kenjacobsen

I teach several college "Introduction to Computer Art" classes each year and after 25 years of misery with and endlessly overpaying for Adobe products, especially Illustrator, I'm really glad to be able to recommend Affinity's products to my students. Since the classes I teach are in the Art Department the students are geared to drawing and painting and having the equivalent of Adobe's "Blob Brush" would be REALLY helpful.

By the way, I hope it's not CALLED a "Blob Brush" –imitating Adobe's annoying misnomers is not a great idea, in my opinion. We're all annoyed at having to "Expand" our vector art in Illustrator when nothing actually "expands" at all.

I teach several college "Introduction to Computer Art" classes each year and after 25 years of misery with and endlessly overpaying for Adobe products, especially Illustrator, I'm really glad to be able to recommend Affinity's products to my students. Since the classes I teach are in the Art Department the students are geared to drawing and painting and having the equivalent of Adobe's "Blob Brush" would be REALLY helpful.

By the way, I hope it's not CALLED a "Blob Brush" –imitating Adobe's annoying misnomers is not a great idea, in my opinion. We're all annoyed at having to "Expand" our vector art in Illustrator when nothing actually "expands" at all.

For those who use tracing occasionally or who have a case where your usual tool isn't producing the results you need, VectorMagic is available to use online. You purchase token packs, in groups of five, at a reasonable cost. You get 2 free tokens just for signing up. Or you can pay $7.95 per month if you need traces more often. The on line service is more limited in terms of output formats but then again, it doesn't cost $300.00. I have not yet used VectorMagic but their results on the website site look impressive. Until AD has a tracing feature this might be an alternative for those not happy with their current tool.