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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 software 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.

The best image-editing software: what to look for, where to find out more

November 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software is complicated, not just because there are so many alternatives, but because they all do different things. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are ten programs with ten different approaches.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Affinity Photo, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DxO PhotoLab, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, Photoshop, RAW processing

How to add a new sky to a landscape without selections

August 25, 2017 by Rod Lawton

How to add a new sky to a landscape

Very often in landscape photography you get the landscape or the lighting you want, but not the sky. In the perfect world you’d keep going back again and again until everything was perfect. In our not-so-perfect-world, however, it’s sometimes useful to be able to add a new sky later, as the final touch to an […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Affinity Photo, Blend modes, Layers, Masks

Transform tricky shots with tone mapping

August 9, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Tone mapping

Sometimes you get scenes where the brightness range is so great you just can’t bring out all the different tones in the picture. This is lighting problem, not a dynamic range problem. Even if your camera has the dynamic range to capture all the tones in the scene, there’s no way of showing them all. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Affinity Photo, HDR

Serif Affinity Photo for iPad review

June 12, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Affinity Photo, Serif’s professional photo-editing application, is now available for the iPad. It’s not the first time a software publisher has produced a mobile version of a desktop application – take Photoshop Express and Lightroom Mobile, for example – but this time it’s different. Affinity Photo for iPad is not a simplified, cut-down accessory app […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Affinity Photo, Mobile photography

Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 review

December 11, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 review

Verdict: 4.5 stars Affinity Photo is basically Photoshop at a fraction of the price and without a subscription. You will have to learn a few new ways of working and some new jargon, but this is no cut-down budget alternative. Affinity Photo does everything that Photoshop does, and sometimes more.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Affinity Photo

Friday photo news: Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 for Mac and Windows

December 9, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Serif Affinity Photo 1.5

Affinity Photo 1.5 is launched This happened fast! We only reported on the public beta last week, but now Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 is here, and there are two major stories. The first is that it’s now available for both Windows and Mac users – previously this was a Mac-only program – and the second […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Affinity Photo

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