So technically Adobe made their products too complicated and expensive. Then a savvy young entrepreneur developed an accessible design software for the masses. Kudos to Melanie!
Customers just dislike Adobe's predatory subscription model, because their projects will be locked if they stop subscribing. Adobe have stopped selling perpetual licenses. However, Adobe software have a lot more features than Canva
@@Hkwoieix that can barely be called a design software. It's merely drag-and-drop-ing texts and pull some sliders to get an effect. It's for unproffessional people to put together simple designs quickly. And even with Canva, for more intricate animations and effects, one would need some deeper knowledge of the sofware, more than the average Canva user has. Adobe still used to have monopoly - and was pretty close to acquire Figma as well - , up until the AI issue, when people turned to different software.
@@arseniharkunou They changed it, after they said that by using their software we'd be giving them a license to reproduce and publish it and use it to train AI, automatically, without compensation. And that's after we pay them 15-20 Euros a month to use Lightroom and Photoshop for example. That's about 240 Euros a year, while a perpetual license for say Captureone costs 320 Euros. Yeah 320 Euros up front, but you can keep using the Software as long as you want. After one Year and 4 months you'd be in the plus. Now part of my photos are family photos, for which I can't grant a license to adobe to reproduce and publish, even if I wanted to, because I don't have the permission of the rest of the family to publish them, my sister has a sensible policy of "no pictures of the kids on the net until they are 18!" so that would make me liable. Also if they want to use my work, they damn well better pay me, it's my time, and my gear that have been used to make those photos and I already paid them to use their software. And Generative AI is a threat to the future employment prospects of photographers, as we've already seen with digital artists and designers. Over the last year there has been a veritable flood of badly made AI generated "art" replacing those made by digital artists in games, company presentations or letters etc. Things for which they used stock photographs or stock art in the past....not the most glamorous or profitable stuff, but it was something that helped countless artists to pay the bills. Next issue is that if you don't pay for a certain colour pack in Indesign, a pack that was free for years, Indesign will retroactively deactivate that pack in your past projects, thereby destroying their old designs. I like Lightroom's UI and workflow, as well as the AI denoiser, but overall the results coming out of other raw development tools like Capture one or DXO Photolab/Pure RAW are superior. Hell even Darktable can create better results, even if the UI is a PITA to use.
@@LupusAries I bought the Affinity package; I use designer to make leather patterns. The photo editor is a bit weird and for me as a Photoshop user, somewhat difficult. But I support Affinity (purchase by Canva) and will never have to pay a subscription fee to Adobe ever again. Ironically, my Adobe CS5 suite (that I purchased) will no longer work. It says I've activated too many computers. I deactivated all but one. Still doesn't work on my latest laptop. However, I do have a Win 7 computer NOT connected to the internet, and the suite does work on there. That computer I will never connect online, so that I can continue to use my suite that I PAID FOR. Yes, I can only wish that Adobe will file for bankruptcy. That would make me happy.
@@LupusAries @arseniharkunou, don't fall for media hype. The terms never said this. The terms stated and now states more clearly that the user transfers the right to Adobe for processing. Just like Microsoft and all other cloud services terms state. The terms never agreed to publishing and training on AI. As always, someone (I believe German online media?) twisted the words and made up a non-existing story that went viral and everyone accepted it. But this is common nowadays to generate clicks.
@@steve-leev skoda did not flipped over & maintenance cost is cheap and available, all weather & can endure extreme north siberian cold ... mercedes cant
A former coworker introduced me to Canva. I wonder where it had been all my life! It’s so amazingly intuitive. While I still like Photoshop and Lightroom, I feel Canva fills a great demand for beautiful, quick-to-result design that’s a real boon in a professional, collaborative environment. What used to take days of tinkering and resulted in mediocre results, now transforms from team idea to professional result in minutes. As your video shows, this is the brilliant idea at the heart of Canva.
That’s right . Not only does she not make it in the worlds tops 10 richest women, but she’s not even Australia’s richest woman. So I don’t know how someone gets away with such inaccuracies .🤔
Canva is a very cool idea, but it needs so much work. I’ve used it for a long time, but it has so many bugs, glitches, and productivity issues for something that should be so ‘simple’
Canva was not and still isn’t anywhere close to bursting Adobe’s software monopoly. The closest company I’m aware of that could be considered somewhat of a competitor is Affinity, but it’s missing some big features that Adobe offers. Adobe still is king in graphic design.
It might depend of country? I am from Poland. In my work we recently changed to Canva for most projects - I work in theater, so mostly posters and internet adds (I do not work in marketing team... I am using Canvas mostly in my private life with a few posters I needed for things like christmas wishes or work parties)
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@@MaraMara89 you are the target audience for Canva. Photoshop for posters and ads are overkill for PS. (although, that depends on how much you charge for them) And you can do the same in Krita & GIMP 3.0 (prior versions very shity interface). Without paying anybody a dime... as both of those are free.
