Graphics and design
Affinity Designer
Serif Labs
About
Affinity Designer is the fastest, most user-friendly, and most accurate vector graphic design software on the market today. Built from the ground up over five years, every feature, tool, panel, and option in this app is designed with creative professionals in mind. Through continuous innovation and improvement, a revolutionary application has been created that will change the way you work.
Instant performance:
• panning and zooming at a constant frame rate of 60 frames per second;
• dynamic creation of gradients, transformation, application of effects and adjustments;
• scaling, optimized for documents with any amount of detail and allowing you to enlarge the image up to more than 1,000,000% with absolute accuracy;
• dynamic pixel mode, Retina mode and wireframe mode for viewing vector works with the ability to switch between combined and regular screens;
• Instant switching between tools and editing modes, ensuring the complete absence of negative emotions.
High precision tools for working with vectors:
• highly reliable vector tools that function exactly as you expect;
• the best versions of tools are available: “Pen”, “Knot”, curve editing, intelligent reshaping tools;
• stabilization of the brush and pencil, providing the ability to create incredibly smooth free-form curves;
• non-destructive Boolean operations;
• gradients, effects, blending modes and adjustments in real time;
• tools for creating incredibly smooth gradients and adjusting transparency.
Choose between raster and vector mode:
• switch between raster and vector workspace with one click;
• use all the possibilities of vector and raster modes - get the best of both worlds;
• High-quality rasterization tools help with texturing, masking, and final brushstrokes on your artwork. Plus, you can create your own brushes.
• true freedom to create custom shapes that you won't find in other apps.
Refined Typography:
• flexible text processing fully supports the OpenType format;
• literary text and text blocks;
• full control of paragraph and character styles;
• entering text along any drawn path.
Built for your workflow
• unlimited number of artboards;
• saved history with alternative states;
• customizable key combinations;
• support for files in PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, TIFF and EXR formats;
• advanced capabilities when working with grids, snapping and alignment;
• the ability to create connections between symbols and impose restrictions.
Perfect color balance and output quality:
• professional color models: CMYK, LAB, RGB and “Shades of Gray”;
• full-featured image editing with 16 bits on each channel;
• end-to-end ICC color management profiles;
• fragment export, allowing you to export multiple elements in one click;
• Dynamic pixel preview for an accurate representation of what the design will look like after export.
Made for Mac:
• Takes full advantage of the latest macOS technologies, including Metal computing, OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch and Core Graphics;
• fully supports the MacBook Pro Touch Bar and Force Touch trackpad;
• fully optimized for multi-core processors and processors with 64-bit architecture;
• supports regular monitors, Retina and multi-monitor systems;
• Supports external graphics processing units (eGPUs).