From there you can also get overlay packs such as Fog, Snow, and Rainbow effects by registering your product.Ī New Document link opens a dialog box where you set image properties like size and type. When you first run the program, you see a Welcome panel that offers sample images, tutorials, and links to Twitter and Facebook content. By comparison, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop (both PCMag Editors' Choice winners) each take up 2GB.

Affinity Photo takes up 1.3GB of disk space after installation on my test PC. Making desktop software available via app stores, as Serif has done with Affinity, simplifies the installation and update process across multiple computers. It used to be 90 days, but that was before Adobe reduced its free Creative Cloud trial to seven days. Serif Photo offers a 30-day free trial for the price of an email address you must confirm. There’s no discount pricing for upgrades, but you can install the software on as many computers as you have, whereas Adobe limits Creative Cloud (such as Lightroom and Photoshop) applications to two computers. How Much Does Affinity Photo Cost and Where Can You Get It?Īffinity Photo is available on the Mac App Store, from the Microsoft Store in Windows, and as a website download, for a one-time price of $69.99 (discounted to $52.99 at the time of writing). The program is powerful and packed with features, but some operations are slow, and the interface lacks the friendliness and state-of-the-art tools found in Adobe Photoshop, our Editors' Choice winner for image editing applications. Version 2 of Affinity Photo adds nondestructive raw editing, more masking options, mesh warp, layer-state saves, and JPEG XL support. One factor in Serif’s favor is the low, one-time price for its photo editing software. British firm Serif has tried for decades to make inroads on Adobe's firm grip on the media and design software industry with its Affinity line of software, of which Affinity Photo is the Photoshop competitor.

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