Serif has introduced some main upgrades to its Affinity web page structure and graphic design software program – simply six months after unveiling the feature-filled V2 of its award-winning inventive suite. 

Dubbed V2.1, the builders are promising “better-than-ever workflow and person expertise” due to a sweeping mixture of recent options and smaller, incremental updates. 

And no-one’s left behind, with the all new function set for Affinity Designer, Affinity Photograph, and Affinity Writer, accessible throughout Home windows, Mac, and iPad apps.  

What’s new in Affinity V2.1? 

The listing of updates and fixes for Affinity V2.1 is huge – we did say it was main – so it’s value trying out the complete launch notes (opens in new tab).

In relation to headline objects, Affinity Designer’s new Vector Flood Fill instrument and Operating Headers in Affinity Writer each make the lower. 

The previous lets customers fill areas created by intersecting objects and curves with one click on. The latter offers a method so as to add the identify of your doc’s matter to headers and footers. Customers can even lastly get help for keyboard shortcuts for altering the mix mode in no matter layers they’re engaged on. 

Alongside the likes of snappable Vector warp modes and an Auto-select toggle come a raft of smaller tweaks. This consists of balanced sprint strains, an enhanced cropping instrument in its photograph editor and Brush Panel enhancements primarily based on group suggestions. 

“We pay meticulous consideration to what our prospects inform us their necessities are for improved skilled workflow and usefulness,” mentioned Serif CEO Ashley Hewson. “Typically a really small enchancment could make an enormous distinction and provides any person their finest expertise of utilizing Affinity. All the brand new options have been requested closely by our prospects, and hundreds of these customers have helped us put 2.1 by its paces throughout the beta interval.”

Current Affinity customers get the newest replace to the design and DTP software program utterly free. For everybody else, V2.1 is offered for a one-off price that’s surprisingly reasonably priced given the facility of the instruments. Cheerfully, there’s no subscriptions both. That alone is likely one of the primary the reason why we named Writer as one of the best alternate options to Adobe InDesign, whereas Affinity Photograph is a critical contender for finest Photoshop various. With the newest advances within the inventive suite rolling out now, that place is barely strengthened.  

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