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When Adobe Illustrator was released in 1987, the computing world was weaning itself off the CPM operating system, enduring Windows 2.0 crashes, and experiencing WYSIWYG on a Macintosh that looked like R2D2’s homely cousin. Adobe Illustrator Is Powerful – But Is It Right For You?
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Read on to discover why Affinity Designer is a powerful low cost alternative to Illustrator, and to view a tutorial on how to open an Adobe Illustrator file (AI) in Affinity Designer and save it in a variety of formats. Read an overview of the changes in the Affinity 1.Are you looking for a drawing app that opens Adobe Illustrator files, without hogging system resources and RAM? Have you considered buying Affinity Designer, and wonder if it has any advantages - besides its low price - over Adobe Illustrator? Or are you a digital design beginner, and need to know if Affinity Designer offers more flexibility and features than something simple and cloud-based like Canva? Read an overview of the changes in the Affinity 1.10.3 updates The price of new perpetual licences has risen since the 1.10 release, with the desktop versions up $5 to $54.99 and the iPad editions up $2 to $21.99. The updates are free to registered users. Photo and Designer are also available for iOS 12+.
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The changes also improve performance with Apple’s original M1 processor by “roughly 10%”.Īffinity Photo 1.10.3, Affinity Designer 1.10.3 and Affinity Publisher 1.10.3 are available for Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.9+. Serif describes the speed improvement as “stunning”, commenting that the 32-core M1 Max chip’s performance in its internal benchmark “obliterate any other single GPU score we have ever measured”.
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On most platforms, the updates are primarily bugfix releases, but on macOS, they introduce support for macOS 12 Monterey, and optimise the software for Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Updated 25 October 2021: Serif has released Affinity Photo 1.10.3 and Affinity Designer 1.10.3.
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You can find a full list of changes – and of new features in page-layout app Affinity Publisher, which has also just been updated – via the links below. The Resource Manager, used to manage linked images in a project, gets support for EPS files, and the option to relink missing resources. New features include the ability to load Adobe Camera Model (ACM) lens profiles for correcting lens distortion, and better lens correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses.Īffinity Designer 1.10: faster rendering of complex documentsĪffinity Designer 1.10 also improves performance, particularly when rendering complex documents, like PDFs imported from CAD applications.Īccording to Serif, rendering documents with “hundreds or thousands of objects” is now “up to 10 times faster than before”, improving interactivity when panning within the document.īoth apps: emojis, better IME text editing, and updates to the Resource Managerīoth apps also get improved IME text editing when working with Japanese or Simplified Chinese text, and support for “most” emoji. GPU rendering and the RAW engine have also been “improved”, although Serif hasn’t put a figure on any of the speed boosts. In addition, Affinity Photo users gets support for Adobe Camera Model lens profiles for lens correction, and both apps get support for emojis and better IME editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese text.Īffinity Photo 1.10: faster panorama stitching and layer blending, plus better lens correctionĪffinity Photo 1.10 features a number of performance updates, including when stitching panoramas, blending layers in a document, or converting between ICC colour profiles. The updates focus on improving performance rather than adding major new features, with Serif describing Affinity Designer’s rendering engine as “up to 10 times faster than before”. Serif has released Affinity Photo 1.10 and Affinity Designer 1.10, the latest versions of its GPU-accelerated image editing and vector design apps for desktop systems and iOS devices. Scroll down for news of the 1.10.3 updates.