Canva is no where close to adobe for capability but it can get something done with simple functions, whereas adobe like PS is expensive and hard to justify if you just need to use the layer tool for couple jobs.
Canva can barely do Photoshop Express level features. And they are marketing it as a PS replacement. LOL I really do hate Adobe pricing model and scummy stuff they do... But aside from Affinity products (for graphics) ... Which we can't use for our workflow RN... Everything else is shit.
This is why Canva has invested in Affinity. They know Canva doesn't have the professional capabilities people like myself need. But they wanted a REAL competitor to Adobe that was going to hit them in their weak spot, their scummy pricing strategy. I hope they succeed, because Adobe needs to be knocked off their perch.
@@sophiemoconnell I use Affinity because you can buy off instead of subscription-based. I guess Affinity can do the gaming business model sell additional function modules
Im professional international award winner graphic designer , I design for government agencies and i provide graphics to 17k+ employees.... Canva is a great Bussines model success but unfortunately made possible non qualified or non trained people generate graphics... This is in most creative departments and marketing agencies a nightmare due to the huge amounts of bad and amateur design most people is using nowadays to avoid paying professionals .... A big part of my daily routine is correct and in most cases rebuilt from scratch canvas design disasters, {when department heads realise their flyer designs are looking awkward... They give up with Canva and send it to me...} is very sad that many departments pay people top money to generate designs tha looks like a 10 YO kid can do with their I pad Is important clarifying that Canva is not for any mean to replace the use of professional advance vector and raster editors... Canva is a image Composition tool for non profeesionals Tools will never replace talent. And comparing Canva with Adobe products is like comparing a Cessna plane with a F32 Raptor
As an aspiring techprenuer, I am excited to have stumbled on this. Considering too this is a young youtube channel, I see a massively successful future if such great content gets uploaded to inspire millions. Beautifully edited and narrated video. Big up. Much love from Kenya
I used to train people with no aptitude who wanted to be instant designers because they thought that was a fun job, when theirs wasn't. They didn't want advice from anyone who can actually do it, they wanted a quick fix from someone who tells them it is easy and their bad results are brilliant. The model client is a Powerpoint wannabe. Canva sells all that. The results are not great but the people who use it are doing a bit better than they would on their own and loving it.
Now that they own affinity they can not just have templates but also do conventional Graphic Arts from scratch. Plus if they can bring the 2 together like having canvas on affinity's start screen and also having the affinity community develop more templates plus a intelligent non threatening AI using there own clip art and graphic elements plus what affinity community can contribute to. Maybe a community store where affinity community can sell assets kinda like what DAZ 3d does on there market page
What an amazing story! She deserves all the success in the world for creating such a dynamic company Unfortunately, the worlds richest women all inherited their wealth from the Fathers or Husbands. That makes this story all the better! She actually did this on her own merit and vision.
If you Google Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart comes up, not Melanie Perkins. She is in fact the third richest . Nicola Forst comes in second. So I think the title of this video is misleading…If you Google worlds richest woman, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers comes up…
In video he said "among the richest self-made women"- which is probably closer to the truth. I googled all women you have mention and they were either born in rich family or married into one ;)
Although I've used CorelDraw for over 20 years, I now mostly use Canva for graphics projects (I'm just a hobbyist, not a pro graphics designer). However, I still sometimes need to import Canva creations into Corel for extra 'work'.
great vid brother. Would switch the AI icon to the adobe logo or photoshop logo. resonates with much more people and canva is kinda more an alternative to photoshop than illustrator. plus you talk more about photoshop than Ai in the video beginning. good look on your youtube journey!
I used to use Adobe products all the time till they brought in monthly subscription and now I use infinity products instead, one payment and it’s mine to keep.
Exactly. The U.S. government STOPPED enforcing anti-monopoly legislation -- and it's been a disaster for both innovation and consumers. Allowing Facebook to absorb Instagram, Whats App etc. is another classic example of this vile corporate crap.
Glad there’s an alternative to Adobe Photoshop which is very expensive it rivals Microsoft in the way Microsoft has the operating system market worldwide. Last time I used Photoshop was about 20 years ago, and then it was almost $400 and it was just me, try to go in the business, but that was too rich for me at the time, just starting out with just a few jobs to do. Kudos to that smart girl.
