What does impress is the ease of access to operations such as joining shapes (or subtracting them) as well as alignment and layer order. All the basic shapes are easily available. It is dark as is the trend for the last number of years but most things are what and where you would expect if you’ve ever used Illustrator or any other Vector package.Īs winter is coming I thought I would test Affinity Designer by drawing a very simple snowman. I stuck with the pre-sets and then spent the next five to ten minutes marveling at the UI (User Interface). Now you can really get started with the New Document window. This panel is typical and most likely will be useful for anyone new to the software but I was keen to dive in so closed it. The first run presents a nice loading splash screen followed by a somewhat obtrusive panel (which can be turned off for the next run). This led to the final Setup screens (Next, Next, Next, Next) the acceptance of the End-User License Agreement, short cuts and finally you’re installed and ready to go. NET install was a little slow on my aged laptop but it completed without issue. NET Framework 4.6.2), extracting the files, verifying the files and installing them.
AFFINITY DESIGNER REVIEW .EXE
exe file, language confirmation, dependencies (in this case Microsfot. I have previously used several of their packages (DrawPlus and PagePlus in particular) but this review is not endorsed or paid for in any way. A newcomer to the party (and to Windows) is Affinity by the venerable Serif.įor those not familiar with Serif then I highly recommend a brief diversion:
Although for many people Adobe Illustrator is the de facto vector package it isn’t without a large number of issues and for that reason I have long searched out other packages (including Inkscape, Xara, DrawPlus and many others).
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