Affinity Photo is available from the Mac App Store—currently (and likely for the foreseeable future) Mac OS X only, 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor—courtesy of Serif Labs. This is just a short and crisp list of key features of Affinity Photo. This past week, 2015 Apple Design Award winner, Serif Labs, developer of Affinity Designer, released Affinity Photo in the Mac App Store. This app was designed with professionals in mind, and, in my opinion, is the best thing to happen in photo editing software development since Adobe launched Photoshop in 1988. This past week, 2015 Apple Design Award winner, Serif Labs, developer of Affinity Designer, released Affinity Photo in the Mac App Store. This app was designed with professionals in mind, and, in my opinion, is the best thing to happen in photo editing software development since Adobe launched Photoshop in 1988.
Mac os screen sharing. Serif continues to surprise photographers and creatives with its Affinity apps, especially Serif Affinity Photo 1.5. Five years in the making, it was built from the ground up to be a fast, powerful, professional rival to Adobe Photoshop, but sold with a regular ‘perpetual’ licence and at a fraction of the original cost of Photoshop. Adobe flash player. Apple was impressed enough to award it Best Mac App of 2015. Launched as a Mac-only app with no immediate prospect of a Windows version, its appeal was obvious but limited. But now, with version 1.5, Serif has brought a Windows version too, with direct feature-for-feature parity and file compatibility.
The two platforms can even share a file’s undo history. But Serif has gone even further, launching an iPad version which sacrifices none of the desktop app’s power, usability or controls. We’re used to mobile apps being simplified, dumbed down version of the real thing, but this is different – read our to find out why. Serif’s aiming for a fast and efficient workflow for enhancing, editing and retouching photos, but now is good time to explain what Affinity Photo is not Like Photoshop, it’s a full-on, technical image-manipulation program designed for precise and detailed editing of single images and composites. Version 1.5 does bring macros (like Photoshop Actions) and batch processing, but it’s still really a traditional in-depth editor. It’s not an all-in-one image browsing, cataloguing, organising, enhancing and sharing tool like, and it’s not a quick and powerful effects generator like.
If you want image cataloguing and instant ‘looks’, then Affinity Photo is not really for you – although even this other kind of user occasionally needs more powerful compositing, masking and layering tools, and at this price anyone can afford to have Affinity Photo in their Applications folder for occasional use. Notice anything about this screenshot? That’s a Windows taskbar at the bottom! Affinity Photo is now available for both Mac and PC. I’ve taken the liberty of using Serif’s own screenshots extensively in this review because if I tried to replicate all the new and existing features with my own images we’d probably still be waiting for this review a year from now.