Canva have simply introduced they’re shopping for Affinity, the makers of a few of the greatest Adobe alternate options obtainable together with Affinity Designer and Affinity Picture. In contrast to Adobe, Affinity purposes can be found beneath a really affordable one time buy value with no subscriptions in sight.
Since launching Canva in 2013, we’ve been on a mission to empower the entire world to design. As visible communication turns into desk stakes in workplaces throughout the globe, we’re proud to now be empowering greater than 175 million individuals to attain their targets – however as we regularly say, with a mission this massive, we’re nonetheless simply 1% of the way in which there.
Right this moment, we’re extremely excited to welcome Affinity to the Canva staff as we set our sights on empowering each sort of designer. Trusted by greater than three million artistic professionals throughout the globe, Affinity’s award-winning suite {of professional} design software program has grow to be a sought-after answer for the whole lot from photograph modifying to advanced graphic and vector design. Collectively, we’re setting our sights on empowering each sort of staff and group to attain their targets.
The previous few years have seen a dramatic enhance within the want for efficient, environment friendly, and compelling visible communication. From inner communications groups producing onboarding supplies to advertising groups scaling world campaigns, the world of labor is changing into an more and more visible place. As the quantity of content material and channels enhance, designers have grow to be inundated, spending extra time modifying and fewer time creating.
Whereas our final decade at Canva has centered closely on the 99% of data employees with out design coaching, really empowering the world to design consists of empowering skilled designers too. By becoming a member of forces with Affinity, we’re excited to unlock the complete spectrum of designers at each degree and stage of the design journey.
We share Affinity’s perception that skilled design software program needs to be intuitive, inexpensive, quick, and easy. With Affinity, skilled designers have entry to the whole lot they want at an inexpensive value and with out the complexity of conventional design instruments. Collectively, we’re excited to show their motion right into a revolution.
Affinity shares our imaginative and prescient for highly effective simplicity and accessibility. In the identical manner we’ve spent the final decade constructing an all-in-one platform to make visible communication seamless and accessible, the Affinity staff has been creating and evolving a lean, highly effective, and dynamic suite of artistic instruments beloved by designers all over the world.
From our very first conversations, we knew Affinity’s imaginative and prescient to pioneer easy but state-of-the-art expertise was an ideal match with our personal mission to empower the world to design – which incorporates enhancing our capabilities and providing for skilled designers.
Obtainable throughout Home windows, Mac and iPad, Affinity’s artistic suite consists of:
Affinity Designer: The best choice for hundreds of illustrators, designers, and sport builders, Designer is Affinity’s vector-based graphics software program for the whole lot from creating digital illustrations to idea artwork, distinctive graphics, logos, model designs, internet mock-ups, and extra.
Affinity Picture: The one fully-loaded photograph editor obtainable throughout MacOS, Home windows, and iPad. Good for the whole lot from primary modifying to superior retouching and creating multilayer photograph compositions, Affinity Picture is rapidly changing into the business commonplace for picture modifying.
Affinity Writer: The following technology {of professional} web page format software program, this easy, intuitive app helps you to mix photographs, graphics, and textual content to make lovely layouts prepared for publication, from books, magazines, and advertising supplies to social media templates, web site mock-ups, and extra.
What’s subsequent
We couldn’t be extra excited in regards to the prospects forward as we welcome Affinity to Canva. Based mostly in the UK, they be part of quite a few different European corporations who’ve grow to be a part of Canva, together with Flourish, Kaleido, SmartMockups, Pexels, Pixabay and SlidesCarnival. They create with them a 90-person staff who we’re thrilled to have becoming a member of Canva.
You may anticipate to listen to extra from us about our plans to unlock the facility of Affinity’s expertise inside Canva over time. Watch this area!
The CEO of Affinity has additionally made a press release linked under stating that no headcount adjustments will happen and that current prospects ought to anticipate no main unfavourable adjustments going ahead.
