Practical Photography - UK (2020-04)

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Gear Of The Year 2019

THE NEED FOR SPEED

Version 1.7 brings a speed boost for

Affinity users, with RAW conversion

alone being twice as fast.

A LAYERED EXPERIENCE

Layers are the key to complex editing. Affinity Photo

allows you to stack edits, as well as use powerful

Layer Masks for the ultimate precision.

ULTIMATE PERSONIFICATION

Personas allow you to switch interfaces

depending on your needs. Whether

you want to use Liquify to reshape

features, or Tone Mapping for a

natural HDR shot, Affinity can do it.

EFFECTS COME ALIVE

Affinity Photo’s Live Filter effects

have been rebuilt from the ground

up to provide greatly enhanced

performance.

Portablepower

Only Serif can claim to
have the full power of
its system on a tablet.
Affinity Photo for iPad
is hands-down the best
editing experience for
mobile users, bringing
the full power of the
desktop on the road.

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With brushes, layers,

masks, transformation

tools, blending modes,

gradients, dodge and

burn and all the other

tools and features

you’ll ever need, Affinity

Photo is only limited by

your own imagination.

n DESKTOP SPEC

MAC: MACOS 10.9 OR NEWER,

INTEL 64-BIT CORE 2 DUO

OR BET TER, 2GB R AM

(4GB RECOMMENDED),

1.34GB AVA IL A BLE SPACE

WINDOWS: 8.1 OR NEWER,

DIRECT X 10 COMPATIBLE

GRAPHICS CARD,

670MB AVAIL ABLE SPACE,

2GB RAM (4GB RECOMMENDED)

n TABLET SPEC COMPATIBLE WITH IPAD AIR 2,

IPAD AIR 3, IPAD 2017, IPAD 2018, IPAD 2019 (10.2IN ),

IPAD PRO (ALL MODELS), IPAD MINI 5

OPERATING SYSTEM IOS12 OR NEWER

Persona has everything you could ask for

to get started, as well as all the in-depth

features to take your photo editing and

ultra-advanced manipulation to the next

level. You can work with layers, including

layer masks and blending modes, all of

which have been refined to give a smoother

user experience.

What’s most impressive about Affinity

Photo is that it manages to offer such a

well-rounded performance. It’s not that it

boasts the best feature set on the market

• it’s that it manages to do all of this, and
  more, at a price point of under £50, or even
  less on the iPad.