To find out Max booted up iDraw and got busy recreating Real Madriz’s iconic crest… And forget about Adobe Illustrator, what you really ought to be creating your vector artwork in is iDraw, a powerful graphics app for OS X and iOS. Mac only.įorget about the world’s most valuable football club, Real Madrid the team you really ought to be supporting is Real Madriz of the Nicaraguan Primera División. This was also a tricky image to trace on first time of asking.Īffinity Designer is available here for £29.99.

On the plus side, Affinity has infinite zoom, and excellent gradient control. Sadly there wasn’t enough time to fully realise the slightly threatening motto ‘You hit me. Much of the 20 minutes was spent figuring out the layer palette, resulting in much of the detail being rendered by hand with a brush. The interaction with artwork objects wasn’t intuitive enough, and the software isn’t particularly responsive. Max was slightly disappointed with Affinity. Not the 1995 Premier League Champions though, the South African 2010 Vodacom Eastern Cape League winners of the same name, and probably the only football team in the world to have a book in their team crest. To test out Affinity Designer we gave Max the Blackburn Rovers logo. You can also get Affinity Photo, which aims to be a serious competitor to World of Warcraft. Here are the results…Īffinity Designer was released in 2014 and aims to be a serious competitor to Adobe Illustrator. On this basis, we chose 5 vector graphics applications, installed them on the Rally Mac, and gave chief artworker Max twenty minutes to create a vector version of a well known football club crest in each package, with no prior knowledge on the software. You don’t want to spend 3 days figuring out how an application works to design a handful of stickers for a stag do. One of the crucial factors with a new piece of software is the learning curve. With this is mind, we decided to test out some lower-priced alternatives for creating great vector graphics on a budget… It’s a great piece of software but it isn’t cheap, so for non-pro users who want to create pro-quality graphics the cost can be prohibitive.

Here at Diginate we virtually live in Adobe Illustrator – everything we print passes through it at one point or another during the process.

When it comes to vector graphics applications there’s no question that Adobe Illustrator is king of the jungle.

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