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Introduction
Affinity Designer is an innovative vector graphic design software that stands out in the modern market for its fastness, intuitiveness, and precision. With five years of development, this software is specifically designed to meet the needs of creative professionals, offering a wealth of features, tools, and options. It features high-performance instant rendering capabilities, support for smooth panning and zooming at 60 frames per second, real-time gradient and effect application, and fine scaling up to 1,000,000%. It combines high-precision vector tools with a flexible bitmap workspace to provide non-destructive boolean manipulation, advanced typography, infinite artboards, and comprehensive file format support. Designed specifically for Mac, Affinity Designer takes full advantage of macOS’s advanced technology, supporting the Touch Bar and Force Touch trackpad, providing designers with unprecedented workflow and creative freedom.
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Function
Optimized and redesigned to deliver powerful new features
- Completely redeveloped UI, tools, and button icons
- Overhauled layer panel
- Vector surrounding
- Shape builder tool
- Tool tools
- Fill view mode
- Measurement and area tools
- Style picker tool
- DXF/DWF can be imported
- Drawing scale, including the ability to set different scales for each artboard
- Drag and drop bitmap texture fills
- The pencil tool creates auto-closing or straight pencil strokes
- Each object has multiple shadows, shapes, and overlay layer effects
- When resizing an object, the scale of strokes, effects, and fills is forced to scale
Exceptional performance
- Fully optimized for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including the M1 chip and macOS Monterey
- Pan and zoom at 60fps
- Real-time gradients, transformations, effects, and adjustments
- Optimized for documents of any complexity, scalable to over 1,000,000% for absolute accuracy
- Provides real-time pixel, Retina, wireframe, and fill views of vector work in and out of split-screen mode
- Seamlessly switch between tools and editing modes for effortless design
- Extremely accurate results with minimal nodes
Precise vector tools
- Robust vector tools work the way you need them
- The best pen tools, node tools, curve editing, and smart shape tools on the market
- Powerful outline tools to create abstract objects or increase the width of a single open curve
- Pencil and brush stabilization helps to draw ultra-smooth curves freehand
- Non-destructive Boolean operations
- Real-time effects, blending modes, and image adjustments
- Extremely smooth gradient and transparency control
Raster or vector, it’s up to you
- With just one click, you can switch between vector and raster workspaces
- Take advantage of both vector and raster behavior to achieve the best of both worlds
- High-quality raster tools to add textures, masks, and touch-ups to your work – you can even create your own brushes
- True creative freedom not experienced in other applications
Exquisite typography
- Flexibility to handle text with full support for OpenType
- WordArt and text boxes
- Full control over character and paragraph styles
- Arrange text along any draw path
Built for your workflow
- Unlimited artboards
- Savable history with additional foreground
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG XL, TIFF, EXR, DXF, and DWG file support
- Grids and guides can be set up in almost any way you want, whether it’s standard grid mode or congruence with multiple planes
- Link symbols and restrictions
- Save documents as template files to reuse again and again
- Customize savable presets, including Studio presets for UI layouts
- Quickly access royalty-free images through the inventory panel
- Select the same and select object functions
- Link images and explorer
- PDF pass-through
- Package your documents into a folder with all the image and font resources you use
Perfect color and output
- Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE©, and grayscale color models
- Full 16-bit editing per channel
- End-to-end ICC color management
- Export multiple elements at once with a single click via the Slice Export feature
- Take advantage of real-time pixel previews to see exactly how your design will look after export
