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Affinity Designer is close – and does some things better than Fireworks, but is still missing some essential functionality that would make us able to forget the F word for good.

How frustrating is this? I would consider a free-transform tool a basic tool. One should be able to distort things easily and it should be in Designer first, as the vector app.

And it seems this question was asked in , so time would not seem to be a valid excuse. Neither should the idea that Affinity isn’t a replacement for Adobe. It is! No, it’s not. Only for private tasks and maybe for an extremely small sector of professionals. If you do graphics and illustrations for money, you can’t work all day with time consuming workarounds in order to get the job done. A bicycle can get you from A to B. But I still wouldn’t deem it a solid replacement for a car, if you have to drive for km per day for work.

In fact, it’s the only reason for our existence. I don’t see how apps that don’t have non destructive free transform, perspective and warp tools can replace Adobe.. When I first came across Designer I got excited as it was the nearest thing I’d seen to Adobe Fireworks, however the lack of non destructive free transform tools is a real problem and we’ve been waiting a looong time without a peep from the people at Affinity I don’t do graphics or illustrations for money well, not often but I do need a full graphics suite and Affinity is the closest to the Adobe offering I have found.

That it is cross-platform is brilliant and that it is not subscription-based is absolutely the reason I chose it over Adobe. But there are omissions, and the free-form tool is the big one in my book. So yes, a clunky work-around is to select the paths to distort, go to Edit menu chose Edit in Photo, and use the distort filter there. And then place as pixels in your original vector document. Clunky indeed.

Hopefully someone will come up with a plugin? Not clunky, but completely useless in a lot of scenarios as the exported result will be pixels, not vector. Latter is needed i. Don’t get me wrong, Affinity apps are great and can do a lot of the daily tasks for many. I see it more as an alternative for private use and a small sector of professional designing. That’s all I wanted to say.

And I don’t think that Serif is seriously trying to target Adobe’s main market. For that, simply too many basics are way too “clunky” as you said or missing completely. If only they were to focus some energy on those essentials, they potentially could be a legitimate competitor, not perhaps universally, but at least to a wider segment of professionals.

I have just bought the iPad app and it is a great piece of software, but i sooooo miss perspective distort! Hi MEB It’s not enough if it only changes vector shapes. In designer you can use raster brushes to add texture, so a transformer tool should be able to change the raster elements too.

I wanted to chime in that a free transform or perspective distort tool feels like basic functionality to me, and I can’t accomplish of a lot of the effects I want to achieve without it. I would love if it were added for both vector and pixel elements, and could probably stop using Photoshop entirely for my design work if it were. Seeing how long people have been asking for this feature is pretty disheartening.

We need vector perspective distort badly and other warp tools would be nice too to use this software professionally without frustrating workarounds. I love Affinity. I was a Fireworks user years ago and was so annoyed when Adobe bought it and just let it die not realizing the value it brought in ease of use and layout for screen. Affinity has that intuitive ease of use but is missing this most important feature.

I’m tired of trying to evangelize this software but having to say for years now, “It’s great, but We’re not there yet, but soooo close. Edit one, and the rest update instantly. Pixel perfect designs are assured by viewing your work in pixel preview mode. This allows you to view vectors in both standard and retina resolution, giving you a completely live view of how every element of your design will export.

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This simple one-page template will help you define your brand style guide in a creative way. You can download more pages here. As a designer, you can never have enough textures. As they take parts in many different types of designs, textures are a useful resource to have in abundance. If only they were to focus some energy on those essentials, they potentially could be a legitimate competitor, not perhaps universally, but at least to a wider segment of professionals.

I have just bought the iPad app and it is a great piece of software, but i sooooo miss perspective distort! Hi MEB It’s not enough if it only changes vector shapes. In designer you can use raster brushes to add texture, so a transformer tool should be able to change the raster elements too. I wanted to chime in that a free transform or perspective distort tool feels like basic functionality to me, and I can’t accomplish of a lot of the effects I want to achieve without it.

I would love if it were added for both vector and pixel elements, and could probably stop using Photoshop entirely for my design work if it were. Seeing how long people have been asking for this feature is pretty disheartening. We need vector perspective distort badly and other warp tools would be nice too to use this software professionally without frustrating workarounds.

I love Affinity. I was a Fireworks user years ago and was so annoyed when Adobe bought it and just let it die not realizing the value it brought in ease of use and layout for screen. Affinity has that intuitive ease of use but is missing this most important feature. I’m tired of trying to evangelize this software but having to say for years now, “It’s great, but We’re not there yet, but soooo close.

Maybe Serif should get a round of funding and purchase VectorStyler to incorporate their features with some improvements for usability?

Or maybe you’re on the cusp of great things including this feature for version 2. Sure would be nice to have some idea when or even if this is going to be released. I don’t think that Serif is seriously trying to target Adobe’s main market. I also remember seeing an article before any affinity app was released not been able to find it that clearly stated the apps were a challenge to the Adobe suite.

The article was a press release written by Serif. I’m not recommending Affinity Suite as an alternative to Adobe to professional colleagues yet , and don’t see myself doing so in the near future. See my profile for background. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Paste as plain text instead. Only 75 emoji are allowed. Display as a link instead.

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