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Affinity Photo Review

Affinity Photo has long been a strong competitor to Adobe Photoshop. With its new version 1.9 update, Affinity Photo is an even stronger photo editing application. Available for macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo 1.9 adds many new features and promises improved performance. Affinity Photo has become the first choice for photography and creative professionals around the world, who love its speed, power and precision. Born to work hand-in-hand with the latest powerful computer technology, it’s the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iOS. 10) Pencil Photo Sketch-Sketching Drawing Photo Editor. Pencil Photo Sketch is a photo editor to create sketches from photos. It is one of the best free drawing apps that enables you to convert your images into color pencil sketches or hand-drawn pencil sketches. Features: Offers easy to use UI.

Become an Affinity Photo master with this huge 488- page, full colour hardback book. Created by the Affinity team, alongside some world-renowned artists and photographers, you will learn everything from the core skills you need right up to the most powerful tools and techniques.

With incredible projects, all supplied with sample files for you to follow along, you will put those skills into practice and create some breath taking results. It’s never been easier to master the endless capabilities of this amazing app.

Chapter 1: Interface Tour (p14-84)

Line rider 1unblocked games crew!. Get to grips with every tool, persona, option and panel. Learn how to customise your workspace and program shortcut keys to maximise productivity.

Chapter 2: Core Skills (p86-136)

• Layers, masking and groups

  Learn all the tips and techniques to properly work with and manipulate layers.

• Adjustments and selections

  Harness the power of non-destructive adjustment layers.

• Developing RAW images

  Using the Develop persona to edit RAW files in a high-precision colour format.

• Selections, cropping, inpainting, sharpening and more

  All the other basics you need to know, including creating super-accurate selections.

Chapter 3: Enthusiast Projects (p138-262)

From the challenges of urban photography to the secrets of HDR, dive into some high-end techniques with these easy to follow projects.

• Add punch to landscapes
• Bring long exposure images to life
• High Dynamic Range editing
• Black and white techniques
• Illuminating a city scape
• Expanding depth of field

Chapter 4: Commercial Projects (p264-362)

Whether it be getting a project ready for professional print, or the skills you need for a high-end retouch, it’s covered in this chapter.

Keeping portrait retouching real by Mark Ivkovic

• Removing blemishes
• Dodge and burn sculpting
• Enhancing eyes

Creating stunning panoramas by Timothy Poulton

• Stitching and editing panoramas
• Blocking

Book covers for print and e-books by Bodo Bertuleit

• Using royalty free images and fonts
• Creating a flash light effect
• Soft-proof checking

A craveable creation by Jordan Gaunce

• Applying mesh warps
• Adjusting levels and curves

Chapter 5: Creative Effects and Techniques (p364-467)

Now take your new-found expertise to the next level by completing these super enjoyable creative projects. Learn to harness the power of macros, create custom brushes and start work on compositions with 100s of layers. Once you’ve finished this chapter you will be an Affinity Photo expert.

• Live filter layers
• Custom macros
• Image compositing
• Creating brushes

Plus! Pull-out keyboard shortcut cheat sheets included

To help boost your productivity we’ve also included five keyboard shortcut cheat sheets in the back of the book. They include shortcuts for both the macOS and Windows version of Affinity Photo and can be torn out and kept aside for easy reference!

Affinity Photo Tutorials

Affinity Photo 1.9 is here, and as usual, it is free to existing users on the platform(s) a licence has been purchased for.

If you’re an Affinity Photo user who needs some help updating to 1.9, we recommend you check out this handy guide—How to install Affinity updates.

Let’s take a look at what’s new in this latest release.

1. Linked layers

In 1.9, you now have the ability to duplicate linked layers, then unlink particular attributes, which is really beneficial for composite work. If you want to take it further, you can also link specific attributes of completely different layers, then manage everything on the intuitive Links panel.

James shows us some use cases for linked layers in this video.

