Switching to Affinity Designer from Adobe Illustrator - What to know

[@spiderpig641154]

I use Illustrator heavily every day, but I bought this just to help affinity get better and become a threat to Adobe's monopoly

[@HCforLife1]

@Veldey Photos depend what you need. For vector animation I cant imagine give up Illustrator and After Effects. Especially latest update makes AI superior over AD. I have both, year ago AD was better now AI is better choice for complex and Rich illustrations

[@thosearepinklemons]

Yeah I still definitely prefer Illustrator, but I also have like 15 years of experience with it. Affinity is a great tool to add to the toolbox though.

[@sirajdey]

adobe should think of their monopoly. Its not fair for his competitors.

[@markuskopter]

@@sirajdey Adobe: Our monopoly isn't fair to our competitors. Also Adobe: THAT'S AWESOME!

[@elrumi6341]

Nice

[@miculToma]

- For copying the style, it's much easier just to hit Copy on one object and then Paste Style on the other! - Also, for selection, in the Preferences, under TOOLS, you can actually turn on "Select object when they intersect the marquee" Keep up the great vids!

[@thebradcolbow]

Nice! I had a hunch there might have been a couple things I missed when I was using it. Thanks!

[@jayrinaldi]

You, sir, are a hero. The problem of the first tip bothered me big time in Affinity. Now it's gone. Thanks a lot!

[@toast9128]

Toma Alexandru Official Be on the lookout for the IPad Pro x that’s gonna be live at WWDC 2018 today!! Edit: Never mind nothing on the iPad

[@xvanegas89]

Toma Alexandru Official transcript

[@xvanegas89]

That was atypo lol

[@FutonJohn]

Finally adobe has competition

[@m.jamilrahman4971]

We as the consument have more benefit

[@PumperWolf]

And is awesome, a young app competing very close

[@vegali]

Adobe has always had competition. Corel is the main one, BTW “serif” the company who produces affinity is like 20 years old... is not a “young” app

[@MaddieMaddocks]

Yes!!!

[@aymanhazim836_2]

its Affinity softwares own competition but not for Adobe

[@MatiasBaldanza]

I picked up Affinity Designer last year, because I took on a new client who hired me to create a ton of web assets (web ads, banners, and templates) and he needed source files in Affinity Designer format. Coming from Photoshop and Illustrator, it was a bit daunting at first not finding some things and having some tools behave differently, but I really ***loved*** the pixel profile for quick edits and don't get me started on the interface profiles and the slicing and exporting workflow! (It runs laps around Adobe's approach and it's so easy to work with that now I hate Adobe's even more than I used to...) I just picked up a copy of your Affinity for Zombies course on Udemy, just to support your work (True fan here, since The Brads web comic. Keep cranking them out and I'll keep buyin' them). I'm sure that I'll pick up some useful info, as well.

[@thebradcolbow]

Thanks! you've been here a while, glad to hear not everyone here is 17 years old :D

[@justjello7599]

Honestly I can't wait for affinity to truely threaten adobe, adobe has been getting away with so much when t comes to prices because it knows theres nothing that can threaten it, theres no programs that are as good

[@freelancedesigner8908]

bought the Affinity package when they were on sale last year, got to admit it was such a troublesome for an adobe user for 20 years, but for that price I'm willing to learn. as a freelance designer, times are pretty tough here and can't afford to subscribe for adobe anymore, thank you affinity for this great app!

[@zinouhoussoum2909]

in the first point, just press SHIFT before clicking and you'll take the color only and not the entire style :)

[@thebradcolbow]

Great advice. Thanks!

[@AyanaSioux]

You just saved my life.

[@kubagornowicz]

And if you choose eyedropper tool and press enter, you can select what you want to copy from a list that pops up

[@micha4431]

Same like in AI. U guys know it?

[@mljarmin]

It's like Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw had a baby.

[@CreativeTutorials7]

mljarmin I agree 😂😆

[@bsigns1935]

I agree and confirmed by me, user of both programs

[@TheSeoshnek]

Babe's name is Xara

[@metallov3r893]

Children are often born more beautiful than their parents.

[@Ne3ek1t]

More like Xara had a baby

[@Mvgrafico]

Oh I'm currently using Affinity Designer but I miss a lot of things coming from Illustrator such as the Warp tool... deform text into predefined shapes is so useful... another tool I miss is the "Shape builder tool" is such a nice shortcut for the pathfinder panel... and the last thing is the power of the text edition in Illustrator... Sometimes I need to work with texts and be able to link multiple text boxes and just put the text distributed on those is a must have in my opinion.

