![]() I'm currently the Senior Manager of Illustrations for iStock and Getty Images. I first fell in love with vectors during a digital illustration course while completing my Graphic Design degree at Red River College, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. I have not tried to transfer files back and forth between workstations using Affinity and Adobe.My name is Jennifer Borton, and I'm a vectorholic. I also do my own product photos and print materials so this suite is just what I needed. Because my workflow includes tracing over photos, I appreciate having a suite (Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher) where it's easy to go back and forth with photo editing. I'm happy that I can use it on multiple computers for my own use, as I have both a home and a studio workstation. The vector editing features are very similar to Adobe Illustrator, but it's a one-time-purchase for this version and updates rather than a subscription model. I have worked on one project to test it during the trial period before purchasing. I tested Affinity Designer on a project that I started in Adobe CS4, continued in Adobe CC working on it in Affinity Designer was seamless. I am not a "power user" of Adobe CC or CS but I'm looking for something good at doing detailed vector artwork that doesn't feel like I'm back in the 1990s or something. I have a one-person business where I design 2D files for laser cutting, as well as doing my own graphic design for packaging and promotional materials, photography, post-processing, etc. Then I realized how important image tracing actually is. When I tried the Illustrator version of the same brushes in Illustrator, I could get true vector drawings. For example, I bought some lovely watercolor vector brushes for Affinity Designer from a website just to realize that what I draw with them in Affinity Designer doesn't become a real vector image. This feature is not only important for tracing images (which I don't really do) but also for using some custom vector brushes. I'm hoping that Affinity will introduce an image trace feature soon. Even though Affinity Designer lacked some features that Illustrator has, it became my favorite drawing app very quickly and is still after using it for more than a year daily. The interface felt so easy to handle, uncluttered, and user-friendly after Illustrator. But the app gets updates pretty regularly so I'm hoping that it will only get better and better with each update. I switch back to Illustrator only when I have something I can't achieve with Affinity Designer. You can still open them but all the layers groups will be merged into a single giant group making you spend some time rearranging things.Įven though it has some restrictions, I love using Affinity Designer and use it instead of Illustrator about 90% of the time. Another thing that you may feel limited is that you see templates for Illustrator everywhere but not for Designer. For that, I have to use Inkspace but everything else: Affnity Designer. The only thing I cannot do in Affinity Designer so far is to get a PNG and trace it into a vector. You have it ready to use and installed properly. The controls are very intuitive and easy to use, the results are way too good and so far, after all these years there's nothing I regret from using Affinity Designer If you buy a set of tools on the Serif store, you do not have to download them and install them on a certain folder, you just go into the panel, click, that's it. PROSĪffinity Designer is the best Adobe Illustrator alternative that will let you edit SVG, AI, EPS, PDF files with ease. ![]() I have the whole suite working together: Designer, Photo, Publisher and it helps me stay on a competitive level against other businesses offering the same services.
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