OdFori Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 (edited) Hi, I see some features are available in 2 or 3 of the Affinity packages. For example: both Designer and Publisher have Character/Paragraph Styles. Adjustments layers both in Designer and Photo... etc. Is there a list that addresses all the overlaps? (Similarities and differences?) Thank you. Edited October 6, 2019 by OdFori Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 40 minutes ago, OdFori said: Hi, I see some features are available in 2 or 3 of the Affinity packages. For example: both Designer and Publisher have Character/Paragraph Styles. Adjustments layers both in Designer and Photo... etc. Is there a list that addresses all the overlaps? (Similarities and differences?) Thank you. I believe there is a short answer. Nope. No list. I believe @Alfred would advise you to download the trial versions of the three apps and see what each can do. You should be pretty amazed! Additionally, if you have all three retail versions, you can jump from one to the other within the apps to accomplish what you would like to do using the particular strongest points of each app. Alfred 1 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OdFori Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 Allright. But would this statement be reasonable: "The Pixel Persona is sort of a mini-Photo." ? Or: "You can't edit vector art in Photo, only pixel layers. But you can edit pixel layers in Designer" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 52 minutes ago, OdFori said: "You can't edit vector art in Photo, only pixel layers. But you can edit pixel layers in Designer" You can create and edit vector objects in Photo. But Designer has more important tools and features to work with vector. Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 57 minutes ago, OdFori said: "The Pixel Persona is sort of a mini-Photo." You can drawing/painting in Pixel Persona. But you can't work with channels like in Photo, for example. Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 You should perhaps think of Photo as being primarily for photographers, and Designer as being primarily for artists. But there is overlap, and you may find it beneficial to own both. And if you plan to have a significant amount of text, you may also want to own Publisher. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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