A message from the Affinity team

With version 1.7 of Affinity Photo in the pipeline, the beta for the next update is now available for you to take for a spin The next update to Affinity Photo 1.7 for Mac and Windows isn’t too far away, and if you fancy taking part in the beta, and own Affinity Photo on desktop already, you can download it now. Serif Affinity Photo 1.9.4.1048 (x64) Beta Multilingual 544.1 Mb Five years in the making, Affinity Photo redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface, with all the power.

As a way to lend support to the creative community during these difficult times, we’re once again offering a 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite, for anyone who wants to use them (even those who have previously completed a free trial). We’re also bringing back the 50% discount for those who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including our iPad versions.

More info about supporting the creative community initiative

Find out more about Affinity apps on Big Sur

In other news…

our apps are fully optimized for the next generation of Mac

Ready to go on Apple’s Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips, recent updates to the macOS versions of our apps mean huge performance gains.

Learn more about Apple and Affinity updates

Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.

Affinity Photo comes with a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and many more. Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time.

Affinity Photo Beta Mac

Other features include raw image processing, PSD import and export, colour management, accurate adjustments, high-end controls for channels and masks, advanced layer handling, batch processing, focus stacking, and much more.

Affinity Photo Beta Windows

Affinity Photo 1.6.3.99 Beta changelog:

• Fixed Pixelmator PSD text import
• Added transparent TGA import support
• Attempt to support fonts with truncated type 4 tables (e.g. Serpentine)
• Fixed text frame auto-resizing not working with a single character
• Added support for fonts that substitute spaces, eg Nyala
• Fixed Liquify Brush panel size slider limited to 1024px
• Fixed brush selection is not retained after duplicating brush
• Fixed changing brush tip is not always initially accepted
• Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc
• Fixed Fill Noise not applied when filling with Custom colour, Primary and Secondary colours etc
• Fixed Colour Chooser not correctly switching to match the selected colour
• Improved curve fitting for raster brushes
• Fixed tool shortcuts ignore modifier keys
• Fixed Text Styles showing wrong units for Justification options
• Fixed Tab Stop units not auto updating with document units
• Fixed Text Style dialog missing the [No Change] behaviour for the Tab Stop table
• Fixed drag and drop from IrfanView not accepting file items into the document as new layers
• Fixed exporting multiple documents
• Fixed crash using Pen tool (* see known issues)
• Fixed when a colour is removed, the Opacity/Noise slider is not disabled
• Fixed floating windows starting off-screen when monitor is disconnected
• Fixed layer folder icon not initially updating
• Fixed floating windows appearing on the incorrect taskbar
• Fixed text not being drawn after power duplicate
• Fixed rare instances of being unable to select text
• Fixed a couple of instances where the colour wheel wouldn't update properly
• Fixed unable to select a second swatch for bevel and emboss highlight and shadows
• Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment
• Fixed unusable transparent area left after cropping with New View

Known issues

Affinity Photo Beta For Windows

• Using the Pen Tool can result in high memory usage

Affinity 1.9 Beta

Download: Affinity Photo 1.6.1.93 | 282 MB (10 Days free trial)
Download: Affinity Photo 1.6.3.99 Beta | 283 MB (requires a valid product key)
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Affinity Photo Beta

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