When you do, the “Develop” window will appear and you can make adjustments to key settings such as white balance, exposure, contrast, black point and so on. You can open a raw file in exactly the same way as you would a JPEG or other kind of image file. For instance, there’s a “Develop” persona for working with raw files, and a “Photo” persona where you carry out the bulk of editing work. Several different windows are available for you to use, which are named as “Personas”. If you’ve used any kind of photo editing software before, you should be pretty at ease with Affinity, as in many respects it’s pretty similar to other programs, such as Photoshop. Once the software is installed you’re ready to start working with an image. The downloader isn’t too large so it doesn’t take too long to download, even if you don’t have the fastest internet connection.

Simply download the beta from the Serif website, and drag the Program icon into your applications folder on your Mac. Installationĭownloading and installing Affinity Photo is very quick easy. It features true end-to-end CMYK, 16-bits per channel editing, LAB colour, raw processing, ICC colour management and compatibility with Photoshop PSD files and 64-bit plug-in compatibility. Serif believes that Affinity could be a real contender to the almost-monopoly that Adobe currently has on the photo editing market.Īffinity Photo is aimed at professionals, and is designed for Mac users.

Once it arrives on the market, Affinity will set you back £39.99 (€49.99/$49.99), and unlike Photoshop CC, there’s no rolling monthly fee to pay. That means you can use the full version of the program and help the developers discover any problems or bugs with it before the full version of the software becomes available to buy.

Affinity Photo is the latest photo editing software from Serif and is currently available to download as a free beta.

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