Creating your own scale drawings: How to and best tools

[zebedee]

How does Affinity Design compare with Illustrator?

Chris

Very favourably, I would say there are 90% of the features, but its the 90% you actually use!

Main advantage, apart from the cost), is its a clean sheet application that doesn't have decades of features added and bolted on, its genuinely a nicer place to work!

In my day job as a design educator, Affinitys attitude is a million miles from certain other companies, emails get answered quickly and they are open to feedback on features and workflow, the other lot just tell me to log into the support forums and hope for the best, which is not what you expect for a significant 5 figure subscription every year. Just wish we could dump them and move over entirely but the industry has an expectation, although we are starting to see a shift.

As a designer, well I had been using Adobe apps for over 30 years and I've pretty much made the switch totally now with no issues.

Zeb

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

A pretty good comparison :

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hAtdfX4Ma0


It's pretty much the only viable alternative to Adobe applications. I actively prefer both Designer and Publisher to their Adobe counterparts.

@zebedee thanks for the recommendation mate

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Heh - timely - Affinity products are 50% off right now

'Get Version 2 of Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher on all operating systems, including iPad, for one low bundle price'

Black Friday 50% Off | The Creative Suite You Deserve

Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps. Get a 7-day free trial or buy for 50% off during our Black Friday sale.

affinity.serif.com

 

[BAROBA]

I bought it too, dumping Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign after... 20 years.
I was always lucky to find an employer to buy it for me, so it didn't cost me much ( A lot of magazines and some training in the early days).
But Adobe telling everyone that everything they upload to their servers is used for training their (sub-par) AI is a bridge too far for me. Screwing over the little guys once again...

 

[publiusr]

FreeCAD ready?

FreeCAD Is Near 1.0

The open-source parametric 3D modelling software, FreeCAD, is out in a release candidate for version 1.0. If you’ve tried FreeCAD before and found a few showstoppers, it might be a good time…

hackaday.com

Or this:

deepSPACE design tool takes a concept to a multitude of configurations

deepSPACE design tool takes a concept to a multitude of configurations

aerospace.illinois.edu

 

[Hobbes]

FreeCAD is for 3D modeling, not 2D.

 

[paralay]

Compass-3D is, in my opinion, the ideal system for working with drawings. There is also a free version, but it is in Russian

video

 

[publiusr]

On images

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Meta's Movie Gen lets users animate photos into videos

Meta on Friday provided a look at a generative artificial intelligence model it is working on that lets people create short videos, complete with audio, from text prompts and photos.

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Bringing clarity to microscopic imaging: New tool removes motion artifacts

Imaging microscopic samples requires capturing multiple, sequential measurements, then using computational algorithms to reconstruct a single, high-resolution image. This process can work well when the sample is static, but if it's moving—as is common with live, biological specimens—the final...

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New tools use AI 'fingerprints' to detect altered photos, videos

As artificial intelligence networks become more skilled and easier to access, digitally manipulated "deepfake" photos and videos are increasingly difficult to detect. New research led by Binghamton University, State University of New York breaks down images using frequency domain analysis...

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Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms

Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of applications, including educational uses and point-of-care...

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New research could make weird AI images a thing of the past

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has notoriously struggled to create consistent images, often getting details like fingers and facial symmetry wrong. Moreover, these models can completely fail when prompted to generate images at different image sizes and resolutions.

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Distinguishing real sounds from deepfakes

Deepfake videos generated by artificial intelligence grow increasingly difficult to identify as false, a challenge that could significantly skew the results of the upcoming presidential election.

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AI Art (and suggestions) - Cosmoquest Forum

I was wondering if anyone else here is interested in AI art? I’ve been fairly impressed with copilot. Sometimes is misses badly but has done pretty well in others. Any suggestions? I’m mostly interested in science fiction themes, maybe fantasy, but would consider others. Here’s some of what I’ve...

forum.cosmoquest.org

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Affinity Suite is 50% off again (Black Friday)

Black Friday 50% Off | The Creative Suite You Deserve

Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps. Get a 7-day free trial or buy for 50% off during our Black Friday sale.

affinity.serif.com

$82.99 USD for the entire suite on all platforms (Windows, MacOS, iPad)

As a private individual you can install Affinity apps on as many devices as you own which run the operating system you have purchased a licence for (of course in the case of a Universal Licence that means you can install on any iPads, Macs or Windows PCs you own). Other people (for example, members of your household) are also allowed to use the apps on those devices. However, only you are allowed to use the apps for commercial use—if any members of your household need to make commercial use of the apps as well they will need to purchase their own licence.