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Free Creative Software Now Available for Kenilworth Multi Academy Staff and Students

Posted on: 1/12/2025

We’re pleased to announce that Kenilworth Multi Academy Trust staff and students can now access a fantastic suite of professional design and publishing software — Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, Adobe Express and Canva — completely free of charge.

This exciting opportunity provides everyone across the Trust with industry-standard creative tools for photo editing, digital design, and publishing — perfect for both classroom use and personal creative projects.

What’s Included

Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo is a powerful photo editing application, ideal for image correction, retouching, and digital art. It’s known for its speed and professional-quality tools — offering much of the same functionality as Adobe Photoshop, but with a more streamlined interface.

Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design tool used for creating illustrations, icons, logos, and layouts. It’s a strong alternative to Adobe Illustrator, giving users precise control for both print and digital design work.

Affinity Publisher
Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing program, allowing you to design brochures, magazines, posters, and documents with professional layouts. It serves as an alternative to Adobe InDesign, making it perfect for creating visually engaging publications.

Canva
Canva is a web-based graphic design platform that enables quick and easy creation of social media graphics, presentations, posters, and more. It’s a more accessible, collaborative alternative to Adobe Express — ideal for both beginners and experienced designers.


Adobe Express
Adobe Express is a web-based graphic design and content creation platform that makes it easy to produce professional-looking graphics, videos, posters, and presentations in minutes. With a wide range of templates and tools, it’s perfect for creating eye-catching materials for school projects, social media, and classroom displays. It serves as a more accessible, streamlined alternative to Canva or the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, offering the power of Adobe’s design tools in a simplified, browser-based format