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John Poole
An affordable and stable solution that enables users to create excellent designs
The tool allowed me to level up my PowerPoint slides and the background content for videos. It makes the design pop. The rest of the team uses... Read more →
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    What do you like most about Affinity Designer?
    Top Answer:We can do a lot of different design work using the tool.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Affinity Designer?
    Top Answer:It is cheaper than Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
    What needs improvement with Affinity Designer?
    Top Answer:It’s all static. We cannot make GIFs using the tool. The product must provide features that are available in Adobe Premiere. It should also provide more 3D effects.
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    Overview

    Graphics Software Redefined
    Our creative suite of professional applications for desktop and iPad have everything you need to bring your ideas to life. From the smoothest, fastest photo editing and graphic design software to the most powerful publishing software, Affinity apps are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.

    GIMP (short for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open source image editor that is available in the Fedora repositories. GIMP is primarily used for editing, cropping, retouching, resizing, and converting many different formats of raster images such as JPEGs and PNGs.

    Affinity Designer is ranked 3rd in Graphic Design Software with 1 review while GIMP is ranked 9th in Graphic Design Software. Affinity Designer is rated 9.0, while GIMP is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Affinity Designer writes "An affordable and stable solution that enables users to create excellent designs". On the other hand, Affinity Designer is most compared with Canva, Microsoft Publisher and CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, whereas GIMP is most compared with Adobe Illustrator.

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