Affinity Designer 1.9

  



Affinity Designer 1.9 takes the concept of selecting objects with a shared attribute even further. Its Select menu contains two major new features: Select Same and Select Object. To use the former feature, start by selecting a single object that has a specific quality you want to change, for example, its fill colour, stroke weight, or blend mode. Affinity Designer introduced a new feature that allows you to either select objects of particular properties, or select the same properties as what is select. Affinity Designer (one of my favorite apps) and Affinity Photo version 1.9 were just released as a free update to existing users. Also they are both current.

7,829 downloadsUpdated: April 15, 2021Trial / Commercialware

Retouch your photos and improve their appearance and quality using the advanced color and lighting manipulation tools this application provides

What's new in Affinity Designer 1.9.4.1048 Beta:

  • Added 'Limit Initial Zoom to 100%' preferences option (defaulted to off)
  • Fixed crash on document load when the OpenCLOn12 compatibility pack has been installed
  • Implemented GPOS Cursive rule (used by 'Charis SIL' font)
  • Fixed PDF Export group opacity potentially being applied twice
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Following the steps of its older Mac OS brother, Affinity Designer for Windows delivers a professional-grade photo editing and design application ready to assist you in creating compelling graphics and retouch images to obtain results of a better quality.

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Use Personas to define your working environment

Before starting to work with Affinity Designer, you should understand its approach, which is a little different. Depending on what your goal is, you should choose a particular 'Persona', which is a name for the various ways of working with the application.

Each Persona changes the working environment, providing another toolset. The default one is the Draw Persona, which encompasses all the vector tools. The Pixel Persona brings to the table additional pixel editing tools, whereas the Export Persona helps you pick areas for export.

Affinity Designer 1.9

An assortment of raster tools, adjustment options and graphic effects

Once the working environment is chosen, you can open an image for retouching or create a new project from scratch. Affinity Designer supports multiple layers and bundles a generous collection of raster tools you can work with to create realistic artwork. Pencils and brushes, fill and transparency control tools, shapes, and vector cropping tools are all one-click away in the toolbox, each accompanied by a few instructions displayed right in the main window.

A variety of effects is available to help you transform your photo and enhance its appearance. Moreover, you can tamper with exposure and white balance, shadows and highlights, brightness and contrast, colors, vibrance, and more. Basic layer manipulation controls are also within reach, allowing you to align, rotate, flip, and arrange objects.

A flexible graphic design app with a rich feature set

Combining pixel editing with vector design options, Affinity Designer brings versatility into the spotlight, allowing both photo retouching and graphic material creation.

The feature set is promising and turns it into a viable competitor for the big players in the design area. But you'll just have to give it a try to see for yourself.

Affinity Designer 1.9 New Features

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Affinity Designer was reviewed by Mihaela Teodorovici
4.5/5
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  • Mouse or equivalent input device
  • 2GB RAM (4G RAM recommended)
  • Monitor resolution:
  • 1024 x 768 (at 100% scaling)
  • 1280 x 960 (at 125% scaling)
  • 1600 x 1024 (at 150% scaling)
  • 1920 x 1440 (at 200% scaling)

Affinity Designer 1.9 Tutorials

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file size:
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filename:
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