AFFINITY THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE FREE CREATIVE SUITE

EDIT PHOTOS, CREATE CLEAN VECTOR IMAGES AND PUT TOGETHER PROFESSIONAL MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS: NIK RAWLINSON INTRODUCES THE AMAZING POWERS OF THE NEW FREE AFFINITY APP

- NIK RAWLINSON

For the past decade we've been recommending Affinity Photo as an affordable, buy-once alternative to Adobe Photoshop, with companion apps Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer making persuasive rivals to InDesign and Illustrator. Last year, though, Serif – the original developer and publisher of Affinity apps – was bought out by online design giant Canva, raising concerns about Affinity's future.

Happily, Canva hasn't killed off Affinity. In fact, it's just unveiled the best version of Affinity ever – a brand-new integrated app that brings together all the powerful features of its three predecessors, and adds in a whole lot more. What's more, where the complete Affinity suite used to cost around £90, the new app is completely free for both personal and commercial use (aside from a few AI add-ons, which we'll discuss later in this feature). You can download it right now, for Windows or macOS, from affinity.studio.