You can also take advantage of the integration between the programs of the Affinity Suite if later you decide to acquire Affinity Photo for example to use its live filters in Affinity Designer (which can then be edited in Designer without the need to switch back to Photo). The advantage of having both the iPad and desktop versions is that you can exchange files between them using our own native format which supports all functionalities/features our programs offer, keeping everything editable. If that's the case Affinity is a good option for these purposes. From your post above seems you want to create some illustrations/designs for fun. We hope to add some of them in upcoming updates but as you noted it's quite more expensive then Designer in the long them. If you are more inclined to graphic design, Illustrator still offers tools/features missing from Affinity Designer (mesh gradients, perspective and warp distortions, fitting text to frames/objects, some 3d extrusions/functions etc). It doesn't provide prototyping/plugins as Sketch at this point so it depends a little on what you want to do with the program. ![]() Designer covers a little more ground and also lets you use raster based tools (including raster based brushes as well as vector based ones - it includes two engines) along with vectors and mix both to create hybrid illustrations and graphic (non-heavy text based) design projects (for print). Sketch is a more specialised tool, geared towards web/user interface design although nothing stops you from using it for illustration too. Adobe Illustrator, being the industry standard, would be nice to have experience with, but it's hard to justify the cost (certainly right now while I'm mostly using these apps for fun). It seems like using Affinity Designer for the desktop, aside from being less expensive, *should* make moving workflows between the iPad and desktop easier, but if that's not true, let me know. Getting back to the desktop vector app.I'd be interested in hearing some opinions regarding Affinity Designer vs Sketch vs Adobe Illustrator (and any others worth mentioning). It looks like reaConverter costs $50, and since I don't have too many files I need to convert, I may look around for other options. For the most part, though, it seemed to do a decent job. It did some funky things in the process, though, like converting a lot of rectangle images to other shapes. ![]() I didn't have any luck converting to AI (if I remember, it pretty much converted it to a raster image), but I did have some luck using that app to convert it to an SVG file. I did some more Googling and found an app (Windows only, I think) called reaConverter which supports converting PSP files to other formats. There was no option for exporting to AI, and I didn't have much success with the other formats that it supported. It had an option to export to PSD, but didn't maintain the vector layers. On a separate note, does anyone with past Paint Shop Pro experience have any recommendations for how I can get my layered vector PSP files moved over to Affinity Designer?įor anyone else that may care, I was able to get my old Paint Shop Pro for Windows (v7, I think) up and running and did a little experimentation. Or should I consider buying Sketch instead? I've read that the UI between the iPad and desktop versions is quite a bit different, but I'm assuming (?) that it would still be a lot easier to move between the two apps compared to, say, buying Sketch for my MacBook. Do I even need to, or might I be happy enough just sticking with the iPad version? I'm thinking that it could be easier/quicker to point and click on node points with a mouse and my MacBook, but I'd be curious to hear what others think. Because the price is so much more affordable than Adobe Illustrator (and less expensive than Sketch, too), I've thought about buying the "desktop" version as well for my MacBook Pro. The other day I bought Affinity Designer for iPad and have been going through a tutorial I bought on Udemy, and have been having fun with it. ![]() After using and loving vector design using Paint Shop Pro for Windows many years ago, I bought an iPad Pro 9.7 (with Pencil) about a year or so ago and wanted to get back into doing some vector design.
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