In addition to it is ability to modify camera captures like Lens Correction, Noise Reduction, Tones modification, Split Toning and many other things. It gives one an ability to edit and modify Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, White Balance, Shadows and Highlights. However, our favorite top side tool is Develop Persona, which is a feature which professional photographers might find useful with their RAW and other image files. Other buttons include Select All, Deselect, Invert Selection among others. All of them automatically adjust the image to what Affinity Photo considers to looks best. The top tools also come with buttons like Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colors and Auto White Balance. Another option is Tone Mapping Persona, which allows one to modify the image with presets of various color and brightness tones. It has Liquify Persona – which allows one to manipulate the size of various objects inside the photo with your mouse by dragging the area. What we liked was that Affinity Photo had special, easy to use tools on top. We however had to manually find and enable History from the top View > Studio options to enable it. Even below is the Navigator, RGB color Channels selector and editor, also an Info tab which shows mouse location, memory efficiency among other things. It also has Layer adjustments which allows one to manipulate individual layers among other things. Layer effects look and work quite similar to Photoshop. Below it are Layers and their creation / deletion buttons. On right-hand side we have a “Studio”, with Histogram, Scope, Color selection, Brushes and others. It also has Healing Brush, Patch Tool, Blemish Removal Tool, Pen Tool, various shapes creation tool, Text tools, Zoom tool and a lot more. Other tools included Flood Fill (Paint Bucket), Gradient Tool, various Paint brush tools, Erase Brush, Dodge Brush, Clone Brush Tool, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge Tool. Hand tool, Move tool (something we enjoyed using), Color Picker Tool, Crop Tool, Selection Brush Tool, Flood Select Tool (similar to Magic Wand Tool of Photoshop), Marquee Tool of various shapes like Rectangle, Elliptical, Row, Column and also a Freehand Selection Tool. It has all the tools one commonly finds in an image editor. The file is 579 MB in size and downloaded quickly. One requires to create an account to get a download link emailed to their account. Download and Installationĭownloading Affinity Photo is not entirely easy. We decided to try to review the Windows version of Affinity Photo to find it out. Does Affinity Photo justify it’s Photoshop alternative tag. From editing of RAW image files, merging of HDR files, Panorama Stitching, Focus Stacking, Batch Processing, 360 Image Editing, Digital Painting, Unlimited Layers, support for Smart Objects but more importantly, ability to edit and export PSD files.īut the question is. ![]() Windows version came a year later.ĭevelopers of Affinity Photo claim to provide a lot of features. Six years in making, Affinity Photo was finally released to the public in 2015. In 2009, Serif Europe Ltd., a British company behind these products, decided to make a new software from an entirely new code written from ground up as an successor Serif PhotoPlus – which was phased out when Affinity Photo released. Affinity Photo is a successor of Serif PhotoPlus which was released way back in 1999. It has at least two decades of a history behind it. Released in 2015, Affinity Photo is not entirely a new product. It’s subscription-only model costs $20.99 per month to almost $239.88 per year.Ĭompared to that, Affinity Photo, often considered a Photoshop alternative, costs $54.99 upfront without any additional monthly or yearly charges for the base software. It however comes with a huge cost associated with it. Today we review Affinity Photo, which is an alternative to Photoshop, without the high costs associated with it.Īdobe Photoshop, a software considered an industry standard for creation, editing and manipulation of an image. ( ) People might find Adobe Photoshop’s pricing too expensive.
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