SOFTWARE TEST AFFINITY PHOTO 2
non-destructively using add, intersect, subtract and XOR operations to combine shapes.
Other new features for photographers include Band-Pass, which provides an easy way to work with frequency layers for advanced retouching and creating creative effects. Saved Layer States lets you save a variety of visible/invisible layer states based on different criteria to make viewing different versions of images quick and easy, and Live Mesh Warp makes it possible to match an image or layer to the surface/contours of the underlying layer.
Interface and design
Affinity Photo offers a single interface that is split into five ‘Personas’, which are workspaces designed to perform specific tasks within the software. This makes editing clear-cut in many respects, because everything is performed within a single intuitive interface.
The interface itself is fairly simplelooking, but don’t let this fool you into thinking that the software lacks features and functionality. While Affinity Photo 2 has received a redesign, it maintains the look and feel that current users are used to, but Adjustment and Filter layers now have icons rather than using bracketed text, and hovering over the icons shows the layer (type) name.
With the Personas, Develop is where you process raw files, and Photo is for standard image processing adjustments using layers and so on. Liquify is for manipulating pixels, Tone Mapping is for achieving HDR effects with a single image or set of bracketed exposures, and Export is for exporting images to other file types or creating new versions of the same file type.
The biggest letdown of Affinity Photo 2 is that there’s still no image