At best, this will become a duopoly or another monopoly over time. These companies are not here to serve altruism but to make money. The software industry as a whole is completely lost on simplicity. We cannot have simple/dumb things anymore. Everything is built on top of a giant tower of complexity that gets expensive to maintain, understand and use. If only people tone down their expectations of what software products can actually achieve and if only investors stop asking for cool shit every quarter... Let smaller businesses who have domain specific expertise thrive and let us not have these giant monolithic products that eventually collapse under their own weight.
I used to be a Graphics guy using Adobe and merging databases into a desktop publishing solution for 2 different national directories before I moved full time into voice and data. Until today I have never heard of Canva
Comparing Canva to Adobe-Anything is hilarious, it's not even remotely in the same realm. It's really for people that don't actually have any skills to actually create anything. Just stop.
Unfortunately until an application can replace Adobe products in a professional workflow setting (ad agencies, art departments etc) Adobe is not going away.
The reference is definitely there, many in my circle of friends already use Canva instead of Adobe. My company has also just made the transition. Its easier to use, understand and faster to master. It might not have the word processing power of Adobe, but when it does its bye bye Adobe.
@@cim888 It wasn't a criticism, just an observation ... the Title was "World's Richest Woman Ended Adobe's Monopoly" ... and yet Adobe was mentioned maybe once in the entire story? You could have mentioned that Adobe had something like 99% of the market share before Canva, etc, but either way it was an interesting story, and I understand the significance ... Adobe was certainly the only real Graphic Studio package around for years, and was big $$$ . Good for Canva, they certainly took on the world's leader and gave people viable choices.
It's ridiculous to compare Canva to Photoshop. It's like comparing a school bus to a tractor - they are both great but for different purposes! Canva is a great solution for non-professionals, while Photoshop is strictly for professionals. As a photographer, Canva offers basically NONE of the tools I use in my everyday work. Completely unusable for me, while totally great for my mom!
Jeez, the initial investors got in cheap and without any risk or hardly any. The entrepreneurs all of a sudden had a waiting list of investors and still kept at US$3 million? That's insane. They should have upped the amount to $30M. Anyway, it all turned out allright but why the difficulty? Why make such a difficult path of just 3M?
I'm lost, started skimming at the halfway point. All you really say, is this is an online yearbook creator. Kind of like those online self help website creators. How do I edit my photos?
It is more for graphic design than to edit photos. You can easily design posters, postcards, packaging for your products etc. I have no previous experience with graphic programs (except some paint...) and love Canva. I made many projects for my personal use and a few posters for work - all of them with only free tools (for some more advanced features/templates you have to pay)
@MaraMara89 and it's probably super limited too, in what it can do, especially if you only can do it online, which is my least favorite part of adobe. So the one thing I'd like you to take away from adobe is heavily relied on. And it sounds less like photoshop and more, like the rest of the suite. In design Maybe some illustrator. Otherwise, it's just a custom online only program to make a few things. If those specific things meet your needs good for you.
@@geniferteal4178 I would definitely say for me it is more an option to replace in design than Photoshop, but I am using free version and never needed to try to edit photos or videos - it had tools for that too (as I read)
Good for them, they should enjoy their success, but so many things had to go right for this to have worked. We know about this story because it was the one that succeeded, but many others have tried doing the exact same thing and failed because the stars didn't align at the right moment, several times throughout their journey.
I could be like this but my mind always tell me: "Waste of time. You will die any time. All your hard work will be useless." Working on fixing this so I can think Long term.
I like Canva, it is tool that is focused on creativity. Adobe is too technical. Adobe are hardcore graphic designers and also it takes years to be an expert on Adobe unlike with Canva. If we need to be detailed we use Adobe when time is not an issue. If we need a quick result we use Canva. For me Canva has the edge, it remind me printshop back on the 90's. On the end nobody knows what tools you use. On Canva we do get a positive result because it is quick, latest templates are available and making changes are easy.
Our marketing team use it for quick adds, like social media posts, small Internet banners etc, when our graphic designer have more complicated/bigger things to do ;) I personally use it for private use - birthday/christmas cards, some posters etc... really easy to use - and apparently that was the point :)
What about the boyfriend? And that valuation is insane. That's 222 dollars per user as lifetime value. Probably 95pc of these users will never in a million years pay a subscription to the service. Great achievement, but VC valuations are absurd
Informative and inspiring story. However, Adobe is not a product; it is a company that makes products. Canva looks like an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but not Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe is a scum but it is GOAT in the world of multimedia design. Canvas is no where close to Adobe. This video is misleading. Canvas will never replace Adobe
It’s another graphic design tool for non graphic designers. Great at what it does and kudos for finding a niche in the market, but you won’t find it replacing InDesign or Photoshop, or illustrator in professional environments anytime soon. I’d say the monopoly is still alive and well. Not to mention the danger of someone with a little knowledge. They’ll be a raft of design disasters coming out of this you can be sure.
