Affinity Designer/Photo AU $63.56 @ Microsoft Store AU (Normal Price - AU $79.45) for Windows

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Features:
* Panning and zooming is always live at 60fps
* Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments
* Optimized for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision
* Live pixel and retina view of vector artwork, wireframe view, split screen mode
* Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design
* Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB and Grayscale color models
* Full 16-bit per channel editing
* End-to-end ICC color management
* Advanced Lanczos 3 image resampling plus Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbor methods
* Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to
* Live effects, blend modes, image adjustments, and raster and vector masks for any part of your design
* Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviors for the best of both worlds
* The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing, geometry operations, and smart shape tools available
* Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType
* High quality raster tools for texturing, masking and finishing artwork. Create your own brushes too.
* Optimized workspaces give focus to design disciplines including web graphics, UI/UX, print, and concept art

Cashback 6.5% Pricepal

Affinity Photo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/affinity-photo/9nblggh35lx…
Affinity Designer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/affinity-designer/9nblggh3…

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  surfbum1 on 18/06/2018 - 21:44

  +1

  That's weird, the version from windows store only works on Windows 10

  Maybe that's why it's cheaper

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    TheContact on 18/06/2018 - 22:58

    Not really surprising when the only other Windows that had the Store was 8/8.1 and that's no longer supported by MS. Ignoring the extended security support that is.

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      surfbum1 on 19/06/2018 - 06:57

      Can buy direct from affinity store and it supports W7 but full price.

      Pretty interested in giving Photo a go now photoshop has gone down the rental route

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        jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 07:38

        See my comment about "full price"

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  jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 07:36

  +3

  This software is great but this isn't a bargain. Let me explain.

  If you buy in USD from Affinity's website you'll get it for even cheaper than this any day of the year. I did this to buy Photo a year ago and Designer 2 years ago.

  Great software for a much better price than Adobe's bloated offerings, but the company does outrageous price gouging if you say you're from Australia.

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    Vector18 on 19/06/2018 - 14:16

    How do you buy it in USD? It's only coming up as AUD for me.

    My Adobe CC subscription is coming to an end in September and I'm very interested in getting Designer and Photo as a replacement.

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      jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 14:49

      +1

      I just looked into it for you. It indeed says $79.99 AUD.

      I just used a VPN and selected a US exit and it came up as $49.99. Perhaps that's what I did in the past. It appears to still work.

      FYI: $49.99 USD is currently $67.60 AUD, so if pure cost is all you're optimising for here, OP's deal is actually better.

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        Vector18 on 19/06/2018 - 17:57

        Thank you for looking into it for me, that is a big help.

        I won't be getting it for a few months so I'll definitely consider getting a VPN when the time comes.

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        jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 18:38

        @Vector18: I definitely recommend both Designer and Photo. They are much better than Illustrator and Photoshop IMHO. There is no shortage of peoeple saying Illustrator/Photoshop are easier to use but those people have invariably been using them for many years.

        I had also been using them for years (not extensively) and Designer and Photo were immediately more intuitive from the first day of use. Pretty much the only thing Photoshop can do that Photo can't is that 3D stuff, but I always found it kinda silly that Photoshop included that anyway.

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        Vector18 on 19/06/2018 - 20:06

        @jazoom: I have been using the 10 day trial for Designer for the last few days and I'm finding it really easy to use. It didn't take me long to work most of it out, granted there are new things I am finding out every time I use it but I'm finding that pretty fun haha

        I've been using Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign very frequently for over 5 years (Illustrator and PS even longer) and I completely agree with you. I would add Illustrator has image trace as well which Designer doesn't seem to have(?) but apart from that I'm already preferring Designer.

        I'll try the 10 trial for Photo in a few days.

        I saw a teaser video for Publisher on Youtube, that looks really good as well. Hoping that comes out in the next few months.

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        jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 20:23

        +1

        @Vector18: Hooray for not being locked into Adobe's subscription ecosystem!

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        Vector18 on 19/06/2018 - 20:37

        @jazoom: Haha that's what sparked me to look somewhere else!

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  tophorus on 19/06/2018 - 17:23

  +2

  If it helps anyone I have both Designer and Photo and they're great for the price but not without problems. There are still weird bugs and loading raw files in Photo is a slow, tedious process. But it'll continue to evolve and improve over time and is great value for money.

  And when I bought Designer (pre order at discounted price) I made the mistake of selecting Australia when setting up my account. After that you can't change back and prices for future products will all be AUD. I ended up creating a second US account to buy Photo, no VPN needed.

  From what I read of the price gouging it actually stems from the Apple Mac App store. Affinity can't undercut the AU prices on the Mac App Store and Apple supposedly dictates the price in AUD based on exchange rates that could be a year or two old. That's what I read at the time, who knows if it's accurate.

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    jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 18:42

    loading raw files in Photo is a slow, tedious process

    Man, you're not kidding. This is the only reason I have Adobe Bridge installed on my PC. For looking at raws. There is word Affinity is working on a Lightroom competitor at the moment. I'm sure they'll do a great job of it.

    From what I read of the price gouging it actually stems from the Apple Mac App store. Affinity can't undercut the AU prices on the Mac App Store and Apple supposedly dictates the price in AUD based on exchange rates that could be a year or two old. That's what I read at the time, who knows if it's accurate.

    If that was the case they would have changed the price to be accurate by now, but it's been super gougy for years.

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      TheContact on 19/06/2018 - 19:24

      There is word Affinity is working on a Lightroom competitor at the moment.

      Whuuut. Give me Publisher first!

      Still waiting on the trinity before I make the jump and start messing with my workflow.

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        jazoom on 19/06/2018 - 19:26

        Give me Publisher first!

        They're currently working on an InDesign competitor. If the DAM is next, you may be waiting for a while. :(