Affinity Designer vs ImageMagick

Affinity Designer

Description: Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor software for macOS, Windows, and iOS. It can be used to create digital paintings, logos, graphics, layouts, typography and more. Affinity Designer is developed by Serif as an affordable alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

Type: software

Pricing: Paid

ImageMagick

Description: ImageMagick is an open-source software suite for creating, editing, composing, and converting bitmap images. It can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

Type: software

Pricing: Free

Affinity Designer Features

• Vector drawing and editing tools
• Pixel persona for raster editing
• Non-destructive effects and adjustments
• PANTONE color support
• SVG, PDF, EPS, PNG and PSD export
• Asset management panel
• Perspective and isometric drawing tools
• Brush stabilisation

ImageMagick Features

• Image format conversion
• Resize, rotate, flip, mirror, crop and trim images
• Merge multiple images
• Add text, shapes and frames to images
• Apply filters, effects and image enhancements
• Batch process images
• Create image montages and collages
• Extract or remove image channels
• Adjust colors, brightness, contrast, gamma
• Blur, sharpen, despeckle and reduce noise

Affinity Designer

• Paid

ImageMagick

• Free