the big three of their creative apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. But Adobe has decided to sweeten the incentive even more with a Free Gen

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