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Adobe Illustrator vs Affinity Photo: What are the differences?

Developers describe Adobe Illustrator as "Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations". The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile. On the other hand, Affinity Photo is detailed as "A raster graphics editor for macOS, iOS and Windows". It is born to work hand-in-hand with the latest powerful computer technology, it’s fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iOS.

Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Photo can be categorized as "Graphic Design" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Adobe Illustrator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 114 company stacks & 282 developers stacks; compared to Affinity Photo, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of Adobe Illustrator
Pros of Affinity Photo
  • 2
    Vector Creation
  • 3
    Ease of use
  • 3
    No subscription
  • 3
    Fast and doesn't crash
  • 2
    Feels like Photoshop

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Cons of Adobe Illustrator
Cons of Affinity Photo
  • 3
    Massive disk space usage
  • 3
    Adobe Updater to slow you down even more
  • 2
    Expensive
  • 1
    Not really a tool for web design
  • 1
    Clunky
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    What is Adobe Illustrator?

    The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

    What is Affinity Photo?

    It is born to work hand-in-hand with the latest powerful computer technology, it’s fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iOS.

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      What are some alternatives to Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Photo?
      Adobe InDesign
      The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.
      Adobe Photoshop
      It is the best in the world of graphic design and image processing software that will realize any of your ideas. Create and enhance photos, illustrations and 3D graphic objects.
      Inkscape
      It is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
      Sketch
      Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.
      Affinity Designer
      No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. It is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done. It was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use.
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