#Affinity designer software#
#Affinity designer professional#
#Affinity designer series#
#Affinity designer free#

Overall, this program has been more beneficial than any other art program I've used.

Investing time and energy learning could be a waste of time as it may not be around in the future.

#Affinity designer free#

It's cheap, although it still remains less powerful that some free appsĭevelopment seems to have ground to a halt on this app. Since going cross-platform there have been many reports of Designer's instability and since the implementation of Apples Metal API The developers themselves are notoriously unresponsive to please for further development. Convert to curves produces hilariously unusable results and things like Offset Path simply don't exist. Furthermore, many tools are very poorly implemented. These are tools which are actually provided by many free editors. With the exception of skew, vectors cannot be distorted in any way (including perspective) and it even lacks a knife tool. So we're left with an app which lacks some of the most fundamental vector editing tools.

#Affinity designer software#

I wouldn't wish to speculate if this software will even be supported in a few years. The developers have moved on to other projects, and it seems to me that for all intents and purposes, development on this software has been abandoned. The few updates which have come down the line have focused on things like the app icon. It's been two years now and not a single thing on that list has been implemented. Back when I first purchased this app the developers were promising a roadmap of future improvements which would bring it closer to some of the industry-standard vector apps out there.

#Affinity designer professional#

Not really a finished app I have been trying to integrate Affinity Designer into a professional workflow for a number of years now but I've come to the conclusion that it's just too painful and there is nothing to indicate that this will improve. This is not my favorite thing for a few reasons, but, mostly I wish they were one, because I have started at least three projects in the wrong one (of the three I have). The main thing I like the least is that the Affinity software is not 'one' integration. I can create custom templates to save time with each project (and there are a lot of built in custom templates already). I've also created marketing graphics for social and launches of books and media (for clients). It has helped me save time (revising templates instead of building from scratch with each one), and I was able to create exactly what the client wanted.

#Affinity designer series#

I have created book covers (for print), e-book templates, and recently a sticker series (convention logo sticker items for event items). I like that I can edit parts of a design and link or embed the update. This is the easiest to learn in graphic design software. Time saving: - Repetitive tasks: There are some intuitive features I'm learning about, while I was creating a template for printable stickers, I discovered after one 'duplicate' was dragged under the last, the next one would go to the space under that one (with just using the duplicate again).

icon 'There are some features that don't work as intended or are missing entirely, when compared against other vector design software.'.

icon 'There were a couple of features that I used in other softwares that were missing.'.

icon 'If there's any degree of complexity (meaning more than one shape), it's going to be an absolute disaster to work with in Designer.'.

It is constantly updated and is a reference in the current design software.'

icon 'Easy to use and intuitive, multiplatform on Win Mac iPad (no iPhone).

icon 'It has won many accolades for it's ease of use and functionality from Apple and others in the design industry.'.

Overall, my opinion is that if you care about graphics of any kind, this is a tool worth having.'

icon 'The price includes all updates within that version, and it updates enough to maintain user confidence.

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