Affinity Users - Assemble!
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When it comes to vector stuff, I'm finding I like Affinity Designer a lot better than Illustrator.
Affinity Photo is a bit of a different story. If you were doing UI design or photo manipulation primarily, I'd say Affinity is better than Photoshop. But if you're doing a lot of custom design and digital painting, I don't think it can hold a candle to photoshop. That might change in the next few years when it catches up on brush dynamics.
I've switched over to using both Publisher and Designer for vectors and page layouts though. I'm not seeing anything illustrator offers that I can't do just as or more easily than Illustrator or InDesign.
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@CosmoglotJay Yes, ProCreate is a fabulous app and I don’t think I’d feel the need to change to a different one from painting on the iPad.
Wishing you to get an Apple Pencil for Xmas then! -
@jdubz that has me wondering - have you used Procreate? (I haven't.) I'm curious how you find it compares with Photoshop re: brush dynamics, and how that measures up against Photo's?
Jay Douglas Rumisek
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@CosmoglotJay Cannot comment for AP, but compared to PS the brush dynamics of ProCreate is better. The newest version is a pretty solid piece of software, with which you can do practically everything you can do in Photoshop (in terms of painting, not photo-editing). Some functionalities are still missing, but overall is a great tool for painting.
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FWIW, I use Procreate almost exclusively. I'm a novice, so I'm not exploring the tool much in terms of pushing any particular style or anything, but I do enjoy working it in.
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@CosmoglotJay I use Procreate a lot and the only brush that I haven't had much luck replicating is the watercolor brushes that Photoshop is capable of doing. I was hoping that the new 5.0 version could do it, but I'm finding that it's falling short a bit.
I'm going to attempt to export the watercolor brush I use and see if importing it into Procreate will retain its capabilities but I'm not holding by breath.
It's a really tough comparison because they do certain things better or worse than the other. For example, inking in Photoshop is terrible once you get used to it in Procreate. It's not even close. I love using both in different ways at this point. But, I could say if you're primary job was producing finished art, you could exclusively Procreate no problem.
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I just got the Affinity Photo and Designer. I used Photoshop and illustrator in the WAYYYY back machine in the early 2000's(is that a thing) so understand basics minus upgrades. etc. Do you all have suggestions for videos or courses to watch or take to get up to speed on the new tools on the iPad?
Thanks,
Sue
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Sure.
Affinity has a few official YouTube channels:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZN-kIrZUQyoTnexM3jJAwThere’s also Affinity Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6xPJ4dx82vSjysPUyjlCsw
And if you search you can find a bunch of other channels and videos too. Also the official Affinity forums are pretty helpful.
Jay Douglas Rumisek
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@CosmoglotJay I just want to chime in that though I primarily use Clip Studio Paint for my illustration, I have switch from Adobe suite to Affinity (desktop versions) over the last few months for the graphic design stuff (like making a page of layout options for a client to look at.)
There was a little bit of a transition to relearn how to do a few things, but Affinity has been awesome! They even have features I appreciate that Photoshop doesn't have. And for a one-time payment of about $50 for each program, it was totally worth it. The Adobe CC suite was almost $700/yr for me, and I paid $150 for 3 Affinity programs last year (that do everything I used Adobe for), so that's $0 this year for software, woo!
There are a ton of Affinity tutorials and support out there, it's worth a look if you need a cheaper design solution!
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Just a note to say that if anyone has been thinking of trying affinity, now is a good time. They're offering 3 months free trial and 50% off if you decide to buy:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/supporting-the-creative-community/
