Adobe or Affinity? Why Not Both?

For most professional designers, Adobe Creative Cloud is the undisputed king. No one wants to dump the tools, workflows, and skills they’ve used over their entire careers. But what if you didn’t have to ditch Adobe to take advantage of some uniquely powerful features in Affinity? Wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds? Can these two bitter rivals coexist on your desktop (or iPad)?

Sure they can! In this session, you’ll discover how to leverage the unique strengths of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher to supplement your existing Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign projects. Instead of a replacement for Creative Cloud, start thinking of Affinity as an amazingly powerful add-on to boost your existing workflow.

Whether you are looking to overcome technical hurdles or just want a fresh creative spark, you’ll walk away with a practical ideas for integrating these two ecosystems into a single, high-performance workflow.

You will learn how to:

• Generate unique textures and 3D-style lighting effects using with non-destructive Live Filter layers (no Smart Objects needed!)
• Retouch photos faster with Built-in Frequency Separation and Cross-Mode Live Curves
• Use Designer’s Pixel Persona to add hand-drawn depth to Illustrator assets
• Access PANTONE color libraries
• Send your designs directly to colleagues using Canva
• And more!