App: Affinity Designer 2
Developer: Serif Labs
Genres: Graphics & Design, Productivity

The next generation of the award-winning vector graphics software, Affinity Designer 2 is setting the new industry standard in the world of design. Packed with tons of new features and hundreds of enhancements to optimise your workflow, you can now create high-quality concept art, illustrations, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups and other projects more seamlessly than ever before. 


REFINED & REDESIGNED WITH POWERFUL NEW FEATURES
• Fully redeveloped UI, tool and button icons 
• Completely revamped Layers Panel
• Vector Warp
• Shape Builder Tool 
• Knife Tool
• X-ray view mode
• Measure and Area tools
• Style Picker Tool 
• DXF/DWF import
• Drawing scale, including ability for different scales set per artboard
• Drag/drop bitmap texture fills
• Pencil Tool creates auto-closed or straight-line pencil strokes
• Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object
• Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize 

INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE
• Fully optimised for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including M1 chips and macOS Monterey
• Pan and zoom at 60fps
• Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments
• Optimised for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision
• Live pixel, retina, wireframe and x-ray views of vector artwork in and out of split screen mode
• Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design
• Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes

PRECISE VECTOR TOOLS
• Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to
• The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing and smart shape tools available
• Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves
• Pencil and brush stabilisation for drawing super-smooth curves freehand
• Non-destructive Boolean operations
• Live effects, blend modes and image adjustments
• Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls

RASTER OR VECTOR, YOU DECIDE
• Switch between vector and raster workspaces with a single click
• Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviours for the best of both worlds
• High quality raster tools for texturing, masking and finishing artwork – you can even create your own brushes
• True creative freedom not found in other apps

SOPHISTICATED TYPOGRAPHY
• Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType
• Artistic text and text frames
• Full control over character and paragraph styles
• Flow text along any drawn path

BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW
• Unlimited artboards
• Saveable history with alternate futures
• Customisable keyboard shortcuts
• PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG XL, TIFF, EXR, DXF and DWG file support
• Set up grids and guides almost any way you want, whether it’s a standard grid pattern or full isometric with multiple planes
• Linked symbols and constraints
• Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
• Customise saveable presets, including studio presets for the UI layout
• Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock panel
• Select Same and Select Object functions 
• Linked images and resource manager
• PDF passthrough 
• Package your document alongside all used image and font resources into a single folder  

PERFECT COLOUR & OUTPUT
• Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale colour models
• Full 16-bit per channel editing
• End-to-end ICC colour management 
• Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single click
• Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export

Release notes:
Affinity Designer 2.3 introduces some great new capabilities and improvements, including: 

• Spiral Tool – Embellish your designs with different types of spirals, including Linear, Decaying, Semi-circular, Fibonacci and Plotted
• Pixel grid – Especially useful when designing icons and other UI work, you can choose to expose a pixel grid when zoomed in beyond a certain threshold 
• Create and place password-protected PDFs 
• Move Data Entry improvements
• Ability to change Asset Panel background colour
• 'Keep selected' preference now available in Pencil Tool
• Many more improvements and bug fixes