Launching both updates at the same time ensures both apps remain fully compatible with each other.īoth updates are available now, free to owners of each app via the Mac App Store. Designer now includes artboards, along with lots of new professional print features. The developers have had an incredibly busy end to the year, as not only have they been preparing the update to Affinity Photo, they have also launched an update to their Apple Designer Award-winning app Affinity Designer today. Other new features and improvements include canvas rotation, PDF/X and spot colour support, customisable keyboard shortcuts, additions to filters, adjustment layers and blend modes, and significant improvements to PSD compatibility. Other Apple technology has been harnessed, too–in particular fully supporting the extended- gamut DCI-P3 displays found in the latest iMacs, giving a depth of colour to images beyond what was possible before. “While Affinity Photo is a very robust professional product and will always stay that way, extensions allow us to expose some of that power in a more use-case focused way for quick and easy editing.” “Opening up the ability for developers to produce extensions for Photos was a big part of the El Capitan update, and it’s been fun writing for it,” said Ashley. Retouch – including a full suite of retouching tools and smart pixel selection.Monochrome – offering fine control over black and white conversion.Miniature – for depth of field and tilt shift adjustments.Haze Removal – intelligently removing fog, mist and smog.Liquify – for warping and re-sculpting areas of images.Develop – with full RAW editing capability.“Then we’ve got image stacks-from simply removing an unwanted moving object from multiple shots to advanced techniques like layering multi-exposure composites, they add a whole new dimension to what is possible in the app.” Another big addition has been the inclusion of six extensions for Apple Photos, opening up some of Affinity’s technology directly from within the Apple app. “The accuracy of panorama stitching in the app really is as good as it gets–and with Affinity Photo’s advanced memory management you can build up images of 100s of mega-pixels and still have incredible performance when you go to edit,” said Ashley Hewson, Serif’s Managing Director. This has opened up two new major new features of panorama stitching and image stacks. One area of all-new technology the app is boasting is super accurate image alignment.

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