Just like Adobe has Stock, Affinity gives us access to royalty-free sites like Pixabay right in the app. The other great feature, especially in Designer, is the ability to go between a vector and raster workspaces in the same project. It keeps things simple and organized because when I work, I’m neither simple nor organized. You can focus on specific aspects of the workflow and hop between the different spaces. Sub-brushes if you like the attributes of two or more brushes and want to mix them, you can. This is something I wish Illustrator did well. It’s not necessary, but I do love them, and there is a Vector brush pack that has spot on pencil and paint brush strokes. I also took advantage of an Affinity sale and bought some brushes that were made specifically for Affinity. abr in Photoshop before I switched, but they still didn’t look great. You can use bitmap brushes in a vector program. Oh, well, you can switch between vector and raster in the same document. “Designer is vector software,” I heard you say. abr brushes into Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and the iPad versions. If you’ve purchased many Photoshop brushes over the years as I have, you can import. If you need all three you have to get Creative Cloud which is $648/yearĬan you use Photoshop brushes? Yes. Illustrator and InDesign - $240/year each. Photoshop and Lightroom subscription - $120/year. Here’s a short breakdown of the price.Īffinity has sales quite often and usually a 50% off sale. Let’s rework those numbers. One time fee, free upgrades, and you never feel like you’re missing out on features. However, I wanted to focus on why I fell in love with Affinity. There are plenty of videos and blogs about all the features that make it better than this or that. Affinity offered me a lot of what I was looking for, making my pros list very long, but I've decided to give you the shortlist of the things I've been slap-happy about. My primary use for Affinity is digital painting, matte painting, concept art, and storyboarding. I tried a lot of things, but the Affinity suite is what I settled on. Now I need to replace Photoshop and Illustrator. I found my video and motion graphics editor. Leaving Adobe means I am on the hunt for decent alternatives. Good, I've caught you up with my exciting life in quarantine. If you did not read it, then I need to tell you that I left Adobe. If you read my blog about my glorious return to FCPX, then you know I left Adobe. *I am not a paid sponsor or affiliate with any of the products are recourses I've reviewed in this blog.