I always try to see the glass as half full and finally some new features have been added to the v2. I simply have to take myself seriously and say no thanks to discount sellers and tupperware. With version 2 and the consistently ridiculous circus-like marketing, I now have definitive proof that this company will never move forward. That's fine for amateurs and hobbyists, but it's a group I simply don't belong to professionally or mindset wise. Nice functioning watches, but they have nothing to do with what they signal and cost.īut if you take it all a bit more seriously, and look at the big picture, Serif has in many ways been incredibly behind the game with the feature-weak Affinity since 2014, and also with their old Plus programs since the 1980s. Serif reminds me of companies that sell Chinese made watches inspired by expensive brands, at too high a price normally, and then go out with 40% discount, and still profit from it. This time they have nothing to offer besides catching up a bit. They certainly did something right when they mixed a fast engine with vector and bitmap graphics but apart from that they have nothing to offer as a tech company. Selling affordable software to as many as possible over decades, keeping the company alive. Small incremental updates with features the competition offered for decades. Serif was always about mediocore software sold via (too) heavy marketing that promised too much with capital letters and lots of colors. I was expecting envelope also with the ability to copy the shape, but not possible.Īlso, I was surprised that the Shape Builder requires an extra step to actually get the shape. The two main new features are Warp and Shape Builder. I downloaded the trial (initially on Mojave, but not running), and tried on Mac Mini M1. Maybe they will continue the previous model of free updates. On the positive side: there is no subscription, and for now it is quite cheap, especially the combo.
I think they invested a lot of effort here, as probably most of their UI was rewritten. No more Mojave, Sierras, El Capitan.Īnd this could be because they moved to a new Apple framework (Universal), and this is not available on older Macs. I was also expecting to have at least the basics (blend, pattern, vector brushes, list goes on).Īlso there was a lot of expectations on a new app.īut the most surprising thing is that it runs only on Catalina and above. I was expecting some new "redefined" workflow. Yes, it is very interesting what they are doing.
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