Adobe Illustrator VS Affinity Designer Every Tool
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2021
- Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer appear at first glance to be very similar programs, but are they really? In this video we will check every tool from the tool bar to see if they really can do the same things!
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I'm an Affinity Designer user. Love the one time payment as opposed to a monthly subscription. The one thing that really annoys me about Designer is the vector brushes aren't true vector. They are actually raster texture that follow a vector path which is pretty disappointing. Really hoping that Affinity software will support true vector brushes in future updates.
Yeah I never use the vector brushes, but I guess I never used them Illustrator either
Nice video
I use affinity exclusively (ditched illustrator for almost 3 years) the curvature does exist in affinity. Select the pen tool and it automatically appears on the context toolbar along with other options, a lot easier than illustrator.
The width tool also exists in affinity by using pressure on stroke.
All in all the only things I miss in Illustrator are the Vector tracing (I now use vector magic for that), shape builder and gradient mesh(I use blend modes and Gaussian blur for this)
Affinity is superior to illustrator in many other things from pixel editing to effects panel to live adjustments and it's ridiculously fast!!!!!!!!!!!
Good to know!
your comment is old but I just wanted to let you know you can do both vector tracing and mesh gradients in inkscape, which is a free program. it's super odd to me though that affinity doesn't have a mesh gradient feature though! that could cause all sorts of compatibility issues. you're supposed to be able to open and save AI files right? what happens when you open up an AI file that has mesh gradients? hopefully they add that feature in the new update
Good overall comparison of each program. Personally I like Designer a lot more than I do Illustrator and it has less to do with the amount of tools and more to do with the overall user experience. Designer just feels a lot less clunky to use than Illustrator and transitioning between Photo, Designer, and Publisher feels like a breeze because in general each program behaves pretty much the same. Also many of the tools in Designer have multiple functionalities that combine a bunch of tools that Illustrator have into one single tool. A good example would be the Pen Tool which combines all the Illustrator pen tools into modifier and contextual shortcuts, which feels great in practice. Also, the Shape Tools are absolutely fantastic in Designer. You can save a lot of time when designing objects because of how flexible they are.
That said, Designer really needs to focus on getting some more tools under its belt. Personally I want a shape builder tool, a knife tool, vector transformation tools (i.e. perspective), more text tools, and of course a raster to vector converter. In 1.9 they did add the Contour Tool and Linked Layers (a Photo feature, but they also work in Designer and it is fantastic for repeating patterns and symmetrical work), but Serif needs to start filling more of the gaping holes that vector artists have come to expect from a vector program.
At least there is a way to compensate for Designer's lacking toolkit by using Inkscape as well. That program is free and while it is not nearly as polished or user friendly as Designer or Illustrator, it at least ensures that you don't have to rely on Adobe for vector work.
I'm with you like Designer better, but there is always room for improvement
Thanks! as a new Affinity user this was a great overview of the tools
you are welcome! glad I could help!
I'm a long time Illustrator user and currently evaluating Affinity Designer. I'm torn between both, I love the speed/optimisation/simplicity/quick shapes of AD yet I also love the gradient mesh/patern maker/3d tool and lots more in illustrator. Since the company i work for pays for creative suite it's not an issue. but if i had to pay i think i would definitely go the Affinity route. Strengths and weaknesses in both apps. Thanks for sharing Ben.
Yeah definitely pros and cons, thanks for watching
There is a similar effect like Width Tool. Its "Pressure" in the stroke menu.
Yes, you can achieve something similar. I have a video on the stroke menu for the iPad version, but it is the same on the desktop version
Long time Illustrator user and recently switched to Designer and love it. You can indeed scale and skew in Designer. Just use the move tool and hover over the nodes to scale. To skew, hover the cursor beside the side nodes on the outside of the object until you see 2 arrows pointing in opposite directions. True there is no width tool in Designer but you can control the width of the stroke in the sthe stroke panel using pressure. I wish there was a shape builder tool and a better way to make a pattern like in Illustrator, but for a one time payment of 35$ I'll look over those missing features anytime. I don't use half the tools that are on Illustrator anyways. Also, though not tool related, I love the pixel persona!
