Affinity Designer 1.6.1 – Vector graphic design software.

March 2, 2018

Affinity Designer is an incredibly accurate vector illustrator that feels fast and at home in the hands of creative professionals. It intuitively combines rock solid and crisp vector art with flexible layer management and an impressive range of high quality raster tools for finishing. With accuracy, quality and speed at the heart of every single design task, and the ability to finesse designs without switching apps, this fresh-faced multi-discipline illustrator lets creatives shine.

Vector tools:

Node Tool
Pen Tool
Pencil Tool
Vector Brush
Gradient Fill Tool
Transparency Tool
Crop Tool
Targeted Insert
Text
Alignment Guides

Raster tools:

Lasso Tool
Selection Brush
Pixel Brush
Paint Brush
Eraser
Dodge
Burn
Smudge
Blur
Sharpen

Other features:

Adjustment layers
Layer effects
Blend modes
1,000,000% zoom
Instant undo
Tablet support

What’s New

Version 1.6.1:

Improved brush smoothing. Any painting tools should now have better smoothing by default.
Transparent TGA import support.
Fix for failures when using compound objects inside groups with Constraints set on them.
Fix for deleting a node of a bitmap fill causing crash.
Fix for combo boxes causing crashes for certain users on High Sierra.
Fix for exporting JPEG automatically choosing to export clips as paths which is a poor default and causes confusion.
Fix for text objects being created outside the hierarchy of the artboard they were supposed to be created in.
Fix for rotated text bounding boxes being incorrect and for disappearing text following Power-Duplicate.
Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once.
Fixed crashing bug when exporting certain large PSDs.
Fixed a number of UI memory leaks.
Added special case PSD import code for "SketchClub" PSD files (they should fix this!).
Fixed PSD export of Fill layers.
Fixed UI labels on macOS versions prior to Mavericks.
Assorted PDF export improvements.
Paste and file-drop of PDF format files will now honour the DPI, as per File->Place.
Fix for marching ants not showing on a rotated canvas.
Numerous other fixes and stability improvements.