When it comes to other popular drawing apps like Procreate, Affinity Designer has a few advantages. Affinity Designer can open other file formats while preserving your layers. You can save your documents automatically to your iCloud drive ensuring your documents are recoverable. These brushes have raster characteristics giving them a lot of texture and flexible editing capabilities. Affinity Designer has the ability to produce high-quality pixel and vector graphics in the same document. Here, the square is a vector while the line was created using a rasterized brush. #caption#Affinity Designer can be used to create vector and raster graphics within the same document. That’s a huge win for anyone looking for professional design software without the hefty price. It's a part of a creative suite for graphic design with two other Affinity apps, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, which are similar to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.Īside from Affinity Designer's wide range of capabilities, it'd be hard not to notice that it uses a one-time purchase model.įor just $22 for the iPad version in the App Store and $55 for the desktop app, you’ll never have to worry about paying a monthly subscription or missing out on future updates. This isn't to say that Affinity Designer does everything. In the same way that we see Fresco and Illustrator work together as companion apps, Affinity Designer packs this idea into a singular experience. With Adobe Illustrator, you can create stunning vector-based graphics but it lacks the flexibility of changing between raster and vector. However, Affinity Designer features a selection of over 100 different vector brushes while Fresco has just 11 vector brushes to choose from. No subscription required.ĭrawing apps like Adobe Fresco and Illustrator are similar to Affinity Designer in that they all feature vector graphics capabilities.Īn even greater advantage to using Affinity Designer is that it can handle both raster and vector brushes, just like Adobe Fresco. Affinity is $22 on iPad and $55 on desktop. Affinity Designer has a larger vector brush selection than Adobe Fresco #caption#Affinity Designer has a wide selection of vector brushes in categories like oils, markers, inks, and more.

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