Which do I get? Affinity Photo or Designer?

[Steganographer]

Hello, World! I was wondering, what is the largest difference between the two Affinity programs, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer? Here's a rundown of what I do:

GFX (Graphic Effects)

UI Design

Video Game Design (2D)

Logo Design

Special Effects 

Photo Editing

 

While scrolling through the other forums, I saw that Designer was focused towards UI design and stuff of that sort. But then I found out what Photo does, and I realized I may need some of its features too. If I buy from Affinity, I want to get the best program to suit my needs. I am semi-professional when it comes to things on the list. I would enjoy a response, as I hope to upgrade from GIMP 2.10 soon! :)

 

-Landon, (Steganographer)

[SrPx]

IMO...Both...you're not breaking the bank...!   Also, in that list, even game graphics (am a game artist, too, among other stuff) can very well require vector graphics, if casual games for the web, streaming, or, for phone apps, etc, where graphics need to be displayed at many resolutions and screen proportions. You will need as well raster graphics for a bunch of games, too. If you need even basic photo editing, you can do very few things with the Pixel persona ( a raster module included in AD) , you will really need AP.

Logo design --- > vectors, with some exceptions in games for some game companies, but that's (raster only) definitely not a good way to make a logo... 

Special Effects, GFX ... Mostly is AP...

UI design... Largely AD, not that u couldn't somehow do it to with AP, but not ideal. (I was a web designer for decades, and only used PS. But responsive design has changed all)

You can do pixel art (games, etc) with AD pixel persona. Ain't easy, but I was able to do it. (specialized pixel art tools are much better, but there's the advantage of a tool for everything). Same abilities plus quite more (still, far from a dedicated pixel art tool), for doing pixel art in AP.

SO, yeah, is pretty cheap, purchase both, IMO. Be sure to very intensively use the trials, these are there for you to check if the product fits your needs ! (some people seem to skip this hugely important step). 10 days  is more than enough, a tip: download one first, use the 10 days fully with that app. Then download the other, so u can focus on each trial quite more.

 

 

[Steganographer]

Alright. Thanks!

 

[MmmMaarten]

On 10/27/2018 at 2:38 AM, Steganographer said:

Hello, World! I was wondering, what is the largest difference between the two Affinity programs, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer?

Like @SrPx : buy them both, as a professional you just can't without any of the two really. My favourite is Designer, 'cause last years pretty much all the (interactive) graphics and illustrations I created were vector and I fell in love with it a long time ago , but a lot of time you also need to edit raster-graphics, from simple things as screenshots to photographic work and applying effects like blur and more advanced effects stuff. With the two programs you pretty much can edit all still graphics out there and don't need to look further on that. Just buy those two to have a fully working solution for all your 2d still graphics and you won't regret it.

[Daniel204]

On 10/27/2018 at 7:32 PM, SrPx said:

IMO...Both...you're not breaking the bank...!   Also, in that list, even game graphics (am an game artist, too, among other stuff) can very well require vector graphics, if casual games for the web, streaming, or, for phone apps, etc, where graphics need to be displayed at many resolutions and screen proportions. You will need as well raster graphics for a bunch of games, too. If you need even basic photo editing, you can do very few things with the Pixel persona ( a raster module included in AD) , you will really need AP.

Logo design --- > vectors, with some exceptions in games for some game companies, but that's (raster only) definitely not a good way to make a logo... 

Special Effects, GFX ... Mostly is AP...

UI design... Largely AD, not that u couldn't somehow do it to with AP, but not ideal. (I was a web designer for decades, and only used PS. But responsive design has changed all)

You can do pixel art (games, etc) with AD pixel persona. Ain't easy, but I was able to do it. (specialized pixel art tools are much better, but there's the advantage of a tool for everything). Same abilities plus quite more (still, far from a dedicated pixel art tool), for doing pixel art in AP.

SO, yeah, is pretty cheap, purchase both, IMO. Be sure to very intensively use the trials, these are there for you to check if the product fits your needs ! (some people seem to skip this hugely important step). 10 days  is more than enough, a tip: download one first, use the 10 days fully with that app. Then download the other, so u can focus on each trial quite more.

 

 

Thanks for sharing the valuable information it will be informative to me. I would like to share about affinity software. It is very smooth for use and there are multiple options to create a new thing using the customized options.