Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Photo has become the first choice for photography and creative professionals around the world, who love its speed, power and precision. Born to work hand-in-hand with the latest powerful computer technology, it’s the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iOS. Affinity Photo has long been a strong competitor to Adobe Photoshop. With its new version 1.9 update, Affinity Photo is an even stronger photo editing application. Available for macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo 1.9 adds many new features and promises improved performance. Better still, as if the prices weren’t low enough already, Affinity is offering a 50% discount in support of photographers, illustrators and designers during the COVID crisis. For photographers, it’s Affinity Photo that will be the most interesting. Affinity Photo 1.9 gains a number of.
Affinity Photo comes with a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and many more. Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time.
Other features include raw image processing, PSD import and export, colour management, accurate adjustments, high-end controls for channels and masks, advanced layer handling, batch processing, focus stacking, and much more.
Fixes done in Affinity Photo 1.6.0.80 Beta:
Fixed drag and drop of files into Application
Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu
Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion
Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out
Changed text to always render at full quality when typing
Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive
Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it
Fixed black window border on some dialogs
Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar
Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden
Fixed Halftone filter slider values to match macOS version
Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle)
Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid)
Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch
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The standout choice for professionals
Ubuntu 18 04 macbook air. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, whether you are editing and retouching images, or creating full-blown multi-layered compositions, it has all the power and performance you will ever need.
Professional corrections & adjustments
Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights, plus over a dozen other non-destructive adjustments which preview instantly and can be edited at any time. Adobe 64 bit mac. Affinity Photo also provides advanced lens corrections and best-in-class noise reduction so you have full control to really bring out the best in any image.
Complete retouching tools
Whether you want to make quick corrections, or spend time on a detailed retouch, Affinity Photo has you covered. Alongside the usual dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, and red eye tools you’ll also find an almost magical inpainting brush, frequency separation capability, and a full set of liquefy features built-in.
Dedicated RAW workspace
Develop camera RAW files in a dedicated workspace with all the precise adjustments and corrections you need in an unbounded linear color space.
Focus Merge
Expertly merge multiple images taken at different focal distances for greater depth of field. Affinity Photo takes care of the alignment and completes a detailed analysis to determine the best areas of each image to use.
Recordable Macros
Macros enable you to record an unlimited number of actions which you can save and replay whenever you like. You can even play macros as part of a batch process, making previously laborious tasks possible in a few clicks.
Photo 1.9 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush.
Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring. We have more symmetry features on the way - so stay tuned during the beta process.
Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance.
Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control.
All brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request
RAW
The RAW processing engine in Photo has been rewritten - producing better results and improved performance.
RAW files now load much more quickly.
Re-implemented support for XTrans sensors.
The denoise algorithm has been rewritten (to produce better results).
Hot pixel removal is now automatically performed by the Serif Labs engine.
Profiled lens correction are more stable, apply more quickly, and can be toggled in the Develop UI.
The histogram in the Develop persona is now presented in the output colour space - as opposed to always being linear.
Filters
New “Procedural Texture” filter with advanced presets support.
New “Voronoi” filter.
Denoise, Clarity and Shadows / Highlights filters have been rewritten (using technology from the Develop Persona).
More filters are now available as Live Filters - including the new Procedural Texture filter.
Live filters have been rewritten to improve performance - especially when multiple filters are used in a document.
Improved Polar to Rectangular and Rectangular to Polar filters.
Adjustments
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The HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten. It now supports custom hue ranges, a new algorithm, new UI and picker controls.
The Levels adjustment layer now supports output levels - a common feature request.
The White Balance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
The Selective Colour adjustment layer has been rewritten.
PSD import / export of adjustments has been improved.
The Vibrance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
The Recolour adjustment layer has gained a lightness slider.
Tools
The Crop tool has been rewritten - it now supports resolution changes, absolute pixel size and has a much improved preset mechanism.
The Sponge Brush tool now gives more correct / pleasant results.
A general tools overhaul has been performed - providing editing of grids, guides, page origin, across multiple tools (not just in the Move tool)
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“Alternate futures” for document history have been added. Traditionally, if you roll back the undo history then do something else all your changes after that point are lost. Photo will now display a small branch icon in the history tab when you do this. Pressing that button will cycle between all the different “futures” after that history entry - meaning you will never lose work you have done.
