1. Affinity Photo 1.7 Review
2. Affinity Photo 1.7 Tutorials

Serif Affinity Photo 1.7.3.481 + Keygen Posted on September 30, 2019 Working as a photographer can be a tedious job, especially if you have to perform various editing on your material and have no appropriate tools that can simplify your work. 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.

Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.

Affinity Photo comes with a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and many more. Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time.

Other features include raw image processing, PSD import and export, colour management, accurate adjustments, high-end controls for channels and masks, advanced layer handling, batch processing, focus stacking, and much more.

What's new in Affinity Photo 1.7.0 Beta:

Brushes

• Photo 1.7 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush.
• Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring. We have more symmetry features on the way - so stay tuned during the beta process.
• Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance.
• Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control.
• All brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request

RAW

Affinity Photo 1.7 Review

• The RAW processing engine in Photo has been rewritten - producing better results and improved performance.
• RAW files now load much more quickly.
• Re-implemented support for XTrans sensors.
• The denoise algorithm has been rewritten (to produce better results).
• Hot pixel removal is now automatically performed by the Serif Labs engine.
• Profiled lens correction are more stable, apply more quickly, and can be toggled in the Develop UI.
• The histogram in the Develop persona is now presented in the output colour space - as opposed to always being linear.

Filters

• New “Procedural Texture” filter with advanced presets support.
• New “Voronoi” filter.
• Denoise, Clarity and Shadows / Highlights filters have been rewritten (using technology from the Develop Persona).
• More filters are now available as Live Filters - including the new Procedural Texture filter.
• Live filters have been rewritten to improve performance - especially when multiple filters are used in a document.
• Improved Polar to Rectangular and Rectangular to Polar filters.

Adjustments

• The HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten. It now supports custom hue ranges, a new algorithm, new UI and picker controls.
• The Levels adjustment layer now supports output levels - a common feature request.
• The White Balance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
• The Selective Colour adjustment layer has been rewritten.
• PSD import / export of adjustments has been improved.
• The Vibrance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
• The Recolour adjustment layer has gained a lightness slider.

Tools

• The Crop tool has been rewritten - it now supports resolution changes, absolute pixel size and has a much improved preset mechanism.
• The Sponge Brush tool now gives more correct / pleasant results.
• A general tools overhaul has been performed - providing editing of grids, guides, page origin, across multiple tools (not just in the Move tool)

General

• “Alternate futures” for document history have been added. Traditionally, if you roll back the undo history then do something else all your changes after that point are lost. Photo will now display a small branch icon in the history tab when you do this. Pressing that button will cycle between all the different “futures” after that history entry - meaning you will never lose work you have done.
• HEIF images can now be loaded directly into Photo. If they contain a depth map, this will also be loaded as a second layer. Because depth maps are typically lower resolution than the main image, optional “smart” upsampling will be performed.
• A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development (we will provide a list of the new supported cameras as soon as possible!).
• The batch process dialog now fully supports expressions for height and width - available constants are “w”, “h” and “dpi”.
• Photo now supports custom document presets - a popular feature request.
• A new blend mode - Linear Burn - has been added.
• New “Move inside / outside” commands have been added - useful for quick operations on clipping masks etc.
• The Hard Mix blend mode has been improved.
• New provider options have been added to the stock panel - support for Unsplash and Pexels. Both of these providers offer full-resolution stock imagery which is free to use.
• Metadata is now dynamically synchronised with your document - so if you resize then export, the values will be correct.
• Numerous text improvements have been made - including new features.
• Significant PDF import / export improvements and fixes.
• Added support for per-monitor ICC profiles (previously we only used the primary monitor's ICC profile) in the document view (controls still use the primary monitor's ICC profile, which will hopefully be fixed in the future).

Affinity Photo 1.7.0.184 Beta fixes:

• Fixed Export file type icons using low resolution images
• Fixed clipped Grid Settings button
• Added missing Voronoi filter
• Fixed Construction Snapping buttons not showing correctly
• Fixed View modes (Pixel, Retina and Outline) buttons
• Added missing Isometric panel
• Fixed crash when closing application in Export Persona with multiple documents open
• Fixed crash at startup when loading existing workspaces
• Fixed sporadic crash when opening Edit menu after copying document items to clipboard
• Fixed Installer to not specify the text for 'Open' shell entry
• Improved Freehand import by allowing some unknown tags to be ignored, rather than failing the import
• Fixed Colour panel Colour Picker being offset for some multiple monitor configurations
• Fixed modifier keys not being shown for tool shortcut in tooltips
• Improved HSL Add and Subtract modes

Changes in 1.7.0.188 Beta:

