

Rotate the canvas, blend colors, edit brush parameters, create your own brushes and nozzles, and import. Edit vector brush strokes as cleanly and easily as regular curves, and add raster brushwork-on its own or with vector art-to add depth and high quality organic textures. Use Force Touch, stylus pressure, tilt and other controls for natural-looking artwork. Plus, with savable history, unlimited undo and non-destructive filters and adjustments you can always go back and change your mind. Add regular and custom 2D and isometric grids for flexible layouts, work on multiple designs at once, and use macOS features like Split Screen and Full Screen. With a focused, fully customisable workspace, including docked and floating UI modes, the app lets you work how you want. With a huge library of adjustment layers, effects and blend modes-combined with full support for masks and clipping layers-the tool offers the most advanced layer controls available in any vector based app. Can’t achieve the perfect result purely in vector? Just edit the pixels - the app has a full suite of raster tools too. With real-time pixel preview in standard or retina resolution available with a single click, you can always see what you’re going to get.

With core principles of performance, stability and lack of bloat, Affinity Designer for macOS has been meticulously crafted for a professional workflow. All carefully considered and meticulously developed, they just work-in precisely the way you want them to. Having said all that, the overall feature set is pretty amazing and given that it comes subscription free is a big thumbs up for this app still.All the tools you need in a professional vector design app, from an incredible precise pen tool to a super smooth gradient tool. But the contrast is still crap, even when I adjust it in the preferences. Same for the (partially non existing) keyboard shortcuts for selecting and resizing text.Īnd that black user interface.?Yes I know black computers are faster and black apps are pro-er. Just use the same as macOS uses for window resizing, or as Adobe or Sketch, puh-lease!

The keyboard modifiers for resizing layers (from the center, proportially, etc) are rather uncommon and every time it annoys the hell out of me. So you can essentially use Affinity Designer only on one monitor… Hm. Yes you can switch that off, but then the panels and windows just behave completely erratically. When you work with dual monitors the "everything in one window" paradigm sucks. Affinity is so close to be awesome, but can be annoying as f**k at times.