2. Astrophotography stacking

One for the stargazers out there—in Photo 1.9 you are now able to stack deep sky astrophotography imagery, including FITs documents in addition to RAW files. This makes Affinity Photo one of the very few cross-platform apps that can perform the entire astrophotography post-production workflow, from stacking to powerful editing and retouching—all in 32-bit precision.

For stacking, you can auto-detect hot/cold pixels and manually highlight column defects to produce a cleaner stacked result. There’s also a dedicated background removal filter—fantastic for removing difficult background gradients (light pollution, airglow, moon illumination, sensor defects) after tone stretching.

Check out the tutorial below, plus five other in-depth Astrophotography videos on our website. Hell city unblockeddefinitely not a game site.

3. Hardware acceleration on Windows

Hardware acceleration uses your computer’s GPU devices to dramatically increase rendering performance for raster-based operations, such as compositing pixel layers, adjustment layers, live filters and raster tools. Mac users have enjoyed the benefits of Metal Compute hardware acceleration since version 1.7 and now Windows users can enjoy this same benefit and experience some massive performance gains, especially with more esoteric workflows like complex layer compositing in 16-bit or 32-bit pixel formats.

Here James explains how to enable and disable this feature on both platforms and how it can be beneficial. World hardest game 4.

4. Pattern layers

Create endlessly-repeating patterns just by simply painting into the bounds of this new layer format, then rotate, shear, scale, clip and mask it for some fantastic design ideas. What’s more, you can also create pattern layers from existing raster layers, giving you another approach to bitmap pattern fills for architecture and other design workflows.

In this video, James shows us how to add seamless raster textures and patterns to diagrams and illustrations using this new feature.

5. Studio presets

In Photo 1.9 you can create, save and recall different interface layouts with ease. You’ll find this incredibly useful if you have multiple users that prefer different layouts, or if you have specific workflow setups that you wish to toggle between—you might have dedicated layouts for colour grading, retouching, brushwork, vector design and compositing, just to name a few disciplines.

James runs through how to customise your workspace, save studio presets and quickly switch between them in this video.

And there’s more…

There are so many cool features packed into Affinity Photo 1.9, we found it hard to pick just five. Here are some other exciting new additions we really want to tell you about.

Live Liquify

A much-requested feature—in Photo 1.9 you have the ability to perform Liquify operations non-destructively using a live filter layer, rather than committing your changes to a pixel layer.

LUT improvements

You can now batch-import LUTs (lookup tables) to the Adjustment panel and quickly audition them on your document.

External file linking

Placed images and documents can now be linked externally. You will also find a dedicated Resource Manager dialog to manage these external files.

In this video, James explains how to enable linked resources, allowing you to place images and documents into your work that can be updated externally.

Custom brushes from layer selections

Image and intensity brushes can quickly and easily be created from pixel and mask layers—a fantastic way of speeding up brush creation workflows.

This feature opens up a variety of creative possibilities, some of which you can see in this video.

Divide blend mode

In an image editing workflow, this new blend mode helps you to correct difficult colour casts and opens up further tonal options when used with live filter layers.

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James runs through some corrective and creative uses for the Divide blend mode in this tutorial.

Check out our 1.9 Affinity creative sessions

For even more information about this latest release, check out the 1.9 Affinity creative sessions led by our in-house product experts. They run through all the major updates to each app, and you can stream them at any time on our official YouTube channel.

Watch more tutorials

We have a fantastic range of video tutorials designed to help you get the most out of Affinity Photo 1.9 on our website.

Find out more about our 1.9 updates:

Affinity Photo is currently 50% off

Affinity Photo Trial

In response to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have once again cut the price of our apps by 50%—including the newly released 1.9 versions, so if you don’t have Affinity Photo yet, now is a great time to purchase a copy.

The 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite is also back for a limited time. For more details and to download the free trial, go to the Affinity website.

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Existing users can download v1.9 free from their Affinity account.