Ash Hewson is CEO of Affinity, part of Canva. When I announced at Canva World Tour in October that the all-new, professional-grade Affinity would become completely free, the design world reacted with ...

In 2025, there is an abundance of choices for creative technology and software to use. When I began my creative journey, there wasn’t much choice between Adobe and Corel — especially for a student ...

I promise this isn't clickbait. The professional graphic design program Affinity will be available for free, with no subscription required. And according to its new parent company, Canva, it's going ...

Serif’s Affinity suite was already an audacious land-grab. It challenged Adobe’s increasingly spendy Creative Cloud subscription by making pro-grade photo editing and design tools more accessible ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

I spoke to Anna Wood, Product Marketing Lead at Canva about the company's latest updates and what it all means for designers ...

In a busy week for design software news, Affinity looks to take on Adobe, which has itself announced a raft of new AI tools. Canva is making its professional design tool Affinity “free forever” in a ...

One special feature is that Serif relies on local data processing. The pre-trained models for machine learning must be downloaded for this purpose. They are between 200 and 800 MB in size. The ...

Duncan is an award-winning technology industry analyst, specialising in cloud computing, blockchain, martech and edge computing. Canva, an online graphic design platform, has acquired Affinity, the ...