Affinity Designer

Avantages

Très abordable pour les petits budjets, une fois la prise en main passée c'est un très bon outils pour des petits ou moyens projets

Inconvénients

Quelqu'un d'habituer à photoshop et illustrator préférerai tout le même la suite adobe. Moins collaboratif du fait de l'organisation des fichiers non respecté à l'import pour les logiciels tiers.

Avantages

Il offre quasiment toutes les options et tous les outils nécessaires à la réalisation de travaux professionnel pour un prix moindre. J'apprécie en particulier son ergonomie, et sa facilité de prise en main.

Inconvénients

Il manque à Affinity Designer la fonction de vectorisation d'un image, qui serait la bienvenue sur une future mise à jour. Mais il faut le dire, ce logiciel est a un prix défiant toute concurrence, et un rapport qualité/prix exceptionnel.

Avantages

Affinity Designer est un logiciel permettant de créer des affiches et de faire des designs avec de très beaux rendu

Inconvénients

Comme la plupart des outil de design Affinity Design est très gourmand en ressource

Avantages

Le logiciel tourne bien, il est fluide ce qui le rend agréable à travailler dessus. C'est un bon logiciel vectoriel sans abonnement avec un prix d'achat raisonnable.

Inconvénients

Il manque cependant quelques fonctionnalités comme vectoriser des images, ou exporter dans certains formats.

Avantages

Excellent si on veut découvrir d'autre univers autres qu'Adobe

Inconvénients

Pas d'inconvénients trouvés lors de l'utilisation

Avantages

C'est un logiciel peu cher qui nécessite pas d'abonnementDe plus il est facile à prendre en main

Inconvénients

N'est pas forcément intuitif pour un débutant mais avec des tutoriels on s'en sort très facilement

Avantages

I was an avid user of Adobe Illustrator before they changed into a subscription model. When I learned about Affinity Designer, I grabbed it immediately without second thoughts. It works great and has all the features and tools I need for my work and business.

You just have to pay once and you get all future updates for life! Also, their mobile app comes free after your purchase. How cool is that? The app can be used on desktops and/or tablets. I have tried it on my iPad Pro and it's really fun to use, though I'd still prefer working on a computer. The price is so cheap and hard to beat. I will never look back after using this software for almost 5 years. I am now a fan and I highly recommend this app.

Inconvénients

There is nothing to dislike with this software. I never had any issues or crashes so far. I love it!

Avantages

I've been using affinity for about 3 years.
It's soooo easy so great and mostly, SO QUICK !
I love designing with this software !
User experience is very cool, the customization is amazing.
And the price it's like we give it to you !

I can only recommend that software !

Inconvénients

Sometimes, I need to go to Illustrator for some specific features such as color overall management or width modification. Anyway, there are a lot of innovative feature on Illustrator that i'd love to see on affinity.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Affinity Designer 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

Sleek interface. Vector editing. Stable build.

Inconvénients

Web optimization for graphics, svg support, css integration.

Avantages

Affinity designer has all the priority features I look for in a design program. I hate switching to new software, but I found Affinity to be a fairly easy transition from Illustrator. Occasionally I can't find a tool I wanted in the spot I assumed it should be, but a quick search solves that problem. I love the way the tool bar is laid out and found all the main tools I wanted were easy to access. This is now my go to design program and I love that it is not a subscription based software.

Inconvénients

While some designers fault Affinity for not having certain features I found that all of the vital features I needed are included.

Avantages

-Purchase once and use forever. You don’t need a monthly subscription fee to access every feature
-Accesible price, you don’t need to break the bank to purchase this app
-Rich interface and tools

Inconvénients

-Interface and interactions may be hit or miss since it’s software built for tablets and may not always play nice when using mouse and keyboard
- Slight learning curve when coming from other options

Avantages

Affinity Designer is the best Adobe Illustrator alternative that will let you edit SVG, AI, EPS, PDF files with ease. The controls are very intuitive and easy to use, the results are way too good and so far, after all these years there's nothing I regret from using Affinity Designer
If you buy a set of tools on the Serif store, you do not have to download them and install them on a certain folder, you just go into the panel, click, that's it. You have it ready to use and installed properly.

Inconvénients

The only thing I cannot do in Affinity Designer so far is to get a PNG and trace it into a vector. For that, I have to use Inkspace but everything else: Affnity Designer.
Another thing that you may feel limited is that you see templates for Illustrator everywhere but not for Designer. You can still open them but all the layers groups will be merged into a single giant group making you spend some time rearranging things.

Avantages

It allows you to do all the advanced stuff you need to do. Of course, there are some industry-standards out there this software will be compared to. Affinity Designer will for sure save you money after you spend some time in the initial adaptation translating all your knowledge from other tools to it. It sounds scary but it isn't. Things are just called differently and some others just have a different shortcut, but all what you know should still apply. A very cool thing I saw is that the developers are always interacting with users and they do listen to the requests! It's very, very lightweight (v. 1.8.5 is less than 500mb). Updates happen frequently but it's up to you to install them. Also it's equally lightweight in terms of resources used when running. The industry standards require everytime more and more ram and cpu while Affinity Designer runs very smoothly on all low-mid range pcs.

Inconvénients

The documentation isn't always super super clear. As it's an evolving sofware and features are being added or changed, this is really important. A couple of times i had to rely on youtubers to find how to do certain things.

Avantages

It is lightning fast! And not to mention super affordable. Here is a piece of software with great customer support and an amazing community behind it.

It is very intuitive and the learning curve is not steep at all. In fact, far more intuitive than Adobe Suite.

Inconvénients

So far, all good! Maybe how it opens files from the Adobe Suite could improve but it has nothing to do with Affinity as much as how Adobe packages their files.

