
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.

With Affinity at least I can sleep well at night: the product will continue to work even if I go to Tasmania for a 6-month quiet creative work period, without an internet connection(*).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. What I do object to is a monthly fee and a constant activation-check over the network. not from, say, version n.x.y to n.x.y+1, but it would be OK from n.x to (n+1).x Then there is the question of upgrades: I don't mind to pay for upgrades once in a while if the changes are significant. That would allow me and my wife to use it for our purposes (which are purely non-commercial), plus an extra machine or so (as in my case) but not an unlimited number.Īfter all, the developers have to pay the rent, even after the peak of initial purchases is over. While I definitely hugely dislike periodic subscription fees, there is a middle way too: for example, I would be very happy if the licence covered say 5 machines (as much AppStore items do). They can then run it until they need to reinstall or update for some reason, at which point they need me again. In this setup I can go around and put the software on all machines of my family and friends and whatever.

However, it seems to me a little too generous from the Affinity people.