[@lomg1740]

No shape builder tool Ouch, that's a deal-breaker!

[@yash1152]

2:21 4. Red line preview for shape parameters 5:55 7. Fx 6:50 8. Personas 8:37 9. Snap Settings 9:28 Force Pixel Alignment

[@kristien2010]

I use Affinity Designer for my every day job. I'm a graphic designer at a screen printing shop. In terms of stagnant designs for shirts, flyers, and stuff like that, I think it works great. Yeah I'm still used to Illustrator because I was taught on it, but I'm not minding needing to take a couple small extra steps to get where I need to in AD. Obviously for designs that go beyond what I just mentioned AI would be better, but for what I do I prefer using AD.

[@lardesouza]

I learned CorelDraw first so I never really got into Illustrator. Some of these Affinity items make me think of Corel. The 'layers' behaviour though takes me right back to college in 1988 and the Createx system which was one of the earliest vector systems. This program is just incredible. Thanks for another superb review video.

[@joseonate111]

For those of you that never had a chance to play with it, Macromedia/Adobe Fireworks was just like this. You could edit vectors alongside editing images, and the interface was very intuitive to let you work with both at the same time. I've been waiting 6 years for a similar tool since Adobe killed Fireworks. Affinity Designer follows along Firework's footsteps quite nicely. This type of workflow is lighting fast for web graphics. I hope more people adopt it so that we can see this tool continue to grow.

[@MetroversalDesign]

Affinity is such a great tool. I think it's easier than Illustrator if you're a beginner.

[@thebradcolbow]

I agree, if you've never touched a vector tool it seems more intuitive, probably because there just isn't as much extra edge case type features in there.

[@ajinasawor]

That's why I use Affinity Designer in the first place. I was too overwhelmed by the tools that is in Adobe Illustrator that I only staring the blank workspace because I don't know where to start

[@joshystation]

Same here. I started with vector because of affinity. I wish illustrator would have been like affinity years ago. However, because of lack of competition Adobe has gotten away for years with small updates every year yet high prices.

[@سوريقوميإجتماعي-و3ث]

i agree, affinity designer is an awesome program but It lacks some tools as shape builder tool,smooth tool and the knife tool, but that's ain't a problem because affinity team promesed that they will add all this stuff very soon.

[@mrmachine5632]

@@ajinasawor you start by earning the software

[@truecuckoo]

Which one is most cpu efficient and snappy in performance?

[@rivergrrrl1256]

Someone earlier in the posts said that affinity uses more than one core so it is faster than ai which uses only one and is said to be much slower.

[@salahdhen1958]

Affinity Designer runs better than Adobe Illustrator

[@g4meboy13]

Affinity is very very optimized even for a old computer I sometimes do some quick edits on

[@miroslavmajdak5829]

2. Hold down control key to select your objects.

[@BorisJohnsonMayor]

Affinity Designer is great but users have requested many simple features for years now, and these changes have not been implemented yet. One example is offset paths which for me is needed to create logos and mascots. It's a great app, with an affordable price and no subscription, but lacks the necessary features that Illustrator has. This is why Illustrator will be my main software for the work I do. However, with that said, I love the feel and look of Affinity and use it to create more simple things like UI mockups and Icons. If you are just starting out in vector art, this is definitely a great application to choose to help build the fundamental knowledge.

[@timbigger1731]

Yes, offset paths is a real pain in the onions in AD, I struggled, watched tutorials, struggled again then gave up and did it in AI in seconds...

[@msheaver]

I used to hate drawing bezier curves in Illustrator and avoided them like the plague; it just did not feel natural. But in Affinity Designer, the interactions in the bezier tool just feels so intuitive and natural, and now I LOVE drawing free form bezier curves! I do wish Blender could take a cue from Affinity in their bezier tool,

[@ericthedesigner]

as a 23 year user of many vector programs, I am definitely going to purchase this! All the things you describe used to be available on this old cad software I used to use in the large format industry and really missed those functions when I had to switch to illustrator back in 2003. edit: the cad software I had to use for this flat bed printer was really cool but....$5000 that is why I had to switch to illustrator.

[@wotntarnation3012]

2. You can actually change this in the settings. I have it changed to where I only have to highlight a tiny part of the object for it to be selected

[@MyVidMix]

wot'n tarnation - Wow, really. That’s awesome. Mmmmmm. Maybe I should at least buy it to try.

