Affinity Designer for iPads: Pros, Cons, and Comparisons with Procreate – Liz Kohler Brown

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Affinity Designer for iPad: [Review] – Paperlike

 

Show all. Affinity Designer for iPad 1. Add to Watchlist Comment Share. Inkscape 1. Create everything from logos and diagrams to complex 3D designs with this powerful SVG editor. Affinity Designer 1. A vector drawing app that takes on Illustrator at a fraction of the price. Affinity Designer for Mac 1. Inkscape Portable 1. Napkin Sketch 2. These more advanced settings can be found within the Text Studio.

If you find the default font selections aren’t exactly what you’re looking for, you also have the option to import your own fonts, including fonts you might use in other apps like Procreate.

Affinity Designer recognizes. TTF, and. TTC font files. Within the Fonts section of your Preferences menu, you can view, add, and delete fonts to be available in all of your Affinity Designer documents.

We’ve seen that gestures have been historically innovated by Procreate, but Affinity Designer has decided to take their gestures a step further. In addition to the standard two-finger tap to undo and three-finger tap to redo, Affinity Designer has incorporated a number of multi-touch gestures as well. Duplicating objects can be accomplished by having two fingers pressing the screen and dragging your object to duplicate it.

To constrain the proportions of an object, simply scale from the corner with one finger and press the screen with another. This is similar to Adobe’s Touch Shortcut feature, but with a bit more freedom. In Affinity Designer, you can have your finger pressing any part of the screen, whereas the Touch Shortcut is a button that needs to be pressed.

You’ll also find that scrubbing is an efficient feature that can be executed using your Apple Pencil or by sliding one finger. You can use scrubbing to adjust any of your values like brush sizes, zoom, and more. Similar to folders, you can create projects from your Home Screen and keep related documents together when sorting your content locally. Affinity Designer also takes advantage of a lot of what’s great about the iPad and puts it to use for its users.

In the Preferences menu, you can set your program to save directly to your iCloud, ensuring that your documents are accessible across all devices. With this in mind, keep in mind that files can be imported from iCloud as well. Something that’s worth mentioning with this is that there are a few ways to bring in files.

When you choose, Import from Cloud, you’re creating a copy of that document. When you choose Open from Cloud, you are working on that same document and once you save it, it will be overwritten.

There’s actually one more Persona that we haven’t mentioned yet: the Export Persona. Like the other two Personas we’ve seen, it changes the tools on your screen. This Persona is specifically for preparing your document for export. Affinity Designer manages your export settings using the Slices Studio. The Slice Tool allows you to manually configure specific document selections or slices as opposed to using the Layers Studio. Alternatively, to export the entire document you can select the Page slice.

This is interesting because it allows you to get super specific with your export options. Using this tool, you can even export 1x, 2x or 3x resolution versions of your artwork simultaneously.

With Affinity Designer being cross-platform compatible for Windows, MacOS, and iPad, it’s no surprise that it can also read and edit documents from other programs. You can open up Adobe Illustrator documents with complete layer preservation. The editing capabilities within Affinity Designer will depend on the features you used and how the document was saved. You can even import and work on PSD files within the app for added flexibility and range.

The capabilities of Affinity Designer are so robust that trying to navigate or realize its full potential can be a bit overwhelming. Between the grids, gradients, and blend modes, and vector drawing capabilities, it can be a lot to wrap your head around.

Hopefully, this article has helped, but the catalog of video tutorials is great for beginners and definitely helped me navigate it for the first time. As an artist, the tools that you use are important. But, no matter what app you use to scratch that creative itch, Paperlike can help you bring your digital art to life. Our screen protector offers an enhanced experience when drawing or notetaking by adding more resistance to your screen.

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