This month, I wanted to share my process for creating surface pattern design work using my iPad and the Affinity iPad apps. I really enjoy sharing my knowledge here online and over on Youtube as I think it’s an accessible way to learn new skills. If you want to learn more about me, check out my youtube channel: The Creative Studio to get a behind the scenes view of the work I do as a freelancer and the work that goes into making classes like this one. I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run Bella + Sophia Creative studio. Though either way, I bought it.Hello everyone welcome to my latest class! I’m Jen Lezan and I’ll be the one guiding you through this course. And of course this raises the question… how long will V2 be supported and are they maybe holding some things back to try and sell us a V3 sooner rather than later? Considering they supported V1 for a whopping 7 years, hopefully not… but I guess only time will tell. Some cool new stuff, though I’m not sure it’s juicy enough for most people to want to upgrade and still leaves stuff to be desired compared to Photoshop. They go over the new features of each app individually on their Youtube channel, here’s the one for the desktop version of Photo: Buying the apps individually only gets you the Windows and Mac versions though. They’re doing a limited time 40% off sale at launch (though I couldn’t find any fine print specifying exactly how long this sale will be going for), including a $100 universal bundle that gets you all three apps for Windows, Mac, AND iPad. It was only a matter of time until they’d want existing users to pay for an upgrade, since new sales have probably trailed off… still, very much preferable to the subscription model since you can choose to continue using the old apps until the wheels fall off.

I figured something was up since there’s been a dry spell of Affinity Photo updates lately.

Affinity designer sale