HEIF images can now be loaded directly into Photo. If they contain a depth map, this will also be loaded as a second layer. Because depth maps are typically lower resolution than the main image, optional “smart” upsampling will be performed.
A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development (we will provide a list of the new supported cameras as soon as possible!).
The batch process dialog now fully supports expressions for height and width - available constants are “w”, “h” and “dpi”.
Photo now supports custom document presets - a popular feature request.
A new blend mode - Linear Burn - has been added.
New “Move inside / outside” commands have been added - useful for quick operations on clipping masks etc.
The Hard Mix blend mode has been improved.
New provider options have been added to the stock panel - support for Unsplash and Pexels. Both of these providers offer full-resolution stock imagery which is free to use.
Metadata is now dynamically synchronised with your document - so if you resize then export, the values will be correct.
Numerous text improvements have been made - including new features.
Significant PDF import / export improvements and fixes.
Added support for per-monitor ICC profiles (previously we only used the primary monitor's ICC profile) in the document view (controls still use the primary monitor's ICC profile, which will hopefully be fixed in the future).
Other:
Fixed Export file type icons using low resolution images
Fixed clipped Grid Settings button
Added missing Voronoi filter
Fixed Construction Snapping buttons not showing correctly
Fixed View modes (Pixel, Retina and Outline) buttons
Added missing Isometric panel
Fixed crash when closing application in Export Persona with multiple documents open
Fixed crash at startup when loading existing workspaces
Fixed sporadic crash when opening Edit menu after copying document items to clipboard
Fixed Installer to not specify the text for 'Open' shell entry
Improved Freehand import by allowing some unknown tags to be ignored, rather than failing the import
Fixed Colour panel Colour Picker being offset for some multiple monitor configurations
Fixed modifier keys not being shown for tool shortcut in tooltips
Improved HSL Add and Subtract modes
Beta release notes:
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Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows
Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles
Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working
Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking
Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document
Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer
Fixed snapping to guides and page edges
Fixed importing of user items in correct order
Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid
Fixed incorrect curve printing
Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950
Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files
Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools)
Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first
Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight
Fixed print copies limited to 99
Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common
Fixed sporadic PSD export crash
Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes
Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager
Fixed being unable to select a crop preset
Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly
Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu
Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches
Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document
Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog)
Prevent dragging of locked layers
Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing
Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas
Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive
Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters
Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly
Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG
Added Hide/Show to Photo main menu
Fixed Panorama orientation resulting in upside down images
Improved selection refinement
Fixed macro recording of document properties, and mixer brush
Fixed incorrect treatment of filter effects when resizing a document containing pixel layers
Fixed smoothing to curve tangent to take into account coincidental curve points (can now smooth to 'cusp' to allow for points with incidental handle points)
Fixed auto-committing error in Liquify
Fixed SoftLight blend mode on negative values
Fixed levels alerts not appearing
Fixed Flood Fill tool to allow transparent colours
Fixed Voronoi alpha transform
Fixed adjustment LUT export
Fixed Red Eye Removal tool in Develop persona removing image
Fixed Develop preview doing noise reduction twice
Fixed Adjustment panels not closing when adding a filter from the menus
Fixed crash opening a document with 32-bit preview tab open
Fixed Gaussian blur crash when changing the blue value using the mouse wheel
Fixed some lens identification issues
Fixed adding a macro not adding to the default category
Fixed sub-brush tab missing 'Edit' button
Fixed orientation of HDR merge of portrait RAW images
Fixed scale, rotate and translate not working when stacking
Reduced memory usage when multiple RAW files are open at once
Improved Develop performance by not performing chromatic aberration correction twice
Changed Threshold histogram to show intensity
Added Rasterise & Trim menu option, to trim rasterised item to spread boundary
Improved Selective Colour's handling of CMYK images
Show focused and selected Auto-Focus regions (in yellow and green, respectively)
Fixed Auto-Focus rects to always draw in the right location
Fixed LUT export of RGB cubes being interpretted in wrong channel order
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