@@paulsz6194 at 13:05 it's mentioned "one of" the self-made women. so you just read the title, not watched the video? it's easy to make you believe by just a title then lol
@@snowymuffin I click on a video to watch by the title name, not by what potential could say in the video, this is I'm sure what 99% of the population do, it says "The World's richest", so.... are you ok, do you need help?
So technically Adobe made their products too complicated and expensive. Then a savvy young entrepreneur developed an accessible design software for the masses. Kudos to Melanie!
haha, well put!
Customers just dislike Adobe's predatory subscription model, because their projects will be locked if they stop subscribing. Adobe have stopped selling perpetual licenses. However, Adobe software have a lot more features than Canva
@@containedhurricane True 💯
@@containedhurricaneThere's this little thing called the 'software update.'
@@Hkwoieix that can barely be called a design software. It's merely drag-and-drop-ing texts and pull some sliders to get an effect. It's for unproffessional people to put together simple designs quickly. And even with Canva, for more intricate animations and effects, one would need some deeper knowledge of the sofware, more than the average Canva user has. Adobe still used to have monopoly - and was pretty close to acquire Figma as well - , up until the AI issue, when people turned to different software.
When Adobe changed its terms to state they own all content created by their software it marked the end.
Can you please point to where it states so in the terms & agreement? I just did a quick search and it doesn’t seem to be the case.
@@arseniharkunou They changed it, after they said that by using their software we'd be giving them a license to reproduce and publish it and use it to train AI, automatically, without compensation. And that's after we pay them 15-20 Euros a month to use Lightroom and Photoshop for example. That's about 240 Euros a year, while a perpetual license for say Captureone costs 320 Euros. Yeah 320 Euros up front, but you can keep using the Software as long as you want. After one Year and 4 months you'd be in the plus.
Now part of my photos are family photos, for which I can't grant a license to adobe to reproduce and publish, even if I wanted to, because I don't have the permission of the rest of the family to publish them, my sister has a sensible policy of "no pictures of the kids on the net until they are 18!" so that would make me liable.
Also if they want to use my work, they damn well better pay me, it's my time, and my gear that have been used to make those photos and I already paid them to use their software.
And Generative AI is a threat to the future employment prospects of photographers, as we've already seen with digital artists and designers. Over the last year there has been a veritable flood of badly made AI generated "art" replacing those made by digital artists in games, company presentations or letters etc. Things for which they used stock photographs or stock art in the past....not the most glamorous or profitable stuff, but it was something that helped countless artists to pay the bills.
Next issue is that if you don't pay for a certain colour pack in Indesign, a pack that was free for years, Indesign will retroactively deactivate that pack in your past projects, thereby destroying their old designs.
I like Lightroom's UI and workflow, as well as the AI denoiser, but overall the results coming out of other raw development tools like Capture one or DXO Photolab/Pure RAW are superior. Hell even Darktable can create better results, even if the UI is a PITA to use.
@@LupusAries I bought the Affinity package; I use designer to make leather patterns. The photo editor is a bit weird and for me as a Photoshop user, somewhat difficult. But I support Affinity (purchase by Canva) and will never have to pay a subscription fee to Adobe ever again.
Ironically, my Adobe CS5 suite (that I purchased) will no longer work. It says I've activated too many computers. I deactivated all but one. Still doesn't work on my latest laptop. However, I do have a Win 7 computer NOT connected to the internet, and the suite does work on there. That computer I will never connect online, so that I can continue to use my suite that I PAID FOR.
Yes, I can only wish that Adobe will file for bankruptcy. That would make me happy.
@@LupusAries @arseniharkunou, don't fall for media hype. The terms never said this. The terms stated and now states more clearly that the user transfers the right to Adobe for processing. Just like Microsoft and all other cloud services terms state. The terms never agreed to publishing and training on AI.
As always, someone (I believe German online media?) twisted the words and made up a non-existing story that went viral and everyone accepted it.
But this is common nowadays to generate clicks.
This was deliberate anti-Adobe propaganda by some competitor. It was never true.
Never expected this story to be so inspiring. Well done Melanie!
The last nail in the Adobe's coffin was when the converted from perpetual license to SAAS, but at very high monthly/annual cost
Canva ia also SAAS with a similar monthly/annual subscription.
@MrinalKantiM Pricing difference is just massive. Look it up, their yearly plan is cheap even for a student
@@LifeGeneralist Yeah and a Skoda is cheaper than a Mercedes. Go figure!
