Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Photo comes with a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and many more. Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time.
Other features include raw image processing, PSD import and export, colour management, accurate adjustments, high-end controls for channels and masks, advanced layer handling, batch processing, focus stacking, and much more.
What"s new in Affinity Photo 1.7.0 Beta:
Brushes
- Photo 1.7 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush.
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring. We have more symmetry features on the way - so stay tuned during the beta process.
- Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance.
- Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control.
- All brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request
RAW
- The RAW processing engine in Photo has been rewritten - producing better results and improved performance.
- RAW files now load much more quickly.
- Re-implemented support for XTrans sensors.
- The denoise algorithm has been rewritten (to produce better results).
- Hot pixel removal is now automatically performed by the Serif Labs engine.
- Profiled lens correction are more stable, apply more quickly, and can be toggled in the Develop UI.
- The histogram in the Develop persona is now presented in the output colour space - as opposed to always being linear.
Filters
- New “Procedural Texture” filter with advanced presets support.
- New “Voronoi” filter.
- Denoise, Clarity and Shadows / Highlights filters have been rewritten (using technology from the Develop Persona).
- More filters are now available as Live Filters - including the new Procedural Texture filter.
- Live filters have been rewritten to improve performance - especially when multiple filters are used in a document.
- Improved Polar to Rectangular and Rectangular to Polar filters.
Adjustments
- The HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten. It now supports custom hue ranges, a new algorithm, new UI and picker controls.
- The Levels adjustment layer now supports output levels - a common feature request.
- The White Balance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- The Selective Colour adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- PSD import / export of adjustments has been improved.
- The Vibrance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- The Recolour adjustment layer has gained a lightness slider.
Tools
- The Crop tool has been rewritten - it now supports resolution changes, absolute pixel size and has a much improved preset mechanism.
- The Sponge Brush tool now gives more correct / pleasant results.
- A general tools overhaul has been performed - providing editing of grids, guides, page origin, across multiple tools (not just in the Move tool)
General
- “Alternate futures” for document history have been added. Traditionally, if you roll back the undo history then do something else all your changes after that point are lost. Photo will now display a small branch icon in the history tab when you do this. Pressing that button will cycle between all the different “futures” after that history entry - meaning you will never lose work you have done.
- HEIF images can now be loaded directly into Photo. If they contain a depth map, this will also be loaded as a second layer. Because depth maps are typically lower resolution than the main image, optional “smart” upsampling will be performed.
- A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development (we will provide a list of the new supported cameras as soon as possible!).
- The batch process dialog now fully supports expressions for height and width - available constants are “w”, “h” and “dpi”.
- Photo now supports custom document presets - a popular feature request.
- A new blend mode - Linear Burn - has been added.
- New “Move inside / outside” commands have been added - useful for quick operations on clipping masks etc.
- The Hard Mix blend mode has been improved.
- New provider options have been added to the stock panel - support for Unsplash and Pexels. Both of these providers offer full-resolution stock imagery which is free to use.
- Metadata is now dynamically synchronised with your document - so if you resize then export, the values will be correct.
- Numerous text improvements have been made - including new features.
- Significant PDF import / export improvements and fixes.
- Added support for per-monitor ICC profiles (previously we only used the primary monitor"s ICC profile) in the document view (controls still use the primary monitor"s ICC profile, which will hopefully be fixed in the future).
Affinity Photo 1.7.0.284 Beta fixes:
- Fixed lens profile distortion checkbox label being empty instead of "(none)"
- Fixed reset button on Develop Lens page setting the "use profile" option even if it"s disabled
- Fixed clone brush from "Layers beneath" or "Current layer and below" when the destination layer is transformed
- Fixed scrolling in the Crop Preset dialog not being smooth
- Resizing document now scales filters properly
- Added missing keyboard shortcut for "Toggle Assets Panel"
- Added lens correction import directory for overriding/augmenting lens database
- Added lens profile name in Develop
- Added support for resetting adjustment sliders via double click
- Documents are no longer closed when a network drive disconnects (prevents loss of work on transient connection errors)
- Fixed rendering error with compound curve nodes with multiple lines/fills
- Added "Touch for Gestures Only" option in Preferences
- Fixed sporadic hang (and 100% CPU usage)
- Fixed assistant manager being disabled with no documents open
- Added Paint Mixer Brush tool setting serialisation
- Fixed closing application during Customise Toolbar, resulting in application being stuck in Customise Toolbar mode
- Added missing shortcuts for move inside/move outside
- Fixed sporadically being unable to add Styles to the Styles panel
- Added Asset panel drag and drop from Explorer
- Fixed Layer Blend Modes failing to display after deselecting a Group or Layer object
- Fixed Appearance Panel unable to use Cap, Join, Align and Mitre stroke options
- Fixed Layers panel mask thumbnails to draw without checkerboard
- Fixed sporadic crash when viewing history panel
- Tweaked layout of some Preferences options
- Layers control has now been re-written to improve performance and stability
- Fixed some crashes due to parsing image metadata
- Added "Image Info" drop down for placed images (allows DPI/scaling to be changed)
- Fixed Advanced History showing timestamps in UTC
- Disabled Swatches panel when a document isn"t open
- Fixed asset search
- Added option for TIFF export compression
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