United States** Apple Design Award Winner ** Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. Built from the ground up over a five-year period, every feature, tool, panel and function has been developed with the needs of creative professionals at its core. With continuous innovation and development, the result is a ground-breaking application that will revolutionise how you work. Real-time performance • Pan and zoom at 120fps • Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments • Optimised for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision • Live pixel, retina and wireframe view of vector artwork in and out of split screen mode • Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design • Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes Precise vector tools • Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to • The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing and smart shape tools available • Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves • Pencil and brush stabilisation for drawing super-smooth curves freehand • Non-destructive Boolean operations • Live effects, blend modes and image adjustments • Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls Raster or vector, you decide • Switch between vector and raster workspaces with a single click • Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviours for the best of both worlds • High quality raster tools for texturing, masking and finishing artwork – you can even create your own brushes • True creative freedom not found in other apps Sophisticated typography • Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType • Artistic text and text frames • Full control over character and paragraph styles • Flow text along any drawn path Built for your workflow • Unlimited artboards • Saveable history with alternate futures • Customisable keyboard shortcuts • PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, TIFF and EXR file support • Advanced grids, snapping and alignment • Linked symbols and constraints • Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again • Customise saveable presets, including studio presets for the UI layout • Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock panel • Select Same and Select Object functions allow you to efficiently match attributes or select all objects of a certain type for easy editing • Linked images and resource manager • PDF passthrough • Package your document alongside all used image and font resources into a single folder Perfect colour and output • Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale colour models • Full 16-bit per channel editing • End-to-end ICC colour management • Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single click • Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export Built for Mac • Fully compatible with macOS Big Sur • Optimised for Apple’s M1 chips as well as 64-bit and multi-core processors • Takes full advantage of the latest macOS technologies including Metal compute, OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch and Core Graphics • Full support for MacBook Pro's Touch Bar and Force Touch trackpad • Supports regular, retina and multi-monitor set ups • External eGPU support for Intel Macs (M1 Macs get code specifically written to leverage the power of Apple’s SoC solution) • Modern, unified toolbar for more usable document space
EPS export issues
Since updating to Mac OS Ventura EPS export does not acuratly represent artwork design. Other wise the app is excellent.
United Statesexporting slices hangs on Ventura...
Same file is working well on previous MacOS version :(
United StatesI really love these apps but...
These apps are super modern and could take over the industry if they were more cross platform compatible. It's great to be able to open an Illustrator file but you can't save it back out to an Illustrator file. They need to take a page from the Apple v/s Microsoft book and make themselves cross platform even if Adobe isn't. I can't work with these apps and be in the industry that uses only the Adobe monopoly. Come on Affinity - make this happen. Export to native Adobe files.
United StatesGood app, great value
Has most of what I need for vector graphics. I do wish Designer had some features like stacked fills with texture options like Sketch. The symbol feature is bare bones and as of 1.10.5 seems to have a bug that will randomly unlink. So minus star until this is fixed. And wish it would import older AI or EPS files. Support seems to only be through forums which is not optimal if you are working on a project and need to get support now. Minus star for this.
United StatesSolid and Easy but Limited
It's good at what it does. However things like the ability to smooth a path or reduce the number of points on a line are lacking.
United StatesSlow startup times on M1 taking away from a good app
I have been using Affinity Designer for a couple years and glad to be rid of the overpriced Adobe subscription products. The Affinity suite was touted as optimized for M1. However, on my M1 Macbook Pro, the initial startup times for these products are long. This is a regression compared to the prior snappy performance. I see other reviewers saying similar things. Please fix. This is the reason for a 3/5 rather than higher rating.
United StatesBe aware
The layout and toolsets are pretty intuitive and as far as basic design elements go I would easily rate this software 4 stars, but there are no perspective, distortion, skew or free transform tools. So as far as complex designs go this software adds a good amount of hourse to your projects just trying to work around a missing tool set that is in every other vector based software. When I found out their user comunity has been asking for these tools for almost 5 years. I was disheartend in my hopes to truly utilize this as a stand alone option.
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Various stability and performance improvements
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