That is what I said. They lost the lead after CS6. That's when everything changed
@@steve-leev skoda did not flipped over & maintenance cost is cheap and available, all weather & can endure extreme north siberian cold ... mercedes cant
As a procastrinator, Canva is the fucking GOAT
A former coworker introduced me to Canva. I wonder where it had been all my life! It’s so amazingly intuitive. While I still like Photoshop and Lightroom, I feel Canva fills a great demand for beautiful, quick-to-result design that’s a real boon in a professional, collaborative environment. What used to take days of tinkering and resulted in mediocre results, now transforms from team idea to professional result in minutes. As your video shows, this is the brilliant idea at the heart of Canva.
Agreed! thanks for much :)
I just love how she smiles. Really beautiful smile.
agreed!
I’m a designer and Adobe sucks as a corporation but Canva doesn’t compare to Photoshop, nor Illustrator. Canva is for a layman
It does the simple bits where previously people might use adobe stuff for it. The title is kinda sensational, use a big brand to attract clickers.
@@monkeyfish227 Yes, you are right and I agree with you on all of your points
Figma is swallowing Canva
Most people are not in need of professional packages such as Adobe's products
Agreed
You have a small channel, but this documentary is captivating. All the best for the future. Don't stop creating.
Only 80 subscribers!!!! hol'up, how has this not blown up yet? Bravo, great narration and presentation. +1 subscriber
Wow, thank you! It is definitely day one here XD!
Omg I thought this is a big channel!
@@fasterthannormalbest of luck to you, mate! Here’s me hoping your channel would grow more
Looking at the thumbnail I thought it was a Million+ channel, btw its 1.2k now
Incredible work bro. I am lucky that this video was on my home page.
Much appreciated!
No shade but this women isn't even close the world's richest women. All said, I commend her mark in the technological space.
That’s right . Not only does she not make it in the worlds tops 10 richest women, but she’s not even Australia’s richest woman. So I don’t know how someone gets away with such inaccuracies .🤔
It's a clickbait, he corrected to the Richest self-made woman in the video, maybe that isn't even true. Hey, the guy just started, give him a break!
lesson learned! thanks for the thoughts
@@fasterthannormal titles can be changed after publishing..
It said self made. Nothing was given to her.
Canva is a very cool idea, but it needs so much work. I’ve used it for a long time, but it has so many bugs, glitches, and productivity issues for something that should be so ‘simple’
I'm a minute and 40 seconds into this video, and I now only see your channel only has 85 subscribers. Very well done quality 👍
glad you enjoyed it my friend! stay tuned for more XD
@@fasterthannormal Yes your video is amazing. I subscribed too!
Wait, what? Damm 😮
Watched the whole thing only to realize this after reading ur comment 😅 13:45
Got around 400 more since then too
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Canva was not and still isn’t anywhere close to bursting Adobe’s software monopoly. The closest company I’m aware of that could be considered somewhat of a competitor is Affinity, but it’s missing some big features that Adobe offers. Adobe still is king in graphic design.
It might depend of country? I am from Poland. In my work we recently changed to Canva for most projects - I work in theater, so mostly posters and internet adds (I do not work in marketing team... I am using Canvas mostly in my private life with a few posters I needed for things like christmas wishes or work parties)
@@MaraMara89 you are the target audience for Canva. Photoshop for posters and ads are overkill for PS. (although, that depends on how much you charge for them)
And you can do the same in Krita & GIMP 3.0 (prior versions very shity interface). Without paying anybody a dime... as both of those are free.
But Canva bought Affinity
One thing left to mention was Canva acquiring Affinity software which are a true Adobe competitor and cost $50 one-time. Kudos to women like Melanie!
Canva is no where close to adobe for capability but it can get something done with simple functions, whereas adobe like PS is expensive and hard to justify if you just need to use the layer tool for couple jobs.
Agreed!
Canva can barely do Photoshop Express level features. And they are marketing it as a PS replacement. LOL
I really do hate Adobe pricing model and scummy stuff they do... But aside from Affinity products (for graphics) ... Which we can't use for our workflow RN...
Everything else is shit.
This is why Canva has invested in Affinity. They know Canva doesn't have the professional capabilities people like myself need. But they wanted a REAL competitor to Adobe that was going to hit them in their weak spot, their scummy pricing strategy.
I hope they succeed, because Adobe needs to be knocked off their perch.
@@sophiemoconnell I use Affinity because you can buy off instead of subscription-based. I guess Affinity can do the gaming business model sell additional function modules
Im professional international award winner graphic designer , I design for government agencies and i provide graphics to 17k+ employees.... Canva is a great Bussines model success but unfortunately made possible non qualified or non trained people generate graphics... This is in most creative departments and marketing agencies a nightmare due to the huge amounts of bad and amateur design most people is using nowadays to avoid paying professionals ....
