aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I know this is a affinity forum so I will get biased opinions, please try and keep it as unbiased as possible. As a noobie web designer, what would be my best bet? I've tried both, they are fine, some things are good in sketch, some in affinity. I am leaning towards sketch right now because it seems better for UI design but not sure. One thing that really irks me is that zooming with a mouse is not smooth at all. Its jagged and eww. It feels clunky. In affinity its fine. In affinity you cannot really just only align to pixels yet, whereas in sketch its much better unless you like scale. Then you gotta round to nearest pixel edge. So which one should I choose? Obviously there is a lot more in sketch then isn't in affinity and vice versa but those are my main problems, along with sketch sometimes not refreshing the screen. I'm planning on buying affinity in the future either way because it looks really good for other designs. But for web I don't know yet. What would you recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 Try the beta version - there's a new 'force pixel alignment' mode that sorts out all the awkward pixel-aligning things. Sketch is good at some things, Designer is good at others - depends where you feel most comfortable really :) Designer is a stable, fast product that is being expanded rapidly - at some point this will include a specific focus on UI design. aubble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 That doesn't seem to fix it for me. I still get .5 sometimes. On y axis only too lol. Guess I will just go for sketch for now. Don't worry, I will be back shortly, I really like affinity designer as well. I wanted to go with affinity, its not focused on anything, its a one for all product. Once its mature enough for UI design xD I will be back :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 The .5 will be because your object is an odd number of pixels in width/height and it's snapping to the middle :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 OOOOOOOOO THANKS!!! Ok, could you point me to some resources for learning affinity? Thats awesome, I can buy it expecting the pixel perfect feature to come soon right? Thanks, I tried it so many times, I can't believe that it was that. XD what do you mean snapping to the middle btw? Sorry I'm a noobie at vector design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hello aubble, Check this link for a list of learning resources. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 And hopefully you guys have experience with affinity. It is decent for UI design right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 Why don't you give it a try? Pick a small project, or try to recreate one. Some members are already using it to create user interfaces like this. Here's another. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 I guess I will. But could you point me to some website designs made in Affinity, just wanna see :P Also why when I have the units as pixels, for snapping, I cannot snap to the ends of the document? Like the corners etc? Or when I use the UI design preset? How can I change this? This is the beta btw. In the normal one I think its when I change the unit to pixels when I cannot snap to document ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 You have to go to the View -> Snapping Manager... (also available in the toolbar as an icon) and select the options you want for snapping. To snap to document boundaries check Snap to Spread, if you want to include half spread snapping check Include spread mid points. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 I have it checked but it doesn't work? I can show you a video if you need? Very confused.. :( In fact by default the UI design one has that on but its not working in the beta atleast. Gonna try in the normal trial. In that when I change the units to pixels, it stops working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 But I have to say, very impressed with how quick this forum is to respond!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 I advise you to check out our videos on Vimeo/YouTube. All those things are explained in detail there. Here's one dealing with snapping for UI and Web Design. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubble Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 watch this to see what I mean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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