The bottom right holds another panel for transforming, showing and editing your history and navigating the display area. Affinity Designer offers the essential tools you need when working with layers, such as locking and hiding elements or layer groups for easier handling. Showing preview icons makes selecting elements via the layers panel easy.

The layer panel underneath is very user-friendly. To the right you have your colour panel (with the HSL colour wheel as preset but more schemes to pick from), swatches to help you organize frequently used colours, strokes to define the outlines and brush settings. The amount can be quickly altered by dragging a marker or by entering a value. It offers 5 different shapes from plain to rounded and rounded inverse to steps. Features:Īnother nice feature is the corner tool allowing easy modifying of the corners of a node. The background illustration matches the desired proportions and sizes from the start.

It’s a very helpful feature when designing a full-screen layout. I really liked the canvas setting as it offered a choice of device-specific settings such as iPad, iPad pro or iPhone 6.

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