[@ToyotaCharlie]

There are still some features I miss in Affinity Designer, for example Offsetting Paths and Optical Margin Alignment. What I absolutely love is the export function: really handy when designing assets for mobile applications.

[@micha4431]

Actually i miss many automatization options. Offset is one of these. Good Point.

[@ozabot]

The thing I love most in Affinity Designer is Grids/Axis Manager. I am in love with isometric grids etc.

[@SilverHelm19]

I used affinity designer when it was in beta for windows. Biggest flaw for me as a logo/icon designer is the lack of a shape builder tool and offset path. Really kills my workflow and makes everything slower due to having to copy/paste everything when using path finder

[@BorisJohnsonMayor]

Exactly my point! I use Illustrator for all my mascot logos simply because of the Offset Path feature. This has been requested from many users of Affinity for years now and they haven't implemented it yet. I now just use Affinity to make Twitch Panels, UI mockups and so on.

[@thebradcolbow]

This is good to know. It's not something I use much so I didn't notice its absence.

[@deathbydesire9832]

The shapebuilder tool is one of the most crucial worksafers. Never would want p give it up

There are probably certain tools and features that are specifically copywritten by Adobe that it would be impossible to include in AD.

[@jjaycallejas]

PAdenmark well, I guess I’m not getting into AD! I rely on those features every 5 seconds.

[@revelhilary]

I love Affinity designer I have almost completely moved to work on it but there’s still some little things that only illustrator has

[@scribbles1440]

Majo C Like what? I’m thinking of switching.

[@LingatsuDesignAndDev]

@@scribbles1440 Like the automatic vectorisation and the shape conceptor

[@muhammadghifardan2259]

@@LingatsuDesignAndDev How about Mesh Tool

[@LingatsuDesignAndDev]

@@muhammadghifardan2259 didn't know this tool

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

I like how this video cleared up some Illustration frustration for me. But at the same time, I just find that Designer's approach to the same tools makes a bunch more sense

[@pennydoth]

This is a godsend!😫🙌I've been using Affinity Designer for a few months, which hasn't been too bad. The transition from Illustrator, though has been a little wonky. This Affinity list has most of the tools I'm used to using, but I just needed to know how to find them lol Thanks for this!😆

[@estrelasolar]

In point 2, in Affinity Designer, we can also select the objects as in AI, simply by touching them, you only must go change that in preferences. I have both apps in my computer, but I prefer Ai for my work. I tell you why: I sell my work on a big free-royalty vectors company, and they want the illustration only in a EPS10 version. Unfortunately, Affinity its not a good EPS exporter. You don't have the option to choose a version of the EPS. It converts gradients and shadows to a embedded images not editable. :-/

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Or sell it as bitmap. 99% of current Illustrator files are nowhere vector and render in bitmap. Just throw one in InDesign, and you can see most show up as raster image in the linked image list. One hint of transparancy or a single effect make the images turn rasterized.

[@1233ISRAEL]

Brad, will you consider doing a full tutorial on affinity designer for iPad? I've just purchased it and I'm very exited to know I I may not have to purchase a wacom cintiq mobile studio just so I can do vector logos on the go. An iPad tutorial that teaches the gestures and the similarities of adobe illustrator would be extremely helpful. Things like turning texts into outlines, the shape builder tool, and so on. Please consider this. You'd be doing an extreme favor to the creative community. As of right now most tutorials are dealing with the desk top version and the commands are obviously different. Thank you.

[@thebradcolbow]

Yes, if all goes well the Affinity Design iPad tutorial will be ready next week.

[@1233ISRAEL]

Brad Colbow wowwwww, be blessed in all you do.

[@fatihnri2484]

I think it's important to know that Affinity Software is multi-threaded unlike Adobe's.

[@the11thhour44]

What does that mean?

[@tonyjohnson5669]

Dimas Aditjondro it uses more than one core of the cpu which means that it utilizes more of the cpu and can run faster and do more in theory than a program that uses only one core.

[@JimJansen91]

Wait what? For real? AI has no multi-thread support? What is this 2005? And here I was always wondering why AI is so fucking sluggish. Just tried Affinity today and the first thing you notice is just how smooth simply moving around on your artboard is, compared to the jittery performance in Adobe. Night and day.

[@RocketVet]

@@tonyjohnson5669 That explains a lot! Affinity Designer has always ran better on my Mac than Adobe AI. Now we know!

