Affinity Photo 2

Available to purchase in-app for a one-off cost – no subscription.

The first choice of millions of creative professionals around the world, the award-winning Affinity Photo set a new standard for quality and value in the world of image editing. The ultra-powerful Affinity Photo 2 takes the experience to a whole new level, thanks to the addition of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements, and a completely redesigned UI for an improved workflow. It has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create multi-layered compositions, beautiful raster paintings and so much more.

REFINED & REDESIGNED UI • Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons • All new Layers Panel • See recent raster brushes by layer • View recent documents as thumbnail previews or list • Pin documents for quick access • New Document dialog redesign • New monochromatic iconography via Preferences (User Interface) • High-contrast UI settings • Restyled Studio panels via the Window menu • Export dialog redesign offers "always on" export preview

INCREDIBLE NEW FEATURES • Non-destructive RAW development of linked/embedded RAW images • Luminosity, hue range and band pass live masks • Compound masks • Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter • Smart layer states to experiment with design options and versions • Normals adjustment for editing normal maps from material and texturing workflows • Drag / drop bitmap texture fills • Pixel grid displays when zoomed in beyond certain level • JPEG XL file import and export • Force scale everything

POWERFUL PERFORMANCE • Live, real-time editing • Massive image support (100+ Megapixels) • Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate • Open, edit and save Photoshop® PSD files • RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB color spaces • Full 16-bit and linear unbounded 32-bit per channel editing • Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPEG XL, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR and PDF • Support for a range of plug-ins • Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card)

UNSURPASSED PRODUCTIVITY • Full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers and masks • Edit live filters, adjustments, effects, blend modes and masks non-destructively • Undo history can be saved with the document so you can always undo your changes • Record and play macros • Drag and drop layers from one document to another • Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again • Customize savable presets for multiple UI layouts • Save and import XMP files, batch files to tag images and edit metadata • Isolate, edit, and duplicate spare channels with a simple click • Linked images and resource manager • PDF passthrough, import, edit and export • Link layers to edit simultaneously

PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING • Open RAW and other images in a 16-bit development workspace • Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights and much more • Advanced lens corrections including chromatic aberration, defringe, vignette, noise reduction, and manual lens correction override • Paint areas or use fully customizable gradients to mask adjustments • View histograms, blown highlights, shadows and tones as well as detailed EXIF information • Focus Merge, HDR Merge and Tone mapping for advanced image processing

QUALITY RETOUCHING & CORRECTION TOOLS • Intuitive selection brush and refinement makes selections simple, even down to strands of hair • Instantly remove unwanted objects with an incredibly advanced Inpainting brush • Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, and red eye tools • Smooth and retouch skin with built-in frequency separation • Dedicated Liquify Persona and non-destructive filter version gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch, and turbulence

ADVANCED BRUSH ENGINE • Huge library of painting, drawing, textures, and professional DAUB® Brushes included • Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics • Combine multiple brushes together and paint in a single stroke • Full support for Wacom and other graphics tablets, including pressure, tilt, and shortcut buttons • Real-time preview of your brush nozzle

FAST, CUSTOMIZABLE EFFECTS • Massive collection of effects available, including blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows, lighting, and many more • Choose to apply effects non-destructively with live effect layers, enabling you to erase away or mask effects after they’ve been applied • Path text capabilities • Add and edit pattern layers non-destructively

PLUS, A TON OF NEW FUNCTIONALITY:

Content synchronization (content link) • All Affinity apps on a device can now share brushes, styles, assets, application palettes and more • Avoids unnecessary exporting/importing of content between apps on the same device • Easy migration of custom V1 content on upgrade • Link custom content to share with other apps

Selections • Select Next/Previous Layer (alt+[, alt+]), and Select Top/Bottom/Parent Layer via Select menu • Select by group or layer content • Disable auto-selection with Move Tool • Freehand Selection Tool (Polygonal and Magnetic) automatically pans if you drag beyond document bounds

Non-destructive professional masking • Non-destructive compound masks for combining multiple mask layers using Boolean operations (Add, Subtract, Intersect, Xor) • Create non-destructive Live masks based on targeted hue ranges, luminosity ranges or frequency (band-pass) • Group contents remain editable when part of a mask

Raster brush improvements • Improved raster brush quality and accuracy • Distance controller changes brush characteristics with stroke length • Brush tip interpolation for improved tip quality • Switch to a crosshair cursor on all brush tools using caps lock • Wet edges on more brush tools • Recent raster brushes by layer • Paint Brush Tool now has its own B keyboard key shortcut • Brushes panel can display brushes as nozzle thumbnails

Import/export/packaging • JPEG XL file import and export • HIF file import (HDR 10-bit PQ encoded) produced by newer Canon cameras • Open stock images as new documents • PDF export will export hidden Affinity vector layers that have child layers as invisible layers

Placing content • Repeating objects in a grid • Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs • Layer visibility override for placed files (PDF/DWG/DXF)—turn off layers you don't need • Place linked web images using their URLs via ctrl+drag-and-drop • Dropbox API integration to retain placed resource linkage across multiple devices

Some important extras • Displace filter offers Sobel (Affinity) and Red/green offset (Photoshop) load methods • Support for additional spare channels in TIFFs • Fill Opacity for ‘special 8’ blend modes • Redeveloped Boolean operations and compounds • Change stroke width with [ and ] keys; Shift key increases/decreases by an absolute amount • HSL Color Wheel has box wheel type and offers recent colors and hex code readout/input • Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per layer • Create pattern layers from any raster layer content (including image layers) • Easier Quick Masking of pixel selections in Channels panel • Isolation (Solo) mode offers better group control • Transform attribute for linked layers • One-step undo/redo of complex assistant actions • Updated lens correction database • Paste Style support for copied text selections • Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100%