These enable you to use powerful tools from Affinity Photo within the Photos app, including develop, haze removal, liquefy, miniature, monochrome and retouch.ĭual-plane perspective adjustments are available in the Perspective filter, which is just one of many filters in the Distort category. Working outside the box, so to speak, V1.4 also adds six extensions for the Apple Photos app.

The latest V1.4 brings yet more fun to the party, with new additions like panoramic photo stitching, live stacks, a haze removal filter and split toning, plus a whole lot more. New tricksįor more extreme adjustments, single-plane and dual-plane perspective corrections are easy to apply, and there's also a customisable mesh system for applying warps, again in real time. The latest 2015 edition of Photoshop CC offers a noticeable speed increase over previous versions when using its healing, spot healing and patch tools but, even so, Affinity Photo has the edge.įor ultimate control, you can create custom brushes and nozzles with advanced flow dynamics, and there's built-in support for Wacom and other graphics tablets. Similar speed and dexterity is available when retouching images, using tools like dodge and burn, clone, blemish removal and red-eye fix. The inpainting tool enables you to literally paint people and objects out of a scene, automatically blending the resulting hole into the surroundings. Similarly, live filters offer instant previews and non-destructive application. The same immediate, constantly updating previews also apply to live layer blends, for which 30 options are available. It's great to be able to get instant feedback on adjustments, which can also be applied as 'live layers'. The 'live' aspect of watching images update as you work on them extends to customisable effects that include lighting, blurring, tilt & shift, and many more. This makes the editing process wonderfully fluid, and enhances the creative experience. Most adjustments can be previewed live, in real time and without any lag, even if you're working on images with huge numbers of layers. Not only are the editing tools very good, with excellent fine-tuning and customisation options, they're also super-fast in action. That speed is on show throughout Affinity Photo. The speed and fluidity with which edits are updated on screen is particularly impressive. The Liquify persona comes complete with a mesh view, and contains a range of tools for push, pinch, twirl and turbulence distortions.įinally, the Liquify persona hosts an array of pinch, push, twirl and turbulence tools, complete with mesh view and the ability to freeze or thaw selected areas of the image.

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