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Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo has become a favorite for photography and fine art professionals around the world who value speed, accuracy and versatility. It is the only full-featured photo editor integrated into macOS, Windows and iOS systems and designed to support the latest powerful computing technologies.

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Founded Date
July 1, 2015
Location
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Platform
MacOS
MacOS
iOS
iOS
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Wikidata ID
Q23302620

Picture of the future

If you could create your own photo editing software, that's exactly what it would do. Whether you're making minor edits, doing subtle retouching, or diving into creating complex fine art with hundreds of layers, Affinity Photo can help you with any of these tasks.

Performance and Power

You'll be amazed at how fast you can work with the unbridled power that Affinity Photo has to offer. View edits in real time and immerse yourself in a huge toolbox built with the professional workflow in mind.

+ Dynamic real-time editing

+ Support for large images (more than 100 megapixels)

+ Ultra-smooth pan and zoom at 60 frames per second

+ Opening and editing PSD and PSB files

+ PSD Smart Object Import

+ Support for the most complex vector documents

+ Studio presets for interface layout and other time-saving tools

Flawless retouching

Whether you want to make quick adjustments or spend your time on detailed retouching, Affinity Photo has a complete set of all the retouching tools and special features you need.

+ Frequency division function for smoothing and retouching skin

+ Lighten, burn, clone, patch and blemish tools

+ Dedicated workspace for plastic deformation with shaping functions

+ Removing Unwanted Objects with the Magic Sketch Brush

+ Correction of color flares, improvement of infrared images and dynamic filters in the new division mode.

Incredible layers of dynamic filters

Effects such as blur, lighting, distortion correction and perspective can be applied as indestructible dynamic filter layers. This means that you can edit them at any time, apply masks, move and adjust their parameters. This is a completely new workflow.

+ Applying filter effects in a non-destructive way

+ Application on individual layers or on the entire stack of layers

+ Masking and removing areas after applying them

+ Dynamic layer of plastic deformation

+ High-resolution dynamic preview at any time

Complete processing of RAW files

Shoot RAW photos and enjoy ultra-smooth 16-bit colors with Affinity Photo. Bring in all the details and manage more precise corrections, taking the perfect shot to another level.

+ Professional Lens Correction

+ Adjust exposure, black point, white balance and more

+ View histograms, highlights, overshadows, and tints

+ Viewing and editing EXIF ​​information

+ Best-in-class noise reduction and dead pixel removal

+ Importing XMP files (metadata only)

+ Editing metadata

+ Batch handling of copyright information

Stunning compositions

Along with support for unlimited layers, Affinity Photo has a complete library of adjustments, effects, and dynamic filters. They can all be grouped, cropped, masked or layered on top of each other to create incredibly complex image compositions.

+ Unlimited Layers

+ Layer Effects

+ Dynamic blend modes

+ Masking and clipping layers

+ Vector and text tools

Beautiful brush strokes

Incredibly powerful brush engine and dynamic Affinity Photo advanced system provide the most natural and fluid painting experience.

+ Huge library of brushes included

+ Create custom brushes with advanced dynamic features

+ Combining multiple brushes for a single stroke

+ Full support for Wacom and other graphics tablets

+ Full support for Apple Pencil (iPad version)

+ Import brush files with .abr extension

+ Creating brushes from the current pixel selection

Perfect connection of photos

Create perfect panoramas every time, without exception, using advanced photo joining algorithms, including automatic image alignment and full-featured perspective correction capabilities available in Affinity Photo.

More accurate selections

With Affinity Photo's advanced algorithms for refining selections, you'll be able to achieve a level of precision you've never dreamed of. Whether it's cutting out objects, creating masks, or applying selective adjustments, you can easily create incredibly precise selections, right down to highlighting individual strands of hair.

+ Selection Brush & Magic Wand

+ Selection area and lasso tools

+ Improved Selection Accuracy

+ Making selections by drawing

+ Pen Tool

Stunning HDR Technology

Affinity Photo's HDR algorithm creates incredible images with a natural look and reveals the full dynamic range of a scene. You can get great results with familiar 32-bit images or use its extensive tone mapping capabilities.

+ Unlimited source images

+ Full tone mapping controls

+ Combination directly in RAW files

+ Alignment and perspective correction

Focus stacking

Master the combination of multiple images shot at different focal lengths for detailed macro results. Affinity Photo has features for leveling and incredibly deep analysis to identify the best areas in every image you use.

Text on a path

Explore a range of different typographic designs by adding text along a path. Create a path from any line, curve, or shape that you can draw with any line or shape tool.

Template layers.

Add a fixed size bitmap layer that will be repeated throughout the document. These template layers can be painted on, masked, processed with filters and transformed in a non-destructive way, while watching the resulting template come to life in real time.

32-bit workflow

The only photo editing tool that provides a complete end-to-end 32-bit workflow for working with HDR images, rendering, creating textures, or exporting from 3D modeling software.

+ Support for OpenEXR and Radiance HDR formats

+ Importing OpenColorIO Configurations

+ Support for monitors with HDR / EDR technologies

Works on any device, wherever you are

The first full-featured professional photo editing application that is fully compatible with Windows, Mac and iPad device file formats. Allows you to work with the same file on any device.

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Further Resources

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Link
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Date

Affinity Photo - The Future of Photo Editing

https://youtu.be/GZvmpiS4pD4

Web

April 9, 2020

Backing up app resources and factory reset (Affinity Photo)

https://youtu.be/y_QlElUCZUE

Web

October 8, 2021

Light UI (Affinity Photo)

https://youtu.be/SmsDrxWJvf0?list=PLjZ7Y0kROWiu_QMpLs1twGlfYCdn-1zzu

Web

June 5, 2019

New Document with Templates (Affinity Photo)

https://youtu.be/v6wtoq_HOEQ?list=PLjZ7Y0kROWiu_QMpLs1twGlfYCdn-1zzu

Web

March 9, 2020

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