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Affinity Photo Gets Massive Performance Improvements, eGPU Compatibility, HDR Monitor Support, More

Affinity Photo Gets Massive Performance Improvements, eGPU Compatibility, HDR Monitor Support, More

Posted June 5, 2019 at 7:33pm by iClarified · 10761 views
Affinity Photo for macOS has received a big update that brings massive performance improvements, eGPU compatibility, HDR/EDR monitor support, and much more.

Faster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries for professional photo editing software. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, whether you are editing and retouching images, or creating full-blown multi-layered compositions, it has all the power and performance you will ever need.

What's New In This Version:
• Massive performance increases with full end-to-end metal acceleration
• eGPU compatible - performance scales with additional GPUs attached
• HDR / EDR monitor support
• At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
• More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour 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 now available with left and right arrow keys
• New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
• Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
• HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls
• Many PSD import / export improvements
• Layers studio now includes options for transparent backgrounds, different thumbnail sizes and colour tagging.
• Significant improvements to selection refinement
• Alternate futures for document history have been added. If you undo a lot of steps and start on a different path, you can always branch back to your original position
• HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
• Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
• New Assets Studio available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
• Huge macro and batch processing improvements
• 100s of other bug fixes and improvements - too many to list!

You can purchase Affinity Photo from the App Store for $39.99.

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Affinity Photo Gets Massive Performance Improvements, eGPU Compatibility, HDR Monitor Support, MoreAffinity Photo Gets Massive Performance Improvements, eGPU Compatibility, HDR Monitor Support, More