Affinity Designer Macbook Pro

A message from the Affinity team

As a way to lend support to the creative community during these difficult times, we’re once again offering a 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite, for anyone who wants to use them (even those who have previously completed a free trial). We’re also bringing back the 50% discount for those who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including our iPad versions.

This is thanks to the update’s full compatibility with Apple’s latest macOS update, Big Sur, and optimisation for M1—Apple’s newly-launched chip, specifically designed for the Mac. Affinity Designer running on macOS Big Sur. This is great news for our users because the architecture of the M1, particularly having such a high-performance GPU with unified memory with the CPU, is perfect for professional creative. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with the Apple M1 chip, as well as production 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7–based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, all configured with 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Shapr3D 3.45.0 using a 288.2MB model. Take your designs further Just as feature-packed as the desktop version, Affinity Designer for iPad is a professional graphic design app with everything you need to create stunning illustrations, branding, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, concept art and much more — all completely free from the confines of your desk! Affinity releases major Photo, Designer updates suited for new Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR By Amber Neely Jun 05, 2019 Serif's Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer have received updates to version.

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This means that Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher can be installed and run on Apple's latest 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini without.

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our apps are fully optimized for the next generation of Mac

Ready to go on Apple’s Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips, recent updates to the macOS versions of our apps mean huge performance gains.

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about Apple and Affinity updates

Just as feature-packed as the desktop version, Affinity Designer for iPad is a professional graphic design app with everything you need to create stunning illustrations, branding, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, concept art and much more — all completely free from the confines of your desk!

No subscription and 50% off

Affinity Designer for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!

Craft perfect vector curves or combine objects and shapes using complex Boolean operations. You can also create abstract shapes or an offset path with the powerful contour tool.

Easily combine vector and raster graphics. You can use raster paint brushes to add texture to vector work, edit single pixels on icons and more — it’s a whole new way of working.

Apply advanced grids and guides, draw directly on isometric planes, and use precise snapping controls including snap to pixel and pixel alignment.

CMYK, RGB8, RGB16, Greyscale, LAB and even RGB32. Work in any colour space, with full confidence that any documents taken from the Windows or macOS version will always render with 100% fidelity.

Work with unlimited layers, including real-time blend modes with range adjustment and simple drop zones to mask, clip, reorder and group all layer types. Text layers, vector layers, pixel and image layers all fully supported.

Super smooth gradients, transparency, glows, shadows and more — gain full control over the appearance of all your strokes and shapes. Even add multiple fills and strokes to the same object.

Organise your work with artboards. You can have as many as you like, whatever size you like.

Include unlimited instances of the same object across your work. Edit one and the rest update instantly.

Get a live pixel preview of your work so you know exactly how your vectors will export in raster format. Or switch to outline view to see all those beautiful curves.

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Enjoy full text capabilities, including OpenType and text styles. You can flow text along any curve too.