[@tomas-wi8dy]

your second 'need to do' have solution: in preferences/default have to check option for 'select object when intersects with selection marquee' - the you can select in illustrator fashion

[@bonytologna]

You talked about the anchor point tool in adobe like it was a positive thing, haha, the drawing tools are so simplified and more powerful Affinity. Adobe needs an anchor point tool, white arrow tool, add and delete anchor point tools to equal just the node tool in Affinity. And let’s not forget the simplest but greatest innovation Affinity brought to the table... pressing delete on a node doesn’t leave an open shape... really, adobe? It’s 2018, time to fix that.

[@fatihnri2484]

Also also, Gradient and Transparency can be applied to the same object. They are independent of each other.

[@thebradcolbow]

oh yeah, great point!

[@autonaut279]

Affinity gives me such confidence. With illustrator I have to pump myself up. I mean that zombie composition in the beginning of this vid, i SEE that abd feel pretty confident i can that on the fly, AND I'm filled with so many ideas. God I love Affinity

[@christopher4045]

For anyone that wants to know - Affinity works flawlessly and really smooth on the M1 Macbook Pro with the new Affinity 1.9 update. I noticed in the vid it was a bit 'glitchy' looking but it runs very smooth for me. I would highly recommend making the purchase especially with 50% off at the mo! Great vid Brad - cheers from the UK 🇬🇧✌️

[@DavidSolace07]

Hi Brad Colbow, thanks for sharing. Have been using adobe illustrator for decades as a professional, so i decided to try out affinity designer and affinity painter, after spending about an hour on this program i found it to be very basic when it comes to advanced illustration, a lot of tools that are needed in the pipeline of advanced illustrations are not included, the clipping of object within the program can get annoying when it comes to multiple clipping between different element, also the layers panel is also a bit stressful scrolling up and down because i can't easily modify my layout like in illustrator. In illustrator when am working on lots of layers i usually set my layers panel to take the right side of my screen ( having a long list of my path without having to scroll a lot. the color picker is also not time effective and it creates styles which i put back on my shape, that is really not needed. exporting lots of artwork is also a long process. there is no mush different between Affinity Designer and Affinity Painter, the core development of the programs are the same, which is not great ( a professional will ask "what is the different" and not just saying one is pixel base and the other is vector base. digital art using affinity Painter is a headache ( i hate repeated tasks ) and affinity Designer and Painter does not help with repeated task. switching between Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop while working on a project is perfectly fine, because i am getting limitless power from both ends. Overall Affinity Designer and Affinity Painter are easy to use program for people who are looking to create cool arts and not having to spend hours learning the program, both programs, but if you want to create advanced and professional works go for Adobe illustrator and Photoshop, the learning curve is perfectly alright for someone looking to be a pro ( what really makes the learning curve long is the amount of advanced tools, tricks and tips. If you are a professional artist or you love creating your own world and setting things as you like, Affinity is not for you. One major reason, you can't modify your work space to your taste. Loool

[@evtonic3]

I wouldn't say that it isn't for professionals. There are lots of artists that are professionals that use this software. What is a professional? Some of the issues may be because not understanding the program maybe? Oh and there is no such thing as Affinity Painter lol

[@MSVClan]

evtonic3 exactly. This guys is clueless on clarifying his point. There are professionals much experienced in using Affinity Designer than AI. Also lots of people don’t have the time to figure out the new application. So they come up with excuses.

[@maciejferenc7234]

1. Illustrator also have advanced color picker settings 2. Affinity can copy and paste style without creating it everytime 3. Both programs has the same select method that can be turn on and off. 4. Illustrator is much faster to work with curve points 5. Shape tool in Affinity isn't very precise if you working with pixel-perfect projects like icons, but still has more options than illustrator. 6. Convert to curve is great if you are using shape tools in Anninity. Expanding the wtroke can give some trouble, creating meassy curve 7. Node tool is better and works faster in Affinity 8. Affinity layer panel i more like advanced masking method. Illustrator is much easier to work with. 9. Affinity has limited effects panel, they are very heavy for RAM and vRAM 10. Designer lacks features thats easly coule be implemented from Photo, but still it is better valanced beten pixel and vector than Illustrator 11. Snap guides is more precise in Affinity and it is a perfect place for UI design - Illustrator is more for DTP 12. Designer has more advanced gradients, and gradnients snapping In my opinion, Affinity will be the new king in few years from now if they would add lacking features like vector bending options and preformance update in windows app.

