Affinity Photo
Developer(s) | Serif |
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Initial release | July 2015 |
Stable release | 1.4.1 / 19 January 2016 |
Operating system | OS X |
Type | image editing |
License | Proprietary EULA |
Website | affinity.serif.com/photo/ |
Affinity Photo is a proprietary raster graphics editor by Serif Europe for Mac OS X. It has been described as a Photoshop alternative.[1] A Microsoft Windows version is nearing completion.[2]
It is Serif's second mac app, and like Affinity Designer has been built from the ground up to take full advantage of core Mac technologies including Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics and OpenGL hardware acceleration. Like Designer, working in Affinity Photo is always live and can pan and zoom at 60fps, with live previews and non destructive application. It supports unlimited layers and a dedicated RAW editing workspace, as well as RGB, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale colour space with end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC colour management, and 16-bit per channel editing.[3]
Affinity Photo is available as a free trial from the Affinity Website, and available to buy direct from the Mac App store.