I agree, just because there are more tools it doesn't make Illustrator better, a lot of the tools are just legacy options which kind of bog down the program
The fill/gradient tool is my favourite in Affinity because it is so fun to use. I used to find myself having to edit them in a quite destructive manner in Adobe programmes. However, I would really love for Affinity to let us create free form grandient right away, instead of having to replicate that with more archaic and slower methods.
I think from this video the features I would be interested in being added to Affinity would be: option to free from gradients, blend tool, graphing tool, improvements in text tool, the erase tool articulated with the vector design.
Yeah free form gradient would be very nice. I would like to see a graphing tool that is much better than Illustrator's
After using Affinity designer for solid 15 months, I thought I'd go back to Illustrator just so I don't forget how to use it. Wow, editing nodes in Illustrator has been so frustrating these past few days! I forgot you had to switch through so many tools to edit/delete/add nodes. Affinity Designer really shines hands down for it's simplified way of editing nodes. I can't wait to go back to Affinity Designer once I'm done with this project in Illustrator :P
It is true, switching back to Adobe can be a really frustrating process, especially when you realize how much it is costing. I work primarily in Affinity Publisher because of studio link, and when you switch back to adobe from that it is really annoying because everything takes so much longer.
Many thanks for this video. ;-)
You are welcome!
Affinity products are still in their intitial stage.
Maybe by version 3 or 4 it will get refined and finished.
Its a work in progress currently.
Correct, adobe programs have decades more development, often to their detriment though because they have so much legacy code.
Both Adobe Illustrator and Corel DRAW share one rather wonderful toning tool - Gradient Mesh....no other software vendor seems to implement this in vector form...additionally Adobe bas added the (AI-based) Freeform gradient....i must also mention Adobe Illustrator's absolutely spectacular brush tools (pattern, artistic etc)
Yeah I wish Affinity had a freeform gradient, it would be awesome
(did not watch video yet) I haven't tried Designer or Illustrator but I can think of one downside Illustrator has opposed to Designer is that Designer has two "personas" they are raster and vector. Ai can only deal with vector design while Ds has some raster tools.
Sick intro btw, y u at 5k subs only?
Yes this is very true about the personas.
There just aren't that many people looking for this content I guess. Keep trying to improve my videos though
freeform gradients, you use multiple fills to transparent. It's a lot more control but is a bit more of a pain.
Yeah that does sound like a pain, but if you only need them once in a while I guess it could work.
The game-changer for me would be the fact that Affinity designer has both raster and vector modes since I like to combine both elements in design.
Yeah I love that
Hey Ben a comparison of the iPad versions would be great! Thanks for the video! Jason
I second and third this comment.
I'll put it on the list :) I can tell you right now though it will favor Designer right now, still a lot of missing features in Illustrator on iPad (it does have shape builder though)
Good to know, thanks!
@@bendesignsmedia Sounds good! Shape builder isn’t important to me since we already have some many shape tools in AD. For creating the other “odd” shapes shape builder is nice but for me it’s not missed. There’s other features I’d rather have before a shape building tool, like trace would be nice
@@bendesignsmedia Wow shape builder. LoL. Anyway, Designer for me all the way. PC and iPad.
1. Money matters.
2. A few missing features will not paralyse anyone. We can always work our way around.
3. It's much user-friendly.
But still, plz do an iPad comparison, just bcz we love watching your contents.
Great video! This is ideal for those jumping ship from Adobe products into new apps such as Designer. I’d say my biggest letdown for Designer vs Illustrator is Designer doesn’t have a blend tool. The Blend tool allows users to get creative very fast and\or see hybridizations they’d have a hard time imagining otherwise. But for actual production work for clients both apps will do the job for sure.
Also as someone that started his Affinity journey on iPad first I was sad to see that Designer completely abandoned its IPad UI on desktop. I wish we had the option to keep using that UI to make mobile and desktop work totally seamless if so desired.
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Hi thanks for subscribing! The tool that I looked at in my video on Saturday, VectorStyler, does have a blend tool, so you might want to check that video out. It does not have an iPad app though.
@@bendesignsmedia thanks for letting me know. I want to do a complete break from Adobe so if I need to blend I will use that!
@@LihimSidhe good luck to you!
Hey Ben, get into the iPad version where you can have nondestructive masks all over by just using the layers palette. That feature is so much win.
Are you talking about Affinity or Designer? I have both on iPad.
