You’ll be creating eye-catching titles and headings in a flash. decorate, position, and transform is really simple to do. The ability to fine tune different typefaces i.e. Its purpose seems to be for titles and smaller bits of text that'll stand out more on the page. If you decide you want to add some texture or noise to a shape just click the Designer persona button and your tools suddenly change to design mode – very smart.Īrtistic Text - Living just below the Frame text tool ( what you’d use to place the bulk of your text with) is the Artistic text tool. The different coloured lines for snapping and placing work really well and it feels very intuitive to lay things out, and arrange. After watching a short video I’m drawing, snapping, colouring and designing smart looking layouts. The Shape drawing tool - There are quite a few shapes to choose from. Vector cropping and wrapping text is fluid and simple to achieve (Image credit: Ben Brady)Īfter setting up your doc initially the document/spread set-up, and general preferences, are all accessible in the context toolbar, when the move tool is selected, making it super easy to reach for, living just under the 'personas' buttons.Ī few highlights of the tools section, which has just about everything you’d need or want for work of this kind, include: It certainly reduces the time in having to open up other separate apps to make adjustments or edits, and needless to say is great for workflow. You can be working on an image in either Photo or Designer, then switch back to Publisher, all within the same interface. This ‘Studio Link’ means you can switch what in Affinity are known as ‘personas.’ It basically means you can change apps with the click of a button. This only applies if you have all three Affinity apps, however. The most interesting element and inclusion here is the top left hand corner where there are three Affinity app icons. You have your usual suspects to the left in terms of tools a context toolbar above that (changing in context to whatever tool you’ve selected) your main adjustments to the right of the page plus the ability to add, hide, move and place a host of other adjustment panels via the studio menu right at the top. Software for designers, made by designers, makes you feel you’re in good hands. The videos, as a side note, are mostly made by the Serif team themselves, who it should be said are nearly all designers themselves. The sheer number of Affinity video tutorials will promptly guide you. A clean and very navigable UI means that even if you are new to tools like this you’ll get to grips with Publisher in no time. Serif, a privately-owned British software developer and publisher, is behind other Affinity-branded apps like Affinity Photo, their excellent Photoshop and Pixlemator alternative.Everything should look familiar here, and is easy to learn if you're a new-comer (Image credit: Ben Brady)Īnyone familiar with desktop publishing should feel right at home here. Windows 7 (Service Pack 1, Aero enabled).593MB of available space more during installation.DirectX 10-compatible graphics cards and above.Windows-based PC with mouse or equivalent input device.Supports regular, Retina and expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays.Additional space is required to edit images.Cannot be installed on removable flash storage or a volume with a case-sensitive file system.1.04GB of available space more during installation.Support for Mavericks and Yosemite will be added shortly.Intel 64-bit Core 2 Duo or better (from 2007).Mac Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac mini.Here’s what you’ll need to test drive the app on your Mac or Windows desktop. If you’re going to be taking this app for a spin, it may be a good idea to watch a selection of tutorials that are available on the Affinity website to help you get started with Publisher.Īffinity Publisher is months away from commercial launch, according to the website. You can download the public beta of Affinity Publisher via the official website. “We will have deep integration with our other apps (check out the persona buttons!),” reads the post, adding they’ll be pushing an update to Photo and Designer before this works. This is the app’s inaugural public beta so expect some rough edges and bugs. Affinity Publisher, an upcoming desktop publishing software for Mac and Windows by Serif that has Adobe InDesign in its sights, today announced availability of its first public beta.
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