MikeDuf

Thanks guys! Guides will help me a lot! I worked with the duplicate tool and the symbols tool last night. I am really enjoying what I came up with messing around. I noticed that I can't work seamlessly between illustrator and affinity because it won't keep the groups and all... and I know its that way with every software... But that means I will have to do my work from A to Z in a software or another so I think affinity will be my to go for logos! Really loving it! In two weeks i'll have my new wacom intuos so I'll be able to use the brushes to see if it match my needs for calligraphy. Can't wait! Oh and thanks for the tips for saving layers! :) I'll try that later today!

Hey thanks for answering! In illustrator you can turn anything into guides. You select it, go to guides and click create guides. It turns into color lines that works as guides (Like when you drag from the ruler). So let's say I want to tell the client they can fit a picture in a certain area I place a guide and they know what goes where. If I do that with lines dragged from rulers it will be a mess on the screen. Yeah mirror could work better... but at least its there. One feature that I use a lot is the Patterns. I imported a file from illustrator and it converted the pattern to vector shapes. So I guess there's no what to make patterns work in Affinity... I have clients asking for camouflage and such things that works way better when they are used as patterns. That could be another good feature to implant later. The future of Affinity is paved with gold. I can't wait to see where it will be in 1-2years! But for now I'll keep my illustrator subscription and cancel photoshop. I'll buy both Affinity photo and Designer and see where it goes waiting for publisher.

Hi, My name is Mikael and I am working on illustrator around 50-60hours per weeks. I really want to find a good illustrator alternative at home and none have came close to replace my adobe's software. Until I found about Affinity. Affinity photo is going to replace photoshop for me. 100% sure. It feels like its a complete software that can do pretty much everything I expected from a photoshop competitor. Affinity Designer feels a little younger. Missing features are really changing the game and leaving a gap between Designer and Illustrator. The gap isn't big though! Features that I haven't found (maybe they're hidden somewhere) are the following : -Auto-trace (not a big deal... its never perfect and tracing it manually is a better solution) -Deformations (arc, shear, perspective, ...) -A proper mirror (would like to use shortcut and be able to place a center manually for the reflection so I can "work in mirror") -A way to turn shape into guides. I create master files so people can edit things in later and I place a lot of guides. Right now it looks like a mess using lines and they tend to forget to delete the shapes if I leave them on a locked layer -Variables importer (I do buisness cards and things that require importing data such as text and images... I think I've read somewhere that it would be a feature in your next software...) -A way to use plugins like fontself, variable importers, ... scripts... -That one is more a question than a feature... Is it possible to save each layers in there own eps files named with the name of the layer? I mean a one click solution not manually hidding, saving, ... I think its the points that really stood out for me. I may not be the average Joe so I'm not sure all the points I brought are necessary... but they are the ones I found. I really love the interface and I will buy both softwares. I like where its going and the toolbar on top is really helpful! I'm more a "keyboard shortcut" guy but I like having the tools I don't use a lot up there so if I forget the shortcut its still easy to get to it. Thanks!