

Metal-accelerated to achieve blazing-fast performance.Let us enumerate a few more features that grabbed our attention while scanning through the app’s iTunes page: Of course, the app supports all major color and layer controls and allows one to create artworks with thousands (!) of layers. What is even better, with Affinity Designer for iPad, one can seamlessly switch between vector and raster, allowing the artist to sketch, paint, and make pixel selections without ever needing to leave the app. Basically, anything that can be done with pixels in apps such as Procreate, is possible to be done so here using vector art. The software has more than 100 brushes for traditional artists, they can customize the dynamics of a sizable range of paint brushes, pencils, ink pens, pastels and gouaches to their will while using such important tools as stroke stabilization while working on field documentation. One can draw and manipulate nodes and Bezier handles, divide and combine shapes using – non-destructive – Booleans etc. This means that the iPad artist can do pretty much everything on the go as he/she would be able to do so in the Mac version. “Velvet-smooth” vector tools according to Serif’s website, Affinity Designer for iPad offers vector tools that allow one to create with “pinpoint precision”. We will give you a full review at some point in the near future, once we spent some time with Designer in the field but let us give you a quick first impression of its feature set here. Serif has worked closely with leading artists, designers and illustrators to make sure that their software is the right combination of ease of use, features, and power to fulfil even the wildest demands of their target user base. However, those colleagues who prefer vector-based drawings versus Photoshop’s bitmap environment will certainly welcome the plethora of features Affinity Designer for iPad offers on the go. Just like its Photoshop-like sibling, Designer has all the features of a desktop vector art tool with the addition of being able to draw directly on the screen with great precision using the Apple Pencil.Īlthough we at digital EPIGRAPHY are almost exclusively Photoshop users, we appreciated having Affinity Photo on our iPad and being able to use the excellent Apple Pencil for our photo modification needs. It has been quite a long wait since the iPad release of Serif’s other popular desktop app Affinity Photo, bringing desktop quality experience to Apple’s tablet. After teasing the iOS community for almost a year, Serif has released the iPad version of its often-praised professional level vector graphic software Affinity Designer.
