Affinity Photo

Can I Import Photoshop Brushes into Affinity Photo?

Digital brushes are a powerful tool for digital artists, designers, and photographers. The brushes allow them to create a wide range of textures, patterns, and effects in image editing apps. Can Affinity Photo use existing Photoshop Brushes?

Over the years, many professionals and hobbyists have curated extensive collections of Photoshop brushes over time, tailored to their unique artistic styles and needs. So, it will only be a matter of time before they ask “If I move to Affinity Photo, can I import Photoshop brushes into Affinity Photo without much of a fuss?”…

Can Affinity Photo Open RAW Files?

Can Affinity Photo open RAW files from your camera or the latest mirrorless cameras and mobile phones? Yes! Does Affinity Photo work with RAW files as well as Adobe Photoshop? Kind of… What is Develop Persona? That’s a longer answer…

If you are a photographer or image Retoucher, you may be searching for an alternative to Photoshop that is able to process and finish your images to a high standard. Affinity Photo is a popular option that is cheaper than Photoshop, yet is almost as full-featured. It is essential for Affinity Photo to have a built-in RAW converter, as Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom offer reliable RAW converters.

Easily Convert AFPHOTO To PSD

If you use Affinity Photo for image editing, your work is most likely saved in files with the .afphoto extension. Saving files in Affinity Photo’s… Read More »Easily Convert AFPHOTO To PSD

Affinity 2 Suite Launch + 40% Discount

The much-awaited Affinity 2 Suite of apps for macOS, Windows, and iPad is now available for purchase to all. This includes Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher. For a few years now, Serif’s Affinity suite has provided designers, photographers, image editors, and publishers an alternative to the Adobe Creative Suite ecosystem.

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Learning Affinity Photo – From Basic to Intermediate

Affinity Photo is an excellent alternative to Adobe Photoshop for beginners or enthusiasts who are not already embedded in the Adobe ecosystem of apps. Affinity Photo is quite robust (with minor exceptions), cost-effective, and can perform all the tasks that most photographers and graphic artists would need. However, Affinity Photo also goes beyond the basics, and that’s where things become interesting.

How Many Computers Can I Use Affinity Photo On?

Affinity Photo can be used on multiple computers and is a very powerful image editing tool. In some ways, I have found that it rivals the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, in other ways, I find that it borders on exceeding the abilities of Photoshop. If you have more than one computer, or if you use multiple operating systems, then it’s important to know what your purchase gives you access to. So, in this article, we explain Affinity Suite’s licensing options in detail.

Everything you need to know about Affinity Photo

The Affinity Photo FAQs

Affinity Photo is part of a suite of three apps: Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher. This versatile suite of apps is made by Serif Europe Ltd. Each app serves a different purpose, and combined, they offer a rather complete set of photo editing, graphic design, and desktop publishing tools. Their capabilities rival Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign respectively.

Affinity Focuses on Performance – Releases Version 1.10

Affinity Suite v1.10 has been released today and it comes with significant improvements in performance across the board. All three apps that are designed and built by Affinity will see improvements in some form or the other.

Users of Affinity 1.9 apps will be able to upgrade to version 1.10 for free even though these upgrades are expected to be made paid upgrades in the future.

Is Affinity Photo Compatible with PSD Files?

How Well Does Affinity Photo Handle Adobe PSD files?

Affinity Photo is an application that has been spoken of quite highly in the recent past. Affinity by Serif has created a suite of apps that take on Adobe’s stalwarts, Photoshop, Illustrator, and In-Design head-on. While doing so, they’ve added in their own twists, with innovations that will make you smile, and wonder why things weren’t always done this way.

They’re also new to the field, so the apps need to prove themselves before professionals consider switching to Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher full-time. In the meantime, one of the important questions that need to be answered is: Do Affinity Apps support Adobe file formats like .PSD, .AI, .PDF, and .EPS which have become industry standards over the course of the last 3 decades or more? Let’s find out…

How to Use Batch Processing in Affinity Photo

Graphic designers and photographers often have to apply a series of actions or processes to multiple images from a photo shoot. This can get tiresome and the entire reason why we have computers is so that we can avoid doing boring repetitive work, right? That’s where batch processing of images comes into the picture, and I can tell you that batch processing in Adobe Photoshop has saved me a ton of time and grief over the years.

Now that I’ve started using Affinity Photo more often, I’m happy to note that has a very feature-rich tool that allows you to batch-process multiple images in a fast and very efficient manner. In fact, I wished that some of the options that it had were available in Adobe Photoshop too! So, let’s look into how you can use the “New Batch Job…” command that’s in Affinity Photo’s ‘File’ Menu, and let’s also compare it to the tools that Adobe Photoshop has to achieve similar results.

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