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Select a different Persona and its range of editing tools appears within the workspace. These personas are found in the top left and include Photo, Liquify, Develop, Tone Mapping and Export personas. The main difference between Photoshop’s single workspace is that Affinity Photo uses ‘Personas’, each with their own workspace. Those tools you use in Photoshop are generally found where you hope they will be in Affinity Photo. It therefore makes total sense that the workspace of Affinity Photo has been designed in a way that is really familiar to those already using Photoshop. You get the familiar grey background by default, a vertical toolbar on the left and control panels on the right. If you’ve used Photoshop for years, the judgement hammer is ready to strike on any young pretenders, should the new software not be up to task or appear too alien. Yet, too much effort to relearn a new software can be curtains from the off. The incredible value and one-off fee payment method of Affinity Photo is enough reason to persuade existing Adobe Photoshop CC users to try it out.

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This review is based on the Mac version of Affinity Photo 1.6.6, using a MacBook Pro Retina (early 2015) with 16GB memory, 2.7GHz processor and Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3 operating system.

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Not a subscription service in sight and Serif makes the latest versions of the software available for free to existing Affinity Photo users. The software is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.Īffinity Photo v1.6 is available to buy outright only and costs £48.99. Installation is as simple as one could expect. All you’ll need to do is enter your details on the product website and a link will be sent to you. The software can be purchased in Apple’s Mac App store via Serif's Affinity website.

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Numerous bug fixes and other improvements InstallationĪffinity Photo v1.6 is available now for Mac OS X (10.7 or later) and Windows (7, 8 and 10). A minimum of 2GB RAM is recommended.

360 image roll correction (Affinity Photo only).

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Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients.Improved Live Filters performance (Affinity Photo only).Improved Photoshop Plugin support (Affinity Photo only).Outlier stacking mode (Affinity Photo only).Custom brush wet edges (Affinity Photo only).

New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites.Improved performance with large documents.Metal 2 accelerated view optimised for macOS High Sierra.New 'Edit In' integration with Apple Photos (Affinity Photo only).New stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools.

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Competitor to the full version of Adobe Photoshop CC Key New FeaturesĪ full list of features, with the new ones highlighted in red, can be found on the Serif Affinity Photo website.

Built-in support for Wacom pen tablets and others.

Companion graphic design Affinity Designer software available too.

Workspaces in five different ‘Personas'.

Handily, both programs share the same file format. In addition, Serif offers a companion graphic design software called Affinity Designer, which also costs £48.99. Free upgrades were meant to be a plus point for subscription services, so kudos to Serif for looking after existing users at no extra cost.įor more information and to purchase the software, which currently costs £48.99 if you don’t own it already, please visit the Serif website. In this latest version there are plenty of improvements and compatibility with the latest camera raw files.įor those that have bought an older version of Affinity Photo, the latest one comes free. We are reviewing version 1.6.6 for Mac, which was launched in November 2017. More recently the software has been developed for iPad and for Windows too. In a relative short space of time the software is now its sixth iteration. The encouraging signs for Affinity Photo continue. There’s no subscription service, like with Adobe CC. What is particular impressive is that the software costs a bargain one-off fee under £50. This is not beginner-level stuff, it’s a mightily competent editing suite. You’ll probably know Serif more for its Windows based editing software PhotoPlus X, but more recently Serif delved into Mac with Affinity Photo, creating what we think is a legitimate alternative to Adobe Photoshop. We recently reviewed Picktorial 3 and here we have another, Serif Affinity Photo. Since Adobe moved into a subscription only service for its photo editing suite, we have seen some more cost effective alternatives available for one-off fees.

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