App developer Serif today launched Affinity Designer for iPad [Direct Link], a precise vector graphic design tool that aims to help users create marketing materials, websites, icons, user interface ...

For the longest time, Adobe's software dominated the creative space. And it still kind of does - few options come close in terms of power and industry adoption. But many users, including myself, have ...

Nearly one year ago, Serif released Affinity Photo for the iPad as a full-featured photo editing powerhouse. Unlike what companies such as Adobe do, where a Mac app like Photoshop is broken down into ...

Canva has acquired Serif's Affinity suite of creative apps, marking a significant stride in its competition against Adobe with a deal valued at several hundred million dollars (via Bloomberg). Canva ...

Company reinforces its focus on the enterprise in a step to build an all-in-one platform for every type of designer. Canva, the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, announced the ...

After using Affinity Designer on iPad, I can confidently say that there aren’t many apps of a similar echelon in the App Store. The companion app to Affinity Photo, Designer is a vector illustration ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

Duncan is an award-winning technology industry analyst, specialising in cloud computing, blockchain, martech and edge computing. Canva, an online graphic design platform, has acquired Affinity, the ...

One special feature is that Serif relies on local data processing. The pre-trained models for machine learning must be downloaded for this purpose. They are between 200 and 800 MB in size. The ...