Affinity Designer 2

Available to purchase in-app for a one-off cost – no subscription.

The next generation of the award-winning vector graphics software, Affinity Designer 2 is setting the new industry standard in the world of design. Packed with tons of new features and hundreds of enhancements to optimize your workflow, you can now create high-quality concept art, illustrations, architectural renders, logos, icons, mock-ups, and other designs more seamlessly than ever before.

REFINED & REDESIGNED UI • Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons • All new Layers Panel • See recent raster brushes by layer • View recent documents as thumbnail previews or list • Pin documents for quick access • New Document dialog redesign • New monochromatic iconography via Preferences (User Interface) • High-contrast UI settings • Export dialog redesign offers "always on" export preview • Scrolling Preferences

POWERFUL NEW TOOLS • Apply a non-destructive vector warp over any vector artwork or text • Shape Builder Tool for interactively adding and subtracting shapes and curve segments • Knife Tool for cutting up shapes, curves, and text • DXF/DWF import • Measure Tool displays scaled distances between any two points in any direction • Area Tool shows the area and perimeter length of objects • Style Picker Tool offers a dropper-based transfer of object styles • Drawing scale, including ability for different scales set per artboard • Pencil Tool creates auto-closed or straight-line pencil strokes • X-ray view mode to view overlapped objects better • Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object • Drag/drop bitmap texture fills • Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize

REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE • Pan and zoom at 60fps • Live gradients, transforms, effects, and adjustments • Optimized for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision • Live pixel, retina, and wireframe view of vector artwork in and out of split screen mode • Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design • Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes • Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card)

PRECISE VECTOR TOOLS • Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to • The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing and smart shape tools available • Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves • Pencil and brush stabilization for drawing super-smooth curves freehand • Non-destructive Boolean operations • Live effects, blend modes and image adjustments • Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls

RASTER OR VECTOR, YOU DECIDE • With a single click, switch between vector and raster workspaces • Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviors for the best of both worlds • High quality raster tools for texturing, masking, and finishing artwork – you can even create your own brushes • True creative freedom not found in other apps

SOPHISTICATED TYPOGRAPHY • Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType • Artistic text and text frames • Full control over character and paragraph styles • Flow text along any drawn path

BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW • Unlimited artboards • Savable history with alternate futures • Customizable keyboard shortcuts • PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG XL, TIFF, EXR, DXF and DWG file support • Advanced grids, snapping and alignment • Linked symbols and constraints • Drag and drop layers between documents • Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again • Customize savable presets, including studio presets for the UI layout • Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock panel • Efficiently select multiple objects with matching attributes using the Select Same function • Select all objects of a certain type within your document using the Select Object function • Linked images and resource manager • Flag PDFs for PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed • Collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder using the Package feature

PERFECT COLOR & OUTPUT • Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale color models • Full 16-bit per channel editing • End-to-end ICC color management • Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single click • Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export

PLUS, A TON OF NEW FUNCTIONALITY:

New document dialog redesign • More accessible presets • Easier preset management and organization • Flag and filter presets as favorites • In-dialog access to new document presets, templates, samples, my account, and recent documents • Recent documents (grid or list) are searchable and support pinning • Preset preview (changes as you alter settings) • "Always on" Document summary pane

All new Layers Panel • Much clearer drop zones for masking, clipping, and reordering • Parent bar to easily collapse parent items and drop layers above/below current parent group • Identify layer types by icon (curves, shapes, text, pixel, mask, adjustment) • Color tag or hide/show other layers via right-click on Visibility button • Copy layer effects (FX) from one layer to another • Hover-over lock icon toggle • Drag-down Visibility icon to turn on/off multiple selected layers

Content synchronization (content link) • All Affinity apps on a device can now share brushes, styles, assets, application palettes and more • Avoids unnecessary exporting/importing of content between apps on the same device • Easy migration of custom V1 content on upgrade • Link custom content to share with other apps

Selections • More Select Same/Select Object options with modifier support for multi-object selections • Select Next/Previous/Top/Bottom/Parent via right-click menu • Select by group or item within group with Move Tool

Redeveloped Boolean operations • Much more accurate results in all commands • Divide can use an open curve to slice a shape or split another open curve • Divide will punch out holes using a fully overlapping object • Subtract from a heavily outlined key object, designated using the ALT key

Curve drawing and editing • Red line indicator on all curve selections shows winding direction • Node Tool offers Split Curves, adding a new node in the midpoint of a curve segment

Placing content • Repeating objects in a grid • Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs • Layer visibility override for placed files (PDF/DWG/DXF/PSD/Affinity)—turn off layers you don't need • Place linked web images using their URLs • Dropbox API integration to retain placed resource linkage across multiple devices

Raster brush improvements • Improved raster brush quality and accuracy • Distance controller changes brush characteristics with stroke length • Brush tip interpolation for improved tip quality • Wet edge support for more brush-based tools • Recent raster brushes by layer • Paint Brush Tool now has its own B keyboard key shortcut • Brushes panel can display brushes as nozzle thumbnails

Import/export/packaging • AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place, and edit (maintaining layer structure and scaling) • HIF file import (HDR 10-bit PQ encoded) produced by newer Canon cameras • Open stock images as new documents • PDF export will export hidden Affinity vector layers that have child layers as invisible layers • Save packaged document changes back to original folder

Some important extras… • Align multiple objects to a nominated key object • HSL Color Wheel has box wheel type and offers recent colors and hex code readout/input • Convert artistic text to frame text, and vice versa • Paste Style support for copied text selections • Isolation (Solo) mode offers better group control • Rasterize selected layers simultaneously • Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100% preference