@@bendesignsmedia Designer. Also creating a group layer then adding blur to the group and every stroke in that group looks like airbrush man that feature slaps bro. I just designed a truck wrap and because the file is vector but looks like photoshop people scratching their heads.
@Veronica Lee You are correct, my question makes no sense, I think I meant Illustrator or Designer as you suggest
I have the Creative Cloud Membership, so I am pretty comfortable with Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop which I use the most.
Nice
Great to see that I’m not wasting my money sticking with illustrator. I really need and like so many of the features it has. I’m would be nice if it was cheaper, but really I guess i wish I just earned more money!
If those features are worth $600 a year to you, then I guess you aren't wasting your money, thanks for watching!
6:09 at the moment of selecting nodes in Affinity designer as you do in illustrator, you must press ALT key in key board to select not as a rectangle, but free shape.
Good to know, thanks for watching!
Is InDesign vs Affinity Publisher video coming?
Yes, it will be coming but it will probably be a couple weeks before it comes out. It's actually the hardest one, there is a lot going on with those
The live paint bucket is the most critical tool for me specifically for painting in textures. I use it to make mockups of wooden pens and being able to easily use the shape builder to create the segments and the paint bucket to quickly fill them with the corresponding wood patterns is all I use it for. I absolutely hate adobe and their products but its the only option I have found that works for my specific work. If you know of another program that could do that I would appreciate it, but I don't think it exists.
Have you tried vectorstyler?
Thanks! A very good overview of both platforms. I personally use Designer 95% of the time - it is so much more intuitive and many times faster that Illustrator. Also it runs so much faster, and the UI is so much more refined. I can use all the shapes, build up a rough illustration, set up initial gradients. The other 5% of the time I spend in Illustrator, either tracing (best feature in the universe), or object simplify, or perspective warping. Thus, Illustrator is great for refinements or to start with tracing at the beginning. But honestly, I wish Designer had some of these features.
Thanks for watching, have you checked out VectorStyler? I did a video looking at it a few weeks ago, it has lots of features from Illustrator.
@@bendesignsmedia thank you for letting me know. I did try it but honestly it seems a little buggy and not yet a mature product. Very good to watch in the coming moths.
Thank you for this review, thumbs-up. I’m deciding between the two options. One thing I’ll need to do is altering existing vector illustrations with 3-point perspectives. You mentioned that Affinity Designer does not have a perspective grid tool. Does that mean that what I need to do is not possible within Affinity Designer and I should opt for Illustrator or is there a reasonably easy workaround? Thanks again.
Not that I know of, I think you can make a perspective grid, but that's not really the same as having the perspective tool. I would say download the free trial and try bringing in one of the files and see what happens
@@bendesignsmedia Hi Ben, one more question if you don't mind: Does Affinity Designer maintain the integrity of points and lines when importing and converting files from Adobe Illustrator?
@@LorenzoNW Affinity Designer cannot open Ai files, unfortunately
@@bendesignsmedia I just received a response from Affinity. It appears Designer can open Ai files but not directly:
"We use the PDF stream attached to an AI file to import the vectors and layers intact, however the naming may not come across for layers. Illustrators file system is a proprietary and closed file format so this is the only way any third party application can open them. The vectors (points, lines and shapes) will remain editable and correctly placed to how they were saved by illustrator."
@@LorenzoNW yes, you can do it that way, but I don't really consider that opening Ai files, but maybe I should do a video on how it works
Just subscribed and will look for you on Skillshare too. Yes if you could please add some focus on the IPad versions as well as I use both the desktop and IPad versions of AI and Affinity DEsigner. Thanks Ben
Thanks for watching Doug! Many of my courses focus on the iPad version of Affinity Designer, so be sure to check them out. I haven't been able to get to all the videos I want to yet, but a comparison of the iPad versions of AD and AI is definitely on the list!
Thank you, found it in a sub-menu. I just didn’t go down the rabbit hole far enough
You are welcome, have a good one!
I think the Smart Mode of the Pen Tool in Affinity is pretty much the same as the Curvature Tool?
Yeah they are similar.
I love Affinity Designer, it's very capable and I like a lot of the ways it does things. However, this video also highlights a lot of the things I've been missing from Illustrator. But, 1 time payment versus sub... that's the crux. If my vector output needs were higher, I'd probably continue using Illustrator, but a lot of love for Designer, and I really hope they end up adding the functionality I miss.
