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Many of us who “grew up” with Illustrator in those early days remember how it opened our eyes to the possibilities of digital artistry. When Adobe Illustrator was released in 1987, the computing world was weaning itself off the CPM operating system, enduring Windows 2.0 crashes, and experiencing WYSIWYG on a Macintosh that looked like R2D2’s homely cousin. Adobe Illustrator Is Powerful – But Is It Right For You? Read on to discover why Affinity Designer is a powerful low cost alternative to Illustrator, and to view a tutorial on how to open an Adobe Illustrator file (AI) in Affinity Designer and save it in a variety of formats. The 1.8.6 update for Affinity apps on macOS is now available.Are you looking for a drawing app that opens Adobe Illustrator files, without hogging system resources and RAM? Have you considered buying Affinity Designer, and wonder if it has any advantages - besides its low price - over Adobe Illustrator? Or are you a digital design beginner, and need to know if Affinity Designer offers more flexibility and features than something simple and cloud-based like Canva? ‌M1‌ also allows many more elements such as adjustment layers and live filters to be maintained before performance is constrained, allowing for a more non-destructive workflow, even in complex documents. Mac customers with the ‌M1‌ can apparently expect a smoother, more responsive user experience when painting, pixel editing, using filter effects, document rendering, and more. With the new ‌M1‌ ‌MacBook Air‌, Serif reports a three-times speed increase when using its software. Edits to pixel layers are best handled on the GPU, while vector and text on the CPU, so when you have unified memory, it allows much faster handling of these complex documents. The advantages are particularly noticeable when working on documents with thousands of pixel layers, vector objects and text. This is great news for our users because the architecture of the M1, particularly having such a high-performance GPU with unified memory with the CPU, is perfect for professional creative applications. Serif says that its suite of apps are now actively optimized for the M1 chip, "making Affinity apps the first professional creative applications to offer native ‌M1‌ support."

This means that Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher can be installed and run on Apple's latest 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini without using Apple's Rosetta 2 translation layer. Following Apple's unveiling this week of Macs with the M1 chip, Serif has released new versions of its Affinity apps for Mac that include support for macOS Big Sur and compatibility with Apple Silicon machines.