Hello, welcome to the Avatar podcast. I'm William Gallagher.

And before anything else, if you have an iPad, please go to the show notes and click the link about Affinity,

because possibly very briefly all of the affinity

apps are available for free on the iPad. It's not like it's a mistake, but it is definitely

the case that all of this software is being removed, redacted ahead of Canva's new, we don't

know what, update to all of it's coming at the end of the month.

Bit weird that they're doing it this way, but for the moment it means the iPad apps have been free to buy.

You download them from the links in the app store, you get the free trial version.

Then when you go to buy, it should say $0 and you're away off ago. But it's not going to

last. And already the Mac versions have long gone. As sponsors this week, I'm Masterclass

Square and Claude by Anthropic. More about them later. And I am joined by Wesley Hilliard,

who actually I didn't realize this until today, until this very recording,

I think you're also an affinity user. I'm obsessed with Affinity Publisher. Am I right that you're a fan

as well? Yes, I use Affinity Designer. Photos fine. If you, I don't know, if you need to do a lot of heavy photo editing, I actually use photomater for that.

Affinity Photo, I think, is a bit more heavy-handed in the way it does it. It's not like my

cup of tea, but their designer app is what I need for pixel editing, placing layers on top of each other and

stuff. So they're very good apps. I've always just hoped that a photo or pixel meter pro

would just make their way, make its way to iPad, because that would be my preferred suite for

everything. But yeah, Finiti's great. I'm a little worried, though, because they were purchased by Canva,

and Canva tends to ruin everything they touch.

So...

It's weirdly scary, yes.

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