Check out my recent video looking at VectorStyler, it has many of the features you may be missing. I put it up a couple weeks ago.
@@bendesignsmedia Thanks, I have watched it. Picked up the trial but it is laggy so far. Will keep an eye on it. Still, very interesting and only learned about it through your videos, appreciate it!
@@KyninhaH no problem. That is interesting that it was lagging for you, I didn't notice too much trouble when I was looking at it.
Do ipad versions please!! Thanks for the video
It's on the list, might be a while though. I do have a video on the iPad versions, just not a tool by tool comparison: th-cam.com/video/sCUQxzd0CTc/w-d-xo.html
Shape builder is the main issue for me.
I would like it but I feel like the geometry operations can do pretty much anything I need.
That in the general hastle that is converting shapes to curves.... I dont like using booleans it limits my creative thinking and sketching...
@@bendesignsmedia it cost 3 times as much time and forces you to think of a logo design outside of the app instead of free stylining, its horrible
Good news, V2 that just released last month has shape builder!
17:00, in designer you can rotate and skew objects directly from the bounding box
Correct, but the point of this video was primarily to look at individual tools
You have a video about isometric drawing on skillshare but that was before isometric come to iPad. You should do a new one.
Yep I should, just haven't got around to it yet. It was unfortunate timing on my part
Illustrator suffers from panel overload. The Attributes panel, for example, could be removed and its options moved elsewhere. The graph tools also haven’t been updated for decades. If I have to make a graph I just go to Apple Numbers or Excel just because the graph options are way better. They should just remove the graph tool from Illustrator and create a brand new one for InDesign. I have to use Adobe stuff for work, but completely switched to Affinity for my personal work.
I also still despise Adobe for canceling FreeHand. There are tools in that app that still, over 15 years later, are better than Illustrator. For example, attaching text to a path is WAY better in FreeHand.
I agree, the graph tool is like the forgotten child, it is painful to use.
Have been a (very) long time ADOBE .AI & .PS user, very long...ever heard of "Adobe '88" & PS version 1.0.7 yup, I learned those both simultaneously while also learning the MAC, so I LOVE Illustrator & Photoshop!! But I'm intrigued by Affinity & for me it'd be SOO easy to live without the Shape Builder (don't get that being an issue) since it's NOT necessary in Illustrator either. Before that came along only in CS5 we used Pathfinder, which did the SAME things. What' I'd like to know, are there ways (don't care whether a Tool or Menu item) to get the same/similar effects to (1) the WARP family tools, may sound weird, but Crystalize, Scallop, etc. are GREAT for creating Faux FUR looks. Also are there (2) *BRUSHES, specifically are there ways to create your own 'custom' pattern brushes to apply to text, shapes or paths, so many applications for this functionality! I often use the measure tool, & for me, the (3) Blend (shape) Tool is also VERY useful (& has been in .AI for a very long time) so IF there are ways to replicate these functions I'd LOVE to learn. PS there ARE Arrow shapes in Illustrator, under BRUSHES. TY!!
Thanks for watching! 1. There is no Text warp which a lot of people are looking for, but for what you are talking about there is an option in affinity photo using the liquefy persona. I don't think this is available in designer directly though. 2. Yes you can make custom brushes. 3. No way that I know of to replicate blend.
