I had been using Adobe professionally for 25 years. After two months of learning Affinity and using it on client work I just cancelled my Adobe subscription and completely migrated to Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher for all of my design and layout work. Incredible creative programs.

3:20 - Stay tuned for multiple page documents in Inkscape. We're working on it! :)

Yes, Affinity Designer tutorials! Shape Builder is on their feature roadmap, but no word on when. If you have the Affinity Suite, what is nice is being able to jump back and forth between the programs with the same image. You can switch to Photo and it will even keep the layers. Be sure to check out the pixel persona, the icon with the squares under file. When you're in that persona, it works like a raster image. You can paint, just like Photoshop, GIMP, Krita. Whatever you do on that pixel layer can be selected just like a vector, moved, resized, etc, when you switch back to Designer persona.

YES! Affinity Designer tutorials please! I love the Affinity suite.

Thanks Nick for this video. I've been using Affinity Designer for about 3 years now. I started design with Ink scape from watching your videos and I really look forward to seeing you make affinity designer tutorials.

Question: Would we like to see Affinity tutorials? Answer: Yes. Yes we would I personally enjoy your design tutorials more than most, however I'm not an inkscape user. To watch you do your work on Affinity would be ace.

Just got this video recommended on the front page. Been working on and off with Affinity products for around 4 years now. Although I only use the programs maybe once a month, I've purchased them all (Designer/Photo/Publisher) just to support their licensing model. One great feature you didn't mention (because you probably didn't experience it yet): All their programs share the same file format. What this allows you to do is install all the programs, then work on a flyer in Publisher. You notice something off with the logo, so you just click the menu bar and it hands off the whole document to Designer to fix that logo. Then you want to change the color balance of a photo, you click another button to switch to Photo, where you can edit the file, save it, then return to publisher and continue writing, etc. And just to note I'm not just talking about their "persona" buttons that basically change view/behavior. During all of this all the programs keep a full WYSIWYG view. Only thing better would be one big program with everything inside, but then again more modular isn't wrong either.

Cant afford to keep 'renting' my software, so bought outright the affinity suite. So far, it can do everything I was doing before and more. Plus, the suite is integrated, so its easy to switch between vector and raster based projects. I'm glad I have got in to Affinity early, so I can learn as it matures.

Yes I would like affinity tutorials

Affinity... don't become like Adobe when you grow up.

Waiting for Master Classes for the entire Affinity Suite of products. You produce some of the best tutorials out there and thanks.

Affinity designer has a lot of features, like the "Pixel Persona": a buildt-in pixel editor, the CMYK color space, the beautiful price, and there are more features coming soon, like blending and even a sort of shape builder tool!

I love it! I learnt how to use it in 3 days after years of not using design software due to a career change. I started out with their 3 month free trial and by the end I had created my own branded drop shipping company and website. I've now bought the software with no regrets and use it daily.

Just a small detail: you don't have to manually input stroke width in Inkscape, you can use mouse wheel on the number box. Really handy. Thanks for the review!

😃Thank you very much I so appreciate the consideration to add Affinity designer and Affinity photo to your playlist😁👍🏾

YES! Dude I just bought affinity a few months ago and I was so bummed there wasn't tutorials by you for it. I gotta admit I get confused on how to make certain functions work in Affinity Designer as well as Affinity Photo because I've only worked with Inkscape and Gimp. Thank you for posting this

For me, the interface looks very user friendly.

OMG FINALLY YES!!! Of course I would love to see step-by-step tutorials all about Affinity photo and designer! I left a comment on one of your last videos last week talking about this it's like you heard me. I was learning inkscape from you but I need it something a bit different since I'm making graphics for print so I was looking for step-by-step start to finish tutorials and my search was very limited so I went back to you my main source from inkscape.

I love how you explain everything so in depth , I don't even play with inkscape that much anymore, but I love looking at you work magic from base design principals .

