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Designed for anyone who needs to create. Canva has solutions for individuals, small businesses, enterprise, not-for-profit organizations, teachers and students.
Affinity Publisher caters to businesses and individuals across industries.
Easy to use for a great price. I love being creative on canva and seeing how I can make a template my own.
Another negative point is the fact that you are not able to manipulate the material when you download it, it is a little frustrating.
It's just perfect for small businesses. On the one hand because it's a great price and on the other hand because it's extremely easy to use.
The only defect of this app is for sure that it is not completely free. For those who do not use it professionally or are not yet able to invest money it ends up becoming bad.
Canva is a fantastic platform, with simple and practical features.n design models and posters, self-explative at the time of editing and intuitive for the standardization of them.simply amazing.
The inability to remove watermarks without the paid version. This prohibits a user from downloading their design and further editing it without a blurry version.
My 45 year old, family-run company enjoys the advantages of a very good reputation. However it takes a LOT of creative work to stay there in our extremely competitive field.
We struggle with putting our so much information to our community quickly that sometimes the product of our communication is boring and disregarded because no one reads.
I'm very happy with the software and with the video tutorials which ensure that I continue improving my abilities as I explore the various program features.
M really only annoyed with my margin limitations. The page design features more than make up for any con.
Thanks to Publisher and it's affordable perpetual licensing plan I was able to ditch my expensive Adobe CC subscription. So far I'm very happy with the software.
Limited interactivity because with only hyperlinks and bookmarks.
The price is also very affordable, especially considering that it has very similar features to a lot of the other popular premium desktop publishing editors out there.
Maybe Affinity Publisher does exactly what I need it to do without it throwing a bunch of stuff at me that will ultimately confuse me.
The program runs smoothly with good UI and has all the features I need on a regular basis. It also has the ability to switch between Affinity programs quickly and easily which is a huge plus.
There is very little to dislike, but if I had to find something, I would say that the three levels of menu bars, are a little unusual, and the spacing of the middle menu bar looks off.
Faith: My name is Faith. I'm a graphic designer and my company is Just Me. And my one to five rating for Canva is probably a four. I was using Adobe Photoshop before I used Canva, and it was just taking me a long time to boot up and it was super expensive and several of the tools were just very clunky and more in depth than I needed for what I do. I chose Canva because I really like it. It's easy. I can send things to other people to collaborate on. It's a very click and drag format, and it does a lot of the spacing for me, and it has amazing templates that I can customize to whatever I'm doing. Getting started with Canva was super easy. I just put in my name and email, signed up for an account and got to work. I highly recommend Canva, especially if you do social media content or anything like that because you can have it on your phone and your computer and sync changes between both of those, depending on if you're posting on social media from your phone or if you need a more heavy duty on your computer to post a flyer, that kind of thing.
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