In October, Serif released the Affinity Designer Workbook along with the launch Affinity Designer 1.5. The book is essential for beginners and seasoned vector art professionals. It covers the basics, tips for creating art, and the new featuresAffinity 1.5 offers. A heavy stocking stuffer The Workbook is over 400 pages and packed with tons of full-color art and […]
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Sometimes life gets in the way of working on passion projects. I have to admit that I’m easily distracted and the first to abandon one project for another. In the next six months I’ll be defining goals for myself so I can breath new life into an old project that’s been lying dormant. I’ve had an idea
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Affinity is having a busy summer with lots of development and special offers to attract new users. Last week Affinity Photo celebrated turning “one”. With only one year in the digital-imaging arena, they have already claimed numerous awards and accolades. Happy birthday to you To celebrate their birthday, Affinity is offering 20% off the price of
Creating visual prototypes for web has always been a challenging process with everyday design software. In my search for a new alternative, I came across Sketch. Sketch is software that’s very simple and singular in its ability. It makes a strong case for software with a solitary function. In a very short period of time
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June is off to a big month for Krita. Earlier this week, they announced their Kickstarter exceeded funding with two additional stretch goals. As of Friday, June 3, there are four more days for the campaign and more stretch goals could be acquired by the end of their fundraising sprint. The focus for this year’s development
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I’m a little late to the party with Krita’s new Kickstarter but that doesn’t mean that I’m not wildly excited about their new endeavor for 2016. The new fundraiser this month focuses on importing and creating vector art, making SVG their standard vector file type. Krita is also evolving their text tool so that it’s
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In March, both Google and Dwango announced they would free software collections by the end of the month. These industry giants decided to make their software free to use for everyone. Dwango even went one step further and is offering their award-winning animation software as open source for anyone to develop! Nik Collection Acquired by Google in
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This week, the Affinity line (Designer and Photo) announced they’re releasing their award-winning Mac software on Windows later this year. It’s wonderful to see new tools getting into the hands of more people and bridging platforms. There has been impressive growth in the numbers of new apps over the past two years. Software that doesn’t do
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Serif, maker of Affinity Photo and Designer, announced their commitment to creating Windows versions of their software this week. Windows users can go to the Affinity site to sign up for beta testing. Affinity has made a huge splash on the Mac OS, earning recognition in the design community and being listed as one of
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Over two years ago, I started writing a monthly blog post about ending my dependence on Adobe software. As a visual artist, it was difficult to think about cutting the monolithic company out of my life. Adobe Offsetting was a way for me to chronicle my transitioning experience while also highlighting new tools and its developers. The blog was
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