Yes, we want Affinity Designer tutorials really badly! Please do it when you are fluent in it.. 🙏🏼

I think some video tutorials of Affinity would be great. It will also help open you up to more viewers.

Affinity was an instant replace from Illustrator to me, not turning back.

Yes, please - for the Affinity Designer tutorials!

Love Affinity products, I picked up their whole productline a couple years ago, it has been my go to software ever since! Tutorials by Nick are always on top of my list, keep 'em coming brother!

I bought the complete Affinity "suite" including publisher and just love the way the 3 programs work together, changing between them is so fast and easy that makes adobe feel outdated and unnecessarily complex

I use Inkscape on Linux and Affinity on Windows. Really would have loved to see Affinity on Linux, especially because they are consistent across Photo, Designer and Publisher. Have been following your tutorial on Inkscape and found it very helpful. Yes, would love to your tutorials for Affinity.

I would love to see Affinity Designer tutorials. I love all of your Inkscape tutorials and I have recommended this channel to a lot of my designer friends. Keep up the good work.

Oh hellz to the yeah I would love to see some Affinity tuts! I just bought the masterclass suit on your site and am super excited to really begin to push some boundaries with Inkscape. But like you said, you can also tell that AD will have some nice fangs once it grows past it's infancy stage. I love the workflow already. Anyway, thanks for all the hard work boss!

I would absolutely love Affinity Designer tutorials. I recently picked up Affinity Photo and Designer and have been fumbling through them on my own.

Hey Nick, yes i would absolutely appreciate some Affinity tutorials. You were a massive for me learning Inkscape, so I'd love to see what you could do with Affinity. Thanks

Man, you're literally an inspiration for me. I'm a teenager interested in graphic design and you working with inkscape profesionallly it's amazing. Thank you for your videos, a gem in the whole of youtube.

A lot of great tutorials, please. Your tutorials made me an Inkscape user, and I just accidentally found this Affinity Designer review by you. Keep the good work!

I’m so excited you started trying out the Affinity Suite. Vídeos like this are great! I really hope you react to Affinity Photo as well!

Just as a mention, what you see in the layers Tabs of Affinity Designer are in fact equivalent to the Objects you see in the Objects window in Inkscape, and there is a possibility to "upgrade" a group to a Layer, for the sake of organization.

For every one of your videos I end up saying to myself, "This guy is just brilliant!". Thanks for the great work you do, Nick.

Nick you are one of the most under rated KZfaqr! So much love and support for you!

I was a long time Illustrator user and then switched to Inkscape when I sort of semi-retired and couldn't afford the cost of Illustrator. I've now purchased the whole Affinity suite for around the same price as as a years sub to PS and LR. I have to say that the way they integrate together is superb. I can open files in Designer and switch to Photo for better pixel editing, and vice versa. CMYK is essential for print designers and the vector brush tools are amazing and perfect for digital artists. For freelance artists and designers who don't maybe need the workflow tools provided by Adobe it's a stunning achievement that will surely leave Adobe choking in the dust. And it's fast. From my experience I noticed that Inkscape gets very laggy when lots of complex vector shapes are used in a design, even on a powerful gaming PC. I don't have these issues with Designer. And the myriad layers? When you group some vectors they combine into one layer.

Thank you, perfect timing! I' work in 3d but am looking for a vector companion. For me it's b/w Inkscape and Affinity....for now. YES, an Affinity Designer tutorial would be wonderful to see.

Affinity tutorials for sure, please! I have been using Affinity for a little while and am loving it. I refused to be forced onto a rental arrangement by Adobe since the CS days.

Thank you for a video like this nick, as always quality content. You inspired me a lot that's why I started my journey to become logo designer. I've watched almost all of your videos,. You're my hero, keep up great work hope you can inspire more just like me.

