Affinity Photo 2: Image Editor 4+
Create, edit, retouch & share
Serif Labs
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
FREE 7-day trial.
One-off, in-app purchase for lifetime access after the trial.
No subscription.
The first choice of millions of creative professionals around the world, the award-winning Affinity Photo set a new standard for quality and value in the world of image editing.
The ultra-powerful Affinity Photo 2 takes the experience to a whole new level, thanks to the addition of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements, and a completely redesigned UI for an improved workflow.
REFINED & REDESIGNED WITH POWERFUL NEW FEATURES
• Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons
• Completely revamped Layers Panel
• Non-destructive RAW develop
• Luminosity, hue range and band pass live masks
• Compound masks
• Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter
• Smart layer states to experiment with design options and versions
• Drag / drop bitmap texture fills
• JPEG XL file import and export
• Force scale everything
• Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object
INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE
• Massive image support (100+ Megapixels)
• Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate, with ProMotion support on latest Apple displays
• Open, edit and save Photoshop® PSD files
• RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB color spaces
• Full 16-bit and linear unbounded 32-bit per channel editing
• Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPEG XL, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR and PDF
UNSURPASSED PRODUCTIVITY
• Full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers and masks
• Edit live filters, adjustments, effects, blend modes and masks non-destructively
• Savable undo history
• Record and play macros
• Isolate, edit, and duplicate spare channels with a simple click
• Savable workspace presets for multiple UI layouts
• PDF passthrough, import, edit and export
• Link layers to edit simultaneously
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• Open RAW and other images in a 16-bit development workspace
• Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights and more
• Advanced lens corrections including chromatic aberration, defringe, vignette, noise reduction
• Paint areas or use fully customizable gradients to mask adjustments
• View histograms, blown highlights, shadows and tones as well as detailed EXIF information
• Focus Merge, HDR Merge and Tone mapping for advanced image processing
QUALITY RETOUCHING & CORRECTION TOOLS
• Intuitive selection brush makes selections simple, even down to strands of hair
• Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, red eye and advanced inpainting for retouching
• Smooth and retouch skin with built-in frequency separation
• Dedicated Liquify persona and non-destructive filter version gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch, and turbulence
ADVANCED BRUSH ENGINE
• Huge library of painting, drawing, textures, and professional DAUB® Brushes included
• Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics
• Combine multiple brushes together and paint in a single stroke
• Full support for Wacom and other graphics tablets, including pressure, tilt, and shortcut buttons
• Real-time preview of your brush nozzle
FAST, CUSTOMIZABLE EFFECTS
• Massive collection of effects available, including blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows, lighting, and many more
• Apply effects non-destructively with live effect layers
• Path text capabilities
• Add and edit pattern layers non-destructively
• Add and edit pattern layers non-destructively
What’s New
Version 2.6.3
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
More info in the 'News and Information' section of the Support Forums,
access forums via the Help menu.
Ratings and Reviews
Affinity Photo 2 exceeds expectations
Affinity has created a stellar suite of apps. I use them almost daily for a small nonprofit trade advocacy organization. Affinity photo works for all my photo editing and enhancements. there are plenty of video tutorials out there to help with all aspects of using the app for non professionals, but even professionals will appreciate how robust Affinity Photo (and the entire suite) meets demand.
In a world where more and more app developers want you to subscribe to perpetual pay models, under the illusion of incentives for app improvement, they invariably get lazy and produce almost nothing over time. Yet the consumer still pays and pays and pays...
Affinity sticks to the traditional model that is better for consumers. You pay for the app, you use the app. The developer provides fixes and updates. When Affinity has something better to offer (in this case version 2), you buy an upgrade. I love this model and I love this app.
You will never use it
This app does nothing well. The user interface is segmented so you do raw development in one part of the application, then you do the rest after you clicked “Develop”. All the history of the adjustments that you have done in develop mode are gone forever, the adjustments are permanent. What the application does in the other personas Gimp does much, much better at no cost. Your camera manufacturer gives you a raw developer for free which is great for bringing back detail in the highlights and shadows. You can combine that with Gimp and you have a perfect workflow at no cost to you. The completely free app Darktable is a marvel compared to Affinity. This app ticks all the boxes, that’s why it gets good reviews from people who review it but don’t actually use it, but you will find only a few people who used this app for longer than a couple of hours, but bought it because it was ‘nice and cheap’. It has some major bugs that had frustrated me to the point that I stopped using it. You will not be able to reach the publisher because they are in the UK and don’t care about US customers since after you have paid them you serve no purpose.
Genuinely the only way to start learning visual creation tools
I have found that every time I try to learn with Photoshop Adobe products, and all those things the monthly charge that I face actually actively de-incentivizes me. When I forget to dedicate time to learning those programs for that whole month I end up feeling terrible. But, then my savior Affinity came to my rescue! With the one time charge that affinity offers, you to have all your programs for one flat price. The monthly issue is no longer at play. You learn at your pace because you OWN the software outright also using skillshare to learn the software has been a breeze. I'm sure it's easy to do Photoshop as well. I tried myself. I just found that I always had that monthly indication and billing making me not feel well, even when I was learning because I felt like I was costing myself money with every little mis-step I took.
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Information
- Seller
- Serif (Europe) Ltd.
- Size
- 554.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Serif (Europe) Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Affinity Photo 2 $69.99
- Affinity V2 Universal License $164.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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