vubot Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I'm looking to make the switch from Adobe to Affinity, but I'm not sure if I can fully commit without the blend tool (not layer blends like multiply, but object blending) as I do a lot of parametric work. Any chance this is in the pipe? Vaz, charioui bouchaib, Fun Art Sam and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 This tool was originally part of the 1.x roadmap in 2015. Unfortunately, there is no more publicly-facing roadmap. Vaz and charioui bouchaib 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerom Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I bought Affinity Designer for my iPad some time ago. The program is great. I want to buy this program for working on my desktop in the near future. Then I also need the „Blend Tool“ to switch from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Designer. This tool was previously available in „FreeHand“ and was just implemented in "Inkscape".So that it is clear which tool I need, I send you two links here: „Blend Tool“ = „Interpolate“ / Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/doc/tutorials/interpolate/tutorial-interpolate.html „Blend Tool“ / Illustrator: https://youtu.be/KAx_ZFxvDuE?t=71 Are you planning this tool in Affinity Designer? DGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 6 hours ago, jerom said: I bought Affinity Designer for my iPad some time ago. The program is great. I want to buy this program for working on my desktop in the near future. Then I also need the „Blend Tool“ to switch from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Designer. This tool was previously available in „FreeHand“ and was just implemented in "Inkscape".So that it is clear which tool I need, I send you two links here: „Blend Tool“ = „Interpolate“ / Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/doc/tutorials/interpolate/tutorial-interpolate.html „Blend Tool“ / Illustrator: https://youtu.be/KAx_ZFxvDuE?t=71 Are you planning this tool in Affinity Designer? Welcome to the Affinity forums! Serif will not give a time scale for the introduction of any feature/tool. Even if they do intend to make a blend tool, you have no way of knowing how many decades away it is. DGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 +1 Quote Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Quote Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenia Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I wonder why is the blend tool so difficult to implement. Most of us want it. I've been waiting long, but sadly not in designer yet. AHAM, moi.cool and DGee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 45 minutes ago, Gardenia said: I wonder why is the blend tool so difficult to implement. Most of us want it. I've been waiting long, but sadly not in designer yet. The difficulty appears to be that the development team is far too small for timely bug-fixing, never mind additional tools and features that have been requested countless times over the past 5 years. DGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 If I had to guess, I'd say Blend Tool comes with Affinity Designer 2.0. Quote Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 5 hours ago, Johannes said: If I had to guess, I'd say Blend Tool comes with Affinity Designer 2.0. A lottery ticket AHAM and moi.cool 2 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarieDoesDesign Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 I need the blend tool too!!! AHAM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAH2 Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Some tools can easily be worked around, but Blend isn't one of them. If you are doing blends, and it can't be faked with gradients, you are SOL using Affinity. Given how p**s-slow Illustrator is these days + lack of feature innovation on Adobes part... Affinity could eat their lunch if a few features were completed. VectorVonDoom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 10:44 PM, TAH2 said: Some tools can easily be worked around, but Blend isn't one of them. If you are doing blends, and it can't be faked with gradients, you are SOL using Affinity. Given how p**s-slow Illustrator is these days + lack of feature innovation on Adobes part... Affinity could eat their lunch if a few features were completed. You apparently don't use AI or you'd know what's been added and also know that adding a few features doesn't make it a AI killer, a ton would. Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Tindale Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 I could live with a simplistic blend/morph/tween/interpolate tool that relied on the user selecting two shapes that have exactly the same amount of points, the same kind of points, with nothing weird like doughnut holes or reliance on winding rules. Eg, tween a square into a house shape, one would ensure the square has seven points in suitable places so that it could easily be interpolated. Then when development time allows, do the bigger magical 'tween everything, works first time every time' feature later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rparmar Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Goodwin Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Any news on a blend tool - above it was mentioned that a replicate/blend tool is on the roadmap - any news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvGa Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 9 hours ago, Edward Goodwin said: Any news on a blend tool - above it was mentioned that a replicate/blend tool is on the roadmap - any news? Affinity sucks man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhamad Faisal Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 in this time, maybe we need a blend tools... Johannes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SzilardUK Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 I can't help but copy and paste my comment from another forum thread... People have been asking for this important feature since 2016. I was so excited about Affinity. I thought they would be for Adobe what Adobe was for QuarkXPress. Now it feels like they are just like QuarkXPress used to be. moi.cool and R.I.P. Affinity 26.03.2024 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGee Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marciobda Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 +1 It's 2022, and we still don't have a Blend tool =/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Pick up a copy of Vectorstyler and use it as an add-on feature for Affinity. It has all the features Affinity lacks and copying and pasting vectors between Affinity and Vectorstyler is easy and efficient. Oh, and it has a blend tool already VectorStyler.com Dazmondo77, DGee and Johannes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGee Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 58 minutes ago, Boldlinedesign said: Pick up a copy of Vectorstyler and use it as an add-on feature for Affinity. It has all the features Affinity lacks and copying and pasting vectors between Affinity and Vectorstyler is easy and efficient. Oh, and it has a blend tool already VectorStyler.com VS is mind blowing Affinity has a nice interface and overall its a smoother experience but it lacks too many features. VS has everything I need and more. Dazmondo77, Johannes and Boldlinedesign 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 22 hours ago, Boldlinedesign said: Pick up a copy of Vectorstyler and use it as an add-on feature for Affinity. It has all the features Affinity lacks and copying and pasting vectors between Affinity and Vectorstyler is easy and efficient. Oh, and it has a blend tool already VectorStyler.com 21 hours ago, DGee said: VS is mind blowing Affinity has a nice interface and overall its a smoother experience but it lacks too many features. VS has everything I need and more. Thank You guys for the tip. A little competition does no harm. Compared to Affinity the pricing is steep but I read Vectorstyler offers real vector brushes. I'll give it a try. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 @Johannes Vectorstyler has a free 42 day fully functioning trial. There is also a promo sale going on over at this link where it's essentially half-off the 95 dollar normal cost. it looks like the sale is going on for 11 days more - so you could always test it out free first and buy it before the promo ends Compared to Affinity being a little less than half the cost of VS, I can understand your feelings that the price is steep. At this point, I'd happily pay Affinity another 100 dollars to get Designer with all the features and basic tools we've been clamoring for the last few years! lol I don't know if Affinity can survive longterm on 35-55 per app. We'll see. Compared to the cost of Adobe for a year... VS is cheap! Dazmondo77 and Jays 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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