One of my favorite features of the Affinity software suite is that the files of any of the three programs can be opened in any of the other ones, even right via the file menu "Edit in …". That means if I'm doing vector work and I want to use one pixel layer and I want to quickly perform some photo editing it like applying a non-destructive depth of field effect, I just quickly pop the document over into Photo, apply my edits in place seeing all that I do in context, then pop back into Designer to continue the vector work

I made the switch over to Affinity from Adobe, and I am so glad I did. Would enjoy more Affinity content from you. :D

I'd definitely watch Affinity tutorials on your channel. The price to performance ratio with Affinity is just great, there's pretty decent comparability with Inkscape files as well. I've done a few things on Inkscape that I couldn't figure out how to do on Affinity and then switched to Affinity to finish them off. Look forward to seeing more, thanks, Nick!

Please make Affinity tutorials! Your channel got me into vector graphic design, but over time I transitioned to Affinity and I love it!!

I switched to Affinity apps and ditched Primere for Davinci Resolve. OMG the apps are so much better and more intuitive.

I've been using Affinity for seven-ish months now and I love it. Like you said, it feels intuitive and somehow right. Before I purchased Affinity for myself, I was doing some freelance work for a company where I used their Adobe software. I got used to it, but now when I have to go back to Adobe it feels clunky and outdated. The thing I especially hate about it is that you can't control-scroll to zoom in and out (that seems like it should be a basic action!) and also that you can't shift-scroll to pan side-to-side. Affinity, on the other hand, is smooth and pleasant to work in.

Love your videos Nick, keep em' coming. Been doing this for a couple decades and still learning. Would love to see some Affinity related content! I just switched to Affinity, after 20 years with Adobe, it's an adventure. I'm retired but still do freelance work on the side, mainly because I still love doing it, so it's hard to justify subscription pricing in my situation. Most of my clients were shut down through the pandemic, so when Affinity had a "half price" sale I bought all three products to give em' a try. Even after seeing how many rave about it, I kept my expectations low, but they do everything I need. There are differences to get used to, but overall they're way more than I expected at that price point. One issue is importing Adobe files with certain effects, they're handled differently, kind of a pain, but repairable, so all my existing Adobe files can still be used, some just need to be "tweaked". I also use Inkscape regularly, it's awesome software, wish it had CMYK support. Affinity does something that Adobe has always had issues with, proper handling of SVG files. Inkscape native SVG files can be opened with, or imported into Affinity, as well as other file types that Adobe is known for having issues with, so converting an Inkscape file to CMYK is easy. Best part about Affinity, just like Inkscape, I own it!!!

I have been using affinity for a while now and I'm loving it! No monthly fees and so intuitive! No turn back Heather!

Absolutely would love to see more affinity I plan on getting it once I get a PC that runs 64-bit.

YES!!! Please make the video tutorials for Affinity Designer! BTW: As always, excellent review/comparison. A more detailed video would be excellent.

I love Affinity Designer, you should do a whole series of Affinity based videos!!

I am interested in seeing more videos on this product. I'm definitely going to purchase it after seeing this video because of the CMYK feature. I was disappointed that it wasn't covered in the recent Inkscape release. Thanks for all of your Inkscape videos. I've been learning Inkscape for a year, mostly from watching your videos, trying to do the technique, failing, and watching the video again. I was surprised how hard it was and I nearly gave up several times. I was a painter before, and I'm generally good with computers so I thought it would be much easier. But I kept up with it, and then all of a sudden I got really good with it. I could produce the type of illustrations I wanted quickly and confidently. So for people having a hard time learning, keep going. I'm so glad I didn't quit. People are surprised at all the artwork I'm creating. They say "Wow, you made all that in one day?" when I made all that and more in a few hours. It took me a long time and much work to get to the point where I could do that though.

Well HELL YES we would like to see Affinity Designer Tutorials on your channel. Affinity Designer might not be Illustrator, but it is not far off and is MUCH less expensive. The same goes for Affinity Photo compared to Photoshop. Adobe is just out of control with their pricing. Let's see some tutorials because I need to become a lot better at vector graphics.