A big part of my daily routine is correct and in most cases rebuilt from scratch canvas design disasters, {when department heads realise their flyer designs are looking awkward... They give up with Canva and send it to me...} is very sad that many departments pay people top money to generate designs tha looks like a 10 YO kid can do with their I pad
Is important clarifying that Canva is not for any mean to replace the use of professional advance vector and raster editors... Canva is a image Composition tool for non profeesionals
Tools will never replace talent. And comparing Canva with Adobe products is like comparing a Cessna plane with a F32 Raptor
As an aspiring techprenuer, I am excited to have stumbled on this. Considering too this is a young youtube channel, I see a massively successful future if such great content gets uploaded to inspire millions. Beautifully edited and narrated video. Big up. Much love from Kenya
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1:38 girl got harry potter as her brother 😭🙏
Fabulous, innit?
I can not help but to smile when she talks. Her passion and pride really add up to everything else. No wonder she achieved it all.
Props to Melanie and Cliff. They noticed a problem and pursued their dream until the solution was obvious to everyone else.
I used to train people with no aptitude who wanted to be instant designers because they thought that was a fun job, when theirs wasn't.
They didn't want advice from anyone who can actually do it, they wanted a quick fix from someone who tells them it is easy and their bad results are brilliant.
The model client is a Powerpoint wannabe.
Canva sells all that. The results are not great but the people who use it are doing a bit better than they would on their own and loving it.
this is great. I didn't know who was behind Canva before this
Excellently made, thank you for this.
You're very welcome!
I know only one channel w/ this kind of narrative quality: ARTE. Top work, subscribed.
Now that they own affinity they can not just have templates but also do conventional Graphic Arts from scratch. Plus if they can bring the 2 together like having canvas on affinity's start screen and also having the affinity community develop more templates plus a intelligent non threatening AI using there own clip art and graphic elements plus what affinity community can contribute to. Maybe a community store where affinity community can sell assets kinda like what DAZ 3d does on there market page
I love Affinity. I bought both v1 and V2.
What an amazing story! She deserves all the success in the world for creating such a dynamic company
Unfortunately, the worlds richest women all inherited their wealth from the Fathers or Husbands.
That makes this story all the better! She actually did this on her own merit and vision.
Been looking for an Adobe alternative , thanks for the video
affinity is the closest
look at Krita, not this trash :)
If you Google Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart comes up, not Melanie Perkins. She is in fact the third richest . Nicola Forst comes in second. So I think the title of this video is misleading…If you Google worlds richest woman, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers comes up…
In video he said "among the richest self-made women"- which is probably closer to the truth. I googled all women you have mention and they were either born in rich family or married into one ;)
@@MaraMara89what you said has nothing to do with the title being a lie.
@@MaraMara89 No woman is self-made. We all know how babies are made.
Although I've used CorelDraw for over 20 years, I now mostly use Canva for graphics projects (I'm just a hobbyist, not a pro graphics designer). However, I still sometimes need to import Canva creations into Corel for extra 'work'.
great vid brother. Would switch the AI icon to the adobe logo or photoshop logo. resonates with much more people and canva is kinda more an alternative to photoshop than illustrator. plus you talk more about photoshop than Ai in the video beginning. good look on your youtube journey!
Good shout! thanks for the call out :)
I used to use Adobe products all the time till they brought in monthly subscription and now I use infinity products instead, one payment and it’s mine to keep.
Adobe didnt have an monopoly until it ate Aldus and then macromedia. Two events thats shouldnt have been allowed.
Exactly. The U.S. government STOPPED enforcing anti-monopoly legislation -- and it's been a disaster for both innovation and consumers. Allowing Facebook to absorb Instagram, Whats App etc. is another classic example of this vile corporate crap.
I used canva to make a mock brand for a uni project. It was quick and easy.
Real Canva fan. Thanks so much for the story 🎉
Our pleasure!
Glad there’s an alternative to Adobe Photoshop which is very expensive it rivals Microsoft in the way Microsoft has the operating system market worldwide. Last time I used Photoshop was about 20 years ago, and then it was almost $400 and it was just me, try to go in the business, but that was too rich for me at the time, just starting out with just a few jobs to do. Kudos to that smart girl.
Great, i've been looking for an alternative to adobe.Ever since they went with the subscription model and so much is online.😢
At best, this will become a duopoly or another monopoly over time. These companies are not here to serve altruism but to make money.
The software industry as a whole is completely lost on simplicity. We cannot have simple/dumb things anymore. Everything is built on top of a giant tower of complexity that gets expensive to maintain, understand and use.
If only people tone down their expectations of what software products can actually achieve and if only investors stop asking for cool shit every quarter...
Let smaller businesses who have domain specific expertise thrive and let us not have these giant monolithic products that eventually collapse under their own weight.