[@NovaAquarius]

I started using affinity designer today. And I just loved it. It's so easy to grasp. And above all it's so snappy. Photoshop lags in my i5 machine but affinity just killed it. Loved using it. Hope to be happy with it forever.

[@AdamSaeed]

3:50 Use the Pen tool (P) and select a node by holding Alt when clicking on it, then hold Shift to create two curves or Alt to create one.

[@letssamplethis7641]

Hi Brad, great video on what to expect when leaving Adobe Illustrator for Affinity Designer. However, you missed two HUGE points that really should be addressed and with Affinity Designer for iPad being just released, it would be nice to pressure the developers into correcting. Your coverage of the geometry tools missed the fact that there is no “Trim” tool like there is in Illustrator. Trim basically allows for objects to cut other objects without the object, being used to cut, to be deleted. This is was a huge miss in Affinity Designer and lets hope everyone catches on here and emails the developers for an immediate update. The next bit is pretty significant....there is no auto-trace or bitmap/raster to vector conversation. What makes this a significantly strange miss is that in Affinity designer there is the raster or pixel persona/mode. Wouldn’t it make sense to have a way to convert all of these cool drawings you do in pixel persona into vector? What if the cool texture you just added to your Zombie were to be converted to vector, that would be nice, right? Again a really odd miss by Affinity and a point many users should be driving home to the Affinity developers through email. Now that Affinity Designer is on iPad its time that the developers get onto having an auto-trace. Affinitys direct competition on iPad Graphic for iPad is working on a bitmap to vector conversion to be added to their next update. Anyhow actual Trim and Auto-Trace is missing, needs to be added. Start writing emails to these developers to show them this is needed in both Affinity Designer on iPad and Desktop.

[@annewatman677]

This is the best video I’ve found on Designer! I also started with Illustrator and have been confused with some of the differences. I only do it for fun, but I’ve purchased EVERYTHING from this company because it’s such a great deal. I have Designer and Photo for my computer and my iPad. I just started playing with Designer to help with some painting ideas. (I wish you’d write a book.)

[@annewatman677]

I just wanted to say that I got your Udemy course for Affinity Designer, and it’s fantastic! I know how to use Illustrator, but was having a hard time figuring out some things in Designer. You cover a lot of information in a way that’s easy to follow and very entertaining! There are so many videos I can’t watch because they’re too dry and it takes forever to get to the actual “how to.” I’ve subscribed here, and I’m already looking at some of the other Udemy videos created by you. I wish all of them were this good!

[@Frozen_Death_Knight]

0:55 You can copy+paste the style of an object on to a new layer with Paste Style (Go to Edit -> Paste Style to find it or use a shortcut for it). Just ctrl+C a regular object and then paste the style. Pretty much what the Colour Picker Tool does in Illustrator, but without needing a tool to do it. I honestly prefer it this way, since I always preferred how colour picking worked in Photoshop than in Illustrator (I just want one colour darn it! :P).

[@adnans3127]

The only thing I can't seem to do in affinity is WARP the text... other then that, this is a killer deal!

[@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh]

I have to use Inkscape then bring it over.

[@jayrinaldi]

To Nr 10: Geometry tools (aka Pathfinder): You can Shift-Click the Icons. With that you can edit (for example move around) the initial objects. Very handy!

[@alphabillo]

Hi, For No. 01: in illustrator, holding shift while picking a color from a gradient or text or any other styles, will pick only the color like what u show in Affinity.

[@housetopranch]

I have been a graphic artist since the days of xacto knives, stat cameras and waxing machines. My whole professional workflow since computers came along has been using Adobe products (except for the long period of QuarkXpress dominance in page layout). I just became aware of the Affinity graphics programs and they look like interesting alternatives. The reason I am looking to bail from the Adobe lineup is solely due to their subscription model. They have a "locked in" user base, given the pro-world runs on Adobe products. So what do they do to these loyal customers? They are ream 'em a new one-every month! Sure, big design firms can afford these prices, but for little shops like mine their subscription costs are just one more drain on my income. They are more like a utility company now. Don't pay your bills and your way of making a living is cut off. In regards to feature sets between the individual products I remember when Pshop added non-destructive editing and adjustments. WOW! What a game changer! So what if the Affinity products lack some of the features of their adobe counter parts? Compared to what we were using back when Illustrator 8 and Photoshop 2 were kings of the hill, the Affinity products are feature-packed. I have not left Adobe's CS products.They are still great tools. But I am REALLY turned off by their subscription model. I guess when my beast of a 2012 Mac Pro finally dies I will have to cross that bridge. But until then I will stick with what I paid for and OWN and pocket the extra that would otherwise be going to a giant tech company. Meanwhile, I am going to start messin' around with Affinity's products and see if I can wean myself from the Adobe teats.