I like the simplicity more than Inkscape and it has CMYK!

I picked up Inkscape several years ago to do a project and muddled through. I started using it more last year for UI design and thanks to your tutorials I’m a ton more confident with it. So much so, your tutorials helped me make a “big boy jump” to paid software. I’ve been able to work with affinity because I treated it like Inkscape and it seems to be working. Your tutorials are amazing, if you do them in affinity I’m so there

Yes please, more tutorials for affinity designer. For me the coolest feature in affinity designer is persona

Thank you for making this video, I've been watching you for a while now and I was curious as to what you'd think of Affinity. I went from using gimp, to inkscape, to now affinity and I definitely like it the most. I'm still trying to figure how to do certain stuff in it so i'll definitely tune into tutorials if you make them.

And there's another feature that heavily influenced me to buy the software, the amazing isometric grid. And overall polish and snappiness. Which Adobe has been lacking.

very helpful walkthrough, thx i love how their suite is tightly knit, as i also use the book publisher

I have to say it again, I absolutely love the SPEED of your videos! Rather than just talking about the features, you have all this great sped-up footage playing while you talk that SHOWS what you can do in the various apps. And you talk quickly too. :D I just learned from the comments here about Affinity Publisher, which piqued my interest since I'm an old hand with InDesign but can't justify the cost now that it's not my main line of work. So I went looking for a comparison video, and the contrast in speed of delivery was just painful compared to yours. :)

Affinity looks really interesting and I'd love to see some more in-depth videos on that, maybe even some tutorials if you have some time.

From Photoshop to Affinity, not turning back too! Adobe is greedy AF.

I really love your inkscape tutorial videos. Would love to have affinity designer tutorials coming from you

Great Video as always! Yes, please make more videos on it. I'm going to pick up Affinity, you sold me with the CMYK and for 50 bucks you can't go wrong!

I have never really used AI, but I have had Affinity Designer. I find it's a great product. Definitely worth the cost.

Oh yes please, I can’t get Inkscape on iPad Pro so I’m pretty much forced to use Affinity if I want to use it. Your vids a really, really helpful.

Yes, I would love to see more affinity content. I switched as professional adobe user to open source for working from home, and recently gotten affinity publisher to start with. And I Love it!

First I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge about these programs. I recently started using Inkscape after watching your videos. I definitely would like to learn more about Affinity Designer.

Keep in mind : Affinity designer is the only professional grade vector editor on iPad. I do lot of my small tasks just on iPad Pro with apple pencil anywhere. And files are instantly compatible with desktop version and vice versa.

5:51 Inkscape has that in its Objects tab. Which is separate from the Layers tab.

You completely overlooked one of the coolest little additions to AD - isometric grids!! You should definitely look into it for a future video. Not something I use a lot, but when you want to do something isometric, man, you can't beat it.

Happy to see you check it out. I am very interested in tutorials for Affinity Designer 🙂

Honestly, I like it, but like you said, it's missing some key features from adobe and Inkscape, like gradient meshes, and everything you mentioned above.

Affinity is the best option for freelancers. PLS make a lot of content with Designer.

Yessss!!! Affinity tutorial please!! I learned how to use Inkscape with your videos and I love the variety of file formats Affinity handles, that Inkscape doesn't, that's probably the one reason I got it for, sometimes I just open the files in Affinity to export them as SVG and then work on it on Inkscape if I need something fast and Don;t have time to figure it out in Affinity, but it would be highly appreciated if you did!

Yes. We need that affinity designer tutorial!

Thank's for the review ! My only problem with Affinity, is it has no Linux support.. So I must run a Windows for a few apps I'd like to use properly... But the price tag of Affinity, is very friendly.. :-D I bought it in the 50% sale.. :-D

I would love to see Affinity Designer tutorials. Heck I'd like to see Affinity Photo tutorials too.

Nick, thankyou so much getting your hands on affinity designer finally. I hope you make tutorial video's out of it.

