Affinity Studio now free

As an Affinity user, I'm interested to try this out (just downloaded). I'm surprised they tried to put it all in one app. Affinity Publisher is quite different from Affinity Photo for example.

Edit: Just checked out the app. They essentially put Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher together in one app, switchable from a tab. Honestly, it's executed well. I hope it stays free—these apps are legitimately useful replacements for their Adobe equivalents.

Combining vector and raster editors makes some amount of sense since the raster editor had some vector capabilities anyway, but yeah, tossing in layout/desktop publishing feels kind of weird. It's a bit like combining a microwave oven and a blender.

It looks very similar to what they already had. If you had all three they all were already integrated, you can just switch between the different types of editing modes.

DTP is basically vector editing with an emphasis on text boxes.

Combining a microwave oven and a blender, you say? They already did that: https://www.thermomix.com

I was skeptical about the all-in-one but it's executed really well, to the point that now I really want Adobe to do the same thing for Lightroom (Classic) and Photoshop.

Would be great to be able to switch between them on the same photo with tabs in one app. LR already uses ACR as the backend.

I 100% agree. It feels so clunky to do the LR -> PS -> LR roundtrip!

No, I used to work in a newspaper and we were switching between text editing, graphic design and image processing tools for our work. This makes a lot of sense! That said, most magazines and newspapers have designated people to focus on each of these and the chances of one person having to shift between all three is a little narrow.