[@christophedupraz4685]

Great info... thank you a lot. Using Illustrator for work for ages. This was exactly what I needed to make me try it.. thanks again

[@rainyplant7066]

Thanks for this vid, I am starting to learn this...

[@tmoon011383]

I love, love, LOVE Affinity Designer. Just wish it had blend. Definitely worth it, though. While it can't do some things as good as Illustrator, the things that does it does extremely well. There are so many things that it does better than illustrator as well.

[@TenoDaley]

You can adjust the color picker in illustrator to only choose the color. Just hit enter while on the color picker tool.

[@PeterSimonWithBedhead]

Affinity is beautiful and very user friendly, I so wanna be friends with it, however I still use illustrator because of the shape builder tool and isolation mode (why is there no proper isolation mode in Affinity?), I'd looove to break Adobe's shackles though!

[@saga-malak]

But AD doesn't open .ai files. This is a huge problem. I used Illustrator many years, sometimes I need to open older files, my clients send me many files .ai also.This is one thing I really need...

[@wipalo.the.artist]

I just wanted to say thank you for your videos on Affinity's line, it was just what I was looking for and I actually enjoy them more. This video was great and I've saved it for later as there's some great tips here. Thanks again!

[@lunchmoneyog]

2021 Adobe Illustrator is KING. Affinity hasn't delivered on what they previously promised (in the now missing roadmap), and development has slowed to a crawl ignoring key functionally frequently requested by their users. I tried my best to stay with Affinity Designer as I do love it (for the most part), but the constant issues and hacks / workarounds to achieve simple tasks had me going back to Adobe.

[@jesse6327]

I have been using Affinity Designer for a couple years and this product is only getting better with each new release.

[@publicvoice2360]

Where is the blend tool and pattern making tool in Affinity Designer?

[@supersquare]

They haven’t added them yet, but those features are some of the last few features slated to be added before version 2. Hopefully they finish them up by this year, because I need these so badly

[@KallerhultCreations]

Thanks for excellent tips! I bought Affinity Designer a few weeks back and have been loving it :) I definitely learned a few new tricks from this video :)

[@TongUtube]

I've been having a proem and watched so many videos for how to basically mask a shape into another in designer. I can't believe I didn't think about the layers thing, I was trying different geometry. I just happen to watch this for entertainment and I slowed down to 0.25 speed and you taught me at 0:25

[@wongsanggar]

Great presentation! You're really good at showing affinity power over illustrator. I should checkout your course soon!

[@saltsnow6153]

This video actually makes me want to try out the Affinity, it looks so user-friendly.

[@ecartoonman]

Is there a way I can skew or distort objects in Affinity designer?

[@livinggirl86]

Hello. Quick question... can you edit Adobe Illustrator files in Affinity Designer? I have Illustrator files that I’d still like to be able to access.

[@MarsorryIckuatuna]

Brilliant - I was just learning about the Designer tools, thanks for sharing.

[@jkfns0w]

Affinity Designer for the iPad Pro must be a heartbeat away - perhaps unveiling next week at Apple's developer conference?

[@denisebohartbrown4676]

Thanks so much for this - gave me a lot of great information to know if Affinity Designer will work for me.

[@tycox8704]

I’m curious if current users will continue to favor Affinity’s products when-not if-it too switches to a subscription model.

[@mauricioflores3732]

Hey does Affinity Photo is similar to photoshop, i mean blending images, painting, photo editing

[@Kleinage]

Yes. I have Affinity Photo and it is very full featured. It's half off right now. Check out their tutorials on the Affinity website to see what you can do. It's not super easy to get started, just like Photoshop can be a little confusing at first. But I am very happy with it. For painting you can also use Affinity Design which probably fits even better. (Also half off, so you could get both for $50 total right now).

[@phedradee]

Affinity photo has 93% of the things that are in photoshop i have it and I love ittt

[@laurencegr9978]

Wow, this is very helpful. Affinity Designer right now is at 50% discount because of COVID-19.

