In a nod to today’s high resolution Mac screens there’s a Retina Pixel View mode, which doubles the pixel pitch of the regular Pixel View mode. These help you work on different parts of a project without having to rearrange windows or move toolbars manually. The device size presets include iPads and iPhones as well as a couple of Nexus models, two Kindle Fire sizes, and the Galaxy S5, or you can set up your own custom dimensions if you prefer.Īffinity Designer has three ‘personas’ one for drawing and shape creating, one for pixel-oriented painting, and one for exporting, with features for creating sliced parts of designs and generating images at different resolutions. Documents can be set up for a number of different destinations: print, with different paper size presets, a ‘press-ready’ version of print for commercial production, photo (where the page size presets are photo print sizes), web, and ‘devices’ if you want to create work to fit phones or tablets.

There are very few really good vector drawing packages around for the Mac, in part because Adobe’s Illustrator rules this particular roost, but Affinity Designer, Serif’s first foray into the world of Mac software, looks like it could shake things up in very interesting ways.įrom the start it’s clear that Affinity Designer has big ambitions.

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