Affinity Photo For Windows Launches Alongside Major Mac Update

Serif's inexpensive feature-heavy alternative to Photoshop, Affinity Photo, has officially arrived on Windows. This version brings the same slew of features we find in the macOS version, including the new features from Mac update 1.5, at a discounted rate until December 22. The app offers pro-level image editing, including the new ability to edit 360-degree images, and as we've previously noted, it'll soon be joined by an iPad version.

Affinity Photo is launched in direct competition with Adobe Photoshop, but it has one very major difference: it costs $49.99, currently discounted to $39.99, greatly undercutting Adobe's image editing application. That aside, users will find many of the same features, and even some things that are arguably better.

The features span all sorts of tools, filters, and other things: there's the basics like color adjustments and more advanced things like tone-mapping and masking. You can adjust the lighting in a photo, correct lens distortions, apply tilt-shift, adjust focus from an image stack, stitch photos into a panorama, and more.

The application is very much targeted at professionals as well as everyday users, and includes tools needed by photographers, such as blemish and red eye correction, cloning and patching, and even a liquify tool like the one found in Photoshop. Furthermore, it appears that future updates are free once you buy the application: Mac Affinity Photo users can grab the 1.5 update for free now.

SOURCE: Affinity Photo