Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo
Digital editing for photographers and bitmap artists.
Affinity Photo overview
Affinity Photo - redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software for the Mac. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface with all the power and performance you need.
What’s new in version 2.1
Updated on May 31 2023
- Turn ‘auto-select’ on or off in Move Tool
- Show or hide special characters
- Crop Tool improvements
- Now initializes to current pixel selection (crop to selection)
- Remembers the last setting globally
- Resize by dragging anywhere on bounding box edges (rather than just handles)
- Escape resets current crop
- Cmd and Shift modifiers added to constrain resize (in unconstrained mode)
- When rotating/straightening, Crop Tool automatically adjusts box to fit opaque area
- Auto-clean option added to Paint Mixer Brush context options
- Brush Panel improvements
- Option to show brush names in panel
- Option-drag now duplicates a brush
- Panel always highlights current raster brush; if you have changed brush, highlight switches from blue to red
- Option to auto-scroll panel to the category and brush currently associated with the selected tool
- WebP and JPEG XL now available in batch export
- Place Tool now available as customization option (View->Customize tools…)
- Measure and Area tools now available (Find in View->Customize tools…)
- Context toolbar options now included in Zoom Tool in Develop Persona
- Balance dashed lines for better results in corners
- Control three dashes and gaps (rather than two) to allow for more complex dashed strokes (i.e., two dot chain)
- New ‘Clear Arrowhead’ button added to Stroke Flyout
- Assign shortcuts to blend modes
- Guides improvements
- Delta (difference from current position) is now shown in readout when you drag to move guides
- Holding Shift when dragging now snaps to ruler units
- Shift-Option when dragging now snaps the delta based on ruler units
- Option-drag to create a copy of a guide
- Dragging a new guide from rulers automatically turns guide visibility on
- Option-click guide to delete
- Double-click guide to open guide settings
- New search bar added to ‘My Add-ons’ in your account
- Square brackets now change stroke width in Shape and Node tools
- ‘Rename layer’ available as shortcut (Cmd+Shift+R)
- Drag to duplicate in Layers Panel by holding Option
- Click to expand/collapse all in the Layers Panel by using Option
- ‘Close All’ added to File menu
- Asset Panel re-ordering improvements – you can now drag to re-order subcategories and also collapse/expand all from burger menu
- After renaming a layer in the Layers Panel, you can now use Tab to shift focus to rename the next layer or Shift-Tab for previous layer
- ‘Mask to below’ added to Layer Shortcuts menu, allowing shortcut to be assigned if desired
- Drag/Drop bitmap fill from assets, stock or files anywhere on Color Panel to create texture fill
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.15 or later
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May 30 2023
Version: 1.10.6
v2.1 is out for Affinity Photo, along with Publisher and Designer. Read All About It! Here: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/whats-new/
Feb 3 2023
Version: 1.10.6
Once a big fan of Affinity products and seeing forward to combat Adobe, now very disappointed. V1 still has a lot of bugs they don't fix, while selling V2 already with the same bugs + new ones – vanishing UI elements, crashing dragged tabs, buggy multi screen setups, brushes not showing etc. Once they started with a well driven support, nowadays they're not even replying. What's going on?!
Dec 3 2022
Version: 1.10.5
V1.10.6 is out. "Bug fixes and stability improvements."
Mar 16 2022
Version: 1.10.5
Generally love it and the integration of the apps is excellent but three years + of asking and still can't change the colour or width of the page guides in any of the three apps
Nov 7 2021
Version: 1.10.4
I gave it another try. Too many features, many are duplicates of other similar features under fancy names. Tiny font, cumbersome interface. Also takes long time(5 seconds at least) to load an image. GraphicConverter can do everything Affinity does and faster.
Oct 25 2021
Version: 1.10.1
v1.10.3 is out. The same for Affinity Designer. (Affinity Publisher remains at 1.10.1).
Oct 17 2021
Version: 1.10.1
Affinity photo is a one time initial purchase... I had to format my hard drive a short while ago and now I am told I need to re-purchase the program... Is there a way to bypass this by using the license key I purchased when I initially paid for the program??