[@MarkNiceyard]

Great! The concept of these tools work like the tools in my old Freehand. :)

[@darksmilegames4827]

Warp and/or distort tools! - are there any, or a decent work around?

[@aldrianreyajero1069]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@wildwalkeruk]

I am almost 70% through the course on here and its very good, while i have used Vector drawing before, I did learn a lot about Affinity Designer. I would say that Affinity Designer works more like Corel Draw that Illustrator, and I used Corel for a long time, so found Affinity quite easy to convert to.

[@KuttyJoe]

This video should play that dreamy sound effect that old tv shows used to play when somebody was dreaming. The screen would do this wavy transition as the person woke up from the dream, smiling, and then back to harsh reality. Hey! Heyyyyy!!!! What are you doing over there, Fred, get back to work! That's my best analogy for switching from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Design. LOL Adobe Illustrator's feature set is as vast as it's price is high. And while I would categorize Affinity Design as being easily worth it's cost, that doesn't make it something that can compete with Adobe Illustrator. But for people who have a very narrow use case, Affinity Designer is probably a wonderfully, liberating piece of software. For my work, I can't use it for more than 2 minutes before running into a situation where AD can't handle it. The more I use it, the more time I waste. But that's just me and my work. I would say that if you're working in print, AD is a complete non-starter. You can manipulate vectors, but what you do with them after that is where AD will have no answer. I've found that the best case for software like Affinity Designer is as one trick ponies. These little programs do 1 or 2 things really impressively and they're worth their low cost just for those one or two things. Jump in, knock out those things as quickly as possible, then get right back out and into your serious software, Adobe or Corel or whatever. One program I know of though that breaks this 'one-trick pony' pattern is Clip Studio Paint. It's not just a handful of gimmicks that they can list and pretend to be competing with Adobe. Clip Studio Paint is beating Photoshop to death strictly for drawing and digital painting. It's only $49.00 and they always put it on sale for half that. And it's incredibly stable and reliable. You can't beat it for value.

[@thebradcolbow]

That’s really well said. For what I do Affinity works great but you’re right it doesn’t have all the features a lot of folks need. The only thing I really ever miss is being able to offset paths/strokes.

[@nunanana7]

wow thank you! This guide is very helpful and fun to watch! This video makes me want to buy Affinity Designer xD

[@anaguajardo5141]

Awesome video, I'm barely jumping into Affinity and you touched on some points that were getting on my nerves. Understanding the pixel persona was plus! Thank you :)

[@TheRealAristocrates]

OK, I didn't know about the edit all layers/edit current layer toggle, so this video was worth it, just for that little tip!

[@sfnadim]

The industry wise use of illustrator is the big value of Illustrator, the exporting of .ai file is the thing affinity designer needs

[@ElevoAgencia]

Affinity now is our favorite tool, we used to be adobe illustrator workers but.. now we change to affinity

[@jaynoggle]

Are these also available on the Designer for iPad? Obviously not the same layout but the options themselves.

[@robertocarrillo1751]

1: Select the original shape Press cmd-C Select the new shape Press cmd-shit-V or Edit / Paste Style 2: Change the behavior: Preferences / Tools / "Select object when intersects with selection marquee" 3: Actually you can select different nodes within a non rectangular area: Select the shape, use the node tool Draw an irregular area covering different nodes by holding the alt key

[@gummi4977]

What do you think about Inkscape?

[@thebradcolbow]

I only have used it a little. I didn't care for it but a lot of people love it.

[@gummi4977]

Brad Colbow i think it's cool vector software you can get for free. I'm already used it like 2 year and one thing that for sure is lack of compability to another software like Adobe or coreldraw. It can but rather annoying to always convert it to .pdf . This is why i'm trying to learn Adobe illustrator. Just want to share my experience *do you have any recommendations to learn illustrator that easy and interesting?

[@pixelmasochist]

@@gummi4977 I moved to Affinity Designer from Inkscape. Inkscape is pretty sweet, but really lacks the power and coherence of Affinity Designer. There are a lot of things I can do in Affinity Designer that take a fraction of the time they take in Inkscape, this was why I moved on.

[@fatihozturk7836]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@UnitasPhotography]

I have been a CorelDraw user since version 2. I found it easier than Illustrator. I've been curious about Infinity for a while. All these tips seem to work the same way Corel does. I'm going to have to take a serious look at Infinity now. Thank you.

[@MarcCardwell]

regarding selections, for iOS AD, i found a pref setting "select object when intersects selection marquee", that will select a shape when you barely overlap it. (i'm and AI user since the late 80s, and am trying to be as good in AD as i am in AI).

