For those high end photo editors among us who have always assumed Photoshop was the only game in town, you might want to take a look at Affinity Photo, a Mac-only app that is making waves. Affinity is considered a serious Photoshop rival, and now that it’s poised for a major upgrade, version 1.5, it’s a good time to take a look. Some of the coolest new features offered in 1.5 include including the ability to merge and edit HDR images with granular control and apply some of those tools to non HDR images, and sophisticated new 360 degree image editing tools, including the ability to insert objects while retaining perspective within the 360 degree frame. Other new features include:
• New workspace for tone mapping
• Focus stacking to bring depth to multiple combined images
• Batch processing
• Macros to record and replay a set of commands
This short video does a good job of demonstrating the top new features:
No longer Mac only!