Aug 25 2021
Version: 1.10.1
4 years asking and we still can’t change the page guide colour !
May 18 2020
Version: 1.8.3
As I and many others have said, the interface icons are far too small to be usable on a 5K screen. It is sooooo frustrating as it is the same for all Affinity products on the Mac.
Mar 2 2020
Version: 1.8.1
One hell of a fine app!!! Finally a huge challenge to Adobe and other pretenders. 100% Mac app, no 32 BIT stuff buried in it. This is a gotta have. Community and Developer very, very responsive and interested in the user.
Feb 28 2020
Version: 1.8.1
I love Affinity Photo. As a professional photographer I was able to replace Photoshop with it.
Although, sometimes it crashes (not too often though).
I would love the developers to improve its macro (Actions in PS) capabilities.
Highly recommend AP.
Feb 27 2020
Version: 1.8.1
Awesome photo editing software, but not that Photoshop alternative too many people say.
FOR WHOM AFFINITY PHOTO IS: amateurs and freelancers can benefit a lot from Affinity Photo. For 50 bucks no photo editing software give more for the money. Since 2015, when it was released, it receives regular updates and is getting better at every year.
Together with Affinity Designer (vector graphic) and Affinity Publisher (desktop publisher), it is part of a promising ecosystem. Serif did an impressive job.
Those who cannot invest anymore in the Adobe CC suite can step down easily and embrace Affinity Photo, as workflows are very similar and learning curve is very smooth.
According to my experience, compatibility with PSD format is good, and layers structure is generally well respected.
It has all space colours (RVG, CMYK, LAB, etc.) and all photo-editing tool (pen, selection tools, liquify tool, etc.)
FOR WHOM AFFINITY PHOTO IS NOT: big AD agencies, those who heavily rely on the Adobe ecosystem, and those freelancers who make real money on their job are at risk by moving to Affinity Photo.
Even if tools are all present, their performance is somewhat less impressive (ex. the inpainting tool in Affinity photo is good, but in Photoshop is better; same for clone stamp tool, etc.), and the "raw persona" is much inferior to "camera raw" of Photoshop.
No photo catalogue features are included.
Affinity Photo claims to be fully compatible with plugins and brushes from Photoshop but, according to my experience, this compatibility doesn't work properly (or I was just unlucky). Import operations are either impossible to be completed or imported items work differently from expected. Those who have heavily invested in that must think twice before making the jump.
Nov 12 2019
Version: 1.7.3
I tried this software for a short time. I was very impressed all round with it. I am still searching for a good software to create images for publishing books, covers for books and printable images. I may still reconsider Affinity but just not sure it will satisfy my desires. I have been using PS Elements 13 and it did not meet my needs, (no nodes or cymk colour). I want fine art as well as backgrounds. I have been trying Clip studio Pro as well.
Sep 6 2019
Version: 1.7.2
One fine app!!! Great support. Unbelievable price. Regular updates. 100% Mac oriented. This is a gotta have for any Mac user.
Jun 24 2019
Version: 1.7.1
Affinity now sells Designer and Photo directly from their website.
Try before you buy. They have a 20% sale going on right now too. I have all three applications for macOS 10.14/10.15 and Windows 10. For the Windows versions just replace "macos" in the links with "windows"
Affinity Publisher
https://store.serif.com/en-us/update/macos/publisher/1/
Affinity Designer
https://store.serif.com/en-us/update/macos/designer/1/
Affinity Photo
https://store.serif.com/en-us/update/macos/photo/1/
Jun 19 2019
Version: 1.6.7
Affinity Publisher is out today, June 19th!
20% off. Looking great. Check the website for details::
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/
20% off. Looking great. Check the website for details::
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/
Jun 8 2019
Version: 1.7.0
Best of the best. Adobe is gone from my Harddisk, good riddance. Affinity Photo is way zippier anyway.
Jun 7 2019
Version: 1.7.0
Amazing software, by a fantastic company that deserves support.
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