Affinity Photo for Windows released!

]Serif releases Affinity Photo 1.5, which represents the biggest single update to the app since it was launched over a year ago. for the first time, app will be available both for Windows and Mac.

Speed, power and accuracy are at the heart of Affinity Photo’s peerless workflow, with non-destructive editing, RAW processing and end-to-end colour management as standard. Tools work in real time, so there’s no waiting to see results.

Now Affinity Photo 1.5’s enormous update takes its renowned power to another level with an array of new features that users will love, including:

• Macros to record and replay a set of commands
• Advanced HDR merge producing deep unbounded 32-bit images
• A full tone mapping workspace for both HDR and LDR images
• Focus stacking to achieve large depth of field from multiple images
• Full batch processing to process large folders of images in one go
• An all-new way to edit 360 degree images
• Direct PSD write-back
• 32-bit editing including OpenEXR import & export
• Automatic lens corrections based on profiles of thousands of lens & body combinations

The Windows version matches the Mac version feature-for-feature and goes on sale for all platforms at a discount $39.99 / £29.99 / €39.99 until 22 December, with no subscription. Existing owners of the Mac version can download the 1.5 update free of charge.

Ashley Hewson, Managing Director of Affinity developer Serif, says: “There are two genuine reasons to celebrate today for professionals who want a powerful, high-end image editor. The launch of Affinity Photo for Windows means we’ve fulfilled our ambition to become a truly cross-platform presence, which was one of the core targets for us when we started developing Affinity apps over seven years ago.

Affinity Photo is the second in a new trio of applications from Serif. Affinity Designer, a high-end vector graphics tool, is already available for both Mac and Windows. A layout tool, Affinity Publisher, is due to complete the suite in 2017.

The usual price will be $49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99 for the software with updates included – there’s no ongoing subscription. 

• For more information about Affinity Photo 1.5 and to buy, go to: https://affinity.serif.com/photo/new-features.