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Affinity Photo

For a long time Adobe Photoshop has been the only real professional level image-editing program, but software company Serif has launched a professional photo editing program which competes directly with Photoshop at a much lower price – and for a single payment rather than the software subscription system introduced by Adobe. Affinity Photo has been built from the ground up for speed and performance and compatibility with the Photoshop PSD file format.

Affinity Photo 2 review

November 29, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars Affinity Photo 2 is not a huge leap forward from version 1 for photographers, but more a major refresh and rebranding for Affinity. It remains an extremely powerful professional Photoshop rival at an exceptionally low price. Its tone mapping is superb, its RAW processing can now be applied non-destructively and its central Photo personal is hugely powerful.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Affinity Photo, Develop (RAW files), Focus stacking, HDR, Layers, Panoramas, Tone mapping

The best photo editing software for organizing, editing, RAW and effects

March 4, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software can be complicated. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are 12 programs with their own distinct strengths.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab, Photoshop, Reviews, SidebarTagged With: Affinity Photo, Aperture (Apple), Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Exposure X (software), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Luminar (Skylum), Nik Collection (DxO), ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing

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