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Slowly mastering Affinity Designer and it's transforming my workflow, especially for detailed shapes & vector lettering. Trying to get that Procreate organic feel with vector power. Has anyone else started to use the Affinity products as their main design tools?

Ian Barnard

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Ian Barnard1 year ago

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Brian White Design1 year ago

Nice!

Ian Barnard1 year ago

Thanks Brian.

Bryan Rieger1 year ago

Yup. Designer still may be missing a few things, and it's UX could use some love, but I keep coming back to it because it's such a joy to use for vector drawing. Opene Illustrator today (to use AstuteGraphics tools) and it jsut feels like a chore compared to Designer.

Ian Barnard1 year ago

Yeah, agree the UX needs work and also the vector drawing experience is great.

Gabe1 year ago

that’s amazing!! I’m currently learning Affinity and, if you don’t mind… how did you “extrude” the stroke on the “make” text? :o

Ian Barnard1 year ago

You can either add an outline FX to it or expand the stroke to an object by going to the layer menu.

Braidge AI1 year ago

Love this style!

Bold Line Design1 year ago

I do like Affinity Designer on the ipad. I use it for doing vector art on the go. For my everyday vector work I use my desktop mac with Vectorstyler. It's got all the features missing in Affinity Designer and is improving all the time. Vectors can be copied & pasted between

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