I used to be a Graphics guy using Adobe and merging databases into a desktop publishing solution for 2 different national directories before I moved full time into voice and data. Until today I have never heard of Canva
exciting!
A woman own Canva? Period! Girl Power!!❤🎉
Comparing Canva to Adobe-Anything is hilarious, it's not even remotely in the same realm.
It's really for people that don't actually have any skills to actually create anything. Just stop.
Congrats bro! Excellent video!!!
Appreciate it!
linux support?
Her father is an Australian. While her mother is Filipino. Perkins is an English name, DUH!?
Yes. I thought it was a bit unusual for a Malaysian to have an Anglo surname…
Australians do not need visa, they are granted a 3 month stay when they enter USA
Gee, why did I (an Australian) need a visa to travel to the USA in 2011? I know! The rules have changed!
@@aussie405we need a ESTA not a visa. Unless you were travelling for a long period of time or intended to work there.
@@DC-mj4lx sorry, I don't remember the exact term for a thing I had to apply for to enter a country 15 years ago. My bad!
Unfortunately until an application can replace Adobe products in a professional workflow setting (ad agencies, art departments etc) Adobe is not going away.
Yes, and neither should they go away. They just shouldn't have such dominance in the professional space. When shit gets too easy, shitters get lazy.
Wow great story and great video!
I really respect and look up to Melanie. Canva single handedly made graphic design accessible to the lay person and Fuck Adobe!
The Adobe connection seems a little thin ... but it was an interesting story.
The reference is definitely there, many in my circle of friends already use Canva instead of Adobe. My company has also just made the transition. Its easier to use, understand and faster to master. It might not have the word processing power of Adobe, but when it does its bye bye Adobe.
@@cim888 It wasn't a criticism, just an observation ... the Title was "World's Richest Woman Ended Adobe's Monopoly" ... and yet Adobe was mentioned maybe once in the entire story? You could have mentioned that Adobe had something like 99% of the market share before Canva, etc, but either way it was an interesting story, and I understand the significance ... Adobe was certainly the only real Graphic Studio package around for years, and was big $$$ . Good for Canva, they certainly took on the world's leader and gave people viable choices.
As long as her products don't go to subscription based like Greedy Adobe, I'll support it.
They might as well change their name to Greedobe 😂
@@superviewer Agreed. LOL
What a misleading title. She's far from the richest woman in the world.
It's ridiculous to compare Canva to Photoshop. It's like comparing a school bus to a tractor - they are both great but for different purposes! Canva is a great solution for non-professionals, while Photoshop is strictly for professionals. As a photographer, Canva offers basically NONE of the tools I use in my everyday work. Completely unusable for me, while totally great for my mom!
Jeez, the initial investors got in cheap and without any risk or hardly any. The entrepreneurs all of a sudden had a waiting list of investors and still kept at US$3 million? That's insane. They should have upped the amount to $30M. Anyway, it all turned out allright but why the difficulty? Why make such a difficult path of just 3M?
so good when rich people are humble and intelligent. that combination can create a lot of good things to the world.
3:50 These yearbook photos are priceless!
so good, aren't they!?
very good video my man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
appreciate you! more to come :)
I'm lost, started skimming at the halfway point. All you really say, is this is an online yearbook creator. Kind of like those online self help website creators. How do I edit my photos?
It is more for graphic design than to edit photos. You can easily design posters, postcards, packaging for your products etc. I have no previous experience with graphic programs (except some paint...) and love Canva. I made many projects for my personal use and a few posters for work - all of them with only free tools (for some more advanced features/templates you have to pay)
@MaraMara89 and it's probably super limited too, in what it can do, especially if you only can do it online, which is my least favorite part of adobe. So the one thing I'd like you to take away from adobe is heavily relied on. And it sounds less like photoshop and more, like the rest of the suite.
In design
Maybe some illustrator.
Otherwise, it's just a custom online only program to make a few things. If those specific things meet your needs good for you.
@@geniferteal4178 I would definitely say for me it is more an option to replace in design than Photoshop, but I am using free version and never needed to try to edit photos or videos - it had tools for that too (as I read)
The first investment always goes to development. That's why learning coding is or can be a game changer.
adobe has a dominance , not a monopoly
who else can you name that was a notable player in the graphic design game before Canva came along? I think monopoly is absolutely the right word
I think, what he meant was, there was a smaller MOAT and most market share was held by shear lack of alternatives
Monopoly because they were allowed to buy up their competition such as macromedia.
Great video. Subscribed!
thanks for watching!
Amazing work on the video !
Thanks a lot!
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@@Pipping-HotYea right!
A fact check showed that Melanie is NOT THE RICHEST WOMAN in the world.
But nice CLICKBAIT.
