Well said. Back when people pirated Photoshop, there wasn't much competition. Here's a newspaper quote from 1999: "GIMP, an Image editing program like the $899 PhotoShop, is free. I must be fair here and say that PhotoShop is in many way a superior program to GIMP. Still, there's that free thing to think about."
Compare that to the Affinity suite, which is an amazing collection of programs, especially for the price. They're currently running a sale where you can get everything for $83. If my daughter becomes interested in digital design, I'd be happy to spent that kind of money to encourage her. I'd be very hesitant to subscribe to the Adobe suite, even though that's what I use at work.
Compare that to the Affinity suite, which is an amazing collection of programs, especially for the price. They're currently running a sale where you can get everything for $83. If my daughter becomes interested in digital design, I'd be happy to spent that kind of money to encourage her. I'd be very hesitant to subscribe to the Adobe suite, even though that's what I use at work.