Inkscape 1.3 VS Affinity Designer 2.1 - 2023 Comparison
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2023
- Which vector editing software is right for you? In this 12 points comparison, I do a brief review of Inkscape vs. Affinity Designer Both of these programs are great for making vector art, but each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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I use both, they make up for each others shortcomings, and I can copy and paste between the two. I donate to inkscape to support.
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Oh shoot, you can???
Inkscape is my favourite piece of software. Brilliant, packed with features. I even use it instead of Word because it is so powerful.
My major beef with Affinity Designer is that it isn't even feature complete with the much older Serif DrawPlus X8. That had auto trace, a blend tool, vector patterns, stencils and a load of other cool features *still* missing from AD 8 years later.
If you look at stuff in Inkscape like the extensions, Filters and Path effects, Affinity Designer really comes up short on features. Also, the UI reconfiguration features on Designer are pretty garbage, while Inkscape allows one to really customize that.
That's true. Why make Serif this? I don't understand it.
From someone who loves both applications, for me, personally:
1. Pixel Persona: I use it rarely, but when I do it I don't use the Vector Persona, it's convenient that it's there but I could use another program if it weren't there
2. Autotrace: I've used it like 10 times in my life. Not really something I miss
3. Shape Builder Tool. Both have some nice additions to the one seen in Illustrator, but Inkscape leaves a lot of Nodes in the end result. Hope they improve itThe one in Designer has some little glitches here and there but works mostly well
4. Price. For sure, Inkscape brings a lot of value to people that can't afford buying Software. It's great that it's there, specially it it helps them personally with their finances
5. Patterns. I nly designe some patterns in my life, so no need for it
6. CMYK. Hope it gets added to Inkscape, it will provide more value for those thay may use to earn money
7. User Interface. I modify the default UI for both of them. So I guess that says that I'm not entirely happy with the Development Teams decisions but well... I only hope that they Add the Icon option that Adope Products have for their Panels. That's handy
8. Linux. I love it
9. Tutorials. Love the people that teaches for free
10. iPad. I don't own nor plan to own one. I don't see myself using one for design work
11. Distribute. I mssed the Panel at first when using Affinity Designer, but the "on canvas alignment" that both of them have made me forget about that
12. Family. Yes, a suite of applications is also handy if you do work of that kind (DTP, Raster and Vector editing)
I hope the best for both.
What I'd like to see:
For Inkscape:
- Better performance
- Tabbed Documents
- A better Bucket Tool
- Knife Tool
- Eraser Tool
For Designer:
- Something like the Freeform Gradients
- The Icon thing for Panels
- Eraser Tool
P. S.: Loved the Family joke, hahaha
What would you do to the existing eraser tool in Inkscape to improve it?
(the too many nodes bug has been fixed, it'll be in 1.3.1)
@@doctormo
Hi, Martin! Regarding the Eraser Tool, it was a mistake on my part, it shouldn't be there. Sorry for that.
Pleased to greet you and thank you for your great contributions to Inkscape, including the recent Fix for 1.3.1.
@@SO-dl2pv No, I’ll leave as it is because that’s what gives sense to Martin’s comment and to accept ny mistake and make it visible
-better masking feature....
I hear a lot as a wish...
stable list....
Thanks for the video. I've been using Inkscape for about a years now. I'm suffering serious crashes lately, and I'm looking for alternatives.
Great video! I've been finding using this version of Affinity Designer on iPad has been buggy with the Apple Pencil, so I actually switched to Vectornator. I still use Designer on desktop, although I'm now curious about Inkscape's auto trace.
I like both Programs. I hope Affinity make more functions. Inkscape have amazing functions.
Function wise, Affinity is pretty sad compared to Inkscape 1.3.
@@hipflipped yes. That's sad but true. I see much stronger development in other programs. It is bad if Inkscape which is free continues to be functionally superior to Affinity. This should not happen to a good company.
thanks for this live demo, maestro!
My pleasure!
Really liking the 1.3 updates in Inkscape, but getting pretty frequent crashes so far. Hopefully that'll get worked out soon.
