![]() ![]() This should indicate that many people are buying it instead of them subscribing to the $19.99/month Illustrator CC product of Adobe. Serif's vector illustration software has consistently remain among the top-grossing software on the Mac platform since it was released last year. There is also the obvious reality that Serif might port Affinity Designer to the Linux and Windows platforms in the future.Īffinity Designer, unlike Affinity Photo, has proven itself worthy of professional usage. ![]() ![]() The Apple ( AAPL) Mac OS X platform dominates the all-important creative industry. The obvious risk now is that Adobe's subscriptions on Illustrator CC might eventually decline on the Mac platform once more graphic artists learns about the low learning curve to master Affinity Designer. Making Affinity Designer-created PSD files perfectly compatible with Photoshop's vast library of third-party plugins, gives graphic designers access to almost-unlimited specials effects. However, the $19.99/month subscription fee of Illustrator CC is unattractive compared to the one-time $49.99 payment needed to get the Photoshop-compatible Affinity Designer.Įven without extensive native third-party plugins available, Affinity Designer already offers what Illustrator CC can do for digital illustrators. Photoshop CC at $9.99 a month is reasonable. Many logo artists, web designers, and UI/UX designers may decide to go Adobe Photoshop CC+Affinity Designer, instead of Photoshop CC+Illustrator CC. The multi-layed CMYK mode PSD file (10 cm x 9.9cm size, 300dpi resolution) logo I created on Affinity designer was only 1.5MB - a lot smaller than I expected. Photoshop CC 2014 can correctly open up multi-layered PSD files created by Affinity Designer. Affinity Photo and Designer can open (not just import) and manipulate the native files created by each other.Īs you can see from the screenshot below, I'm able to directly edit the text-on-a-path object of the Affinity Designer file of the logo I created inside Affinity Photo.Īffinity Designer also imports and exports Adobe proprietary formats like PDF and PSD. Budget-constrained freelance graphic designers may also find that owning both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer is also ideal. This cheap $50 program even renders Illustrator files better than Illustrator CC 2015. On the other hand, Serif's implementation of GPU acceleration on Affinity Designer has no such preview problems. The latest Illustrator CC 2015 from Adobe has GPU acceleration that has messed up previews so I do not use it. It uses less CPU/RAM resources than Adobe's vector illustration program.Įnabling OpenGL GPU acceleration on Macs with discreet 1GB or higher GPU cards makes Affinity Designer even faster. I can now confirm Serif's claim that Affinity Designer is faster than Illustrator CC. I cannot run Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC at the same time without noticeably degraded performance. Even on an ancient 2009 MacBook with only 2GB of RAM, Affinity Designer can be comfortably used while Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 and 12 tabs of the Firefox browser are running in the background. However, Serif's software touts faster performance while being much cheaper. Like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer does not have the same third-party plugins support of Illustrator CC. Serif gave it the same keyboard shortcuts that are almost similar to that of Illustrator. Affinity Designer also has little learning curve for artists already accustomed to Illustrator CC. It took me less than 20 minutes to create the said logo (and two variations of it), thanks to the Cog Shape tool of Affinity Designer. I made 400 pesos ($8.60) creating the simple logo for a walk-in client using Affinity Designer. The thing that really sold me on Affinity Designer is that it can now do text-on-a-path, which is an absolute necessity for creating logos. It has a comprehensive set of tools, complex layer effects, Boolean object operations, support for 5K Retina displays, easy-to-use path drawing and freehand drawing, smart shapes, gradients, and GPU acceleration. Even professional digital illustrators will agree with my assessment that Affinity Designer is great for heavy-duty print and web graphic/User Interface design.Īffinity Designer offers the same advanced features of Illustrator CC. I am convinced this cheap graphic illustration software is a worthy replacement for Adobe's flagship $19.99/month Illustrator CC vector illustration software. After two days of testing the trial version, I decided to get the full Affinity Designer program. However, I cannot say the same thing about Serif's other $50 Mac-only program, Affinity Designer. I previously dismissed Affinity Photo as an unworthy alternative for Adobe ( NASDAQ: ADBE) Photoshop professionals. ![]()
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