A free beta test version was released to the public on 9 February 2015. Serif established an R&D team for Affinity Photo in 2009, headed by lead designer Andy Somerfield. It was Serif's second macOS app after Affinity Designer and, like that app, was built from the ground up to leverage core native technologies, including Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics, OpenGL and Metal 2 hardware acceleration. Development Īffinity Photo began as a raster graphics editor solely for macOS. Īffinity Photo is not an image organizer like Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom. It supports unlimited layers and a dedicated workspace for developing RAW photos as well as RGB, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale color spaces with ICC color management and 16-bit per channel editing. Working in Affinity Photo is always live, with pan and zoom at 60fps and non-destructive editing. Functionality includes RAW processing, color space options, live preview of effects, image stitching, alpha compositing, black point compensation, and optical aberration corrections.

Functionality Īffinity Photo has been described as an Adobe Photoshop alternative, and is compatible with common file formats such as Adobe's PSD (including Photoshop Smart Objects). It is a successor to PhotoPlus which Serif discontinued in 2017.

Its first version reached general availability in 2015 with the Windows version launched a year later. Development of Affinity Photo started in 2009 as a raster graphics editor for macOS. for iOS, macOS, and Windows, alongside Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Russian Īffinity Photo is a raster graphics editor developed by Serif Ltd.

Serif photo editor