Affinity Designer now in beta

[MrGuvernment]

News was out a while back about this app being a competitor to Photoshop, they have now released the beta for windows:

Affinity Designer for Windows is NOW IN BETA!
Hi Matthew,

Thank you for signing up to take part in the beta trial of Affinity for Windows. We’re delighted to say that the public beta of Affinity Designer for Windows starts today!

Please note that you’ll need to be running 64 bit Windows 7 and above to use this beta.

Truly revolutionary...
Built on core principles of performance, stability and lack of bloat, Affinity Designer contains all the tools needed in a professional vector design app, meticulously crafted for professionals.

It’s fast, meaning you can pan and zoom at 60fps and see all adjustments, effects, transformations and brushes in real time. It works in any colour space … RGB, CMYK, LAB, greyscale, and offers end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC colour management and 16-bit per channel editing.

It’s incredibly accurate, allowing you to zoom to over 1 million per cent. And Affinity Designer has the best PSD import engine available with full support for SVG, EPS, PDF, PDF/X and FH files, which means integrating it into workflow is painless.

You can watch a short video summarising the capabilities of Affinity Designer for Windows here:

Get started.
Over the last 18 months we have built up a huge library of video tutorials for Affinity Designer available on Vimeo. The good news is that as the Windows version is nearly identical to our macOS version, and so all the videos are just as useful for Windows users to get started.

We need your help...
We’re discussing this at the moment on this forum thread, and on this facebook post so if you have any questions or want to let us know what you think we’d love to hear from you.

It’s important to remember the Windows beta version is not the finished article and at this stage it might not work perfectly.

That’s why as well as being one of the first Windows users to get their hands on the product, we’d like to invite you to play an important role in its further development.

Affinity Designer in its current form has been shaped with the valuable help of tens of thousands of users who signed up to test the Apple Mac version in beta form. Their contribution played a huge part in it being named as an Apple Design Award winner in 2015.

We now need to repeat that process with our Windows users.

If you want to tell us something about your beta download version of Affinity Designer – perhaps you’ve spotted a bug, something that needs fixing, or for any other feedback or questions you may have – we’ve set up a dedicated forum for you to get in touch with us. You can find it here:

Thank you for your support!
We’re thrilled that you’ve decided to come on this journey with us and we look forward to hearing your response. Together, we can make Affinity Designer for Windows the best it can be.

All the best,
The Affinity Team









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[cyclone3d]

I would think that Affinity Designer is more of a competitor to Adobe Illustrator.

Affinity Photo would be more the match for Adobe Photoshop.

Anyway, thanks for the info. I just signed up for the beta.

 

[rezerekted]

Yea, it says it is a vector graphics app which is what Illustrator uses, Photoshop uses raster graphics.

There is a free vector graphics prog called Inkscape too.

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