@ben designs Tks for responding! The WARP tools aren't necessarily for text, they work on any object. Hard to replicate the amazing effects, so that's a bummer, but maybe down the line?! Oh, no liquefy isn't quite what I'm looking to do & it needs to be Vector not Raster but maybe with some custom made BRUSHES? At least that may be an option. Sad also there's no (Shape & Multi Color) BLEND. I saw there's even a way to do this in Inkscape via Interpolate command (or something.) I use this quite often in .AI, so maybe that will come down the line too! Anyway after seeing sooo much positive info on Affinity I'm going to give Designer & Photo a try (never had a need/use for InDesign or QuarkXPress, so I've no need for Publisher) especially while the sale is still running! I'm not afraid of work arounds (eh hem, Shape Builder,) as long as I can get my desired effects, so I will play around & see! TY
@@TheJoker-zt4nk Yeah it is probably worth $50 to try it out. Good luck
@ben designs TY, my thoughts too. 2Q's, maybe you know... I'm used to MAC 'COMMAND & rolling 2 fingers on TracPad', I automatically do it, (habit) but I'm going BONKERS as this gesture along w/ 'SHIFT, COMMAND & rolling 2 fingers on TracPad' both randomly ROTATE ArtBoard at the place the mouse lands. (1) HOW may I change this? I found View: Reset Rotation finally, but in Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, I see NO way to turn these gestures OFF or Change them so they do NOTHING, or at least not rotate ArtBoard. Is there some way? 🤞(2) Also, do you know, is there a way to take a shape or a line & CREATE OUTLINES? I see CONTOUR Tool does create outlines, but you still have the CENTER line of the original shape. For ex using a brush stroke & then create outlines where I may change the NODES individually of the different points of each stroke from the brush, if that makes sense. The way Illustrator creates outlines of an object on the OUTSIDE & INSIDE of the object, so that it is no longer a LINE but an OBJECT with nodes to change & or to fill & potentially outline again, if possible. TY!
Please do iPad version of affinity designer and Adobe illustrator
I'll see what I can do. I do have a comparison video up already, but it doesn't check every tool
Nice video
Thanks
I realised how llustrator is amazing. I'll stick to it. Thanks for the video!
You are welcome, glad I could help! Keep an eye on Affinity in the future though, I think we will see big things whenever 2.0 comes around
That's great news then! I just hope it replaces illustrator soon. So I will say goodbye for subscription lol
@@sirram5148 yeah getting rid of the subscription is nice
2 minutes ago I was going to buy affinity but the problem is the small community in spanish .... Is difficult to find good coursers so may be is better but not for me may be I will switch in the future but that's an important problem
Yeah, I can see how that would be an issue, sorry I only know English, I don’t know about the Spanish Affinity community
@@bendesignsmedia I supcribed to your channel because you vocalize very well,I understand almost everything you say, and you have good videos,I like the comparations but not everybody speaks like you 😐
@@vj-nikkolax8008 Thanks! I actually hate editing the sound of my own voice, but I'm glad it is helping someone out!
I own a design shop and we switched to Affinity (all three). The difference to me if minimal and there is nothing I could not do in Affinity that I could do in illustrator. The cost thing is amazing but the truth is I went to Affinity and then actually went back to Adobe and I could not deal with it. What I love love about Affinity especially for logo and flyer design is the simplicity and the ui is to me way better than AI. I think your point is well taken that over the years they have basically accumulated a lot of tools in AI that probably are not relevant. Also the program is so clunky. It is amazing to me how smooth and snappy AD AP ans AP are on an M1 mac. After Adobe made PS M1 ready it was better but still was having issues. Yes, the shape builder tool would be nice and so would image trade but here is a counter argument to that. Efery tool in AD can basically get you the same result and I read this i terview with the Serif founder?and he said the reason they hace not done image trace yet because they want it perfect. Whether he is being real or not I would agree that image trace in AI is ok but in alot of cases it poops out or is lame. Im rambling but basically I am digging it and that contour tool I think has a lot of possibilities.
Yeah Affinity is the best!
Designer definitely needs image tracing but I'm happy to wait if it means it's better than Illustrator's because you're right, Illustrator's is very hit or miss
Good video! #teamaffinity
Demonstrating the shipbuilder tool with two shapes doesn't show it off at all. When you have many compound shapes the efficiency of the shape builder tool is indispensable. Can it be done differently in another app using Boolean functions? Technically yes, if you got all the time in the world. However, no where near as efficiently.
It's odd they haven't put that in Designer yet. It's been talked about for Designer since 2017. Not sure what the hold up is.
Yeah this is not a shipbuilder (or shipbuilder) demo, this is a comparison video. If you are looking for a shapebuilder demo there are plenty of those on youtube, but I plan to make a detailed comparison as well in the future.
@@bendesignsmedia I don't understand why Affinity hasn't done it already. They were talking about it back in 2017. Is it that difficult to program? I am hoping that by 2.0 they do, because I would like to make the switch, but my workflow is too attached to the shape builder's efficiency.