I think Affinity is best used for vector illustration.

Yes I will add my vote for Affinity Tutorials.

Oh, please do tutorials! Your tutorials are always so clear and easy to follow, I would love some from you on this program.

You're the vector designer KZfaqr that I trust. Oddly, I purchase your inkscape course after picking affinity designer. And I wished you justify my affinity purchase with a review. That's great coincidence! Nice honest review man. I hope you make more tutorial for affinity designer on future!

The lease, that is, extortion, software model just took another nail in the coffin. Here's hoping it goes the way of Autotune.

While I do like Affinity as a replacement for Illustrator, I find a lot of their choices a little obtuse sometimes. It's almost like they changed the function of some tools _just_ to be different from Adobe, but didn't consider just how irritating those changes would be in practice. Having to switch to a different tool just to move an object that you already have selected, missing options like a simple distort, the way handles work with the pen tool almost forces you to draw every path first as angular shapes and _then_ go back to add rounded edges. Polygons and other shapes objects have to be converted to "curves" before you can add points? WHY? The layers... just too much clutter. It all just adds extra steps that don't need to be there and slows things down tremendously. There's a lot of stuff on their roadmap, but when they'll get to them is anyone's guess because the team is small. In the mean time if you can't do something in the program you either have to hope you still have an old copy of illustrator or just be screwed because you can't do what the client wants. There are some nice features in there, but you have to get past a pile of little annoyances first.

Based on your short vid, i've just purchased it @ $50 & can't wait to use it. 1st this that got me right off the bat was the ready CYMK feature. Yes Nick, put me down for tutorials with this software most definitely.

YESSS! Please do Affinity Designer tutorials. I am new to vector design and am using Designer (at least to start with since it is easy to understand). However my biggest drawback of Affinity is that there is not a lot of tutorials on it as opposed to Illustrator, or even Inkscape.

My only concern is: What if Adobe just buys them, as they do with all their competition?

I would personally love if you get on with InkScape just because it's free and everyone can follow your tutorials

Nick, really informative and well put-together video! Enjoyed it much! Thanks! 😀📽🖥🎨👍

YES NICK. More tutorials and new ones for Affinity would be sickk

Another point, obvious but notable: neither AD nor AI runs on Linux.

A company that consistently takes advantage of its customers is shooting itself in the foot. Like Adobe. Next: Apple.

Never used it but after this definitely going to check it out. Thanks Nick

I'm so excited you have the software. Learn everything you can about Affinity designer and photo. If you could make little projects for us like images, templates and such to download and follow along with you (Just don't speak or go too fast). Im sure you'll get additional viewers since a handful of people from the different Facebook groups I'm in also just downloaded this program fairly recently as I did

The software subscription model is simply disgusting and when software goes to this model, I find other software.

I may get rid of my Adobe CC ...they take the P**s with the Money I spend on it every year....its a disgrace.

Hi Nick, I'm glad I came across this video and appreciate your honest input in making the comparisons between Affinity, Inkscape, and Illustrator. I am currently enrolled in your Inkscape Master Course and have purchased your full bundle of 4 courses including the GIMP lessons and have a long way to go in learning these two amazing (free) programs. I definitely would be interested in seeing more lessons, or even a Master Course with this Affinity Design Software as you progress with your own learning and applied use of this software. After watching this video, I decided I am going to check out the free trial of this software, and most likely purchase a copy while the price is still reasonable ($49 presently). I'll let you know how my experience is with Affinity as I check it out further... Thanks for the great videos and tutorials. Keep em' coming. Jeff R. Tucson, AZ

Bout time Nick! I have been waiting on this one, Gimmie More!!!

So far from what I've seen with Affinity, I often say, "ok but I can do that easily in Inkscape". I'm not impressed with it enough to drop $50 USD on it, but I don't hate it. If you do add Affinity content, I hope it won't be at the cost of less Inkscape content.