It’s a bit like Adobe Camera Raw, but integrated into the Affinity Photo interface. You can switch between them manually as required and in some instances they will open automatically.įor example, if you open a raw file, you will go straight into the Develop Persona where raw processing is carried out. You don’t go through them one by one in a linear order. In order of appearance on the top toolbar, these are the Photo Persona, Liquify, Develop, Tone Mapping and Export Personas. The tools are different, and you use them at different stages of the workflow.
These aren’t just different configurations of the same tools. Affinity PersonasĪffinity Photo offers five different workspaces for different tasks. This is an old-school photo editor, Photoshop style, but without the cash outlay or the subscription.Īffinity does not offer a cloud-based ecosystem like Adobe’s Creative Cloud, and while there is an iPad version of Affinity Photo (which is extremely good, by the way), there’s no equivalent of Adobe’s cloud based image library, as used by Lightroom. And Adobe refugees will be delighted to learn that not only are there no subscription plans, and that until version 2, every single update since launch had been free.Īffinity Photo is not really designed for beginners, it has no cataloguing and browsing features and it doesn’t offer one-click insta-ready ‘looks’ for your social channels. Affinity Photo might be priced like a budget program, but it’s far from that.
It’s so low that many people might mistake it for a budget photo editor perhaps aimed at novices, but nothing could be further from the truth. The price of Affinity Photo 2 is a little higher than the original Affinity Photo, but still low for software of this calibre. But what we’re looking at here specifically is Affinity Photo 2’s potential as a photo editor – and it has plenty.Īffinity Photo supports any number of adjustment layers, image layers, Live Filter layers and masks, to allow highly sophisticated editing steps. It’s clear that the design community this is where much of Affinity’s focus lies. Affinity Photo supports vector graphics for creating illustrations and type layers for adding text. In this respect it’s a lot like Photoshop, so although both are just about the most powerful in-depth photo manipulation tools you can get, it’s not the only thing they do. Keep in mind that Affinity Photo is an all-round design tool, not just a photo editor. Powerful layers, masking and retouching.Like Photoshop, it’s designed for sophisticated, detailed and advanced image editing, though it can also be used for relatively quick and simple image enhancements too. Affinity Photo works perfectly on its own, however, and is just about the closest direct alternative to Photoshop on the market. Affinity Photo 2 is one of three professional creative applications from Affinity and works alongside Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher as part of a tightly bound creative ecosystem.
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