[@trevorwooten9485]

I create a lot of logos and title fonts for my projects. Illustrator has a set of Text Envelope icons that instantly transform the outline of a word into specific shapes, i.e. Inflare, Squeeze, Twist, Arc, etc. This doesn't seem possible in Designer without first creating a shape and then applying it to the words. In CorelDraw, I have a page of shapes that I can bring up, copy and paste into my document until I'm done with it. Is this my only option in Designer?

[@MyVidMix]

Loving that Adobe has serious suite competition. Hopefully it will force them to release cheaper stripped down CC packages like just Illustrator & Photoshop together that’s cheaper than them individually together. I got really excited about skipping Adobe and going with Affinity, but I’m just used to Illustrators details. So called “little things” are huge to me. (I trained in this stuff back in the day, but left that career path. Now “returning” as a side hustle) I don’t even want to begin researching or predicting the parts of colour/file mgmt/exporting/sharing that might trip me up using a new program/suite. I got so excited, but I think maybe now I’d just rather use old non-cloud versions of Adobe software until the day I earn enough in a graphics side hustle to claim adobe on tax.

[@MyVidMix]

Also I think Affinity will be an easier uptake for brand new designers who learn it first, or pro designers like this guy who can get used to moulding his flow and have superior knowledge to come up with work arounds/adaptations to any hurdle plus take advantage of the different but beneficial features of Affinity. Maybe that take up will drag middle of the road knowledge holders kinda like me along into the switch if adobe doesn’t offer alternative price structures and Affinity grows to become impossible to ignore.

[@Danny-jp9md]

Hi, Awesome video !!!! new subscriber here. I jusst bought this software last week and I love it. Im an amateur on this field. I am not familiar with illustrator either. But I bought this to create designs for tshirts. I hope to learn this software up and down and not only use it for that purpose. I saw that you can use it for E-commerce as-well. a lot to learn. Cheers

[@XMattingly]

0:35 Not true about Illustrator's eyedropper. If you double click the tool, you have a full set of sampling options, including turning off object styles, fill, stroke, etc.

[@karljolley8346]

nice job describing, ah but add; gradients also click to add a color point,, big point missing is the fluid interaction between Designer and Photo, with both open you can edit the file back and forth between them, almost like it was one program, iow the bitmap stuff in Designer is for quick simple stuff, hit Menu - Edit in Photo = get technical with it.

[@anoosst]

0:36 in illustrator if u want to pick a color only not the whole style just press shift

[@rachaelmatheson9587]

Great video - I am thinking of swapping over but it’s hard to know how much time it’s going to take and if it’s going to be worth the learning time when you don’t know if a show-stopper is going to suddenly appear! So this was really helpful.

[@EmanDeMoan]

If it doesn't have the shape builder tool, then I can NEVER replace illustrator with this.

[@aymanhazim836_2]

even it has I will never replace Adobe softwares... Adobe has a history in design

[@andrewdebaron2761]

Great video - a good mixture of the right Information, succinctness, tempo, Zest and enthusiasm without being in-your-face like a lot of KZbin presentations are. A few things occurred to me though, while watching:

[@ASChin]

Thanks for taking the time to create this great video. Will he taking your course soon

[@chosenideahandle]

The number one thing to know is that is you work in print or 3D (where you have to export .ai files), you can't switch to Affinity. I wish I could!

[@RocketVet]

My last employer had a Xerox Iridesse I designed for frequently - always had to switch back to AI to do the 6 color designs due to the difference between how AI and Designer handles layers which are super sensitive to design for the Iridesse with. I feel your pain. Now that I have moved on work-wise, I no longer need AI. I definitely love Affinity Designer more than AI and I used AI for about a decade before. Super impressed with it!

[@mshelton5036]

I like designer better now. there is a learning curve put once you learn it it's great

[@MathieuGodboutComma]

I'm using AF Designer more and more but there is a feature that I miss a lot. The select similar option like AI. For taking over a complex illustration or cleaning up large vector file IT's A Must.

[@sanjios]

Most important difference is live option in AI. Converting raster to vector is missing tool in AffiD. I hope they put priority on making this tool.

[@printithaiti4490]

Great presentation. 2 questions: a) is Affinity a postcript based software; b) can the files be imported into Illustrator later with their parameters and effects and remain editable?

[@AspiresDesign]

I love affinity designers. Amazing.