They might just sound like different workspaces but there’s a bit more to them than that. Image credit: Rod LawtonĪffinity Photo is organised into a series of different ‘Personas’ according to what you want to do and the tools you need. Image credit: Rod Lawton The Tone Mapping Persona is so good at HDR, both stylized and subtle, that you may never want to use anything else. Usability and interface The Develop Persona now offers the option to output the processed image to a RAW Layer, which means you will be able to change the RAW processing settings at will further down the line. It’s a multi-discipline crossover tool for artists, designers and illustrators, not just photographers, in exactly the same way that Photoshop is. It has an excellent inpainting brush for object removal, powerful selection and masking tools and both natural brush media tools and vector drawing and type layers too. Another is its Live Filters, which can be added non-destructively as layers and manipulated live on the image. One is a set of tone mapping tools which are much better at realistic or hyper-real HDR effects than Photoshop’s. Like Photoshop, this is software designed for people who know what they want to do and don’t need any ideas from their software.Īffinity Photo 2 does have some notable power features. There is no library of presets and no means of creating your own. It’s also not designed for instant effects and ‘looks’. It is an extremely powerful photo editor that matches Photoshop feature-for-feature and even beats it in many areas.īut it also lacks any kind of browsing or cataloguing tools, and there are none across the whole Affinity suite, not even something as basic as Adobe Bridge. Perhaps the most important thing to note about Affinity Photo is that it’s just like Photoshop – and lacks all the things that Photoshop lacks. Image credit: Rod Lawton Live Filters are one of Affinity Photo’s party tricks – it can apply lightning effects live, for example, in a non-destructive layer you can modify at any time. Image credit: Rod Lawton The Develop Persona’s Detail Refinement option does a remarkable job of enhancing detail without artefacts. Key features Affinity Photo 2 has powerful RAW processing tools to rival those in Adobe Camera Raw, but it’s integrated into Affinity Photo, not a separate tool. There is also an Affiinity Photo for iPad edition, which I reviewed some time back, which is remarkably powerful for a tablet app and feels more ‘finished’ than Photoshop for iPad. What’s more, at the time of writing, Affinity is continuing a 40% off introductory offer which means Affinity Photo 2 is just $40.99/ £35.99 to buy. And although all three have had a slight price increase, they are still dramatically cheaper to buy/own than their Adobe rivals. I have written a separate Affinity Photo 2 review in Amateur Photographer if you want to check that one out.Įssentially, the three Affinity applications are rivals to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, but without the Adobe subscription.They can all be used individually but have been designed to work together too, and have recently been updated across the board and relaunched as Version 2. StudioLink: the most seamless workflow ever conceived in a creative suiteįrom within Affinity Publisher, you can instantly access the advanced toolsets of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo without ever leaving your layout thanks to the world-first StudioLink technology.Affinity Photo 2 is one of a trio of professional creative applications under the Affinity brand, which also includes Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. It’s now being used by more than three million users (and counting!), delivering a next-level experience for photographers, designers, artists, architects, students, teachers, publishers, hobbyists and others looking for top tier creative software without sky-high subscription fees. Since its inception, Affinity has gained the trust of professionals across the globe and picked up some of the industry’s most prestigious awards.
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