A new version of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer has been released. Version 1.7 is a substantial update with GPU compute acceleration, HDR monitor support, and new memory management features, along with much more.
Here’s a look at some of the new features added in the latest Affinity Photo 1.7 update:
- Significant performance boosts across Mac, Windows, and iPad
- Pen and dial support for Surface devices
- HDR / EDR monitor support
- At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
- More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal, and wide color space development
- New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported – including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring
- On-the-fly nozzle rotation is now available with shortcut keys
- New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
- Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
- An all-new HSL adjustment layer has been added, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI, and picker controls
- Layers studio revamp
- Alternate futures for document history
- HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
- Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
- New Assets Panel available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
- Huge macro and batch processing improvements
For a complete list of features.
