Heard of Affinity Designer?

[local1]

Trying to replace Illustrator?


https://affinity.serif.com/beta-download

 

[Greg G]

Just came across it today. Looks very ambitious and about time Adobe had some competition.
No subscription
$50 to buy, that is correct..$50
Free updates

Affinity....make it available on PC as well!!


Professional Colour, Compatibility, and Output
Professional Colour

True end-to-end CMYK for professional workflows
RGB, LAB, CMYK and Greyscale colour models
ICC colour management
Colour spaces maintained in supported file formats
Switch colour modes any time, use colours from different models

Open Files from Other Design Apps

Open PDFs, Adobe® Illustrator files containing a PDF stream, and Freehand files
Edit objects in their native form–shapes, text, images
SVG and EPS supported for vector designs
Illustrator objects, groups and effects maintained where possible

Open and Save EPS and SVG

Open, edit, and output industry standard EPS and SVG files

Beautiful Custom Colour Palettes

Use colours and palettes based on all the available colour models
Automatically create palettes based on document colours
Display palettes created in other apps using Apple System Colour Palettes

Full Save and Export List

Adobe® Photoshop® PSD
PDF (can be viewed and printed cross platform and opened in Adobe® Illustrator)
EPS
SVG
TIFF
PNG
JPG
GIF
Affinity design suite common file format

16-bits per Channel Support

16-bits per channel modes for RGB, Greyscale and LAB colour
The deepest, richest colour for all your effects, adjustments and edits
Available in full to all Affinity Designer users on all supported hardware and OS versions

Slices

Automatic scaling or resampling of mixed discipline artwork as required for output
Advanced Lanczos 3 resampling available in addition to Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbour methods

Full PSD Support

Accurate opening/saving of Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
Maintain layers, groups, gradients, blend modes, paths, masks and more

Save PDFs

Save designs as PDF for sharing
Save CMYK PDFs for pro printing
Save PDFs for opening in Adobe® Illustrator

Smart Colour Picker

Accurately pick up colour using a magnifier over any part of your display, in or outside Affinity apps
Grab colour in the source colour model including CMYK and device-independent LAB colour

Full Open and Import List

Adobe® Photoshop® PSD
Adobe® Illustrator AI (containing PDF stream)
PDF
Adobe® FreeHand (versions 10 onwards)
EPS
SVG
PNG
TIFF
JPG
GIF
Affinity design suite common file format

Retina @2x Output for Web, UI and Game Design

Automatically output standard and retina sizes in one go
Retina versions are automatically given an @2x file name
Create complete icon or sprite sets within one document
Prototype whole web pages or create individual web graphics

Export Settings Presets

Create your own export presets for consistency
Use popular presets that are supplied with Affinity Designer

Efficient File Format

Affinity Designer’s own file format is compact and extremely quick to open and save
Affinity Designer files will be fully editable in upcoming Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher titles
Affinity Designer is so efficient it can open Adobe® Photoshop® PSDs faster than Adobe® Photoshop®

 

[zoran]

I think it has lot's of catching up to do to beat Adobe, however as a starter software it does look promising and developers are active and listening to community.
I did not have problem buying it and I can see potential for sure.

 

[schenkadere]

That is exciting! looks like a very nice piece of software...go Affinity!