bnd.lettering

If Affinity has no desire to get a slice of the Adobe pie, but just wants the crumbs, then I guess it's true you can't call it professional apps. The less users Affinity has, the less good it can become. So if they aren't keen on attracting users that want to make the switch from Adobe (and can!) then I would say the bar is set too low.

I never ment it as a blanket statement. One can only speak of their personal experience 🙂

Literally the first thing I tried in AD was to make a calligraphy artwork with the different tools AD has compared to Illustrator. I was keen to try this new way of working with the stroke 'pressure'. But although I tried and tried, I could not make it look as good as I would in Illustrator. So I thought I'd simply make a few brushes (just 3 different elongeted shapes that I would turn into brushes) but all my attempts resulted in blurry brushes. So in the end, I ditched what I made in AD all together and started a different design in AD. It's a real shame that making calligraphy in AD after all these years (topic from 2017) is still not possible in any usefull manner (at least not to my knowledge). Since making custom lettering is what I do most (both in calligraphy and in many other styles) AD is still no substitute for Illustrator. Not for me at least.

@GarryP Since 'Letraset' was mentioned and it was typography related it became on-topic 😋 I had a look if I could check it out, but it required a login on an account (which I don't want to make) and I didn't find it on YT. It could have been interesting to watch.

Not just my needs. In a drawing program brushes are one of the more important tools, although I understand not everybody will use them. But at least brushes should be easy to make for those that do, it is a drawing program after all. I follow tutorials to get to know specific tools. The tools don't necessarily dictate a style and bad habits can easily be avoided. If a way of working doesn't feel right for you , then just do something different. Usualy there are multiple ways to reach a goal 🙂 I don't have time to go back and forth over bugs that I encounter. The little time I have I want to spend as much as possible on designing. Even Adobe wanted me to spend time helping them sort my bugs out. I told them I expected them to give their users bug free software, like they did for decades. I'm not that parttime employee that works for software companies for free. I've got better things to do 😉

@Ash Eldritch For a drawing program like AD I would say being able to easily make a simple custom vector brush is a must. Yet I haven't been able to get that done, despite watching several YT tutorials about it. Somehow all my brushes had a blur on their edges. AD has more than double the steps (compared to Illustrator) to make a simple vector brush, so it has a lot more room for errors. The fact that we need to make a png first in order to make a vector brush really blows my mind. In Illustrator it couldn't be more simple. And this is not the only case where AD makes us use more steps to get somewhere. Sure, AD has some unique cool functions (that Adobe seems to copy from AD) but I feel like the proces of getting results with many functions could be more streamlined. And beside that, my AD is troubled with bugs that make it quite hard to use. But now you made me curious about what you produce that you weren't able to do with Illustrator 😋

Hi @tzvi20 Well, I mentioned the amount of experience Adobe has, so it's technically not another point 😉 And you can say 'Adobe'. No need to censor it 😋 As much as I dislike the 'subscription only' principle of Adobe CC, I am still very positive about their software. Since they are market leader (and probably will be for a long time) most of us will be using their software whether we want to or not. So for me no reason to be be overly negative about Adobe. But I have voiced my issues with the new Adobe on their Instagram account. And I think Affinity has gained a lot more users since the Adobe CC 'subscription only' principle, so that must be a positive for Affinity users 😅

Hi everybody 🙂 After recently buying all 3 of the Affinity programs, this was the 3rd thing I made with Affinity Designer. The other 2 were a Christmas post and a new years post for Instagram. My first impression of AD is that it has potential, but to me it still has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Adobe Illustrator. But of course, it's very difficult to get to the Adobe level, since they have so much experience and money 😅 I bought the Affinity programs to hopefully get less dependent on Adobe software, because I really don't like the 'subscription only' principle Adobe has adopted. I don't like to pay Adobe 'ransom money' to be able to have access to my own documents. And since using Adobe Creative Cloud I've had several bugs that have never been an issue back when I had Adobe software that I bought. So even Adobe isn't as good (anymore) as it should be for that price. Most of the things I design are T-shirt prints for my webshops and since I'm addicted to designing letters (typography) most of my designs contain custom made text. This 'L' was made for Instagram only. From time to time I design single alphabet letters, to have something more to post on Instagram. I post far less than the algorithm wants, but I don't want to be a slave to the algorithm, so I follow my own rithm 😋 Is anyone else into designing typography? ✌️ Luc

Hi @NathanC Like I said, I have no time to invest in the 'problem solving' that obviously still needs to be done. I can't spend time on helping you solve bugs, because I need to invest that time in designs.

I have several bugs in Affinity Designer as well (Windows, version 2.3.1.2217). It makes it quite hard to work with. And since I like to get some things done, I can't be spending time going back and forth about the problems I have...

Thank you But creating topics where none are wanted by the user makes for a lot more topics about the same thing...which they say they want to avoid.

This was supposed to be a comment, not a topic. I would think I'm not the first to bring up this issue, that's why I didn't make it a topic...

Recently I bought an Affinity software package, because I really don't like the new Adobe 'subscription only' principle. That is the main reason for me to support Affinity. I have decades of experience with Adobe software. One of the first things I tried was making custom brushes in Affinity Designer, but I was unpleasantly surprised how hard it is to make brushes. So far I've had no succes. In Adobe Illustrator you draw a vector shape, select the shape and click 'make brush' and you can use it instantly. It blows my mind that making a brush in Affinity Designer is this complicated. Making a "vector brush" using a png? Really? I feel like there are so many 'hoops to jump through' to make a custom brush in Affinity Designer that there is way too much room to make mistakes in the proces. Making calligraphy brushes in Affinity Designer is hard or even impossible and Affinity Designer offers no calligraphy brushes in the brushes panel. With my main focus on making custom lettering it's very important to me to be able to make custom brushes easily. It seems Affinity Designer is still way off to being a replacement for Adobe Illustrator. But I will continue to use Affinity Designer for the things that it's made for and I can only hope for better functionality in the (hopefully near) future.