Affinity Designer 2.6 Latest Update - What’s New?

Hello Designers, In this video I’ll walk you through the latest Affinity Designer update which is version 2.6 which was released in February 2025.

The pencil tool has a new smooth feature that allows you to choose the level of smoothness in a curve, before and after drawing.
The pencil tool also has new options for auto-closing which was greatly needed.
The pen and node tool both get a new ‘Use line style option’.
The node tool update allows for quickly changing a sharp node to a smooth node and vice versa.
The colour picker tool finally automatically applies a picked colour to an object.
Brushes are now searchable.

Affinity Designer V2 (2.6) Used in this tutorial.

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NOTE: I'm Using a MAC, so any shortcuts I mention may be different for WINDOWS USERS. See the below for the WINDOWS:

MAC = WINDOWS
Cmd = Ctrl
Option = ALT
Mac Ctrl = Windows Button & Right Mouse Button

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Affinity 2.6 intro
0:10 pencil tool auto close
1:34 pencil tool smoothness
3:27 pencil & pen tool line style
4:31 node tool change node type fast
5:27 colour picker tool auto apply picked colour
6:30 brushes searchable
7:10 Affinity Website V2.6 Details



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