Affinity Photo

If you could create your own photo editing software, it would work just like that. Whether you’re making minor edits, doing subtle retouching, or diving into creating a complex piece of fine art with hundreds of layers, Affinity Photo can help you with any of those tasks.

Affinity Photo has become a favorite of photography and fine art professionals around the world who want speed, accuracy, and versatility. It’s the only full-featured photo editor integrated into macOS, Windows and iOS systems and designed to support the latest powerful computer technology.

Performance and capacity

You’ll be amazed at how fast you can work, thanks to the unbridled power behind Affinity Photo. View edits in real time and immerse yourself in a huge set of tools designed with professional workflow in mind.

• Real-time dynamic editing
• Support for large images (over 100 megapixels)
• Ultra smooth panning and zooming at 60 frames per second
• Opening and editing PSD and PSB files
• Import of PSD smart objects
• Support for the most complex vector documents
• Studio presets for interface layout and other time-saving tools

Flawless retouching

Whether you want to make quick corrections or take your time with detailed retouching, Affinity Photo has a complete set of all the retouching tools and special features you need.

• Frequency Separation for skin smoothing and retouching
• Tools for lightening, burnout, cloning, patch and blemish removal
• Dedicated workspace for plastic deformation with shaping functions
• Removal of unwanted objects with the magic sketch brush
• Corrects color flare, infrared enhancements and dynamic filters in the new division mode.

Incredible dynamic filter layers

Effects such as blur, lighting, distortion correction, and perspective can be applied as unbreakable dynamic filter layers. This means you can edit them at any time, apply masks, move them around, and adjust their settings. It’s a whole new workflow.

• Applying filter effects non-destructively
• Application to individual layers or the entire stack of layers
• Masking and removing areas after they’ve been applied
• Dynamic plastic deformation layer
• Dynamic high-resolution preview at any time

Full RAW file processing

Shoot RAW photos and enjoy the super-smooth color reproduction of 16-bit images in Affinity Photo. Bring in all the details and manage more precise corrections, taking the perfect shot to another level.

• Professional Lens Distortion Correction
• Adjust exposure, black point, white balance and more
• View histograms, areas that are too bright or too dark and shades
• View and edit EXIF information
• Best-in-class de-noise reduction and elimination of dead pixels
• Import XMP files (metadata only)
• Editing metadata
• Batch processing of copyright information

Stunning compositions

In addition to supporting an unlimited number of layers, Affinity Photo contains a full library of adjustments, effects, and dynamic filters. They can all be grouped, cropped, masked, or overlapped to create incredibly complex image compositions.

• Unlimited number of layers
• Layer effects
• Dynamic blending modes
• Masking and cropping
• Vector and text tools

Beautiful brush strokes

The incredibly productive brush control module and dynamic system with Affinity Photo’s advanced features provide the most natural and smooth painting experience.

• Huge brush library included
• Create custom brushes with advanced dynamic features
• Combine multiple brushes for a single stroke
• Full support for Wacom and other pen tablets
• Full support for Apple Pencil (iPad version)
• Import brush files with .abr extension
• Creating brushes from current pixel selection

Flawless photo stitching

Create perfect panoramas in all cases without exception using the advanced photo joining algorithm, including automatic image alignment and full-featured perspective correction capabilities available in Affinity Photo.

More accurate selections

With Affinity Photo’s advanced algorithms for refining selections, you can achieve accuracy you never dreamed possible. Whether you’re clipping objects, creating masks, or selectively applying adjustments, you can easily create incredibly precise selections – right down to highlighting individual hair strands.

• Selection Brush & Magic Wand
• Selection Area and Lasso Tools
• Enhanced Selection Accuracy
• Create Selections by Drawing
• Pen Tool

Stunning HDR technology

Affinity Photo’s HDR algorithm creates incredible images with a natural look and brings out the full dynamic range of the scene. You can get great results working with familiar 32-bit images or using its extensive tonal compression capabilities.

• Unlimited number of source images
• Full tonal compression controls
• Direct RAW file blending
• Deskew and perspective correction

Matching focus

Masterfully align multiple images shot at different focal lengths for detailed macro results. Affinity Photo includes features for alignment and incredibly in-depth analysis and identification of the best areas in each image you use.

Contour text

Explore a range of different typographic designs by adding text along an outline. Create an outline from any line, curve, or shape that you can draw with any line or shape tool.

Pattern Layers

Add a layer with a fixed-size bitmap image that will be repeated throughout the document. You can draw on these template layers, apply masks to them, process them with filters, and transform them non-destructively while watching the resulting template come to life in real time.

32-bit workflow

The only photo editing tool that provides a full, end-to-end 32-bit workflow for HDR image manipulation, rendering, texture creation, or exporting from 3D modeling software.

• Support for OpenEXR and Radiance HDR formats
• Import OpenColorIO configurations
• Support for HDR / EDR monitors

Works on any device, no matter where you are

The first full-featured professional photo editing application that is fully compatible with Windows, Mac and iPad file formats. Allows you to work with the same file on any device.