Users who are interested in vector graphics often come across such a program as Affinity Designer. The creators promise a large number of useful functions on their official website, but for many people such a utility may seem complicated and inconvenient at first glance. The following review will help you to determine the functionality and decide whether you should download Affinity Designer to your device.
Installing the program
This process is quite simple: after opening it in “Programs”, easily drag and drop the icon – it’s done. During the launch, the system will ask you to enter your email address, as well as a key, after which the program is activated. It is worth noting that Affinity Designer launches quite quickly, the utility is characterized by good responsiveness, it very rarely crashes and does not hang.
Workspace
Affinity Designer has a minimal number of panels and greets the user with a dark interface. However, you can change the color scheme in the settings if you want – both the workspace and the interface.
There are not many settings, but all of them are necessary for work:
- Performance;
- Interface settings;
- Resetting default styles, fonts and brushes;
- Hotkeys;
- Profile colors;
- Advanced settings.
“Personas” – this is one of the important chips of the program, which are modes of work for different tasks. There are three modes: the popular pixel mode, as well as vector and, of course, export. Switching modes, you can change the panels, as well as the toolbox, which is very convenient.
From the documents we can highlight the following:
- Support for the retina function;
- Cropping issues;
- Background transparency, different color profiles;
- Presets – web, print, mobile;
- Changing the number of DPI, as well as units and dimensions.
It is worth noting that the creation of fields is not through the grid manager, but through the settings of the document itself. It is possible to check the Artboards checkbox to get not just one simple A4 sheet, but a limitless work area where you can place as many different Artboards as you like.