Affinity Photo Beta 1.8.0.166

Affinity Photo redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software on the Mac. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface with all the power and performance you need.

Engineered for Professionals

Open, edit and save Photoshop® PSD files
RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB color spaces
End-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC color management
Full 16 and 32-bit per channel editing
Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR and PDF
Panning and zooming is always live at 60fps with live previews, live tools and real-time editing
Open and edit massive images without compromising performance or running out of memory
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What’s New:

Version 1.7.0

Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad
Pen and dial support for Surface devices
HDR / EDR monitor support
At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide color space development
New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke
Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported – including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring
On the fly nozzle rotation now available with shortcut keys
New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
An all-new HSL adjustment layer has been added, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls
Layers studio revamp
Alternate futures for document history
HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
New Assets Panel available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
Huge macro and batch processing improvements