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Just wondered if any professional designer have given this a go?
I'm from the old Freehand days and really hate Illustrator - according to the review on the App store this makes Illustrator look archaic.
And at £35 - a good deal cheaper!
I've been an Illustrator user for more than 15 years, before that it was Freehand.
I recently bought Designer, after trying out the beta version. So far I can't fault it. It does everything I used to do in Illustrator very well if not better.
Overall: great price for very good software. Adobe need to watch out (especially when Affinity Serif bring out their Photoshop competitor, Photo)
I used Illustrator for some time, previously CorelDraw, and Illustrator came close to reducing me to tears of rage and frustration, it was so bloody unintuitive to use. 😡
Anything that is easier to use, and is cheap can only be a Very Good Thing!
Looks great for illustration, similar to the discontinued Autodesk Sketchbook Designer.
bump for the daytime people
Well, I downloaded this last week and have been playing with it for a few days and I have to say I'm very impressed.
It's still not quite up to speed to drop into a print environment yet, but it looks like updates are coming at a rapid rate.
And Serif's developers seemed really involved on their forum with good advice and quick responses. Their 'roadmap' of improvements looks very positive.
Given a year I can see this taking space on a lot of designers computers.
Rather looking forward to their DTP software in the new year now!
Just downloaded it and taken a quick look. Very superficial early impressions is that it offers a very quick workflow but I'll need to take a much longer look when I'm not up to my ears in work before I know how useful it'll actually be.
It might be that I'm now so deep into the illustrator way of doing things that any change is going to seem very hard to adapt to. I can't see any actions palette type thing or a way to add third party scripts. Those along with plugin tools are so much a part of my illustrator use that doing without them might be tricky.
I do hope the development continues though, there needs to be a high end competitor to illustrator which feels like its had minimal development for the last few years.
It may never topple Illustrator from it's lofty heights, but the same was said about Quark!
Ahh, Quark
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The really amusing thing in that programme was the spell check didn't recognise 'Quark XPress'.