Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher 1.8 released
Mar 06, 2020 by CGPress Staff
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Serif has announced an update to Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. Version 1.8 adds Indesign format (IDML) import and a new Preflight panel for Affinity Publisher, expand stroke improvements and a new Stock panel for Affinity Designer, PSD smart object import and lens correction improvements for Affinity Photo, and template support and new document dialogs for all the apps. It is also now possible to import Smart objects from photoshop and there are many improvements to plugin support including support for the Nik Collection. Find out more on Serif’s website.
Anyone know if Affinity Photo supports vector; either Illustrator, PDF, or SVG, as an embedded document, and what transforms can be done to that embedded document? Will jump ship from Adobe as soon as I can, but a complete Smart Object replacement is a requirement for that to happen.
Not sure what you mean… But Affinity Designer itself is a Vector based painting solution.. It imports for example PDF.. also als embeded, but not yet embeded and linked, the only big feature i am still missing.
Affinity Photo for exmple can embed PDF files which can be reopened inside of affinity Photo and you still can change the vector content..
While Photoshop convertes embeded Pdf files to a rasterised format, which is easier to handle in some cases especialy as architect and which still is connected to the original pdf..
But sure.. Affinity handles Vecotformates.
Basically, in Photoshop I’d bring in an Illustrator file as a Smart Object, and warp it into position. Think of it as logo made in Illustrator deformed onto an object in Photoshop, using warp, liquify, perspective, etc. If the logo is updated in that Illustrator file, it would automatically be updated in the Photoshop file. Gross simplification of what I use Smart Objects for, but should get across what is needed.
PDF’s in Photoshop are still non-destructive as long as they come in as linked or embedded Smart Objects. Some clients give me PDF instead of AI for vector.
I guess that brings up another question, how well does Affinity Designer load and save AI files? I’m assuming limited due to the proprietary information in the AI file.
not sure if there is an equivalent of SO, but honestly you can get a 10 day trial of both of the apps and test drive them both extensively. no limitations afaik.
fwiw i have been having massive wacom driver issues -mainly with photoshop. most other apps work fine but photoshop just doesn’t register pen pressure. i have tried bunch of fixes, the problem keeps coming up. it was such a pain, i had to use ipad pro to actually paint stuff.
had a painting commission right now and photoshop was a buggy mess again, decided to try affinity photo.
it did exactly what i needed it to and more with zero downtime. the brushes and their behaviour is awesome.
i think adobe managed to provide value for the subscription. there are free fonts, mixamo, awesome workflow betweed ipad apps and cc, but i just cant deal with the bugs anymore. i will phase out adobe as time goes on…