Affinity Designer has truly changed the world of graphic design. Five years of intensive refinement since launch have been dedicated to our unwavering vision of a powerful, super-smooth app which improves your workflow and allows your creativity to shine.
Serious business
No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. Affinity Designer is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done.
Fast and glorious
Affinity Designer was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it's simply a joy to use.
The 1.8 versions of the whole Affinity suite are here! Check out some of the brand-new features and major improvements below, including IDML import and a new Preflight panel for Affinity Publisher, expand stroke improvements and a new Stock panel for Affinity Designer, PSD smart object import and lens correction improvements for Affinity Photo, and template support.
- Affinity Designer Workbook Buy now Add a little extra magic to your work Created by top digital artists and designers, our stunning range of high-quality creative content packs – including font bundles, illustration kits, brush packs and more – can help you bring some extra creativity and polish to your projects.
- Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Affinity Designer. Subscribe for first-look previews and a wide range of tutorials covering everything from the ba.
- Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. Whether you're working on branding, concept art, print projects, icons, UI, UX, or web mock ups, Affinity Designer will revolutionise how you work, on macOS and Windows. Fluid publishing powerhouse.
- + Pan and zoom at 60fps
- + Live gradients, effects and adjustments
- + Real time blend mode previews
- + All transforms and curve edits previewed live
As complex as you like
The engine behind Affinity Designer is built to handle huge documents so you can be confident in adding all those tiny details without any compromise to performance.
- + Optimised for documents of any complexity
- + Handle 1000s of objects with no lag
- + Organise with layer groups and colour tagging
- + Live outline view for accurate selections
Vector or raster, you decide
With a single click, switch between full featured vector and raster workspaces. Just think about what that means… add raster brush texture to your illustrations, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to your crisp vectors, enclose and clip pixel layers. This is true creative freedom and the possibilities are endless.
Built for your workflow
Thousands of designers around the world told us how they need their graphic design app to behave. We put that knowledge at the core of Affinity Designer.
Unlimited artboards
Saveable history with alternate futures
Customisable keyboard shortcuts
PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, JPG, TIFF, EXR
Continuous slice export
CMYK, 16 & 32bit RGB, Pantone, ICC profiles
Advanced grids, snapping and alignment
Linked symbols and constraints
Any device, anywhere
Whether on Windows, Mac or iPad, the file format is exactly the same. This gives complete freedom to seamlessly work across your (or your team's) different devices with the same file.
Colour control
Work in RGB or LAB colour spaces - even up to 32-bits per channel. Plus if you're designing for print, pantone support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC colour management are built in as standard.
Rock solid vector tools
Affinity Designer is full of tools meticulously developed for achieving high productivity, while maintaining 100 percent accurate geometry.
- + Comprehensive vector toolset
- + The best pen & node tool available
- + Pencil and brush stabilisation
- + Non-destructive boolean operations
Advanced grids and guides
The options you have for setting up grids and guides is almost unlimited. Whether it's a standard grid pattern, or full isometric with multiple planes, you have full control over spacing, sub-divisions, gutters, angles and more.
- + Column and page guides
- + Isometric grids and planes
- + Auto-alignment tools
- + Pixel snapping and alignment
One million+ percent zoom
This is what we mean by power. From the beginning we developed our engine to work to floating point accuracy. What does this mean? 1,000,000% zoom!
Unlimited artboards
Layout all your screens, pages, menus and other items in a single project across any number of artboards. Export artboards, or any individual elements in your designs, with a single click.
- + Create artboards of any size
- + Choose from preset device sizes
- + Output full artboards or elements in any format
- + Export at 1x, 2x and 3x resolution in one operation
Linked symbols
Symbols allow you to include unlimited instances of the same base object across your project. Edit one, and the rest update instantly. It's easy to create multiple versions of symbols with some attributes detached, or even have symbols within symbols to allow some really innovative ways to speed up your workflow.
Live pixel preview
Pixel perfect designs are assured by viewing your work in pixel preview mode. This allows you to view vectors in both standard and retina resolution, giving you a completely live view of how every element of your design will export.
Sophisticated typography
Affinity Designer Keygen
Whether working with artistic text for headlines, or frames of text for body copy, you can add advanced styling and ligatures with full control over leading, kerning, tracking and more. At any time convert your text to curves to take full control and produce your own exquisite, custom typography to add serious impact.
- + Comprehensive OpenType support
- + Artistic text and text frames
- + Character and paragraph styles
- + Flow text along any path
Professional output for print, screen or collaboration
Advanced file support is at the core of the back-end technology behind Affinity Designer. All the major image and vector file types are supported, including PDF/X4, EPS, SVG and PSD support.
Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you'll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there's no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.
Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Affinity Photo 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:
- Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
- Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS
- Further boolean operation improvements
- Tweaks to Alignment
- Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera
- Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
- Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
- Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
- Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as 'Pemtax'
- Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents
- Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
- Fixed autosave failing to work
- Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files
- Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document
- Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space
- Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip
- Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask
- Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool
- Fixed sporadic PSD import crash
- Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed
- Help and Localisation improvements.
Affinity Designer 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:
- Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
- Further boolean operation improvements
- Tweaks to Alignment
- Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
- Fixed loss of selection scope when deleting objects
- Improved boolean operations on large shapes
- Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
- Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
- Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
- Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
- Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files
- Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document
- Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space
- Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip
- Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask
- Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool
- Fixed sporadic PSD import crash
- Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed
- Help and Localisation improvements.
Customisable keyboard shortcuts
PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, JPG, TIFF, EXR
Continuous slice export
CMYK, 16 & 32bit RGB, Pantone, ICC profiles
Advanced grids, snapping and alignment
Linked symbols and constraints
Any device, anywhere
Whether on Windows, Mac or iPad, the file format is exactly the same. This gives complete freedom to seamlessly work across your (or your team's) different devices with the same file.
Colour control
Work in RGB or LAB colour spaces - even up to 32-bits per channel. Plus if you're designing for print, pantone support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC colour management are built in as standard.
Rock solid vector tools
Affinity Designer is full of tools meticulously developed for achieving high productivity, while maintaining 100 percent accurate geometry.
- + Comprehensive vector toolset
- + The best pen & node tool available
- + Pencil and brush stabilisation
- + Non-destructive boolean operations
Advanced grids and guides
The options you have for setting up grids and guides is almost unlimited. Whether it's a standard grid pattern, or full isometric with multiple planes, you have full control over spacing, sub-divisions, gutters, angles and more.
- + Column and page guides
- + Isometric grids and planes
- + Auto-alignment tools
- + Pixel snapping and alignment
One million+ percent zoom
This is what we mean by power. From the beginning we developed our engine to work to floating point accuracy. What does this mean? 1,000,000% zoom!
Unlimited artboards
Layout all your screens, pages, menus and other items in a single project across any number of artboards. Export artboards, or any individual elements in your designs, with a single click.
- + Create artboards of any size
- + Choose from preset device sizes
- + Output full artboards or elements in any format
- + Export at 1x, 2x and 3x resolution in one operation
Linked symbols
Symbols allow you to include unlimited instances of the same base object across your project. Edit one, and the rest update instantly. It's easy to create multiple versions of symbols with some attributes detached, or even have symbols within symbols to allow some really innovative ways to speed up your workflow.
Live pixel preview
Pixel perfect designs are assured by viewing your work in pixel preview mode. This allows you to view vectors in both standard and retina resolution, giving you a completely live view of how every element of your design will export.
Sophisticated typography
Affinity Designer Keygen
Whether working with artistic text for headlines, or frames of text for body copy, you can add advanced styling and ligatures with full control over leading, kerning, tracking and more. At any time convert your text to curves to take full control and produce your own exquisite, custom typography to add serious impact.
- + Comprehensive OpenType support
- + Artistic text and text frames
- + Character and paragraph styles
- + Flow text along any path
Professional output for print, screen or collaboration
Advanced file support is at the core of the back-end technology behind Affinity Designer. All the major image and vector file types are supported, including PDF/X4, EPS, SVG and PSD support.
Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you'll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there's no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.
Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Affinity Photo 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:
- Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
- Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS
- Further boolean operation improvements
- Tweaks to Alignment
- Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera
- Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
- Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
- Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
- Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as 'Pemtax'
- Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents
- Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
- Fixed autosave failing to work
- Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files
- Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document
- Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space
- Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip
- Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask
- Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool
- Fixed sporadic PSD import crash
- Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed
- Help and Localisation improvements.
Affinity Designer 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:
- Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
- Further boolean operation improvements
- Tweaks to Alignment
- Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
- Fixed loss of selection scope when deleting objects
- Improved boolean operations on large shapes
- Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
- Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
- Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
- Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
- Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files
- Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document
- Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space
- Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip
- Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask
- Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool
- Fixed sporadic PSD import crash
- Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed
- Help and Localisation improvements.
Affinity Publisher 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:
General
- Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
- Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear
- Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels
- Fix for crash and incorrect placement moving a group into or out of a Picture Frame
- Boolean Operation fixes
- Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch
- Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file
- Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken
- Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image
- (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder
- (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager
- (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table
- (Win) Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files
- (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content
- (Win) Create artboard missing from New Document dialog in Designer Persona
Page Management
Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split
Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized
Text
Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as ''
Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly
Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool
Fixed changing text capitalization without a selection causing a crash.
Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case
Copy-paste Arabic text from .docx comes as Chinese in Publisher
(Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent
Import
- Empty (0 Kb) files could crash the import process
Affinity Designer Download
Export
- PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space
- PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances
- PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace
- PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space
- PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths
Affinity Designer Manual
Download page: Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher (10 Days free trial)
View: Affinity Homepage | Release Announcement
Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
