

With core principles of performance, stability and lack of bloat, Affinity Designer contains all the tools needed in a high-end vector design app, meticulously crafted for professionals. It’s fast, meaning users can pan and zoom at 60fps and see all adjustments, effects, transformations and brushes in real time.Īffinity Designer works in any colour space … RGB, CMYK, LAB, greyscale, plus end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC colour management and 16-bit per channel editing. It’s incredibly accurate, allowing users to zoom to over one million per cent.Īffinity Designer has the best PSD import engine available and full support for SVG, EPS, PDF, PDF/X and FH files means integrating Affinity Designer into workflow is painless. Affinity Photo launched for Mac last year and will follow for Windows, while Affinity Publisher is expected early in 2017. Though either way, I bought it.Designed to work on 64 bit Windows 7 and above, and available with support for eight languages, Affinity Designer is part of a trio of professional quality design software tools. And of course this raises the question… how long will V2 be supported and are they maybe holding some things back to try and sell us a V3 sooner rather than later? Considering they supported V1 for a whopping 7 years, hopefully not… but I guess only time will tell. Some cool new stuff, though I’m not sure it’s juicy enough for most people to want to upgrade and still leaves stuff to be desired compared to Photoshop. They go over the new features of each app individually on their Youtube channel, here’s the one for the desktop version of Photo: Buying the apps individually only gets you the Windows and Mac versions though. They’re doing a limited time 40% off sale at launch (though I couldn’t find any fine print specifying exactly how long this sale will be going for), including a $100 universal bundle that gets you all three apps for Windows, Mac, AND iPad. It was only a matter of time until they’d want existing users to pay for an upgrade, since new sales have probably trailed off… still, very much preferable to the subscription model since you can choose to continue using the old apps until the wheels fall off. I figured something was up since there’s been a dry spell of Affinity Photo updates lately.