Avantages

Affiniity Designer easily and immediately replaced my existing vector graphics program I was using before it (Illustrator). As such there was no major learning curve or wasted time switching over. Further, even though there is no subscription required, the software only continues to improve!

Inconvénients

Even though it's not a major change from Illustrator, you do have to get used to a few things that are different. Not a big deal.

Avantages

Well cost was a factor, ease of use, simple UI

Inconvénients

Lack of needed features.
The layers functionality was confusing
No auto trace which was the huge disappointment for us

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Affinity Designer 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

It offers a perfect artboard layout and infinite social media templates which I find simple and fun to use. I also use Affinity Designer for digital prints output due to its impeccable resolutions!

Inconvénients

Definitely a bit complex when starting off. Training and tutorials helped me get accustomed. It is quite enjoyable now when I understand most tools and shortcuts.

Avantages

I have worked on one project to test it during the trial period before purchasing. The vector editing features are very similar to Adobe Illustrator, but it's a one-time-purchase for this version and updates rather than a subscription model. I'm happy that I can use it on multiple computers for my own use, as I have both a home and a studio workstation. Because my workflow includes tracing over photos, I appreciate having a suite (Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher) where it's easy to go back and forth with photo editing. I also do my own product photos and print materials so this suite is just what I needed.

Inconvénients

I have not tried to transfer files back and forth between workstations using Affinity and Adobe.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Affinity Designer 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

Coming from Illustrator, it's very easy to adapt to, just minor differences in some workflows, but mostly it's intuitive. It can open and edit Illustrator files if they are pdf compatible, even deal with complex things like knockout groups correctly. It's also has some great ideas that I was pleasantly surprised by that made the workflow better and faster. Affinity devs listen to user feedback and regularly update their apps, so any features that it lacks it will probably get soon.

Inconvénients

Lack of a good font manager, it just takes the fonts you have installed in your OS. No Google fonts integration or anything like Adobe Fonts, so if you're missing fonts you have to manually find them online and (buy or) download them the old-fashioned way.

Some odd workflow choices, minor things that can slow you down. Like no native way to permanently reset the bounding box of an object after it has been rotated, they have a toggle that works for 1 operation and switches back to the (skewed or rotated) original. The align UI and the order of actions to chose what to align to what is strange and can waste time. Other minor things like that that I ran into, but all in all it works well and gets the job done.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

This is the easiest vectoring program I've ever used for lineart and I'm amazed at its affordability compared to insanely-priced subscription services like Adobe.

Inconvénients

I only have two gripes with this program. 1) As of the writing of this review, you can't merge vectored strokes into one layer. You can merge multiple shapes into one shape but every vectored line/stroke has its own layer and can only be 'grouped', not merged. When I'm done with a lineart, I want it to be one layer-- not thousands. 2) Protecting/locking PDFs from editing does not seem to be possible at the moment and that's a huge security issue for a lot of artists who don't want their work edited without authorization. Would really like to see this issue fixed.

Avantages

An easy-to-use layout design tool that is capable of absolutely everything I need to do. I've been in the creative industry for over 30 years and Affinity Designer can handle everything I'm throwing at it from logo design and layout to full-blown artwork, and art collections I'm developing. It integrates well with the Affinity family of products (obviously). Essentially it's easy, fast, full-featured, and straightforward to get started. I used to use Illustrator (a little) but now I use Affinity and have never looked back. The transition took me minutes rather than hours. It's very intuitive.

Inconvénients

I haven't hit any limitations with the software yet. I always generally feel the things we don't like about the software is that we've mainly not learned how to use particular features or combinations yet, so really it's on us to work it out and innovate. Sure in any software there can be occasional bugs. But I haven't come across any yet, or anything particularly frustrating about the workflow, tool, or system as a whole.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

It's modern, FAST (in capitals), easy to use, affordable and regularly updated.
Also, Affinity Designer (and it's companion applications Photo and Publisher) are available on both Windows and macOS with 100% file compatibility; In addition there is an iPad edition available, again with 100% compatible files and great drawing features for Apple Pencil.

Inconvénients

The management of ,global colours' and 'normal colours' needs some getting used to. Once you know how it works, it works well, but it's a bit different than I expected.

Avantages

This is a fantastic alternative to Adobe's Illustrator, especially at Affinity's pricepoint. To be fair, we're not a design agency first, we make websites and do marketing primarily. However, when we do want to work with vector graphics, Affinity Designer matches up almost 1:1 with Adobe Illustrator. The real pro is the one-time fee of $50 instead of a full adobe suite subscription. This allows our small team to effectively open, edit, and export vector graphics, without having a several hundred dollars per month bill to foot. For small teams, this is a huge win. I'd imagine some experienced designers will scoff that a few of their old shortcuts don't work, but all in all, the interface and function almost mirrors Adobe's for a fraction of the cost. We also use their photo editing software too, which replaces Photoshop.

Inconvénients

Some of the terminology and keyboard shortcuts made the onboarding slightly more difficult for our long-time Adobe Illustrator users, but they've adopted nicely over time. There's always growing pains when you switch tools, but there are many more features that do match up 1:1 that this was a no brainer for our company.

Avantages

It's built for Mac OS, an it works flawlessly with my M1 MacBook and my Dell 27" external screen. It has all the features and tools as Adobe Illustrator and then some more. I absolutely love it!

Inconvénients

Nothing that I can think of at the moment, all is rainbows and smiles after few years of using it.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Affinity Designer 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Affinity Designer

Avantages

Affinity is one of the tools that has helped my graphic design agency it features and Fonts helped in making my graphics design making it organized and liked by my client . Affinity is one of the easiest tool with advanced features to make the design look beautuful.

Inconvénients

The only thing i dont like is way the software has a dark background interface .