Do you get a crash report screen, with instructions on how to report the crash? We're not seeing crash reports come in, so I'm worried there's some operating system thing going on that's killing the crash reporter and we're not seeing reports (which makes them impossible to fix)
@@doctormo Haven't seen any crash reports. Maybe there's a way to access them on relaunch? Running on Windows 11, 16gb RAM
Inkscape 1.3 has full page features now (Multiple linked pages / margins / bleeds / can be exported to PDF/etc.)
I was going to mention this myself (since I developed multi-pages in Inkscape) 😄
I think it still needs more work, people are asking for more features. But my Patreons are pushing me towards CMYK this year, so we should have some break throughs for next year, fingers crossed.
Hey, Martin thanks for taking the time to answer comments under my video, It's looks like not only me can not wait for CMYK support ^_^
I hope Affinity can keep making progress, they still have some catching up to do.
Can you do a comparison between the Align and distribute functions only between these two and possibly get Illustrator in the mix too!
Cool comparison! I liked everything except the part about it being hard for you to imagine that a graphic designer can use Linux as his sytem. I for 2 years only used Linux as a professional graphic designer. Admittedly mostly Blender for 3d graphics and animation, but I also did projects in Inkscape and Scribus.
Yeah, they really don't know. The only way I found to fully switch to Linux as a graphic designer, was to completely ditch Adobe and make actual client work using open source software like Inkscape, Gimp, Krita, Scribus, Blender and more. Switching to Inkscape from Illustrator was tough in the beginning, but with enough time and practice, the fundamentals of Illustrator, and graphic design helped me.
Plus you get the added speed boost when you use Linux.
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Thank you! Cheers!
Great video. As for people using Linux for Graphic design as non-existent, I would disagree. It may depend on your experience, but if you're a very experienced Graphic designer, who wants to leave the Adobe Ecosystem, and have less worries about your computer slowing down or getting viruses, then Linux is the way to go, for all design tasks.
When I first came to linux full-time in 2009, we still didn't have good Video editors or VFX software yet, except for Blender.
Now, we can replace the Entire Adobe creative Suite with Open Source software alone. Plus your computer runs so much faster with the same hardware than on Windows, and Mac.
It's because Linux isn't as mainstream, but things are changing as Valve and their SteamDeck has brought significant attention to Linux, just as System76 with PopOS, which I now use.
I use Inkscape for my own agency work, and Adobe Illustrator for my day-job work. Inkscape is just as good, and in some ways better than Illustrator. I would love to try Affinity, but I just despise using Windows for work. Only love it for gaming.
But hey, I would recommend people switch from Adobe to Affinity if you're in the print Industry and absolutely need CMYK.
I'm in the print Industry and Linux is just fine for anything I need to produce physically.
Does Inkscape 1.3 support CMYK colour space?
No
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Are the points presented in this video by Logos by Nick still valid? czcams.com/video/z2XfFvW4yII/video.htmlsi=LAVMeBezgqfdUpg2
Why designer vs inkscape? I bought designer along with inkscape. The duo costs €70, which you pay once, compared with Illustrator at €24/month. Do you know what I think? Well, using two programs covers all the possibilities of Illustrator, all for much less. That's the only thing you need to remember, and what's more, printing professionals are increasingly demanding PDFs, so the ai format is nearing the end of its useful life.
This is the way!
What do you mean by "I bought designer along with inkscape. The duo costs €70"? You have the option to donate to the Inkscape project directly or via their parent foundation, but you can't buy it not even from the official site, if someone other than the original authors sold Inkscape to you then you clearly got scammed.
Affinity Designer is not one time pay, you must pay for future upgrades.
Like all other software used to be. But, it IS one time pay if what they offer now is good enough and will last you for years to come. I still use the old Lightroom before it went subscription because it’s good enough for me to use without needing to upgrade.
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Nothing Stronger Than Family :>
Inkscape's UI is still awful. It's like a 1990's app. That includes 1.3.
look at the gimp. this is real awful design
but remebder it's a foss app
bro doesnt know how inkscape looks 💀
GTK 3 ...switch to Version 4 is on the table ..
GTK is just awful. A Java interface would have been an upgrade.