@@funlightfactory6031 The most likely reason is that their boolean operators have a bunch of bugs to them that would in turn make a shape builder tool buggy as well. If Affinity can't properly add, delete, or divide vector shapes without creating artefacts then any tool built on that will not work as you would expect them to. Especially divide is notoriously bad because it creates very unpredictable results by adding tons of unnecessary nodes. It also can't boolean open shapes and other stuff you would expect, so as long as that is not fixed.
Until the bugs are fixed I would not expect them to have a shape builder tool.
shape builder,colour wheel,image trace,live paint and many more wins the race for AI. Also ur doing vector art or creations. Affnity stuff looks kinda pixelly.Example when u zoom in.
Thanks for watching!
If you need those things, and you are ok paying $600 every year, then I guess so. I don't know what you mean by color wheel though, Affinity designer has a color wheel.
@@bendesignsmedia I use both and yes I am fine paying that since it saves time n I can make more time. I have been using illustrator for a long time now. Time is most important thing. There are certainly few things on affinity are better for sure. But it feels us kind of restricted. You can't modify shortcuts much. But in illustrator you choose how you want to do things. I really like that.
@@bendesignsmedia anyways thanks saving me time for making the video was going to make one myself. now I am just going to redirect to this video. people were asking me same questions.
@@KalponicGames you are welcome :D lots of people want to know the differences I guess
@@bendesignsmedia well I hope you are neutral on ur usage when comparing. It kinda looks that ur promoting affinity since u do affinity stuff :P. I use both and you can actually make a combination of both. here is a trick copy-paste from one program to another program keeps all your vector paths and everything. Just press ctrl+c and paste to affinity or AI n viceversa.
Good video, what you cannot do in a.I. (Create/export a jpeg).
Thanks for watching John, I'm pretty sure you can export a JPEG from Illustrator, I normally export PNGs or PDFs but I thought a JPEG was possible.
You can most definitely export a JPEG
Everytime he comparse to Affinity its like 'okay there is not x tool in Affinity' , 'this area Affinity has really struggled with' , 'that's basically what you have got', 'I really don't use this anyways in illustrator' , 'note sure if this is a bug in Affinity'. What is good about Affinity again?
Yeah it can seem that way in this video, Affinity is not perfect, but I actually like using it much more than Illustrator, and for many people the price is the big factor. And there are many legacy tools in Illustrator that are not actually useful to me at all.
Well, it's true that Designer has a lot less to offer than Illustrator in terms of features, so it can't compete with Illustrator at the moment. But you also have to remember how many years Illustrator has been around compared to Designer. Of course, I have long wished for more tools that I know from Illustrator. But on the other hand, I think Illustrator has too many tools. Not to be misunderstood, but all the individual transformation tools that Illustrator has I find rather superfluous and is much better solved in Designer. Because here you need mostly only the move tool. With this tool you can move, rotate (position the cursor a bit further from the outer corner points, then the rotation arrow appears or the upper middle point has an extension, which is the lever for rotating), tilt (similar to the corner points for rotating, only the middle outer points) and resize objects. In addition, several tools are multifunctional.
By additionally pressing and holding the Control, Alt or Shift key, further functions are activated, as for example with the node tool. By additionally pressing the Alt key, you get the vector lasso tool to select the individual nodes.
Which additional function the individual tools have, one sees at the lower edge of the work surface. There the combinations are shown with the additional functions.
Regarding the functions of the eyedropper tool from Illustrator, there is a similar function, but unfortunately not as a tool. Here you select the object for the Copy command. Then you select the other objects and use the Transfer Style or Transfer Effect command in the Edit menu. Otherwise, you can also save the appearance of the object as a style, for which you then have to open the Styles panel.
Great information, thanks for watching!
21:39, do this in AD plus press Option key when clicking. Surprise 😊
Sorry Roland, I'm not sure I follow, are you saying to press the option key when I choose subtract? what should happen when I press the option key?
But Affinity Designer doesn't have the Shape Builder tool, otherwise id switch to it
Correct. Check out my video about VectorStyler, it has a shape builder tool.
And yet Affinint designer is faster, can handel layers better and the file system better. For example the same file can be opened in Designer, photo, and publisher.