Why do I keep hearing 1987 as 1997? @1:34
Good for them, they should enjoy their success, but so many things had to go right for this to have worked. We know about this story because it was the one that succeeded, but many others have tried doing the exact same thing and failed because the stars didn't align at the right moment, several times throughout their journey.
Such an interesting video topic and high quality!!
Thanks so much! glad you enjoyed it
I think you will go places and would love to be a part of this journey on the backend
appreciate you! it's day one :)
I could be like this but my mind always tell me:
"Waste of time. You will die any time. All your hard work will be useless."
Working on fixing this so I can think Long term.
I believe in you! We will all die, but the most important thing is saying we at least TRIED to live fully :)
I like Canva, it is tool that is focused on creativity. Adobe is too technical. Adobe are hardcore graphic designers and also it takes years to be an expert on Adobe unlike with Canva. If we need to be detailed we use Adobe when time is not an issue. If we need a quick result we use Canva. For me Canva has the edge, it remind me printshop back on the 90's. On the end nobody knows what tools you use. On Canva we do get a positive result because it is quick, latest templates are available and making changes are easy.
You mention malaysian, so +1 subs for that
You either die as a hero or you will become what you were fighting.
Thank you Melanie
Funny I saw an Adobe ad before this video
❤ the story. very inspiring
Canva is for amateur creators. Any pro will tell you that it is very limited.
Our marketing team use it for quick adds, like social media posts, small Internet banners etc, when our graphic designer have more complicated/bigger things to do ;) I personally use it for private use - birthday/christmas cards, some posters etc... really easy to use - and apparently that was the point :)
7:33 is he from like sweden or something. because as a swede, That name sounds swedish as fuck.
Sounds more Danish tbh
Thank You Melanie. Just don't be another Adobe.
I'm such a fan!
What about the boyfriend? And that valuation is insane. That's 222 dollars per user as lifetime value. Probably 95pc of these users will never in a million years pay a subscription to the service. Great achievement, but VC valuations are absurd
Adobe premiere pro would be the gold standard in video editing.
Nevertheless,kudos and well done to Melanie.
You deserve 1M subs
Kind of you to say! It's day one over here ;)
And millions of professional graphic artists with training and creative ideas, are now on the breadline….
Great video, love the storytelling!
In what universe is she the world's richest woman. Already your title is deceptive and wrong info. This is whats wrong with RUclips
Great video ;)
Amazing quality. Great Video!
Glad you liked it! Thanks a lot for watching
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I am hearing of Canva just today.
Kudos to her. Too many heroine-minded girls from Australia.
I wonder what would happen if Canva gets sold to Adobe or if Canva disappears, what would happen to everyone's data?
👀 I think the transaction would face antitrust issues. Adobe tried to acquire Figma but it was rejected on that basis.
Can a bought affinity (serif) a bit ago…. I doubt that they are going anywhere anytime soon.
Canva won’t disappear nor won’t be sold to Adobe. Canva is so big now!
Only 156 subscribers, this channel will grow so fast
appreciate you!
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Informative and inspiring story. However, Adobe is not a product; it is a company that makes products. Canva looks like an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but not Adobe Photoshop.
Excellent work, I'm a new sub.
thanks for watching!
Adobe is a scum but it is GOAT in the world of multimedia design. Canvas is no where close to Adobe. This video is misleading. Canvas will never replace Adobe
It’s another graphic design tool for non graphic designers. Great at what it does and kudos for finding a niche in the market, but you won’t find it replacing InDesign or Photoshop, or illustrator in professional environments anytime soon. I’d say the monopoly is still alive and well. Not to mention the danger of someone with a little knowledge. They’ll be a raft of design disasters coming out of this you can be sure.
SHe is not the richest woman...lies
It’s “ONE OF” the richest woman. Are you ok? You need help
@@snowymuffinperhaps you need to read the title of this video again. Do you have a reading problem?? 🤔
@@paulsz6194 at 13:05 it's mentioned "one of" the self-made women.
so you just read the title, not watched the video? it's easy to make you believe by just a title then lol
@@snowymuffin I click on a video to watch by the title name, not by what potential could say in the video, this is I'm sure what 99% of the population do, it says "The World's richest", so.... are you ok, do you need help?
@@snowymuffin its called clickbait BS
Canva owner Melanie Perkins is not the richest woman in the world. Forbes estimated Perkins' personal net worth at A$9.21 billion (US$6.5bn)
I thought Melanie Perkins is a Filipino?
Canva is my best friend!
Great content
One think i would suggest is changing the name of your channel, something simple
either way you earrned a new subscriber
thanks for watching!
lol getting adobe ad on this video.
Not the world's richest woman. Get your facts straight. Also, backup your claims with references.