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'Affinity Photo is a New Pro Photoshop Alternative for Mac Users: Get It for Free'.

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'Digital Craft: Serif discontinues its Pageplus, Drawplus and Photoplus designing software to focus on its(Serif) new Affinity range of Professional graphic design software'.

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Serif is gradually expanding its reach beyond macOS, making its whole Affinity creative suite available to Windows users. 'Affinity Photo for Windows now available, Mac version updated to 1.5'. What makes Affinity Photo unique among low-priced Photoshop alternatives is that it is not a dumbed down application with automated functions and restricted editing abilities. 'Affinity emerges as Photoshop alternative but only for Macs'. ^ a b Carlson, Jeff (13 November 2017).

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This truly is a desktop-class photo editing app that also happens to run on iOS with full Apple Pencil support. 'Friday 5: Affinity Photo – a must-have photo editing app for iPad Pro owners'. ^ a b c 'Affinity Photo Full Feature List'.^ 'Affinity Version 2 sets new standards in creative software'.In February 2020, version 1.8 added support for Photoshop smart objects in PSD files, and expanded plug-in compatibility, with focus on DxO's Nik Collection of plug-ins. Affinity Photo 1.6.6 was optimized for macOS 10.13 High Sierra (and Metal 2 acceleration), better integration with Apple Photos, improved Photoshop Plugins support, and added an option to switch between a dark or light user interface. Major updates to Affinity Photo, as well as to Affinity Designer, were released in November 2017. In September 2017, the iPad version was updated for compatibility with Apple's new iOS 11. Īffinity Photo for iPad was launched during the keynote at Apple's WWDC in San Jose on 5 June 2017. It also added support for the new MacBook Pro with Touchbar. In December, 2016, Serif launched Affinity Photo for Windows and released version 1.5.1 for macOS at the same time, adding a 32-bit RGB editing mode with support for 32-bit file formats and more than 70 new camera RAW file formats, as well as the ability to develop RAW files directly into a 32-bit document. Versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in January and June 2016 provided stability and bug fixes, and the app was optimized for macOS 10.12 Sierra with version 1.4.3 in September 2016. Version 1.4, in December 2015, added panorama photo stitching, support for macOS 10.11 El Capitan including six Affinity extensions for Apple Photos, and augmented the languages supported in previous versions (English (US and UK), German, French and Spanish) with Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Japanese.

In August Version 1.3.5 was released providing numerous bug fixes and improvements. The initial stable release of Affinity Photo, version 1.3.1, launched on the Mac App Store on 9 July 2015 for macOS 10.7 and later.

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A free beta test version was released to the public on 9 February 2015. Serif established an R&D team for Affinity Photo in 2009, headed by lead designer Andy Somerfield. It was Serif's second macOS app after Affinity Designer and, like that app, was built from the ground up to leverage core native technologies, including Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics, OpenGL and Metal 2 hardware acceleration. Development Īffinity Photo began as a raster graphics editor solely for macOS. Īffinity Photo is not an image organizer like Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom. It supports unlimited layers and a dedicated workspace for developing RAW photos as well as RGB, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale color spaces with ICC color management and 16-bit per channel editing. Working in Affinity Photo is always live, with pan and zoom at 60fps and non-destructive editing. Functionality includes RAW processing, color space options, live preview of effects, image stitching, alpha compositing, black point compensation, and optical aberration corrections. Functionality Īffinity Photo has been described as an Adobe Photoshop alternative, and is compatible with common file formats such as Adobe's PSD (including Photoshop Smart Objects). It is a successor to PhotoPlus which Serif discontinued in 2017. Its first version reached general availability in 2015 with the Windows version launched a year later. Development of Affinity Photo started in 2009 as a raster graphics editor for macOS. for iOS, macOS, and Windows, alongside Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Russian Īffinity Photo is a raster graphics editor developed by Serif Ltd.

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