# Text on a curve wins the day.
I agree, having the easy compatibility is the big win in my book, especially with studio link in publisher
I'm probably the only person watching this to see if I truly need to get Adobe Illustrator. I am a big Affinity fan. Specifically Affinity Designer. However, I am trying to make a career out of my passion for design. Not using Adobe , hurts me in my job search since it's "iNduStRy sTanDArD". Learning is also more challenging since everything is geared towards Adobe unless you're just wanting a hobby. I am also seeing designers I follow using tools that make work flow 10x faster and easier, than what I can do in Affinity. I'm starting to get faced with the reality that I'm going to have to bite the bullet with Adobe if I want to make something of myself *sigh*.
Luckily, I won't have to leave Affinity behind tho, since we own our software onced purchased. I also have high hopes for version 2.0.
You probably do need to know Adobe Illustrator for a job search, that doesn't mean you need to own it, you can find a library or a university where you can use it and learn it. If a company requires you to use Illustrator they should be providing it to you. If you are freelancing and clients want you to use Illustrator you should be able to bill them for software costs.
A lot of the tools in Adobe Illustrator are BS tools they've added over the years to justify upgrading. At the end of the day, I'm not sure that people even use them. Affinity needs to improve on the type aspect of it. Especially since LOGO and PACKAGE design is a major reason folks use Adobe Illustrator.
Yep better type tools would be really helpful.
Adobe Illustrator is simply too complex, unintuitive and difficult to learn. What you have failed to mention is how valuable the Pixel persona is in Affinity designer. It allows you to paint in your fill using a clipping path technique that is very easily done and multiple colors / brush patterns can be added and blended. Multiple brush strokes allow you to create complex fills easily and quickly. The ability to use pixel / raster layers inside of Designer, quickly and easily allows an artist to much more quickly develop complex art in a much shorter time, and it allows someone new to the software to do these things without having "too many" tools to learn.
Thanks for your comment Randy, great points all! I didn't fail to mention the benefit of Pixel Persona, this video is just a comparison of the tools in the left hand toolbars, not a complete review of both programs. Just to be clear, I'm pro Affinity, I use Affinity far more than I use Adobe programs
@@bendesignsmedia me too. Adobe seems to be stuck with regards to its historical upbringing and they were at the top of their game once. Like all industries, newcomers enter the market with a simpler take on things and rapidly gain footholds much like the Affinity products have done. I originally was a Xara user and it is an awesome program, but it has to be run on a PC and I am a Mac guy. They refuse to develop their platform for Mac mainly because they felt Adobe had too much of a grip on the market. That thinking will result in their demise as many people who used that platform have made the move to Affinity.
Illustrator is great but I hate how all the adobe products have subscriptions. I am gonna stick with affinity for now.
Good choice
I did not like your Affinity Photo and Photoshop comparison because it was just mentioning tools that are there and lack. Happy to see this video has you demonstrating the different tools. Much more helpful comparison. I would super like this video if I could.
Always trying to improve :)
You'll see why Macromedia Freehand is laughing at Adobe Illustrator
Sorry I'm not sure I follow, wasn't freehand discontinued like 20 years ago?
@@bendesignsmedia Yes, however some people actually used it and find it better than Illustrator back then.
Affinity need to stop using the cut-price PDF engine that they use and get proper definitions from Adobe
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by this. I haven’t had any trouble with the PDFs coming out of Affinity myself, but I know there are some formats that they don’t support on export.
@@bendesignsmedia sorry i took so long to get back...if you make a PDF in Affinity Designer, there is a tendency to have regions of the PDF documents rasterized, i am aware that you can control rasterization but the overall result is sub-par...puristsl like me dislike this (not editable in Illustrator) - this is the main issue
@@jabulaniharvey ah I see, thanks for the reply
iam a logo designer for me shape builder tool is deal breaker, so no affinity..
Just for speed? or is there something you can't do with geometry operations?
Really?? Why?? I’m no pro by any means but while the shape builder tool is nice I wouldn’t consider it a deal breaker. First off have you ever seen the enormous amount of shapes you can create in Affinity with just a click??
Then you clearly aren’t ready for a program like Affinity Designer. It does an excellent job of shape building without a literal tool called a shape builder.
@@bendesignsmedia It's extraordinarily efficient, especially when you have multiple shapes overlapping.
@@TheJoker-zt4nk the shape builder tool is like magic, after that i have never used pathfinder has main tool.