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I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Affinity lately, so I took the Affinity Designer free trial for a spin this weekend to see how it compares to Adobe Illustrator.

You can get a 90-day free trial of Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher from Serif right now. Serif, the makers of the popular creative apps, is offering the trial to help people during the current global pandemic. The company had an identical free trial offer last year as well. Affinity Designer for iPad, a graphic design app by Serif, is designed to take full advantage of the rapid performance of advanced iPad technology - from advanced graphics processing to the latest iOS features and Apple Pencil's precise dynamic settings. It comes with a full professional vector toolset. We don't currently have a trial version of the iPad app. All i can suggest would be checking a local Apple Store and seeing if they have it installed on their iPads and you'll be able to have a play around with it. Affinity Designer Free Trial and 50% Off Lifetime Deal: Affinity Designer, an Apple Design award-winning software that also got Windows Developer Award 2018. It is available for Windows, Macbook, and iPad, and also supports Apple Pencil, similar to Affinity Photo.

I was a little reluctant to even try another Adobe alternative after trying out a few free photo editing programs (they just didn’t compare to Photoshop in the slightest).

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TL;DR at the beginning!

Here’s the short version what I’ll be covering in this post, but I encourage you to stay for the juicy details further on.

• The hook – I was drawn in by the one time fee, and the pixel-to-vector capabilities.
• First impressions – I booted it up, sat down and pressed every single button to figure out what tools were available. Everything felt surprisingly familiar, and any different shortcuts came naturally.
• New toys – I particularly enjoyed playing with the Assets tab, new shapes tools, stroke options and insanely good isometric tools
• Negatives – taking me a while to find where my everyday tools are like expand stroke and convert to object (convert to curves)
• Final thoughts – I’m sold. Read below for how I plan to transition from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Design!

Now, in more detail! Grab a cup of tea.

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The hook

Ok so here’s the deal. I’m a sole trader. I design things and make artwork to make a living. I grew up teaching myself Adobe Photoshop CS2 and haven’t stopped using Adobe products for 14 years. I can, and have, given verbal tutorials to people who need help because I know the interface so well.

So why change?

The #MadeWithAffinity tag has been popping up a lot in my social media feeds lately, particularly in the TTRPG community after the launch of Affinity Publisher (a competitor to Adobe InDesign). Curiosity lead me to the Affinity website, where I perused the latest features of their Designer software.

The features are very appealing, but honestly? So is the price tag. No subscription fee for a piece of software that I will use every single day? Yes please. (Hey then I can save up for an iPad and use it on there too because its on all platforms!)

With my current passion for pixel art, I was especially interested in the pixel-to-vector capabilities of Affinity Designer.

This would rapidly increase my workflow as it would mean I could work in one program AND scale my work up to print-ready sizes.

But could it really be that good? Would I even like the interface? There was only one way to know.

First impressions

First off, it seemed to be pretty quick to load. Not huuuugely quicker than Illustrator, but I noticed a small difference. Anyway. Not important.

New document set up, you know the drill.

Press.
Every.
Single.
Button.

Like an annoyingly inquisitive child. “What does this button do?”

That’s how I learnt it originally, so this is how I familiarized myself with the workspace. Honestly I felt very much at home. It has a similar layout to what I’m used to but with lots of new features to explore and play with.

The shortcuts were all preeetty much the same – the only one that I had to adjust to was scaling to an anchor point (which normally for me is Alt + scale, but in Affinity is Ctrl + scale). I’m comfortable enough with the change but if I really want to I can change the keybindings in the shortcuts.

New toys

I have really only scratched the surface while playing with the Affinity Designer free trial, but I particularly enjoyed playing with the Assets tab, new shapes tools, stroke options and insanely good isometric tools.

First, the extra shape tools. Aside from the basic rectangle, ellipse, and rounded rectangle tools, there’s a whole tab of EXTRA SHAPE TOOLS AND I LOVE THEM.

These make me want to go and design sexy flow charts and infographics.

Every shape is customisable. Radius. Inner radius. Percentages. Points. Sides. Curve. Everything.

I made one of every single shape and went to tweak each aspect of its properties to see what it does.

I was blown away by the grid and isometric tools because firstly – the grids are there already. No setting up multiple grids, guides or custom shapes funny business. Straight to it. BUT BUT BUT – you can draw IN the planes and snap/transform your designs onto the different surfaces!!

I saw an amazing tutorial on this by Brad Colbow – check it out it’s a super quick video:

Negatives

It is taking me a while to find where my everyday tools are like expand stroke and convert to object (which is now convert to curves). I haven’t yet mastered the shortcuts and explored every part of the software yet, so sometimes I’m having trouble selecting a bunch of objects which can be frustrating. A bit of searching on the web soon brings up the solutions to my problems though, so all is not lost.

The other negatives?

1. I’m going to throw more money at things to buy this.
2. I will need to invest some time to learn this.
3. I’m really salty that I didn’t buy this in the sale that literally just finished a month ago.

Final thoughts

I’m sold.

When my next invoice is paid I am going to dive in head first and buy a copy of Affinity Designer.

“But TJ what about Adobe Creative Cloud?“

Ok ok. Real talk: I love learning. I also love saving money so that I can save up for better tools to improve my workflow and quality of life. My plan is to continue using Adobe for my client work (beacuse I need to work quickly and efficiently), and start using Affinity on my personal projects. I can export the files as .psd, .svg and .eps if I need to switch between the two, so no worries there.

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I forsee that I will get to an opportunity in my work where I may be able to transition fully from Adobe to Affinity (my pronouns are .png/.jpg) and save a bunch of money.

I currently pay £596.33/year (around $720 USD for my American folks) for the entire suite – all the Adobe apps. I predominantly use Photoshop and Illustrator. If I had chosen these two apps on the Single App plan each, that’d be around £476.84 – which is only £119.49 off having 20+ extra applications.

Lately, my work has also dabbled in animation, for which I use AfterEffects, which is why I feel that I can’t completely drop Adobe just yet.

I’m going to ramble through my thoughts right here so that I can reflect on them, and anyone else in the same boat can do their math as well.

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Now, please don’t go making financial decisions based on a freelancer’s blog post. (Also the above prices may not be accurate so go and double check for yourself in case they have been updated!) But. I reckon that if I invested £146.97 in a one off Affinity splurge, I could be saving £357.91 per year by cutting down to one single Adobe boye to use for editing/animation. At this stage in my life, that’s quite a nice saving.

Time to wrap up the blog, TJ is rambling

Ok points made. I really liked Affinity Designer. I have not yet tried the free trials for Affinity Photo & Affinity Publisher (I will be). It has re-ignited my passion for design and it feels like being able to play your favourite video game with fresh eyes and experiencing it with awe and wonder.

Quick question:

Have you tried any Affinity software? Are there any things that you don’t really like about it? Let me know in the comments below

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!

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!

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, Greyscale, LAB and even RGB32. Work in any colour 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!