Affinity Photo 1.7 Tutorials

• Fixed tool not drawing
• Allow raster brush size / rotation keys while dragging
• Fixed Batch dialog not parsing literal expressions properly
• Fixed render artifacts in split screen views
• Fixed Isometric panel 'Edit in plane' not working
• Fixed New shadows and highlights slider ranges
• Fixed Procedural Texture light UI icons not loading
• Fixed missing tool icons for Clarity, Shadows and Noise Reduction
• Fixed tool flicker during edits
• Fixed switching Personas does not retain current zoom settings when using non pixel units
• Fixed loading of huge JPEG files
• Fixed sporadic crash on shutdown
• Fixed crash loading old workspace files
• Fixed rendering of live filters
• Fixed Procedural Texture missing tooltips for the buttons
• Fixed Procedural Texture real number input delete button
• Changed TIFF compression to be slightly more efficient

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1. HUGE performance improvements

The devs have supercharged performance so working with massive complex documents is even smoother in 1.7 on both Windows, Mac and iPad. And for Mac and iPad users, Metal Compute acceleration means filters, adjustments, tools and other operations render faster than ever before. In the video below, James shows us what performance gains you can expect to see using Metal Compute (GPU) over Software (CPU).

2. Focus on photography

Developed RAW engine

RAW handling in Affinity Photo has been vastly improved in 1.7. Features include faster loading, new demosaicing, more effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development.

We will be delving more into the RAW improvements in Affinity Photo 1.7 on Spotlight soon…

Lens correction enhancements

With Affinity Photo 1.7, you can now have more control over lens corrections with the ability to add manual lens profiles. Plus, you can correct lenses that do not communicate electronically with the camera (so no EXIF data) with the new Lens Correction filter (in Photo Persona). Check out James’ video for a more detailed overview:

3. Upgraded brush engine

Multi-brushes

The new multi-brush technology brought to Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer 1.7 allows you to combine brushes, giving you a more interesting and less uniform brush stroke. Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have a choice of nozzle controllers/ramps for a more varied nozzle presentation. If you’ve updated to 1.7, you can also download the FREE multi-brush pack made exclusively for 1.7 users—Inksy Brushes (available through the in-app Welcome screen of Affinity Photo 1.7 on desktop)—created by our Creative Director Neil Ladkin, and put this new feature through its paces!

There’s a lot going on here - this new brush engine is insane #digitalpainting#madeinaffinity@affinitybyserifpic.twitter.com/UvJO4umYJE

Symmetry mode

Affinity Photo sees the introduction of brush symmetry (up to 32-way) and optional brush mirroring (up to 5-way reflections).

On the fly nozzle rotation

We think this is really cool—in Affinity Photo 1.7 you can now rotate your brush nozzle while painting by using the arrow keys. Nice.

4. State-of-the-art filters

New filters

Live Radial Blur makes its first appearance in Affinity Photo 1.7, as does our brand spanking new Voronoi filter. See James’ short tutorial below on using the shiny new Live Radial Blur filter.

Procedural texture filter

This one blows our mind a bit, but for some this will be a game-changing feature. In Affinity Photo 1.7 you can now write your own filter effects with user-controllable parameters. In James’ demo below, he shows how this is useful when editing 3D renders.

5. Revamped Adjustments

HSL, Selective Colour, Vibrance and White Balance adjustments have all been overhauled, giving you even more flexibility to tweak colour in your images. In the example shown below, the HSL Adjustment has been used to change the hue and saturation of all the yellow parts of the image. Of course, masking the HSL Adjustment helps to keep parts of the image that should always stay yellow in this image, like the bowl of lemons and the lights.

6. Batch and macro improvements

Batch processing now supports scaling expressions (w, h and dpi) in the desktop versions of Affinity Photo. See James’ full tutorial on using Macros in the desktop version of Affinity Photo 1.7 below.

7. Crop tool

The 1.7 update sees some great improvements to the Crop Tool. You’ve now got more comprehensive preset management and you can now resize and resample simultaneously.

8. Assets Panel

The Asset Panel has made its way into Affinity Photo, enabling you to store and re-use raster and vector content with ease. You also have the ability to import and export your assets with others, speeding up group workflows.

9. Supercharged layer organisation

You can now choose different size options for layer thumbnails, whether thumbnails are on a solid or checkerboard background and you can also use colour tag layers to keep things organised.

10. Alternate futures

Yep, you read that right. Go back in your undo history and branch to create a new future whilst keeping your old edits available. Create multiple branches for different outcomes and quickly switch between them. It’s like having your very own DeLorean for your creative workflow.

11. And that’s not all…

There are so many things to talk about with Affinity Photo 1.7 that we couldn’t fit it in 10 things! It means we haven’t talked about pen and dial support for Surface devices, HDR / EDR monitor support, how HEIF images can now be loaded with their depth maps, and how we’ve added support for 12-bit and 16-bit CMYK TIFF files. Phew!

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Our in-house Affinity Photo guru, James Ritson, has made a plethora of fantastic video tutorials to help you get the most out of Affinity Photo. These are all now available in our new learn section on affinity.serif.com.