Affinity Photo is a proprietary raster graphics editor by Serif for macOS, iOS and Windows. It is non-subscription based software that has been described as a Photoshop alternative, and is compatibile with common file formats (including PSD). Affinity Photo functions include editing Raw image format files, color space options, live previews as effects are applied, as well as Image stitching, alpha compositing, black point compensation, and optical aberration corrections.
Affinity Photo is not an image organizer.
Affinity Photo is available as a free trial from the Affinity Website. Desktop and iPad versions are available to buy directly from the Mac App Store or the iOS App Store, respectively. The Windows PC version is available online from the Microsoft Store.
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Development
Affinity Photo was Serif's second Mac app, and like Affinity Designer was built from the ground up to take full advantage of core Mac technologies including Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics, OpenGL and Metal 2 hardware acceleration. Like Designer, working in Affinity Photo is always live with pan and zoom at 60fps, live previews and nondestructive editing. It supports unlimited layers and a dedicated RAW editing workspace, as well as RGB, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale colour space with end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC colour management, and 16-bit per channel editing.
Reception
The OS X version of Affinity Photo was received favorably by professional photographers, and Apple named it as the best Mac app of 2015. Affinity Photo was awarded the prize for Best Imaging Software by the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) at photokina in 2016. In November, 2017, the iOS version was named by Apple as its best iPad app of the year, and Tom's Guide selected Affinity Photo for their first list of Best Tech Values.
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Version history
Serif established an R&D team for Affinity Photo in 2009, headed by lead designer Andy Somerfield. A free beta-test version of the Affinity Photo app was released to the public on 9 February 2015. The initial stable release of Affinity Photo, version 1.3.1, launched on the Mac App Store 9 July 2015 for OS X 10.7 or later. Version 1.3.5, released in August, provided numerous bug fixes and improvements.
Serif announced its first major update to Affinity Photo in December 2015. Version 1.4 added panorama photo stitching as well as support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, including six Affinity extensions for Apple Photos. Updates to both Affinity apps (Designer and Photo) and websites provided language support for Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese and Chinese (Simplified). These augumented the four languages in previous versions: English (US and UK), German, French and Spanish. Stability and bug fixes were released with Affinity Photo 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, in January and June 2016. Version 1.4.3 in September 2016 optimized Affinity Photo for macOS 10.12 Sierra.
In December, 2016, Serif launched Affinity Photo for Windows, and released an update to the macOS version at the same time, Affinity Photo 1.5.1 added a 32-bit RGB editing mode with support for 32-bit file formats and more than 70 new camera RAW file formats, as well as the ability to sevelop RAW files directly into a 32-bit document. Version 1.5.1 also added support for the new MacBook Pro TouchBar.
Serif launched Affinity Photo for iPad during the keynote at Apple's WWDC in San Jose on 5 June 2017. In September, 2017, the iPad version was updated for compatibility with Apple's new iOS 11.
Serif released major updates to Affinity Photo, as well as Affinity Designer, in November 2017. Affinity Photo 1.6.6 was optimized for macOS 10.13 High Sierra (and Metal 2 acceleration ), better integration with Apple Photos, improved Photoshop Plugins support and added an option to switch between a dark or light user interface.
References
Further reading
Affinity Photo Workbook. Nottingham: Serif Europe Ltd. 2017. ISBN 9781909581050.
Affinity Photo Workbook (in German). Nottingham: Serif Europe Ltd. 2017. ISBN 9781909581067.
Gradias, Michael (2017). Affinity Photo : Einstieg und Praxis für Windows Version (in German). Burgthann: Markt+Technik Verlag. ISBN 9783959820592.
Schestag, Rüdiger (2017). Das Affinity Photo-Praxisbuch Von den Grundlagen bis zur professionellen Bildbearbeitung (in German). Heidelberg: dpunkt.verlag. ISBN 9783864904592.
Schuler, Günter (2017). Das Praxisbuch zu Affinity Photo 1.5 für Windows und Mac : Bilder professionell bearbeiten - die hilfreiche Anleitung (in German). Husum: Mandl & Schwarz. ISBN 9783960050094.
Szierbeck, Johann (2017). Affinity Photo für Mac & Windows : Brillante Fotos genial einfach (in German) (2nd ed.). Obergriesbach: amac-buch Verlag. ISBN 9783954310401.
Wäger, Markus (2017). Affinity Photo : Aktuell zur Version 1.5 für Windows und Mac (in German). Bonn: Rheinwerk Design. ISBN 9783836245906.
External links
- Product page
- Photography Blog review
- Tech Radar review
- DPReview coverage
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