Christi du Toit is a full-time freelance commercial artist, graphic designer and digital brush-smith, living and working professionally in Cape Town, South Africa. Support info@christidutoit.co.za. Dec 30, 2020 Affinity Designer: The Basics. Affinity Designer offers a full-featured vector and raster workspace. While Photoshop allows you to open vector files created in Adobe Illustrator or other vector design apps, Photoshop does not allow you the capabilities to design or edit vectors. The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help About Affinity Designer). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no.
Professional tools for illustration and comic artwork
The 'Comix Toolbox' was created specifically with a traditional comic-illustration aesthetic in mind.
In this set you will find drafting pencils, erasers, professional inking tools, effects brushes, colouring brushes, custom assets and everything else you need to create stellar digital artwork from the ground up with a comic art look-and-feel — desktop and iPad friendly!
Almost all of these digital tools are based on real comic art supplies and were custom crafted specifically for professional illustration work. They have all already been tried and tested by Christi on various projects for a wide variety of happy international clients.
What’s included:
36 raster brushes for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer’s Pixel Persona
- 1 quick perspective guide
- 3 erasers
- 5 drafting pencils
- 13 digital inking brushes
- 10 FX brushes
- 4 colouring brushes
16 high-resolution digital assets
- 4 varying density screentone sheets
- 5 worn textures
- 4 gritty print frames
- 3 easily scalable vector comic panels
Plus:
- Installation instructions PDF
- Brush cheat sheet PDF
- Tips & Tricks PDF
- 11in x 17in comic paper template (.afphoto)
- Sample illustration (.afphoto and JPG)
Creative inspiration:
- Perfect for professional, digitally inked and coloured illustrations, comic books and manga artwork
- Great for illustrating band posters, assets for games and animation, hand-lettering, and concept art
- Get some more creative inspiration for these tools over on Affinity Spotlight.
Affinity Designer Buy
Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life. [release notes]
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts. [release notes]
Affinity Designer App
Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. [release notes]
Affinity 1.9 release notes:
Affinity Designer App Store
Just some of the additions you can look forward to include a new contour tool and select same in Affinity Designer, package output, data merge and PDF passthrough in Affinity Publisher, and the ability to add non-destructive liquify layers, path text and linked layers in Affinity Photo. Head over to official website to learn all about 1.9 and download today (free for current app owners). You’ll also get a range of incredible free content with your download after you register your app, including brushes, textures, overlays and templates, so don’t miss out!
Affinity Designer For Mac
Download page: Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher (90 Days free trial)
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