Affinity Photo is an excellent paid Photoshop alternative; we particularly like that it has an iPad version. Windows users might want to try PaintShop, which also comes with a RAW processor. Enroll in our beginner's guide for Affinity Photo:. Download today's image: http://affi.
A new astrophotography processing contender Affinity Photo has entered the Mac…and PC race. Affinity introduced it’s suite of applications to compete against Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator a few years ago. They are extremely capable applications and in their effort to remain competitive come at a very nice discount in pricing compared to Adobe’s applications. Currently Affinity Photo is for sale at a 50% discount.
They’ve recently upped their game to add features beyond Photoshop’s set of tools by getting into the Astrophotography realm with the following new features in their 1.9 update:
Dedicated Persona for stacking
RAW and FITS image support
Stack light and calibration frames (dark/dark flat/flat/bias)
Stack, tone stretch and retouch entirely in 32-bit
Stack files from different sessions using file groups
Create full color, composite (HaRGB, SHO), grayscale or false color images
One advantage to Affinity Photo compared to existing astrophotography stacking and calibration applications is that it takes advantage of the GPU in your Mac for very fast processing and stacking. I calibrated and stacked a set of 12 images in about 1-2 minutes on my iMac Pro. This compares to about 10 minutes in APP and PixInsight.
Elatec driver download for windows. Not only does this program calibrate and stack your images, but it’s a full fledged photo editing program, so you have all the tools at your disposal for stretching, sharpening, color enhancement, mask manipulation, and more with a vastly superior interface for ease of use.
Here’s a set of tutorials to get you up and running with Affinity Photo’s new features.
Astrophotography stacking: LRGB composition (mono cameras)
Affinity Photo for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editing app. Completely reimagined for iPad with the same power as the desktop version and with complete file format compatibility, you can work across the same document wherever you are, without any compromise.
Drivers hercules network & wireless cards. PSD Import/Export
PSB Import
Unlimited Layers
Brush Support
PSD Smart Object Import
Customisable Keyboard Shortcuts
No subscription and 50% off
Best of all, Affinity Photo for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!
Dodge, burn, inpainting, sponge, blur, sharpen, healing brushes, paint mixing brush – experience the incredible power and capabilities you would on desktop, on iPad.
CMYK, RGB8, RGB16, Greyscale, LAB and even RGB32. Work in any colour space, with full confidence that any documents taken from the Windows or macOS version will always render with 100% fidelity.
Affinity Photo For Ipad Manual
Take advantage of the full suite of selection tools, including lasso, magic wand and pen tool. Use advanced selection refinement to achieve perfect selections, even down to individual strands of hair.
Work with unlimited layers, including real-time blend modes with advanced range adjustments and simple drop zones to mask, clip, reorder and group all layer types. Text, vector, pixel and image layers are all fully supported.
Produce stunning composite images, including perfectly stitched panoramas. Use HDR merge with tone mapping for breathtaking results and even stack images with different focal lengths to create detailed macro photography.
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Drag and drop stock imagery directly into your work and use the asset panel to store visualisation assets and more. All asset packs can be shared between Mac, Windows and iPad.
Edit and create brushes, with control over all dynamics supported by Apple pencil, and even import .abr brushes. Any brushes you create can be shared across desktop and iPad versions as well.
Curves, channel mixer, gradient map and more — you have a full library of 22 adjustment layers available with no compromise.
Use a huge selection of live filter layers, including blurs, lighting, distortions and deformations. You can even apply filters non-destructively, allowing you to reorder, mask and edit them at any time.
Develop RAW images in a 16-bit colour space, with lens corrections, advanced noise reduction, chromatic aberration reduction, curves adjustment, white balance adjustment, defringe and more.
Push, twirl, pinch and punch non-destructively within the Liquify Persona. Freeze areas to prevent adjustment, save meshes and reconstruct to your heart’s content. You can also apply a live liquify layer over the top of multiple layers.
Add text along a path. Explore a range of diverse typographical designs by creating a path from any line, curve or shape drawn with any of the line or shape tools.
Fully optimised for iPadOS, with the ability to drag and drop images from any location on iPad and full support for smart objects. You can even work directly on PSD files and save back to PSD.
Create your own shortcut keys using a keyboard attachment for an even more streamlined workflow.
Affinity Photo Ipad App
No subscription and 50% off
Affinity Photo For Iphone
Best of all, Affinity Photo for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!