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Nice advert. Shame it's just more SaaS. Not sure if it's just because I'm in .au and have laggier connections to all the fancy tools in the US, but I just don't find web tools that fulfilling.

I've been having a great time with Serif's Affinity Designer lately. Same sort of bezier tools as everyone else, but feels a lot nicer to use than say, Illustrator.

Edit: downvote for calling it an advert? Or is disliking SaaS the unpopular point of view? ;)



I agree, I'm also not at all a fan of in-browser apps. The benefits all seem to accrue on the maker's side: faster deployment & distribution, single codebase for multiple platforms, assurance of common versions across the user base, and not least easier and more complete monetization. The drawbacks are all for us users to suffer: idiosyncratic UX, unpredictable performance, poor interoperability with other apps, limited offline use, everything's gone if the company fails.


Agreed, absolutely no interest in turning even more of my design tools into a subscription cost.


If you hold the command key, you can also move those curves around without modifying the Bezier curves.




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