Introducing the all-new Affinity: professional design, free for foodservice (and all)

Affinity Studio, a powerful creative tool restaurants and food-focsued operations can download now — no cost, no catch.

If you’ve ever wished your team could create classier content—menu layouts, social-media posts, branded graphics—without paying a big monthly fee or learning three different pieces of software: good news. The all-new Affinity app (from Canva) is here. According to its creators, this is a “fully reimagined professional design app that unites photo editing, vector design, and page layout tools in one powerful space.” Best part for you and your team: It’s now completely free.

How will it help (aside from being free)?

One tool for many tasks – Do you design menus, flyers, update signage, produce social-posts, print a newsletter? Affinity offers vector for logos and signage, photo editing for all your fabulous food images, and layout design for multi-page menus or brochures. All in one application, for Windows & Mac (with an iPad version coming soon.)

Professional-grade capacity, free cost – Often you’re deciding: pay big software license, hire a designer, or make do with a simpler tool. Now your team can access a high-end tool without subscription cost. The announcement states: “the full, professional-grade Affinity experience, available to everyone” for no cost.

Fits your creative workflow – It’s designed to be flexible: you can personalize the workspace, mix and match tools, save setups, share custom studios. That’s helpful if you have a marketing person, a chef taking photo, and a venue manager doing signage—each with different needs.

Import and export friendly – It supports many popular formats including PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, IDML and more, so you’re not locked out of your existing files and previous content creations. View and open professional formats like EPS and extract content from PDFs like a pro.

Scales with you – Whether you’re doing one-off “Winter Menu” launch graphics or full brand-update across menus, social media and signage, this tool is built to handle large/complex tasks.

An unbiased recommendation and considerations:

• We want to highlight this tool as a helpful suggestion. We receive no payment or incentive for recommending it. We believe in raising awareness with you, our customers, for tools that can legitimately shift efficiency, creativity and cost-effectiveness in business.
• Free doesn’t mean zero learning curve: you may need time to learn the software, even if you have experience in other applications.
• While the announcement claims “no catch, no stripped-back version, no gotchas” for the free version. Keep an eye on any future changes or premium add-ons that you may want to avoid (or may interest you).

In an industry where presentation, storytelling and visual engagement matter, having access to a professional-grade design suite at zero cost is a potential game-changer. If you or your team can invest a little time to learn the tool, you could save on outsourcing, speed up your content creation, and elevate your in-house marketing capabilities.

Download Affinity Studio
Professional design, now free for everyone.

Source: Canva