Once familiar with the UI and layout, and you’ve explored the Personas, the tools are pretty easy to get used to, and surprisingly smart. Affinity Photo review: toolsĭevelop from RAW files (Image credit: Serif) With a full choice of export formats you can export parts, or 'slices' of your document from layers to isolate them for sharing and reviewing. With the Export Persona, continuous export means you can re-export files and layers whilst still editing an original doc. This is not my area of expertise, but it sounds very useful! The Tone Mapping Persona gives you the ability to translate high bit rate (32/16) colour depth, and range, into smaller files or jpegs, without losing too much info. You can open pixel files here too, if you just want quick intuitive adjustments with the slides provided. Open a Raw file and it will open here, so you can make initial adjustments before ‘developing’ for more involved editing. You can pull and push elements around, freeze and thaw certain areas, as a way of masking/unmasking, and generally smooth surfaces and lines to your liking.Īnyone a bit more familiar with the practice of photography will appreciate the Develop Persona. The Liquify Persona allows your image and its pixels to be distorted and edited in a liquid-esque fashion.

It’s here you perform the majority of your work. The Photo Persona is for general editing, applying adjustments, layer manipulation, cropping, resizing etc. The Liquify Persona (Image credit: Serif)

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