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.
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
Other features:
Adjustment layers
Layer effects
Blend modes
1,000,000% zoom
Instant undo
Tablet support
Version 1.1.2:
Fully optimized for OS X Yosemite and iMac with Retina 5K display.
iCloud Drive Support.
Added Stroke alignment options for Inside and Outside strokes.
Improved performance for Pencil and Brush Tools, also improved the shapes they create.
Introduced 'Continuous Export' feature to Export Persona.
Added automatic @3x export support.
Clipboard now supports vector copy and paste between other applications.
Images can now be replaced in-place.
Improved SVG and PDF export. Also improved JPEG export quality.
Many printing improvements.
Improvements to boolean operations and Expand Stroke function.
"Gamut check" option for Soft Proof adjustments.
Many OpenType improvements.
Users with integrated and discrete graphics cards can now opt to only use the integrated card for power saving.
Pen tablet users can now automatically change to the eraser tool by using the eraser tip of their pen.
Numerous other performance improvements and bug fixes.
The absolute best Mac drawing app since FreeHand.
I've been using the free Beta for two months now and it continues to amaze me. Every week or so they add new features. The Beta is already indispensable, very fast and extremely easy to use, with more features than any other Mac drawing app, including 12 pro-level CYMK color profiles and even Freehand document support, so I can finally open my old FreeHand files.
After its release (sometime in October, I think) it will rival Illustrator. And at this rate, it won't be long till it surpasses it. At only $60, it is a truly incredible professional vector graphics program.
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