Power, performance and compatibility:
- Optimized for:
- Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
- OpenGL
- Core Graphics
- Direct3D
- Metal hardware acceleration
- 64-bit engine
- Create massive gigapixel-sized documents
- 16-bits per channel editing
- Sub-pixel accuracy
- For all Intel 64-bit Macs (Core 2 Duo onwards)
- For OS X 10.7 (and above) or macOS Sierra 10.12.0 (and above)
- 64-bit plug-in support
- Up to date Tablet support
- Multi-touch support
- Force Touch support (Magic Trackpad 2/MacBook/MacBookPro)
- Touch Bar support (MacBook Pro)
- End-to-end EXIF preservation
Raw development:
- Choice of Serif or Apple Core Image RAW engines
- Serif Raw Engine
- Remove automatic tone curve and apply your own
- Automatic lens correction and noise reduction
- Develop assistant for setting default tone, lens correction, noise reduction, and exposure control behaviour
- Dedicated tones, lens, noise reduction and sharpening panels
- Support for the latest cameras
- Split view with syncing
- Solid and gradient overlays for restricting adjustments
- Show clipped highlights, shadows, and tones
Colour:
- CMYK, Lab, Greyscale and RGB colour modes
- Colour panel (RGB, HSL, LAB, CMYK, Greyscale)
- Swatches panel (Apple, System, Web Safe colours, Crayons)
- Swatches panel
- Generate palette from image
- Global colours
- Colour tints
- Colour Picker Tool (colour mode aware, pick from anywhere on screen, colour averaging, layer selection)
- Colour Replacement Brush
- Paint Mixer Brush
- Gradient tool (Linear, Elliptical, Radial, Conical, Bitmap)
- Professional colour support
- Spot colours and overprint
- PANTONE® colour support
- ICC colour profiling
- Import Adobe ASE colour palettes
Solid photo-editing tools:
- Sizing and transforming:
- Resize images and canvas
- Crop to original/custom ratios, absolute dimensions or print sizes
- Straighten photos
- Mesh Warp Tool
- Non-destructive perspective filter
- Liquify tools in dedicated Persona workspace
- Pixel art resizing
- HDR
- Merge bracketed exposures together to create 32-bit images
- Unique Persona for Advanced Tone Mapping
- Edit effortlessly in 32-bit unbounded colour format
- Maintain a true 32-bit lossless workflow and preview full tonal range
- OpenEXR and Radiance import and export
- Panorama Persona for powerful auto-stitched panoramas
- Live projections (equirectangular and perspective)
- Stacking
- For noise reduction
- For exposure merging
- For moving object removal
- Auto-alignment
- Non-destructive behaviour
- Focus merging with source cloning
- Powerful layer management:
- Drag-and-drop layers
- Non-destructive adjustment layers with clipping previews
- Non-destructive Live Filter layers with 'live' before/after split views
- Apply adjustments, filters and blend modes at the stack, layer, group, selection or object level
- Clipping within layers
- Blend modes
- Blend ranges (linear and non-linear) and blend gamma control
- Lock child layer positions
- High-quality layer effects
- Layer masks (brush-based and gradient)
- Selection tools:
- Shaped selections
- Intelligent Selection Brush
- Freehand Selection Tool with Polygonal and Magnetic modes
- Refine selections to capture fine detail
- Store and save selections
- Quick masks
- Image control:
- Place images on dedicated layers
- Resampling: Nearest Neighbour, Bilinear, Bicubic and Lanczos 3 pixel scaling
- Media browser (to access Photos and Pictures folders)
- Painting:
- High-quality brush galleries
- Change brush size, hardness, and opacity on the fly
- Undo Brush with 'paintback' to saved snapshot
- Import/export brushes, including ABR file import
- Custom brushes (including image-based brushes)
- Assign tools to brushes selectively
- Optimized for graphics tablets
- Multi-controller support including pressure and velocity
- Controller-specific brush dynamics
- Customizable controller ramps
- Retouching tools:
- Red-eye removal
- Inpainting for object removal
- Clone Brush/Healing Brush
- Blemish Removal/Patching
- Retouching brushes:
- Dodge, Burn and Sponge brushes
- Blur, Sharpen, Median and Smudge brushes
- Macros and batch processing:
- Record and save actions as macros
- Edit individual recorded steps and their parameters
- Customize macro settings post recording
- Import, export, and maintain a macro library
- Run batch jobs for bulk processing and conversion of images
- Apply macros in batch jobs for a seamless custom workflow
Supporting vector design tools and concepts:
- Precise Pen tool
- Intuitive Move tool (moves, scales and transforms)
- Rotate from movable origin
- Customizable nudge distances
- Node tool for fine tuning vectors
- Customizable geometric shapes
- Full range of non-destructive Boolean geometry operations
- Duplicate and transform objects with precision
- Add noise to fills and strokes as a solid or graduated attribute
- Customizable stroke styles
- Styles presets
- Artistic and frame text
- Character and Paragraph panels
- Advanced typography including ligatures
- Flowing text
- Spellchecking
- OpenType font features
- Convert shapes and text to fully editable curves
- Save and synchronize defaults
User interface:
- Persona task-orientated workspaces
- Customizable tabbed workspace
- High DPI (retina) support
- Multiple document views
- Windowed, Full Screen, and Separated modes
- Docked or floating panels
- Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts and modifiers
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Customizable toolbars
Design Aids:
- Rotate canvas
- Incredible zoom range
- Intuitive panning
- Saveable zoom viewpoints
- Dynamic snapping guides
- Pixel-accurate alignment for web graphics and website mockups
- Managers for Brushes, Grids, Snapping and other operations
- Pixel, Retina, and Outline view modes with Split View support
- Automatic, fixed and projection grids
- Context toolbar and hintline
- Fluid document History <8192 steps
- Save history with document (multi-session)
- Snapshots
- Keyboard modifiers for on-the-fly tool changes
- Mixed-mode assistant for layer creation behaviour according to the user’s preferences
Interoperability:
- Affinity Photo files can be opened in other Affinity products and vice versa
- iCloud sync and merge
Import, Export and Printing
- High-quality Adobe® Photoshop® PSD import and export
- SVG import and export, including Inkscape extended SVG support
- Export layers, groups and pages to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, EPS, SVG and PDF
- Preserve layers in exported TIFF images
- Draw custom-sized slices at export time
- Use slice presets for popular image formats
- Multiple export setups, formats and resolutions per slice
- Output all slices at once, just one slice, or selected slices
- Export automatically to retina (@2x, @3x)
- Export automatically to high DPI
- Set export areas and file formats during or after photo editing
- Deliver UI design assets (iOS)
- Desktop printing with Layout, Paper Handling, Feed, and Duplexing control
- Web-ready PDFs (Acrobat) with presets
- Professional hi-res PDF/X printing (CMYK) with presets
- Spot colours and overprint control
- Bleed and printer marks