Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is an incredibly accurate vector illustrator that feels fast and at home in the hands of creative professionals. It intuitively combines rock solid and crisp vector art with flexible layer management and an impressive range of high quality raster tools for finishing. With accuracy, quality and speed at the heart of every single design task, and the ability to finesse designs without switching apps, this fresh-faced multi-discipline illustrator lets creatives shine.

Vector tools

• Node Tool
• Pen Tool
• Pencil Tool
• Vector Brush
• Gradient Fill Tool
• Transparency Tool
• Crop Tool
• Targeted Insert
• Text
• Alignment Guides

Raster tools

• Lasso Tool
• Selection Brush
• Pixel Brush
• Paint Brush
• Eraser
• Dodge
• Burn
• Smudge
• Blur
• Sharpen

• Support for multi-page Affinity Publisher documents
• Various stability and performance improvements
• HDR / EDR monitor support
• Arrowheads!
• Node tool now has transform mode for more freeform editing of nodes
• Pen tool now has a rubber band mode giving an accurate preview of how your next curve will look
• Node tool now allows for lasso selection of nodes
• New sculpt mode added to pencil enabling the manipulation of existing curves in a more natural way
• Alignment widgets have been added for much faster alignment operations
• Whole new isometric panel - allowing you to create and edit directly in any isometric plane
• All shape tools now allow you to save presets
• Add multiple strokes and fills to a single shape with the new appearance panel
• New point transform tool, allowing you to scale and rotate objects from any node
• Many grid improvements, including a new cube grid and column guides
• Many PSD import / export improvements
• Layers Panel now includes options for transparent backgrounds, different thumbnail sizes and colour tagging.
• Pixel persona now supports Sub Brushes, symmetry (up to 32-way) and on-the-fly nozzle rotation
• Alternate futures for document history have been added.