{"id":10732,"date":"2016-12-30T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=10732"},"modified":"2017-04-13T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:04:59","slug":"ccatp-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/ccatp-469\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #469 Allister Jenks on Affinity Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"allister_jinx_logo_bezier_curves.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/allister_jinx_logo_bezier_curves-1.png\" alt=\"Allister jinx logo bezier curves\" width=\"499\" height=\"245\" border=\"0\" \/>This week we&#8217;re joined by Allister Jenks of the Sitting Duck Podcast. I tricked him into using Affinity Photo (and he loves it) so he turns the tables and convinces me to buy into Affinity Designer. He&#8217;ll explain the difference between pixel and vector editors, and why you&#8217;d want to use one tool over the other. We&#8217;ll talk Bezi\u00e9r curves and strokes and fills. He&#8217;ll talk about a few cool projects he&#8217;s worked on to learn to use the tools, including reproducing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryansakamoto.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no opener\">Ryan Sakamoto&#8217;s<\/a> awesome Podfeet Logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/affinity-photo\/id824183456?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no opener\">Affinity Photo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/affinity-photo\/id824183456?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no opener\">Affinity Designer<\/a> are both available at <a href=\"http:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affinity.serif.com\/&#8230;<\/a> and are both available in the Mac App Store. He also mentions at the very end a little Mac app called <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/image-vectorizer\/id789656124?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no opener\">Image Vectorizer<\/a>. You can find Allister at <a href=\"https:\/\/zkarj.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zkarj.me\/&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10732-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_12_30.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_12_30.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_12_30.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"c1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chit-chat-across-the-pond\/id1052401094?mt=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/artwork\/itunes_subscribe_button.png\" alt=\"itunes\" width=\"125\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2016_12_30.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;re joined by Allister Jenks of the Sitting Duck Podcast. I tricked him into using Affinity Photo (and he loves it) so he turns the tables and convinces me to buy into Affinity Designer. He&#8217;ll explain the difference between pixel and vector editors, and why you&#8217;d want to use one tool over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,737,172],"tags":[901,1215,1214,1212,1066,1213],"class_list":["post-10732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-ccatp-lite","category-ccatp","tag-affinity","tag-allister","tag-bezier","tag-designer","tag-photo","tag-vector"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V8_lite_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10736,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions\/10736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}