If you’ve only ever been an Adobe user, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy the transition is between Illustrator and Affinity Designer iPad. However, whilst you can import, you can’t export in an AI format (but more on that later). The selection of brushes is also great, there’s a vast number to choose from - whether that’s for sketching or adding texturing to your work.Īffinity Designer offers a vast range of export options - whether that’s web or print, or exporting single layers and slices. This is great for mapping out ideas - something I would have usually done in Procreate, hand drawn or made up in Photoshop first. Pixel persona - Raster based editing and tools. All your necessary tools for vector based drawing. Vector persona - Does what it says on the tin. Others may feel differently, but I personally didn’t notice anything missing from my normal workflow.Īnother really brilliant feature is the ability to switch between personas, allowing you to switch between vector and raster modes within the app, and eliminating the need to switch between other apps and software if your process requires it. However Affinity Designer somehow manages to give users near enough the same options the desktop version would. With iPad you would typically expect slimmed down versions of software just purely to be able to run properly.

In contrast to Adobe slimming down, one of the most impressive things about Affinity designer for iPad is how surprisingly extensive the tools are. Although the rest are planned to come later, that still leaves illustrator and indesign nowhere to be seen. Whilst Adobe are finally fulfilling the need for Photoshop on iPad, the first phase will only have a smaller set of core features.

Procreate to affinity designer