[martin_a]

As someone who was trained extensively on Adobe products and is using them regularly, I can just recommend to give the Affinity tools a look. (They also got a summer sale running right now, so you can grab the whole suite for a $150 one time payment.)

They work really well, some things are just the same as in the Creative Cloud, and I'am not missing anything so far.

Sadly, the commercial world will mostly stick to Adobe, so I'll have to use that at work, too. Pricing for the Creative Cloud is just too high if you want to do it "for fun", though.

[hizanberg]

Yep long time happy Affinity perpetual universal license customer, who uses their products on Windows, macOS/M2 and iPad.

As a dev, Adobe’s premium tax is irrational.