The print-only workbooks, Affinity Photo Workbook and Affinity Designer Workbook are worthwhile investments, high-quality project-based books (note: not user manuals, the in-built help is probably better for that), available in English and German.Ĭredit: several links above go to Frankentoon tutorials for examples.

Note: the trial versions are a separate download version, they do not update to a full version, although saved projects should open in the full version. (feel free to replace en-gb with en-us for US English, or de for German) Trial versions are available, but I believe they only have about 10 days duration: While Illustrator has always felt like 'built for designers' to me, Affinity Designer feels (somewhat ironically, given the names) more like 'built for digital artists' (in spite of a plethora of design features). AD almost seems a little as if Adobe's Project Gemini came out 4 years early for Mac, then Windows, then iOS. Photoshop has become a sort of Swiss army knife of 'use it for everything image-related' and, while Affinity Photo has features for digital painting, Affinity Photo seems to have more of a 'built for photographers' feel to it (I'm not a photographer, which is why I use it less than Designer).Īffinity Designer is more of a 'create from scratch' program, and feels like the child of a vector software with a paint program, with the ability to use raster brushes 'onto' (clipped by) vector shapes. The short version: Affinity products: fewer features (especially 'non-core' features), better interface (in my opinion).

I've played with my copy of Affinity Photo but not used it in depth, and I actually use Affinity Designer. I've never had to do significant amounts of image editing. Disclaimer: While I have used Adobe products (available to me at work), my experience with them is limited.

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