(Updated) Apple has chosen Affinity Photo as the Best Mac App of the Year (2015) and in order to celebrate the Serif team has decided to extend the 20% discount on both applications for the duration of Apple’s Best of 2015 Mac App Store banner feature.
Serif has released updates to its image editing and vector design software. Along with the free updates, the company is offering a one-week 20% off promotion for new customers (until December 16). Both applications are available through permanent licensing for Mac for $39.99 each, and the developers have stated that they’ll likely be porting them to Windows in the future. Read on for the list of new features.
New features in both apps
- Pro print output; PDF/X-4, Pantone® support and more
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts
- Support for new DCI-P3 displays in new retina IMacs
- Canvas rotation
- Global colours
- New Contrast Negate blend mode and new Split Tone adjustment layer
- New Character and Paragraph panels
- Live OpenType feature previews in the Typography panel
- Recent Fonts list
- Improved import export for PDF, PSD, EPS, SVG and PNG
- Some adjustments can now be applied in colour spaces other than that of the doc/image space
- El Capitan Split Screen support
- Italian, Portuguese (Br), Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese languages added
Affinity Photo
- Image stitching in new Panorama persona
- Affinity Extensions for Apple Photos in El Capitan
- Live image stacks
- Choice of RAW processing engines in the Develop persona
- Haze Removal filter and live Filter Layer
- New alpha selection features
- Clipping preview added to Levels adjustment
- Single Plane Perspective added as a live Filter Layer
- User-adjustable controller ramps for brush variances
Affinity Designer
- Snapshots – named states of your design you can return to
- Adjustable centre of rotation
- Legacy AI file import
- Artboards
- Add multiple artboards to a document
- Give them any name (including using emojis)
- Make them any shape
- Have separate guides, grids margins etc
A number of videos showing the new features can be found on Serif’s Vimeo channel. More on Serif’s website.
Looks great!
Makes me wish I had a Mac.
say goodbye to adobe’s slavery lol
Wasn’t it obvious? What were these geniuses from the financial departments thinking of when they decided to exchange short term gains for boosting the competition and alienating users? The end is all too predictable.
Oh Oh Oh!
we just need the windows version and we will abandon Photoshop forever, I bet they will evolve a lot faster than Adobe!
Cheers.
Currently i’m using Krita, Inkscape, Substance Designer/Painter to replace some Adobe Tools…
This Affinity photo/designer look awesome, when the Windows version came out, i will give a try.
Just wished a After Effects replacement T-T
@Rafaelp
Fusion is a pretty solid and good alternative to after effects, that is for sure, it’s 3d mode is far better than the AE one, you may miss some tools if you use after effects to animate 2D characters, but apart from that, for compositing and motion graphics Fusion is a pretty solid alternative, and with permanent license below 1000€ 🙂
I just wish there were more stock material for Fusion.
Cheers!
After Effects replacements are on the way. Keep an eye on Hitfilm. It’s advancing fast, they’re focusing on motion graphics and the next version may turn into a worthy competitor.
You are right Mat, for 3D wok it lacks 32bit ear support, it does not have any 32bit workflow, so that a big no-no, but as soon as they include it it may turn a pretty serious competitor.
Cheers!
Krita is very good and a replacemnt for Photoshop unless you have something specific that you want.