![]() ![]() Replacing Photoshop or Aperture?Īdobe Photoshop has aged well and has incorporated many of the features its longtime user base has requested over the years. You can even Save with History, a non-destructive feature that lets you undo even after you’ve finished with an image. Some sliders, like the zoom, were a little abrupt and it was easier to punch in numbers than to try and get it correct visually.Ĭlipped parts of the image are displayed, as in Photoshop. A real-time before and after slider is also unique to the new app in comparison to Photoshop. A handy slider-based history tool smoothly takes you back and forth to any point in editing time. Unlike Photoshop, each adjustment offers between one and four choices, letting you immediately close in on the look you’re after. There are plenty of familiar tools, but also some functions that Photoshop does not have. Content aware fill, an Adobe function, is recreated with Affinity’s Inpainting brush. Refine edge functions lets you select difficult objects and hair. Photoshop users will also find familiar tools like adjustment layers, white balance and a slate of adjustable brush tools. Moving through familiar blend modes, you can view the effect they’ll have on your image in real time. It has nearly all the major selection tools that Photoshop has and they work similarly. Where Affinity Photo has the greatest potential to shine - and to compete with its arch-rival - is its extensive photo retouching features both for standard formats and Raw. You can’t fluidly switch between Personas in this beta, but the final version promises more flexibility.Ī selection in the current library of filters just happened to help this photo’s flawed white balance, but you can also record your own macro presets. The Export Persona lets you output images, layers or slices to a range of formats. ![]() The Macro Persona lets you use macro presets, somewhat like Photoshop Actions, for automating common editing tasks or recording macros. The Develop Persona works for developing Raw images, giving you full control of color and tone. The Liquify Persona offers a design environment for distorting images and applying special warping effects. Photo Persona is the default space for the bulk of photo editing, cropping, selection, brushes, retouching, erasing and vector tools. The Liquify persona can give you some surreal warping effects. The closest analogy would be Photoshop ’s workspaces, but this is not quite the same thing. WorkspacesĪffinity Photo has distinct Personas, modules that offer different tools for various design functions: Photo, Liquify, Develop (for Raw images), Macro (for recording actions) and Export. There are a lot fewer of them than in Photoshop, making the app simpler to navigate. While you can view your image inside an application frame or in separate windows, as well as toggle the app on and off full screen, all of Affinity Photo’s modules are visible by default. Photoshop has a larger variety of sharpen tools, but Clarity or Unsharp Mask can fill the bill most of the time. I’m not prepared to make a scientific argument, but I can say that color differentiated icons are easier for me to see and decipher. The argument against multicolored icons is that they interfere with color perception. ![]() Affinity Photo’s colored icons are a feast to the eye, unlike the Apple-style monochrome that Adobe appears to have channeled from iPhoto and Aperture. The placement of certain tools is Photoshopesque, but the overall look and feel reminds me more more of Pixelmator, which is a positive thing. It it is not Photoshop and does not pretend to be, but what’s good about having a somewhat familiar interface - dark with panels of tabbed tools - is that it’s easy to find functions you use, figure out how to use others and ascertain the difference between seemingly similar tools in both apps. ![]() While Affinity Photo’s interface is reminiscent of Photoshop and incorporates some of the same core functionality, much of that resemblance is skin deep. The app’s inpainting feature functions like Photoshop’s content aware fill, and works well. It’s not possible at this stage to test whether that claim is true, but I had a brief look at some of the vast array of features included in the public beta and I was impressed. Affinity is a broad, deep app with an abundance of professional tools.īuilt from scratch on a modern code base, the app was swift, responsive and surprisingly stable for a beta - it never crashed once. The overall interface is clean and uncluttered with all tools accessible by default. ![]()
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