Here's What Affinity Designer Does Better Than Illustrator...

While Adobe Illustrator is certainly a more comprehensive tool for working with vectors, Affinity Designer serves more of an all-in-one role where it can handle both vector and raster image editing tasks. In this video I'll be going over 8 things that I believe Affinity Designer does better than Illustrator.

This video only covers a handful of comparison points. For a complete comparison, check out the article I wrote here: https://logosbynick.com/affinity-desi...

UPDATE: In the time since this video was published, Serif has released version 2.0 of Affinity Designer, and it's significant enough to change things.

You can learn more about which new feature have been introduced here:    • Affinity Just Changed The Game With V...  

And an updated comparison of Affinity Designer and Illustrator for 2023:    • Affinity Designer VS Illustrator | Al...  

Want to learn more about how Affinity Designer works? Check out my Affinity Designer Master Class – a comprehensive series of over 60 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful: https://logosbynick.com/affinity-desi...

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🎵 MUSIC USED

Kisinger - Gushito
In Da Mood - Combustibles

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
01:05 The Pixel Persona
01:51 Adjustment Layers
02:27 Isometric Grids
03:32 User Interface
04:07 Applying Strokes
04:47 Offsetting Paths
05:44 Anchor Points
07:00 Lesser Hardware Requirements
07:29 No Creative Cloud App
08:17 Closing thoughts

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