At Campfire, we use Affinity Designer and Affinity Designer over Illustrator and Photoshop. This is due to a number of reasons such as price, how they deal with clipping masks, gradients and grain, Primitives, The Ability to use photoshop style effects and tools within Designer (there version of illustrator) with the use of Adjustment layers and Persons, Brushes and much much more. 7 6 Cons 1 Top Pro. Works in the browser. Inefficient workflow.
Just as feature-packed as the desktop version, Affinity Designer for iPad is a professional graphic design app with everything you need to create stunning illustrations, branding, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, concept art and much more — all completely free from the confines of your desk!
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Affinity Designer for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!
Craft perfect vector curves or combine objects and shapes using complex Boolean operations. You can also create abstract shapes or an offset path with the powerful contour tool.
Easily combine vector and raster graphics. You can use raster paint brushes to add texture to vector work, edit single pixels on icons and more — it’s a whole new way of working.
Apply advanced grids and guides, draw directly on isometric planes, and use precise snapping controls including snap to pixel and pixel alignment.
CMYK, RGB8, RGB16, Grayscale, LAB and even RGB32. Work in any color space, with full confidence that any documents taken from the Windows or macOS version will always render with 100% fidelity.
Work with unlimited layers, including real-time blend modes with range adjustment and simple drop zones to mask, clip, reorder and group all layer types. Text layers, vector layers, pixel and image layers all fully supported.
Super smooth gradients, transparency, glows, shadows and more — gain full control over the appearance of all your strokes and shapes. Even add multiple fills and strokes to the same object.
Organise your work with artboards. You can have as many as you like, whatever size you like.
Include unlimited instances of the same object across your work. Edit one and the rest update instantly.
Get a live pixel preview of your work so you know exactly how your vectors will export in raster format. Or switch to outline view to see all those beautiful curves.
Enjoy full text capabilities, including OpenType and text styles. You can flow text along any curve too.
Directly output your work from iPad into professional formats, including EPS, SVG, PSD, and PDF X, ready for print.
Fully optimised for iPadOS, with the ability to drag and drop to import and export images from any location on iPad. You can even work directly on PSD files and save back to PSD.
Create your own shortcut keys using a keyboard attachment for an even more streamlined workflow.
No subscription and 50% off
Affinity Designer for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!
Affinity Designer Video tutorials
More resources
- Affinity Designer Start Guide (English only - PDF)
- Affinity Designer macOS keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
- Affinity Designer Windows keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
- Affinity Designer for iPad keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
Affinity Photo Video tutorials
More resources
- Affinity Photo Start Guide (English only - PDF)
- Affinity Photo macOS keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
- Affinity Photo Windows keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
- Affinity Photo for iPad keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
Affinity Publisher Video tutorials
More resources
- Affinity Publisher Start Guide (English only - PDF)
- Affinity Publisher macOS keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
- Affinity Publisher Windows keyboard shortcuts (PDF)
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