Developer Serif teased a major overhaul for its Affinity creative suite last week and today V2 of the software is officially available. Arriving with a totally redesigned UI with “hundreds of performance enhancements and workflow improvements,” Affinity V2 aims to be “everything you want in a creative suite.”
Serif launched the Affinity overhaul today for desktop and iPad and it’s made pricing for both individuals and businesses subscription-free. Along with that, it’s offering universal bundles of both the desktop and iPad Affinity apps at a one-time price as well as selling them individually.
For a limited time, Affinity is 40% off to celebrate the launch of V2. That makes it just $99.99 (normally $169.99) for the desktop and iPad bundle.
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For those who'd like to know more, the ever-prepared Affinity has posted to YouTube tutorials on all three apps, including the much awaited Publisher for the iPad. Keep in mind that for these Affinity apps, Publisher is the master controller. Designer and Photo work much better with Publisher on the platform.
Most users seem to be getting the features they wanted most. In my case, that's not just endnotes for books, but footnotes and side notes. Nice!
But alas, still lacking from InDesign's bag of tricks are exporting to ePub in reflowable and fixed format ready to be sold by Apple. Digital is a must in today's publishing world. I am told that Calibre and SIGIL will turn Affinity PDF into those digital formats, but my experience the restrictions of PDF (intended to describe printed pages) make turning it into any other format a real dog's breakfast. Hopefully ePub and HTML export are Affinity's to-do list.
The Affinity V2 apps for desktop are priced at $69.99 individually but are $40.99 at launch. And the iPad V2 apps are priced at $19.99 individually and $11.99 at launch.
Major new features in Affinity V2
- Affinity Designer 2
- Vector Warp non-destructive editing
- Shape builder tool
- Knife tool
- Measure tool/Area tool
- X-ray view
- DXF/DWG import
- Affinity Photo 2
- Non-destructive RAW develop
- Live masks with hue range, band-pass, luminosity
- Compound masks
- Live mesh warp
- Brush engine improvements
- Affinity Publisher 2
- Now available for iPad along with desktop
- Books with footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes
- Place auto-flow
- Linked file layer visibility override
- Style picker tool
The desktop apps now feature new/recent documents functionality, revamped Layers Panel, new box color wheel, and more.
The iPad apps feature almost all of the desktop upgrades plus a new Quick Menu, Command Controller, Compact Mode, an all-new context bar, new sliders, and more.
Check out the video below highlighting some of the biggest changes. And learn more over at the Affinity website.
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